Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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3 Replies to “Amazon 1, Libraries 0”
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Nice idea. But rather uneven in execution, many books lack that info. For instance, I searched for Islandia and found it had references to other books. However, there was no list for references to Islandia. I know some exist. In the example he gives, it lacks the list of books cited by the item. Good idea though.
I’ll agree that it’s uneven, just like many of their other advanced features such as “search inside the book” and tagging. The point, however, is that they’re doing it and we’re not.
ouch!
Nice idea. But rather uneven in execution, many books lack that info. For instance, I searched for Islandia and found it had references to other books. However, there was no list for references to Islandia. I know some exist. In the example he gives, it lacks the list of books cited by the item. Good idea though.
I’ll agree that it’s uneven, just like many of their other advanced features such as “search inside the book” and tagging. The point, however, is that they’re doing it and we’re not.