[WEB4LIB] Re: News story: Publishers gun for Librarians (also new topic)

[Masters, Gary E]

Well, I tried to email her, but the AAP web site is like a fortress, they
dish it out but if you want to respond you have to send US Post Office mail.


My thoughts if I had written were that there is plenty of room to cooperate
in the future.  We both want a system that works.  If they care to there is
plenty of common ground to occupy.

My other thought is that she needs a bit of fuss to justify what she does.
The best way to raise money is to have an "enemy."  Let us not fall into a
"trap" and become one.

Gary


Gary E. Masters
Librarian (Systems)
CDRH - FDA
(301) 827-6893 

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Walt_Crawford at notes.rlg.org
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	Sent:	Wednesday, February 07, 2001 10:41 AM
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	Subject:	[WEB4LIB] Re: News story: Publishers gun for
Librarians (also new topic)


	>FYI:
	>  http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36584-2001Feb7.html

	>Raymond

	Amazing.

	Not that Pat Schroeder is acting as AAP's attack dog: that's old
news. But
	that she's being openly anti-library after years of simultaneously
Making
	Nice and attacking.

	So, all you librarians out there who are trying to put honest
publishers
	out of business: Tsk tsk, shame on you! (Then again, I can't think
of any
	librarian who fits that description...)

	---

	On a wildly different topic: has anyone else run into Google's new
and
	slightly peculiar feature--namely, indexing PDFs?

	I encountered it accidentally, doing a vanity search (for "Cites &
	Insights," because it took Google so long to show it--at least 6-8
weeks
	after it was introduced). Suddenly, the current issue turns up, with
a
	portion of the text--and a click on a "text version" icon
yields...well, a
	pretty poor rendition, although most of the text is there somewhere.

	This appears to be an effort to "index the invisible Web." I'm not
entirely
	thrilled about the idea (but not yet ready to set spider repellers).
Is
	this going to improve retrieval in general?