[Web4lib] Google Print gets new name

[Bret Parker]

I'm with you, Ross. The project is not perfect either in concept or in deployment, but it's happening regardless of what the naysayers have to say. If you give a gift and the recipient can't figure out what to do with it, that does not necessarily diminish the value of the gift itself. Someone else might find some use for it.

I say, Let it come. The wrinkles will get worked out (hopefully) over time -- and if not, then we can hope that will just be more job security for us.

Bret Parker
Stockton-San Joaquin County Public Library

>>> Ross Singer <ross.singer at library.gatech.edu> 11/23/2005 11:04 AM >>>
So, how is this worse than your library catalog?

-Ross.

Richard Wiggins wrote:

>What's misleading is: what object are you retrieving?  If it's an out of
>copyright or in some cases apparently out of print book, you get full
>text.   If it's in-copyright, you apparently get a "snippet" and perhaps a
>link to purchase the book.
>
>Today, for this crowd, that is all understandable, parsable. For the
>prototypical school girl in Carthage, Tennessee searching the Google Books
>Search collection, is the book from 1899 in full text superior to the book
>from 2005 in snippet?
>
>/rich
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>On 11/23/05, K.G. Schneider <kgs at bluehighways.com> wrote:
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>>>I agree that "Google Book Search" is likely to be shortened by real
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>>people
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>>>in everyday use, but it's hard to imagine a better alternative that's
>>>reasonably concise, contains the target word "books" yet isn't grossly
>>>misleading.
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>>What's misleading, grossly, or otherwise? It's Google, and them are
>>books..?
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>>Karen G. Schneider
>>kgs at bluehighways.com 
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