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The article claims that U.S. news outlets desire that journalists graduate with a wide variety of skills in areas that include print, online, and broadcast journalism. Topics include the use of social media by journalists, the specialties taught by journalism schools, and the difficulty of a changing job environment for older journalists. Also noted are the use of multiple journalism platforms, the necessity that journalism students hold multiple internships, and the importance of database skills for journalism school graduates.

In the article, the author discusses developments in the instructional methods used by librarians to teach students on how to use databases, particularly the adoption of the Search App Smackdown approach. She claims that the competitive gaming technique complies with the 21st-Century Learning Standards of the American Association of School Librarians. She also talks about flipped instruction and how the smackdown approach works.

The article discusses the use of screencasting, in which computer images are recorded on video, to create library tutorials. The author suggests screencasting can be used to demonstrate library website usage, train library users to navigate databases or assigned as student projects. She discusses software for recording computer screens and lists steps for creating a screencast such as scripting and editing.

Explains how one teacher created a database project that involved her class in a special celebration of black achievers. What a database is; Step-by-step plan for creating and using a database of black achievers; Extension activities. INSET: Database start-up: here are the facts you need.;Deciding on a....

The article discusses the need for colleges to help and guide students to use and evaluate scholarly material. It states that the university's goal should be to teach digital citizenship skills through college education and provides a solution for digital citizenship to be included as mandatory in yearly module.

The article looks at how to encourage library employees to use electronic databases. The author points out that library workers who lack formal library training can find databases intimidating. She recommends providing in-person training sessions including an orientation session to search interfaces, discussing basic functions such as keyword searching or looking at PDF and HTML formatted articles. She suggests separate training sessions for specialized search interfaces.

This article presents a commentary in reaction to the "Backtalk "article by William J. Frost in the April 1, 2004 issue. Say yes to meta-searching. Librarians, unlike classroom teachers, who get to know their students over time, cannot easily figure out whether a patron is good-enough searcher or power-searcher, especially when they often have only a few minutes of interaction. Meta-searching, viewed in a positive light, will compel us to recognize and create opportunities to help our patrons advance their skills beyond the basics. This new environment for research, then, is good for both patrons and librarians. For many librarians, instruction takes place only in the electronic classroom, showing students databases and the OPAC. But teaching moments rest in the fuzzy areas of body language and dialogue between a librarian and patron. To someone rushed for time who needs so-so results fast, you could simply say, "This will work for now, but know that there are more advanced ways to get more refined results here at the library. Please contact me when you have more time." Meta-searching is here, and we can choose to see it as a way to distinguish clearly between good-enough searching and smart or power-searching.

This article presents an example of the use of a binary column in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to determine when a data set is complete. In the file considered the column is labeled according to whether regional reports are complete with a one denoting completion and a zero denoting the opposite. The use of a function that finds the product of this column, which will equal one when all reports are complete, is described.

This article provides instructions for working with the Microsoft Access 2007 database software.

The article discusses an educational resource designed to allow students to develop their skills in database analysis by interpreting data related to the murder mysteries found in the plot of the book "Certain Death" by Tanya Landman.

Reports that the Historical Computerization Project of Malibu, California is offering free workshops and a printed tutorial to explain how to build historical databases. Sponsor of the project; Contact information.