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

[Campbell, James (jmc)]

And if Google gets substantial publisher participation, what do we care? That will be how we provide books to our users.

      - Jim Campbell

      Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
      University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112

      513 Alderman | campbell at virginia.edu | 434-924-4985


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Walker, David
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 12:18 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Librarians, administrators, and Google's "library"

I fear at smaller institutions this is going to be moot point, because those institutions will essentially have  to give-up their (already small) book budgets to license Google Books in the first place.

--Dave

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David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu
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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan [bgsloan2 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 9:00 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
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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