[Web4lib] Google Book Search and interlibrary loan practice?

[Robert Sullivan]

> A couple of days ago a doctoral student mentioned to me that she'd had an ILL request cancelled by her university library because the full text of the book in question was available via Google Book Search (GBS).
>
> I'd never thought of that before. Just wondering how many libraries are checking GBS before going ahead with an ILL request?

Been doing it for a couple of months for local historical items.  I've
found a few things which would have been difficult to get otherwise.

-- 
Bob Sullivan
Schenectady Digital History Archive
<http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/>
Schenectady County (NY) Public Library