[Web4lib] google & library catalogs

[Drew, Bill]

Its going to suck if any of us do it!  What needs to be done is to
improve the placement of OpenWorldCat in Google searches.  OpenWorldCat
is the closest thing we have to a free world wide union catalog.  If
myst udents find records for books in just your library, it is of no
benefit to any of us.  I remember when all of the book records showed up
in gopher searches as some one mentioned earlier.  That was pretty bad.

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
E-mail: mailto:drewwe at morrisville.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Ross Singer
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:12 PM
> To: Casey Bisson
> Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org; Sara Brownmiller
> Subject: Re: [Web4lib] google & library catalogs
> 
> Right, but I think Roy's point is that that's gonna suck if 
> we all do it.
> 
> -Ross.