Re: Google Booksearch Data API: Another blow to library metadata

From: Kevin Kidd <kiddk_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:41:47 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>The Google API is another sign that libraries are increasingly
>irrelevant to what used to be thought a core strength, telling people
>about books.

Good God! I feared this day would come! I'll let our director know that we might as well begin to plan for the inevitable closing of the libraries here - what with being irrelevant and everything...

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Kevin M. Kidd, MA, MLIS
Library Applications & Systems Manager
Boston College Libraries
Phone: 617-552-1359
Fax: 617-552-1089
e-Mail: kevin.kidd_at_bc.edu
Blog: http://datadrivenlibrary.blogspot.com/
Received on Mon Sep 29 2008 - 15:04:39 EDT