Anne Beaumont wrote:
>
> Now to go back to the implications of this for the patron who is NOT a
> 'local' and has no idea what some of the abbreviations (particularly
> for locations) mean on the screen displaying the bibliographic record.
Are we really prepared to serve the entire Google user base? This is
something I wonder about with the Google book search. So someone in Dili
finds a book listed in Google that is held at Stanford. OK, that's maybe
better than not knowing that the book exists at all, but... by having
the books listed there, what are we expecting users to do? What are we
implying by our participation in that program? What do we intend when we
open our catalog to users who are searching the web (implying searching
materials that are resolvable through the search engine)?
kc
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