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Vincent Juliano (vjuliano@juno.com)
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:16:09 -0500

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Date: Mon, 1 Dec 1997 14:16:09 -0500
Message-Id: <19971201.142108.10255.0.vjuliano@juno.com>
From: vjuliano@juno.com (Vincent Juliano)
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Re: 

John,
Thank you for your First Search suggestion.  I will discuss with the
reference staff and see which databases this would best apply to. 
Thanks,
Vince Juliano

On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 09:27:03 -0500 John Rutherford CCSULibrary
860-832-2082 <RUTHERFORD@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU> writes:
>One strategy that might help with Firstsearch is to buy subscription 
>access
>to highly used databases such as ArticleFirst, and possibly WorldCat 
>(though
>I don't know if this is a highly used database in public libraries). 
>Then
>pay on a per search basis for lesser used databases.  Subscription 
>access
>involves purchasing a certain number of ports (concurrent users) and 
>then
>paying a flat annual fee for different databases. OCLC has some 
>packages
>that include worldcat and articlefirst plus some other databases. If 
>you
>have enough use this is cheaper than per search. However for databases 
>that
>are not used as frequently it is cheaper to pay per search.
>
>John Rutherford
>CCSU
>

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