At 03:35 97-03-03 -0600, Paul D. Healey wrote:
>
>I agree with Jim. I find the inteface both confusing and daunting. It
>strikes me as very difficult to figure out exaclty what the search
>engine is trying to do.
While I normally maintain my status of "lurker" on law-lib, I'd like to add
my $0.02 on this one. Speaking (modestly) as one who is sometimes
considered an expert on using the Internet, and who has given public
presentations to lawyers on efficient use of the Internet for legal
research, I was excited when I saw the announcement of LIBClient, and
hastened to try it out.
I still think the concept is good but I have to agree that it's confusing to
use and I will not yet be adding it to my list of recommended tools.
Following an email exchange, some of the confusion was cleared up (although
the solution to my difficulties was certainly not obvious, either from the
search screen or from the Help). However, it still seems to leave me in a
frustrating limbo after certain manoeuvres. If anyone's interested, I can
provide details.
>As a matter of style I have always been a bit leery of frames. Like
>the notorious /blink code, frames have the potential to add more
>clutter than anything else.
On this related topic, there's something that's really frustrating me as
more and more sites have got into frames and other fancy doo-dads, and I
wonder if anyone out there has found a solution. It's happening with
increasing frequency that I burrow down through a site on the main "frame"
and get to a point that I want to bookmark. I gnash my teeth when I realize
that my old "Add Bookmark" routine (I'm using Netscape 3.0) has only
registered the URL of the home page, so that when I return to the bookmark
later, I have to burrow down again -- sometimes forgetting how I found my
way the first time to the page of interest. This has also happened to me
when I've used the search engine on a site to find the information I'm
looking for. What's the point in using a search engine to find what you
want, if you have no way of referring back to it later?
Has anybody found a way around this problem that I'm missing?
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