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

[Christine Peterson]

I attended a webinar last week with a Google representative discussing the proposal.  When I asked if they had considered increasing the amount of access for libraries, or looking at using another formula, the answer was no -- it seemed to him that one workstation was better than none.
 
Christine Peterson 
Continuing Education Librarian 
Amigos Library Services 
www.amigos.org <http://www.amigos.org/>  
peterson at amigos.org

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Sent: Thu 9/24/2009 2:47 PM
To: Brian Gray
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Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Librarians, administrators, and Google's "library"



Good one, Brian..

I might add that the issue I have with the proposed (under review) proposal
is access in libraries is magically somehow slotted as 1 computer per
library. That's laughable, of course.

Like most of our services, maybe they could give them to us based on
population served formula, FTE, or some other criteria.

I see no good reason we shouldn't be able to serve patrons at home/remotely
for the library "version" of Google Books either; we probably could
authenticate access is "legitimate," just like we do now via library card
and PINs.

My $.02...

Best,
DrWeb

Michael aka DrWeb
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
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