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Tapeloaded Databases
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Public-Access Computer Systems For)
Tue Aug 18 09:20:23 1992
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 08:11:41 CDT
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From: herrsj@sncac.snc.edu (Steven J. Herro)
Subject: Re: Tapeloaded databases: separate vs. combined?
I would recommend that you index them separately. I have demo'd
EAI
at our college undergraduate library, and I am not sure what your patron
base is like, but I think that one of the things that we have to guard
against in IAC products is the thought that they are one stop shopping.
Merging the three might promote this thinking.
Furthermore, by merging the three databases, you would have people
spending
an awful lot of time at the terminals weeding out citations.
Steve Herro
St. Norbert College Todd Wehr Library
herrsj@sncac.snc.edu
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From: "Katherine M. Shelfer" <KSHELFE@FSUAVM>
Subject: Re: Tapeloaded databases: separate vs. combined?
FSU (a NOTIS site) has Business and Academic loaded separately. Some of
the time this is a time waster, since computer/MIS related materials
cross both databases and there is no provision for removing duplicates.
If I had a choice, I'd merge. We have split by date range, and this
is a great help. Most of our students want the latest citations, so
they use the 88-present split. This group of files has really reduced
the load on our CD-ROM stations, but radically increased the ILL load.
Katherine Shelfer
Business Reference librarian
Strozier Library R-113
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-2047
