Yes I agree. Training material has been produced, we have purchased a stock
of BIDS User Guides for Compendex. Having recently converted from CD-Rom
we were beginning to see promising signs of the engineers taking an
interest not only in Compendex, but as a spin-off, the Citation Indexes as
well.
Hazel Breasley
Faculty Librarian (Technology)
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College.
On Wed, 23 Sep 1998, Ruth Jenkins wrote:
> > [Chris Bailey said]
> > The situation with Compendex means a major change over in mid session with
> > consequent implications for training and documentation, and the possibility
> > that the functionality users are now well used to, will not necessarily be
> > available in the future. I am not looking forward to users' reactions!
>
> I strongly agree with this sentiment. This sudden changeover is
> causing us all sorts of problems - our local leaflets about BIDS and
> Compendex had already been printed and my training programme arranged
> when I heard the news.
>
> Plus, we sent out new 'no ability to create a personal account'
> ATHENS passwords earlier the summer to all staff and students
> registered for BIDS, encouraging people to ask about creating
> personal accounts only if they wanted to access BIDS from off-campus.
> This process has caused some confusion and ill-feeling, despite that
> fact that we tried to keep it as smooth, simple and painless as
> possible. We will now presumably have to send out a second set of
> information about how to create personal accounts to all our
> engineers who currently use BIDS-Compendex, apologising for the fact
> that their passwords will have been changed twice in 6 months! (I'm
> assuming that EDINA's version of Compendex will require personal
> accounts, but I realise that we can't actually be sure of anything
> until CHEST makes some more information available)
>
> Finally, what worries me most is that some engineers will be put off
> using Compendex altogether - some of our lot are surprisingly
> technophobic and easily intimidated by changes to interfaces etc.
>
> I'd be interested to know how other folk are faring.
>
> Ruth
>
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> Ruth Jenkins
> Engineering Liaison Librarian, Information Services,
> Main Library (G9), University of Birmingham, Edgbaston,
> Birmingham, B15 2TT
> Tel: 0121 414 5844
>
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