Not to mention that your local catalog is but a speck of a subset of
the resources in Amazon/GBS/Google Scholar/etc.
If it's "discovery" you're after, the net casts far wider outside the
confines of your collections.
-Ross.
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Ed Jones <ejones_at_nu.edu> wrote:
> I'm going to make a confession here. Typically when I'm looking for a
> library book for my own use, I will search for it (via Google) in
> Amazon.com or Google Book Search. Then when I find it--which I almost
> invariably do--I click on its ISBN, an action which automatically
> triggers a search (via LibX and xISBN) in the local National University
> Library catalog for that edition and any closely related editions.
> While this strategy doesn't work for older in-copyright books (or the
> dwindling number of contemporary books published without ISBNs), it
> works in an overwhelming number of cases. So much so that it's become
> my default search strategy.
>
> Ed Jones
> National University (San Diego, Calif.)
>
Received on Wed May 06 2009 - 22:13:23 EDT