Alexander Johannesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 18:21, Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski_at_ub.gu.se> wrote:
>
>> We can't just rely on the Google machine
>>
>
> Why?
>
Because we are in the library business and we are trying to build
collections for our users and we
don't need information about everything, we just needs good catalogues.
>
>> But the point is that no
>> library is interested in collecting free e-books.
>>
>
> Why not?
>
There is an interest in buying commercial packages of second rate
e-books but it's cheap and
you got a lot of e-books at once. This is part of the macdonalization of
acquistion policy that
since the last ten years been very popular in the journal business and
now even spread to books.
I am extremely surprised to find out that every library in the world
needs the same journals and
the same books.
Free e-books is the hard way, the costly way, the boring way not the
quick fix as with commercial
journals and books.
But I just ask you, what shall I answer my library client when he
wonders on which shelves he can
find free e-books? Where are the free e-books? In Goolge or in our
catalogue?
>
> Alex
>
Jan
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Received on Mon Mar 02 2009 - 03:34:18 EST