For students without these skills I provide the forms. The class then attends an hour-long demonstration workshop at the library. The demonstration is open to students from other classes and departments. All come with specific topics in mind and often with specific terms. I deliberately make mistakes about which I have warned them, so that they can correct my mistakes and learn how to avoid frustrations, such as searching for justus or vanitas when their search should have been for iustus or uanitas .
Students then make appointments to use the disk outside of class time.
At present the University has one disk, housed in the University library. We are in the process of acquiring one for the Religion Department, as we have a number of faculty members interested in the history of biblical interpretation, as well as an expanding Ph.D. program. One can easily imagine faculty and graduate use of this tool. The most frequent objection raised to the use of documentary databases by undergraduates is the possibility that students will simply string together the quotations they find and avoid a nuanced reading of the primary sources. Paradoxically, the very fact that the students have minimal Latin skills is a safeguard against this.