Using a Datashow Projector to Present a Computer Search

Librarians are coming to rely increasingly on electronic resources to which access can be gained by telephone and they want to demonstrate the use of these resources to colleagues and library patrons. Library online catalogs, bibliographic utilities, database searching vendors-all can be accessed through telephone lines, but telecommunication lines are notoriously undependable. For cost, efficiency, and reliability, computer software packages that allow one to download data and form "canned" presentations from it are becoming more necessary. This paper describes the use of one such package, Showmaker, which comes bundled with the Kodak Datashow iquid Crystal Display (LCD)Projector.