[Web4lib] Google Book Search and interlibrary loan practice?

[Dobbs, Aaron]

I hope the cancellation notice included a link to the GBS content.

Also, I feel sending a cancellation notice means the ILL process failed, and that is not a good thing in the eyes of the user who expected it to work.

-Aaron
:-)'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-
> bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:44 PM
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Google Book Search and interlibrary loan practice?
> 
> 
> 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?
> 
> Bernie Sloan
> 
> 
> 
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