Re: Target: IAC InfotracTOM Full-text changed to Ebsco Full-text

[Susan Weiss <sweiss@CKS.SSD.K12.WA.US>]

Will this be mounted on a tower and networked?  We're having problems
with our EBSCO MAS (not full text).  We used to "recreate the locals"
once from the librarian's computer (the CD on in the internal CD on
the server).  Now they want us to "recreate the locals" from every
OPAC station (all nine of them).

We did have a system crash and the Network Analyst believed it had to do
with the EBSCO product.  Another school had the same problem. We just
didn't use the MAS product at the end of school. That was in May - a new one
has arrived and I don't know if this problem is solved.

Sue Weiss
Ballard HS Librarian
Seattle, WA
(206) 281-6010
sweiss@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Peter Milbury wrote:

> Hello LM_NET,
>
> Due to a purchase plan worked out by our state, I am seriously
> considering dropping IAC InfotracTOM Full-text, and changing over to
> Ebsco Full-text Elite.
>
> I would like to hear from any of you who have gone from IAC Infotrac TOM
> Full-text and changed to Ebsco Full-text Elite.
>
> I am concerned about ease of use of the search engine, in particular. (Of
> course, the number of magazines in the database is also a consideration.)