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

[Brian Gray]

That question is no different than the variation we get know for journals
when they say "everything is on the web already" or for purchases through
our state consortium OhioLINK.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> 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?
>