Use of electronic resources Re: Google Print as the library's mission

[Jennifer A. Heise]

Junus, Ranti wrote:

>It seems to me Google Print is similar with other Electronic Resources such as Proquest, Elsevier, etc.  The only difference is Google provides the digital version of books.  
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>Interestingly enough, this service could enable a researcher to find interdiciplinary work outside our own library holdings.   My question would be: do we want our users to start searching through Google or our own online catalog?  And, my question regarding to academic libraries: If our faculty found the collections outside of our own holding and outside of of the subject area we have in our institution, what will that mean to us in term of supporting their research interest and needs?
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When we did a user study, we found that some of the faculty we tested 
were often 'WorldCat dependent' and our graduate students were 
PALCI-dependent. What that means is that they generally started their 
searching in Worldcat and/or PALCI. One graduate student explained that 
he got a better response from Worldcat because it 'thinks more like I 
think'. I'm not sure what to make of that but are  others finding this?

-- Jenne