Melodious Voices ring out in praise

Jones College freshman Alisha Giles, Lovett sophomore Clifton Confident, Hanszen senior Daryl Shorter and Wless Junior Chri&Carr, part of the Melodious Voices of Praise, performed gospel songs at the Coffeehouse Tuesday night in honor of Black History Month. Rice and Fondren Library now have access T7T UNIVerse , a W e b interface to LEXJR-NEX1S. Coordinator of Collection Development and Electronic Information Kerry Keck said UNIVerse u se r s will have access to over one billion d o c u m e n t s f r o m t h o u s a n d s of sources . "LEXIS-NEXIS p rov ides constantly updated full-text .docum e n t s f rom t h o u s a n d s of general interest wire services, newspape r s and m a g a z i n e s f r o m a r o u n d the world," Keck said. LEXIS-NEXIS also provides acces s to company profi les and financial reports , government transcripts, t rade journals and academic and legal da tabases . A link to UNIVerse can b e found under the "Online Indexes and D a tabases" and "Electronic Journa ls" head ings on the Fondren W e b page, a l t hough l icens ing r e q u i r e m e n t s force Fondren to block access from library works ta t ions that do not re quire a passwordK e c k s a i d . L E X I S N E X I i UNIVerse provides two major benefi ts to Rice faculty and staff: content and convenience . "With fuH-text acces s to t h e content of newspapers, periodicals and re fe rence titles on LEXIS-NEXIS, m e m b e r s of the Rice communi ty can access needed information from the conven iences of their colleges, offices and homes ," she said. LEXIS-NEXIS is t h e mos t reques ted on-line resource . Keek said. "The previous corpora te ownersh ip wouldn't sell it to universi t ies that didn' t have a law school or a school of journal ism ... but the new corporate owner s have a different philosophy," she said. Fondren recently joined a small g roup of T e x a s l ibraries that negotiated r educed subscr ipt ion pr ices lotaccess to LEXIS-NEXIS UNIVerse. H o w e v e r , F o n d r e n ' s v e r s i o n of LEXIS-NEXIS does not contain data Set: LEXIS-NEXIS I'.iL-e « tiB