[Anthsoc] Message from HRAF, fyi

[Allyson Rowat]

Dear Faculty and Students:

Human Relations Area Files invites you to stop by the HRAF booth at the
upcoming  Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA)
in San Francisco (November 19-23, 2008).

The AAA Meeting provides an excellent opportunity for HRAF staff to interact
with faculty and students from our member institutions and to demonstrate
features of the eHRAF World Cultures/Archaeology databases.  Christiane
Cunnar will conduct eHRAF training sessions to discuss search techniques and
tips, new online teaching tools, and other HRAF-related issues.  Please stop
by and learn more about these powerful databases.

The following eHRAF training sessions will be held at the HRAF booth #811:
November 20th, 21th, 22nd  at 10 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.  Seating is
limited, so please notify me as soon as possible (via email or stopping by
the booth). If these times are inconvenient, please stop by and we can
arrange an individual session. 
 
For those of you who won't be able to attend the HRAF training session at
the AAA conference, I would like to invite your department to an eHRAF
database training session via webinar with speaker phone & internet. Topics
discussed in training sessions:

**Why eHRAF Webinar phone training?  This allows faculty and students to
better understand HRAF's unique indexing and search nature of the eHRAF
World Cultures/Archaeology databases, thus allowing more use in teaching
(see  http://www.yale.edu/hraf/teaching.htm for online student exercises)
and research. 

**Who should attend? Faculty and/or students.  For some institutions the
library arranges the instruction session, and in addition to the librarians
it also invites faculty and students.  

**What does it cover? Discussion of the Browse and Search features; the
selection process for the cultures; the purpose and nature of the HRAF/OCM
subject and OWC culture codes; helpful search strategy tips to optimize
finding information; etc.

**What is needed? Preferably a computer room with computer workstations or a
class room with Internet access and a speaker phone. Essential is a "lead"
person (typically a librarian, faculty, or TA) who organizes the training.
During a Webinar session all computers must log on to my web site (via a
Webinar URL)  allowing them to see my navigation through Browse and Search.
The Webinar system is nice because all the computers show the same screen
and navigation and attendees can focus on taking notes, rather than trying
to follow my navigation.

**How long does it take? I know that everybody's time is precious but I like
to allow at least one hour.  That way I don't have to rush through it and
can answer questions as we navigate through the database. 

It might be best to set up such a eHRAF webinar sometime in the beginning of
the spring semester. Please let me know whether your department would be
interested in such a phone training session for eHRAF.  

Finally, most of our members have access to eHRAF World Cultures (
http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu <http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/> ),
but not eHRAF Archaeology ( <http://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu/>
http://ehrafarchaeology.yale.edu). eHRAF Archaeology is organized by regions
and archaeological traditions ranging from Scythians to Dawenkou to the
Mayan sequence. Each tradition consists of a general summary and full-text
documents including books, journal articles, dissertations, and manuscripts.
Please contact me if you would like temporary access to eHRAF Archaeology,
or ask for a semester-long trial.

I look forward to seeing you at the AAA Meeting in San Francisco, CA!

Regards, 




Christiane Cunnar 
Member Services
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University
755 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Phone: 1-800-520-HRAF or  203-764-9401
Fax: 203-764-9466
Email: christiane.cunnar at yale.edu
Web: www.yale.edu/hraf


 

 

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