On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
>
> No technical or theoretical reason, yes. GBS is doing it, with
> structured metadata provided by you know who. One of the reasons
> for us is that we don't have the full text and won't get it.
>
Although we have only ourselves to blame. It's not as though the
internet archive or Open Content Alliance haven't been trying to find
libraries to work with them - libraries just can't be bothered.
Too busy working on our LibQUAL+ data and sitting in ALA committee
meetings about the future of the ILS/catalog/cataloging/profession or
whatever, I guess.
-Ross.
Received on Wed Dec 22 2010 - 11:40:38 EST