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<div><font face="arial">Google Books takes the issue to the next level. Google is creating (has created?)the best library in human history and it is electronic. The American Library Association did not create it. That's a bit of a harbinger from the get-go.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial">Of course, soon Google will sell access to libraries. We'll probably see the same effect with print books that we've experienced with magazines and journals: as aggregators added titles actual library subscriptions were canceled.</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial">In addition to libraries, it makes sense for Google to sell access to their library to everyone who has a cell phone, or cable. I'd pay an extra $10. month to have access to the best library in human history, wouldn't you?</font></div>
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<div><font face="arial">Some people won't have computers at home, or in their pocket. Perhaps they will go to the library to read. That may become a library's reason for existance.
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<div><font face="arial">Terry Mackey</font></div>
<div><font face="arial">Clackamas Community College</font></div>
<div><font face="arial">Library Dept. Chair.</font></div>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Mike Smith [mikesm@ci.hillsboro.or.us]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 02, 2011 10:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bob Jones; 'Diedre Conkling'; libs-or; Publib<br>
<b>Cc:</b> SRRT<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libs-Or] Interesting piece: "I'm sorry, but I can't help you..."<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Good point but the cost of the reader pales compared to the cost of feeding it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">And worse: no library can afford what it cannot buy. The core problem in this exchange is that publishers may not want to sell e-content to libraries for
normal library use, period.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">That bodes the end of what we do.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">What can we do about that?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Mike Smith, Hillsboro Public</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</span></b><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Jones<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 01, 2011 2:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Diedre Conkling'; libs-or; Publib<br>
<b>Cc:</b> SRRT<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libs-Or] Interesting piece: "I'm sorry, but I can't help you..."</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Interesting, indeed. Unfortunately, we have many tiny, grossly underfunded public libraries here in eastern Oregon, who literally cannot afford to purchase
even one e-book reader for staff or public use. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Don’t believe it? Peruse the statistics available from the State Library. You might find it hard to understand how anyone can run a library on such minimal
funding.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Even the comparatively well-off libraries in this end of the state are almost poverty-stricken compared with libraries serving similar populations on the west
side. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">It’s not that the residents here are cheapskates. They simply have much lower average incomes than their counterparts west of the Cascades.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">-Bob Jones, MA, MSLS, CAS</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: navy; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Milton-Freewater Public Library</span></p>
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