On 05/27/2010 01:13 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Johnston, Leslie <lesliej_at_loc.gov>
> wrote:
>> And you were able to find the books in Google because a library
>> provided them with catalog records to index.
>
> But does somebody that found the resource the same way Ed did know or
> care?
>
> -Ross.
>
Actually, the larger question is probably whether anyone cares at all,
whether we're considering the metadata or the resource itself. In what
strikes me as the ultimate irony of our self-marginalization, we've made
our contribution so transparent that only a very skilled researcher
would ever know that s/he was accessing
library-licensed/owned/originated resources, regardless of the path
taken to get there.
- mt
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