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Library aims to reinstate LexisNexis offer similar services, several faculty and students Daily Nebraskan say LexisNexis far exceeds The University of Nebras- Westlaw in searching past ka-Lincoln’s Dean of Uni- news. Without it, faculty, versity Libraries has en- graduate and undergradutered negotiations to bring ate students fear their back a powerful research life’s work and homework engine after its subscrip- will suffer. tion ended this summer. “For someone who studJoan Giesecke said ies different political isUNL’s contract with Lex- sues and political leaders, isNexis — an electronic the best thing I should do database that allows users is download everything I to search legal documents can as fast as I can,” said and news articles among Mike Wagner, an assistant others — ended June 30. professor of Negotiapolitical scitions for a I can assure the ence. new conWa g n e r university we will said tract started he’s unin July, Gieeasy about attempt to bring secke said, the future the negotiations after the deof the sercision not to vice despite to a resolution renew the its current as quickly as contract was availability. made for fiMany of the possible. nancial reagrants Wagsons. UNL Joan Giesecke ner and his did not have colleagues dean of university libraries the service have sefor several days in mid- cured are dependent upon August, she said. How- access to LexisNexis, he ever, students and faculty said. His research on can access LexisNexis on changes in the vilification, the libraries’ website using or vileness, in political a keyword search on the communication over time classic catalog page as ne- depends on his ability to gotiations continue. look at news articles datGiesecke said she could ing back to the 1970s, he not comment on the cost said. Using Westlaw, Wagof a new contract because ner said his data is limited negotiations are ongoing. to the 1990s. A possible contract might Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, range from one to three chair of the political sciyears, she said, and she ence department, and wants action soon. Wagner said Westlaw has “I can assure the uni- limits in searching for versity we will attempt to news content from certain bring the negotiations to time frames. For example, a resolution as quickly as Theiss-Morse said Lexispossible,” Giesecke said. Nexis contains Newsweek Giesecke hopes to strike articles — a key compoa deal by the end of the nent in Wagner’s research calendar year. University — from as far back as Libraries administrators 1975 through the present. acquired access to Westlaw, another research tool, lexisnexis: in June, she said. While see page 2 LexisNexis and Westlaw
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After campus debut, Heoya cited for violating city ordinance, requiring food truck to set up shop in private lots
story by jacy marmaduke | photo by matt masin
The Heoya food truck sits at its new location at 31st and O streets. The food truck was forced to move onto private property after being ticketed while serving food on campus.
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verything was going so well. About a month after the Heoya traveling food truck opened its window to serve Asian-fusion cuisine to the masses, the curbside business boasted more than 100 customers daily and more than 700 fans on Facebook. Lincoln’s first food truck was gaining a following. But on Friday, Heoya met a setback when a police officer ticketed the truck for violation of a city municipal code. According to code 10.46.110, vendor’s trucks can’t stay parked on public property for more than 10 minutes — and Heoya usually stayed put for each day’s two-hour lunch and dinner rushes. That means that until Minh Nguyen, his wife Linda and
business partner Yao Hau figure out a solution, there will be no more Vietnamese hoagies and Korean barbecue tacos on campus. “I feel like we’re orphaned,” Minh said. Since Friday, the truck has left behind its previous home of bustling city streets in favor of private parking lots. The truck used to park on 16th Street from about 8 p.m. to as late as 3 a.m., but it hasn’t reappeared on campus since the ticket. Linda is developing a petition for the city to change the code, but in the meantime, the team is doing what it can to promote visibility.
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UNL introduces $50 library fee for non-students Library system charges community members to check out books, use services DANAE LENZ DAILY NEBRASKAN
When Mark Buhrdorf approached the front desk of Love Library, the last thing he expected was to be told he had to pay $50 to check out a library book on kung fu and karate. Buhrdorf, a Lincoln resident and UNL alum, astounded, said: “Keep the book.” “I didn’t go back to argue the point,” he said. The desk assistant told him that was the policy and he was at a loss for action. Buhrdorf, who has frequented the library for years, usually uses the computers that community members are allowed to use for an hour and a half. He has checked out books from Love Library in the
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past without encountering any problems. “I don’t know who came up with that policy,” he said, “but charging money for a library card is unAmerican.” UNL Dean of University Libraries Joan Giesecke disagrees. She said the new system is a good change and not all that unusual for university libraries. This new fee for community members is $50 per year for all campus libraries and allows them to rent books. It is still free for them to use the computers for an hour and a half. As of Monday, community members can use the computers for up to three hours if they need access to the Foundation Center or to Federal Government e-documents.
This fee is comparable to fees students pay for using the library. It is $3 per credit hour for students, meaning that anyone taking more than 16 credit hours is paying just as much or more than community members to use the library system. “We were in a position where we needed to expand our revenue sources,” Giesecke said. She said the UNL library system is there to serve students and faculty, and then the NU system. Community members come last. According to her, the revenue collected from the library fees will go primarily toward replacing books that have not been returned by community members. Buhrdorf, however, thinks the $50 fee is excessive.
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“They’re going to lose those people,” he said. “Those people aren’t going to use Love Library anymore; they’re going to go to the city library where they don’t have to pay rent on books. That $50 for a year might not sound like a lot to a lot of people, but for a lot of people $50 a year is a very, very big chunk of change.” He added that it felt like this new fee was victimizing people for their place in society and that even though he could afford the fee, he was not going to pay it because he didn’t feel like he should have to, especially since he was an alumnus.
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COMMUNITY MEMBER LIBRARY FEES AT OTHER BIG 10 SCHOOLS The University of Nebraska-Lincoln libraries recently adopted a $50 fee charged to non-student users. While some schools in the Big Ten continue to offer library services to community members for free, many also have fees ranging from $35 to $250 per year.
SCHOOL University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Indiana University University of Iowa University of Michigan Michigan State University Northwestern University University of Minnesota Ohio State Pennsylvania State Perdue University University of Wisconsin at Madison
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Free for state residents Free for state residents $250 per year Free for state residents $50 every three months $80 per year $50 per year Free for state residents Free for state residents $35 per year
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