10-4 on your comments about WIN. Its not perfect, but it will get better and
it adds an important tool that can be useful. Every 'search' need not be
exhaustive, particularly in many practice situations. The issue is not, it
seems to me, that WIN may-or may not-get the same results as Boolean
searching but rather that, for some applications, it may be a cost effective
and time effective method of doing a search. I am, however, sympathetic to
the issue of students thinking that WIN is the 'only' or 'best' way of
searching-that could indeed be a problem, much as students sometimes think
that the full text law review data bases on Lexis/Westlaw have all the
journals.
--Gary J. Bravy Georgetown University Law Library Washington, D.C. 200001 INTERNET: gbravy01@gumedlib.dml.georgetown.edu
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