InfoFair: an annual computer and information event.
Since 1983, the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library has presented InfoFair, an annual event featuring presentations, exhibits, demonstrations, and workshops on computer and information topics of interest to health professionals and health information providers at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center and throughout Utah. The first InfoFair was held in response to an increasing number of inquiries from library users on how to search MEDLINE from their home or office computers. The focus of InfoFair has expanded and changed over the past nineteen years to reflect changes in library users' computer and information needs, concerns, and interests. While themes and programs have changed, a definite set of trends, guidelines, and procedures have developed based on the experience gained each year. The purpose of this paper is to review and evaluate the changes in InfoFair from 1983 to 2001 and to present information for use by other libraries for planning and presenting similar events.
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Joan M Marcotte
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Technical Services, University of Utah, Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, 10 North 1900 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-5890, USA. joang@lib.med.utah.edu
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Jeanne Marie
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D003200:Computer User Training / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D005085:Exhibitions as Topic; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D020407:Internet; D007993:Libraries, Medical / Q000266:history / Q000458:organization & administration; D016239:MEDLINE; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014589:Utah