The use of intelligent terminals in MEDLINE training courses

A number of self-instructional packages for students at the School of Librarianship, Leeds Polytechnic are described. The teaching packages have been written for use with a Hewlett-Packard HP2645A 'intelligent' terminal and cover the use of the terminal, access to the host (BLAISE) and information retrieval from MEDLINE. In addition a questionnaire is available on the terminal to test the students' understanding of the BLAISE system and the MEDLINE data-base, the students' responses are monitored automatically by the terminal. A preliminary evaluation of the teaching packages is included, the general reaction of the users to the packages being favourable.