I've been sick for a few days, so I had dozens of e-mails to read this afternoon, the first time since Tuesday when I've felt well enough to tackle work. One of the e-mails in my inbox included a link to this article about Dialog, which I thought was interesting.
I'm a bit surprised that other librarians don't see the point in Dialog, because to me it's so absolutely useful as a means for teaching one how to search properly. I took a course in databases in library school which was one of the most useful I could have taken; not only did we learn how to search a wide variety of databases, we learned how to evaluate them. It's one of the points on which I'm most smug as a librarian: knowing that my understanding of databases and searching is better than that of many of my peers.
(Wow, that was smug! Sorry.)
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