Here's an article from Library Journal comparing searches in an individual library catalog vs. searching Google Books: Google Books vs. BISON - 6/15/2008 - Library Journal. It raises interesting questions about the service that the local catalog provides set against the ever-expanding collection of materials at Google Books.
This is an excellent resource for quick (two page) reads on a variety of new technologies or web resources (lots of library and web 2.0 items). We have shared a number of these with our faculty members.
To post occasional new thoughts or links to new developments in library technology. Want to see something more here? Do you have a suggestion for an addition to the book or a problem you'd like me to discuss? Please email me at techcompanion@gmail.com or add a comment to an existing post. Thanks!
John J. Burke is the director of the Gardner-Harvey Library on the Middletown
regional campus of Miami University. John holds an MSLS from the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and a BA in history from Michigan State
University. He is the author of the Neal-Schuman Library
Technology Companion: a Guide for Library Staff (5th edition, 2016) and Makerspaces: a Practical Guide for Librarians (2014).