[WEB4LIB] Re: library marketing was RE: Google Mail

[Drew, Bill]

The only wide spread access to libraries using an ISBN would have to be
through FirstSearch.  Many public libraries are not members of OCLC
because it is so expensive for them.  Do not knock the local library for
not having the money to do what you suggest.  Open World Cat will
improve such things but only if and when it becomes affordable for all
public and school libraries to have their records as part of the
database. 

Bill Drew
drewwe at morrisville.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Ball
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 11:23 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: library marketing was RE: Google Mail
> 
> "Why is it that sites with ISBNs have links to Amazon or Barnes and 
> Noble and Powell's, but never to your public library?  
> Certainly there 
> are a kickbacks, but not in every case."
> 
> Because the book stores provide a single, unique access point. If I 
> could go to one site and link an ISBN to my local library, then I 
> certainly would. The big problem with public libraries is 
> that there are 
> so many of them...and they all operate almost completely 
> independently 
> from each other. Sure it's not as bad as it once was, when 
> every library