Regarding: "Build It and They Will Build Another One"

I read this post on the ACRLog yesterday and thought it might make a good discussion topic for our upcoming meeting. With publications like the New York Times, Time magazine, and others making more of their archives freely available online, (while Lexis Nexis makes its interface more difficult to use), how are we "selling" the databases? I share Barbara Fister's "feeling [that] the old 'here’s how' instruction will get harder and harder to provide simply because the map of where it is and how to get there is constantly being redrawn." I think we might all benefit from sharing our thoughts and ideas about how best to approach this.

CJARL Meetings - Fall 2007

I can hardly believe the summer is over and it's time to get back into the swing of a new semester, but here we are. I plan to be blogging some more soon, but for now here are the dates of our fall meetings:

Friday, October 12 from 10:00 am - 12 noon at Brookdale Community College


Friday, December 7 from 10:00 am - 12 noon (location TBA)

Feel free to start collecting discussion items for our October meeting! And if you'd like to be a contributor to this blog, please let me know.