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

[Brian Gray]

I would be terrified of the cost they come up with for FTE access based on
the possible numbers of books available in Google's collection.

But we already have resources that have limited access models that we can
provide to people on wireless, in their office, or at home. Examples include
items such as Netlibrary with limited number of readers per book at one time
or Scifinder Scholar in chemistry with limited users at one time.

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


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Michael <drweb at san.rr.com> wrote:

> 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
> drweb2 at gmail.com
> Jonathan Swift<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jonathan_swift.html> - "May you live every day of your life."
>
>   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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