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On Tue, 6 May 2008 20:24:47 -0400 Tim Spalding <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 0.2% full text? Yowch! > > Do academic libraries with full-text versions of the book on their > shelves really want to point people to no-preview pages on Google. > That's like a dating site with no photos of the members, and the > profiles omit everything but their favorite potato variety. I think that depends how you view information services to your patrons. If you think full text is the end-all-be-all, then I say double-yowch. But if you think there's more to information than full-text, then perhaps you might think that patrons will benefit from the other information one can get via GBS. I've seen books that didn't have a preview or full text, but GBS offered links to reviews, author interviews, ToCs, summaries, etc. Bob Duncan ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~ Robert E. Duncan Systems Librarian David Bishop Skillman Library Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 [log in to unmask] http://www.library.lafayette.edu/