The system keeps banning me from accessing any of these materials, due perhaps to my prolonged use (2+ hours of research typically), and downloads on and off during the day. According to the ‘Sorry’ screen that pops up, I am being automatically interpreted as an automated downloading tool. But I do all of this by hand, and very erratically, not using any set of standardized commands or such. Each time this happens I have to fill out some eforms and provide them with information about my system to regain access (my server address), a process which takes them about a day to correct so I can reaccess the GoogleBooks sites.

For this reason, I am not certain GoogleBooks is the best avenue for students to take when they are doing research. This glitch in the system tends to slow down their performance and halt any projects related research any of them are trying to complete on time. Fortunately, I know how to deal with this and have posted a way to deal with this at the GoogleHelp site, so any future students with the same experiences can more quickly get back into being productive. Still, some students have just been left with no knowledge of where to go or what to do whenever this happens, and I suspect this must be happening at other teaching institutions.

I have read the conyright infringement policies that they have in place. So this is not an issue.

Have you had similar complaints from your end as an information specialist and provider?

Have you any suggestions as to avoid being automatically banned from the GoogleBooks? (sometimes daily)

I believe there is value in this system, but the security tools are gumming up the works, and its usefulness as an information source.

We have heard from our ex-administrator as to our direction. We have heard from panel after panel as to what we do wrong. We have heard from committees of experts as to how to fix us. Now we have heard from the president, “off with your heads”., or at least with your WYE’s, the contractors that do the day to day work at NASA.

Since the new administration has been in place I have noticed a very disturbing trend, NASA HQ has been overrun by people outside the Agency. NASA HQ has no NASA management anymore. This might explain why the KSC Center Director was not informed that KSC would be dismantled until just before the official announcement. The Obama administration is acting like a think tank. They huddle in a closed room dream up some “NEW” idea and destroy thousands of lives and jobs. If this is the new jobs program and “change” he was talking about, can we have George Bush please, at least he just destroyed other countries, not ours!!

Back to the point, Out of all this no one has asked the people most dedicated to the country and NASA, the federal work force and it’s contractors that do the work. Some would say they would keep it the same, status quo. I do not believe so, I am one of those workers and we have wanted change for years, but no one asked us. Numerous times we tried to speak out, only to be dismissed by all.

Now that “change” is here and no matter what the “company axe man” Bolton says this change is not good. It is devastating for KSC, we might as well give the Center back the folks we took if from in the 1960’s. Let me be very very clear……

When the Space Shuttle flies its last mission next year the United States of America is out of the human space flight business. America will be totally, 100%, dependent on other countries to put America Astronauts in to space for a whole generation, and probably from now on. Obama has accepted third, fourth, maybe even fifth place in space exploration. It will be 15-20 years before we can place an America explorer on an American space craft to leave earth orbit, if we are lucky. My children will grow up not knowing that America has a space program. That which inspired me and a generation is gone.

Please think about this, and while you still can please ask an American space worker or “NASA” engineer, have some time, they truly loved what they did!

EP

I hope I’m right when I assume the irony will not be lost on most.