Re:
> One of our biggest problems is how to let our patrons know we do have the
> *contents* of these periodicals even if we don't subscribe individually.
Can
> you imagine the workload of putting every periodical represented in
Infotrac
> or Dow Jones or Lexis/Nexis in our OPAC--especially when the contents of
> these databases change frequently?
<SNIP>
FWIW,
There are, or at least, there used to be 2 publications that tried to track
which periodicals were in which databases, when I was doing biz ref years
ago. One is The Directory of Periodicals Online: News, Law & Business from
Federal Document Retrieval. The other was Books & Periodicals Online: a
Guide to Publications Contents. They were still around in the early 1990s.
I've no idea if they're still alive, transmuted, or now completely dead in
their grave, but basically, I kept both at my desk and referred to them all
the time before I went to do any sort of online search. I used it to direct
patrons looking for specific things as well. They covered primarily business
and law. Don't remember if there was much art involved, as that wasn't my
field at the time. But if memory serves, at least one of them included
Nexis. They were an absolute god send.
Cheers
Cathy Donaldson
library director
Art Institute of Seattle
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