A Current-Awareness Service for Faculty and Staff: The Stout Experience

Abstract

This report describes a prototype current-awareness seroice for faculty and staff at the Univer-sity of Wisconsin-Stout. The seroice involved selective dissemination of information using on-line bibliographic databases and the routing of table of contents from selected periodical hold-ings. The project resulted in delivery of more than 3,000 publications from references in thirty-eight databases and from the tables of contents of 154 periodical titles. Document evalu-ations and suroey results show the patterns of use among faculty, the types of documents se-lected, the pattern of delivery, and the effectiveness of databases and tables of contents in pro-viding current awareness. any disciplines in scientific and technical fields require that the latest information be available to researchers, faculty, stu-dents, and other library users. Too much is published and too little time is available to review all current information. Particu-