EEEEEEEEEEK!
Good Lord, the students end up unstructured enough as it is. Train them
train them train them.
This from a librarian who gets the fruits of untrained law students.
An attorney who is not properly trained in research skills is like a
pianist who is not properly trained to do scales.
I really do feel that if they are given passwords without training the
first semester, they will only develop sloppy habits which will never be
unlearned.
FRANK DRAKE
Arnstein & Lehr
On Wed, 1 Jun 1994 WATERS@suvax1.stetson.edu wrote:
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> The suggestion has been made here that first-semester
> students just be handed their IDs for LEXIS and
> WESTLAW during the first few weeks of class, with the
> idea that they can experiment with the services during
> their first semester (and, I guess, go ahead and load
> the software on their home computers), but then get
> the actual training during the second semester, as
> they are now. So - IDs, software, everything but actual
> training during the first semester.
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> I'd like some feedback on this. Without giving my actual
> opinions on it, here are my questions:
> 1 - Will students learn manual research as well as they
> should during the 1st semester, if computer research is
> available to them?
> 2 - Will this method encourage them to use the computers
> more, and more efficiently, once they do get training?
> 3 - This might be the most important one - has anyone
> tried doing this before, and if so, what have been the
> LEXIS & WESTLAW responses?
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> Any responses would be appreciated. Thanks!
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> Sally G. Waters, Queen of Reference / "Dignity.
> (waters@suvax1.stetson.edu) / Always dignity."
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