On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 19:33, Jan Szczepanski <jan.szczepanski_at_ub.gu.se> wrote:
>>> We can't just rely on the Google machine
Me:
>> Why?
> Because we are in the library business
Which is what, exactly, these days?
> and we are trying to build
> collections for our users and we
> don't need information about everything, we just needs good catalogues.
Ah, but the Google machine is a good catalogue, so that reflects my
original question; why can't you trust Google to make a darn good
cataloge (which it really is)? What can you possibly hope to do
better?
>> But the point is that no
>>> library is interested in collecting free e-books.
>> Why not?
> I am extremely surprised to find out that every library in the world needs
> the same journals and the same books.
I agree with you to some extent, and it certainly doesn't make sense
in an electronic world.
> Free e-books is the hard way, the costly way, the boring way not the quick
> fix as with commercial journals and books.
Don't think I understand what you're saying here, really. Are you
afraid of the amount of data obscuring the goodness of the selected
few?
> 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?
Free e-books are located on a server *somewhere*. Google certainly
haven't got them (they're a catalog, not a library :), so why *not*
the library?
Alex
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