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Robert brings up an interesting point... if you use dialup from home,
what is your usual speed? (no need to answer)...  mine is either
26.4kbs or 28.8 kbs (rare). It's just fast enough to access web based
opacs and subscription full text databases if they have ascii or html
based full text in my experience. If you are really connecting at
much slower speeds I can see a problem with accessing your college
library's full text databases. But, if you have dialup speeds at
least equal to mine, you shouldn't have to depend on local resources
in the library.

Most library opac systems allow for offsite access to the opac, and
offer a way to extend access to subscription databases. All it takes
is some form of id that the system recognizes as vaild. Usually a
library card number. If your college, university or public library
doesn't offer this type of access, time to start asking why not?
Anyone taking an online program should have 24 hour access to library
databases.

As for the lmnet archives, I think the default operator is really ADJ
(adjacent) or phrase, or ' resources AND challenge ' would have had
hits.

Dan Robinson
HW Wilson Company
Bronx, NY
drobinson@hwwilson.com



On 4 Jul 2003 at 10:49, robert wrote:

>
> Those of us who were hooking 9600 modems to AppleIIs to access
> LexisNexus wind up bookmarking rubrics sites posted by MLS
> students....
>
> (and I'd be embarrassed to mention how long it took me to figure out
> that our archives default to exact phrase {resources AND book AND
> challenge =181 hits  resources challenge=0} or that it works with
> natural language)
>
> Robert Eiffert, Media Specialist
> Pacific Middle School

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