Level: Beginning+
Prerequisite: Internet and MEDLINE basics
Cost: $210 (nonmember, $260)
Attendance Maximum: 40

Instructor(s): Charles B. Wessel, coordinator, Affiliated Hospital Services, and Nancy H. Tannery, associate director, Information Services, Health Sciences Library System, Falk Library of the Health Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Offered: Saturday, May 20, 8:00 a.m.–Noon

Acquire the framework for answering reference inquiries about vital and health statistics that are encountered in hospital and academic health center libraries. Focus on typical reference problems; health statistics terminology; primary location tools and applications; primary data sets collected by government and health organizations; local, state, and international statistics; and uses of MEDLINE's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) vocabulary.