FW: [Web4lib] Science Direct via Google

[Brian Gray]

Libraries should be controlling their own access points and not
relying on the external services. How many patrons start with the
library catalog? Many searches originate from search engines like
Google. We shoud be working with search engines to improve access.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com

On 7/9/07, Michael L. Champion <mchampion at lvdl.org> wrote:
> For fear of repeating myself too often, I think Bob's comment begs the
> question: Why count on Google to index or provide OpenURL links to
> content?  Wouldn't it be more appropriate if we, as librarians,
> collected the metadata from all these services and placed them in our
> individual catalogs along with our individual collection of metadata
> regarding our physical holdings?  Then we could control which links our
> patron's see, who or who does not get access, and the linkage between
> metadata records as well.