[Web4lib] Librarians, administrators, and Google's "library"

[Thomas Edelblute]

Just to add to that, I have a friend that has been downloading a lot of the literary classics onto an Amazon Kindle for free.  How is that going to affect the way we approach collection development?

Thomas Edelblute
Anaheim Public Library

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:01 AM
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Subject: [Web4lib] Librarians, administrators, and Google's "library"


I'm interested in seeing what happens once the Google "library" is available via subscription. I can see some non-librarian administrators thinking "Why do we need to spend so much to buy library books when we have millions of them available through Google?"

Has anyone been thinking about how they might answer that question in a way that makes sense to non-librarian administrators higher up on the administrative food chain?

Thanks!

Bernie Sloan





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