This study analyses the results of end-user instruction through the databases modulated course in CD-ROM Medline/Lilacs, modality of the Library of the School of Public Health of University of S.Paulo Educational Program, offered to health sciences scientists and postgraduate students. The whole of the category studied was 92 participants between November/1993 and November/1995. The results demonstrate that former students, who have done researches in the Library, managed, in most cases (65,2%), to acquire autonomy in using databases, some of them (15,2%) requested librarians interventions, and some of them (19,6%) didn´t use the databases of the Public Health Library, during this period. The users who do intermediary searching, appear to use an intermediary mainly for reasons such as: the lack of information technology, lack of familiarity with databases, reliability in the searches made by librarians and, lack of time for searching. The end-user who haven't done searching in databases said that hadn't needs for it.
Databases end-user; End-user searching; Biblioteca/CIR da FSP/USP; End-user study; Educational programs in academica libraries; New technologies; End user searching training; evaluation
