[WEB4LIB] Re: Welcome to the Schoogle Era

[Genny Engel]

Actually I've been noticing the buy vs. borrow question often falls on
the side of "buy" when I tell a person they're number 10, or 283, in
line for the new book they want -- and this is after they've already
bothered to come into the library and ask at the reference desk.  

On the other hand, our circulation statistics continue to rise every
year and roughly 50% of our county population has a current library
card.  I don't worry about reinventing Google's or OCLC's wheels since
in the end we will all figure out a way to link to each other's content
(including some wonderful historical photos that show up in our catalog
but NOT yet in Google Images!).

Or something like that ...

Genny Engel
Internet Librarian
Sonoma County Library
gengel at sonoma.lib.ca.us
707 545-0831 x581

>>> "Dobbs, Aaron" <DobbsA at apsu.edu> 11/18/04 12:30PM >>

Googlizing library search processes will probably be the way things
run
if we (libraryland denizens) continue to debate and discuss options
without agreement and implementation *large scale* and quickly.
Amazon's search inside the book & OCLC making WorldCat searchable are
only the beginning.  

What happens when a Google-like entity (or even a lone publisher)
starts
making their entire publishing content available?  I posit that,
similar
to the music industry, more people will download & eventually (I hope
check out (if their local library's holdings are indicted in the
record)
but probably they will) buy the items (the whole shopping cart "it's
so
easy to buy from the link immediately provided" ecommerce thing that
funds further development) that please them most.