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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:23:07 EDT
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- From: Ken Grabach <KGRABACH%MIAMIU.BITNET@Kentvm.Kent.edu>
- Subject: Re: Reference Use of the Internet
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- In-Reply-To: Message of Mon,
- 25 Jan 1993 13:38:06 EDT from <tdkatz%COLBY.EDU@Kentvm.Kent.edu>
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- I appreciate the comments from Toni Katz at Colby College.
- I would like to see some examples of the kind of questions that have been
- answered at reference desks or information service stations using
- databases on the Internet.
- How did you know what databases to try; how did you think of such a choice
- at the exclusion of Dialog, Lexis (and the like) or CD-Roms and so forth?
- You may well wonder why I ask this publicly rather than simply dive in
- and try it out. Well, the few instances when I have dived in I have
- found little that suggested itself as a source of useful reference material
- that I could not find more easily and without getting cut off by the
- communication line.
- I want to learn more about these services, but the attempt to learn seems
- about as easy as nailing jelly to the wall.
- If some of you have had better success you might share what you have learned,
- which would give us more cautious folk a chance to appreciate your pioneering
- efforts.
- By the way, I find Rick Gates's monthly contest results reports more useful
- now, but I have not encountered the questions that would help call to mind
- those marvelous databases.
- Ken Grabach kgrabach@miamiu kgrabach@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu
- Documents Dept.
- Miami University Libraries
- Oxford, Ohio 45056
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