It's not that google isn't always easiest that's controversial.
It's that, sadly, the library catalog is VERY SELDOM easiest, and in
your particular example, wasn't. I'm sure you can find some other
example where a library catalog really will be easiest (not just
compared to google, but compared to whatever is available on the free
web), but the examples are going to be few and far between, becuase it
very very seldom is.
This is a sad thing, I don't take pleasure in the fact that our catalogs
are such a mess.
Jonathan
Patrick Cates wrote:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=%22bibliotheca+americana%22+sabin+library
> +v.+6
> ...
>
> I didn't realize that suggesting that google wasn't always easiest would
> be so controversial. Well, I have been well and truly humbled by the
> awesome power of the interwebz and will blaspheme against it no more.
>
> Patrick Cates
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> General Theological Seminary
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Received on Thu May 07 2009 - 17:20:00 EDT