Yeah, what Kent said!! I found out by having a student complain to me
that he couldn't access omni as was required by his pre-class instruction
booklet provided by Mead. Ok, I admit I should have been more awake and
aware of the change but don't you think a major change like this, although
requested by many of us, should have been preceeded by a warning. We knew
it would likely happen but not last weekend.
The first-years were given the Mead PreClass Instruction booklet before
this break to be done over break. Most students will be working on this before anyone gets a chance
to distribute corrections. We will have a world of pain now due to the
fact that all of our first-years will be sweating bullets over this little
nugget of a change. (sorry about the long sentences) Such a thing is not
good in a neurotic environ.
Phillip Bohl
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On Fri, 7 Jan 1994, Kent Olson wrote:
> NEXIS has taken away my OMNI file. Maybe I can live without it.
> It's a bit of a nuisance to have to run the same search in both
> CURRNT and ARCHIV if I want to be comprehensive, but I survived
> without MEGA/MEGA.
>
> I have a harder time coping with a few aspects of this change:
>
> 1. Mead, the company that recently turned layoffs into
> "right-sizing," is presenting this as a "customer-driven" change
> implemented in response to law librarian requests to help law
> students learn cost-effective searching. Have they been watching
> old tapes of Gen. Westmoreland's Five O'Clock Follies?
>
> 2. In order to "prevent users from recreating the NEXIS Omni
> file," Mead has also taken away my ability to combine NEXIS files.
> I had been teaching my students to use NYT,WPOST for selective
> news coverage. No more of that.
>
> 3. If I try to access OMNI, I get a message that "OMNI is not a
> correct file name." Does this helpful response mean I'm a moron
> or I just can't type? User-friendlier systems manage something
> along the lines of "You do not have access to OMNI under your
> subscription."
>
> Gotta run. I hear another student has done a .mi;.fu in ALLREV.
>
> Kent Olson
> ten Brink Professor of Curmudgeonry
> UVA Law & Softball Library
> kco4f@virginia.edu
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