> "How would you reply to a non-librarian administrator who asks 'We just paid $xx,xxx dollars to Google for access to millions of e-books. Why do we need to keep buying books for the library?'"
How about "If GBS doesn't make Google a bunch of money, or if Google
loses interest in favor of chasing the next biggest-thing-evar, the
library--and this institution--will have a rather big, expensive hole
to fill. And you, personally, will get blamed." But that won't
happen, right?
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet/
Patrick Cates
Technical Services Librarian
St. Mark's Library
General Theological Seminary
175 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
212-243-5150 x354
Received on Thu Oct 08 2009 - 09:44:46 EDT