April 26/96

uring March, the provincial

government made two

announcements regarding
funding for the post-secondary
education system.

The first stated that tuition fees
would be frozen for 1996/97. This will
- . be a relief for students in B.C., many
Annette Lorek, librarian, and Doug Stetar, Infotec Evening convenor, display of whom were expecting large tuition
the research program they created. fee increases as a result of cuts to

a federal transfer payments.
ir r S The second announcement
k indicated that the money all colleges,
government to deliver the same
programs as last year will be reduced
e by 2.5 per cent. The College will be
To Te a C h Re S e arch S k 1 l | S unable to increase tuition fees to close

including Capilano College, will
that gap.

receive from the provincial
Over the coming weeks, the Board

n your next visit to the Library, system; researching periodical indexes : : :
On a look at the two new “ online using Flectronic Library Network wil be WOTKINE closely with the
workstations featuring the Research (ELN) databases; and information on administration to develop the 1996/97
Skills Tutor (RST) — a self-paced other research resources, such as other budget. The budget challenge will be
program designed to teach students libraries and government departments. meeting the government’s objective of
basic library research methods. Written | The program is menu-driven and features delivering 101 per cent of the
in Director multimedia software, this basic explanatory screens with tutorials College’s FTE target given 97.5 per
program was created by Annette and additional information available by cent of the base budget.

Lorek, librarian, and Doug Stetar, clicking onscreen buttons and highlighted Shadow grants of 2.5 per cent of
multimedia programmer. Both are text.

. . . , : the budget are earmarked for the
instructors in the Applied Information Students and other library patrons can : :
Technology department. The project use the Tutor to acquaint themselves with College with the expectation that they
was funded by a grant from the B.C. library resources, brush up on specific be used to develop new learning
Ministry of Skills, Training and research techniques, or review partnerships, create new learning
Labour’s Innovation Fund, and will be instructions presented in library skills highway and innovation projects,
one of the presentations at the SCOET classes. The program is currently in its develop technology infrastructure, and
Connections ’96 conference in May. final test stages, and feedback from

deliver another three per cent of the

The Research Skills Tutor consists of | students and instructors is welcomed. A College’s FTE target.

five related modules: an interactive map logbook is provided for this purpose.
of the library; planning and

documenting cited sources for a paper;
using the College’s Innopac library Submitted by Annette Lorek

Happy sleuthing!