Well lets look at the source He's an admin from a very distressed California
system of higher ed. I am afraid he would not fit into the academic world on
our side of the country.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:52 AM, bgsloan2_at_YAHOO.COM <NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
> wrote:
> Interesting report about the future of academic libraries in "Inside Higher
> Ed"...
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> Steve Kolowich. Libraries of the Future. Inside Higher Ed, September 24,
> 2009.
> http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/09/24/libraries
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> An interesting statement (not a direct quote) attributed to Daniel
> Greenstein, vice provost for academic planning and programs at the
> University of California System:
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> "Greenstein said he expects universities to outsource other library duties
> as well. Cataloging can be contracted out to providers such as Google, he
> said, and research data services are increasingly springing up directly out
> of academic departments."
>
> At first I had a good laugh when I read the bit about contracting
> cataloging out to Google, in light of the recent uproar about Google's
> metadata. But then I decided it was kinda scary that a higher ed
> administrator was saying this. We can talk and talk among ourselves about
> the high quality of library metadata, but if the folks who control the purse
> strings don't see its value then we're screwed.
>
> Bernie Sloan
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Received on Thu Sep 24 2009 - 10:03:45 EDT