GC, my experience is that for books out of copyright - most things published before 1923 - the whole book is available. It's a big wow, I tell you. Don't have to leave the office!
My love for me now / Ain't hard to explain / The Hero of Canton / The man they call...ME.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Spike's Bitches 34: They're All Slime and Antlers
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
flea - Mar 08, 2007 10:42:16 am PST #9548 of 10001
information libertarian
Glamcookie - Mar 08, 2007 10:46:09 am PST #9549 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
So would you agree that it "changes everything?" Good to get different perspectives...
P.M. Marc - Mar 08, 2007 10:47:39 am PST #9550 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Which, now that I've actually written that out, I think means I've turned into the goth girl version of Giles.
You'd be the Best OFC ever.
And Dean would so totally just follow you around all wide-eyed and moonstruck, because you are Older and Bossing Him Around, which he totally digs AND you have a bosom of doom, which he also totally digs, while Sam rolls his eyes and makes pissy faces because of it.
PS, I think there's some smudged eyeliner going on in the pictures I linked to last night. Which, err. Yes. Mama like.
Atropa - Mar 08, 2007 10:50:21 am PST #9551 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
You'd be the Best OFC ever.
Hee! I think that's one of the oddest compliments I've ever gotten. I really like it.
while Sam rolls his eyes and makes pissy faces because of it.
Yeah, but I'd start calling him emo-boy, and ask him if he wanted to listen to The Smiths.
-t - Mar 08, 2007 10:50:39 am PST #9552 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I want to see that episode!
amych - Mar 08, 2007 10:51:30 am PST #9553 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'd say google books is considerably more than a card catalog -- even with recent books, the content is searchable (you just can't read the whole thing straight through unless it's public domain). And even when online catalogs don't make me beat my head against a wall until it bleeds, they're still only searching the metadata; that's a pretty profound change for how people search, or even what information they think they're searching for.
But I still think "changes everything" is just a stupidly broad statement.
vw bug - Mar 08, 2007 10:52:20 am PST #9554 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
JEN SIGHTING!!!
Aims - Mar 08, 2007 10:52:52 am PST #9555 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Hey Jilli...I was talking to my friend last night and asked me if "emo" meant anything to me and I laughed and said, "yeah". Then she asked if "cutter" meant anything. I said, "Well, the peolpe that cut themselves to feel pain etc etc etc." and she said no that it was a goth thing. I'd never heard of it. Have you? Can you shed light?
Sean K - Mar 08, 2007 10:54:27 am PST #9556 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Aimee, it sounds like you were not the one misunderstanding the various terms under discussion.
flea - Mar 08, 2007 10:54:36 am PST #9557 of 10001
information libertarian
I don't think it changes Everything. But it does change some things. It makes discovery much easier for people without training in library skills. I imagine it will reduce the use of ILL for older materials. I think it will allow libraries to justify putting more older books off-site, if they are available as pdfs for free online.
Depending on how things go as Google deals with publishers (in negotiations and in court) it has the potential to change more.
And if I were still a field archaeologist, for example, to be able to look at important books - that are in some cases fairly rare and only held in a few selected libraries - while actually in the field, to have pictures from old publications available to compare with the artifacts I'm digging up, without xeroxing the indexes to 40 books before taking off for the middle of nowhere? Coooool.