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

[Brian Gray]

With the uproar we would hear at my school from faculty in areas like arts
and humanities who still value the print book, it would take little message
from me to change their minds.

But in comparison to the similar situations I mentioned, we demonstrate the
value of the various options. Each type of resource and/or access has
different value and user interest. We talk about the one time purchase with
ownership versus just leasing access one year at a time. We discuss the
challenges with other's controlling information and access, such as
technology failure or the recent example of Kindle taking back a book. We
share examples of how prices to information that we lease electronically
escalte drastically every year and essentionally we have nothing to show for
it weh nwe can no longer meet the external organization's asking price.

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


On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:33 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Brian Gray said: "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."
>
> OK, fair enough. So how DO you answer those questions?
>
> And how would you answer this specific question from an administrator: "We
> just paid $xx,xxx dollars to Google for access to millions of e-books. Why
> to we need to keep buying books for the library?"
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> --- On Thu, 9/24/09, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Librarians, administrators, and Google's "library"
> > To: "B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: web4lib at webjunction.org
> > Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 3:04 PM
>  > 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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