Even if it might be a risk to put all our eggs in one basket, so to speak, I think it’s really a useful service. But then, I’m not dealing with real collections anymore. I’ll be curious to hear if and how you end up using google books with the collection you’re cataloging.

Don’t lose sleep!

My first reaction was, “Oh no! I need to completely change my workflow (in the private library where I’m “cataloging” thousands of books). The ability to search a particular string of text within this particular library would be useful and powerful.

But the cataloger in me was horrified when the demonstrator scanned the first book in his pile and said, ” It turns out that ‘Google Apps Hacks’ MIGHT HAVE BEEN CALLED ‘Google Office Hacks’ at one point…”

The combination of controlled vocabulary (or lack thereof) and all our information under one company’s “control” is going to keep me up at night

Still. I’m tempted.