[DCRM-L] Authority work using Google Books

[Noble, Richard]

It's not just authority work that's affected and sometimes effected by
Google Books and other searchable online resources. I'm having a harder
and harder time editing down the things I cend up learning about a book
and its specific contents, as well as its author.
 
In any case, I don't suppose it hurts to indicate that a cited source
may be as immediately available to the record user as it was to the
record creator. (I haven't been doing this routinely for bib records,
but I think I should, whether in authority work or in making notes for
the public catalog. I don't worry overmuch about the lifespan of Googe
Books, nor the death of links. Truly informative catalog records are
increasingly dynamic, based on the resources available in a time and
place, which we need to account for as economically as we can.) -
Richard
 
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	I had no idea Google Books would be quite the boon it is in
doing authority work for older names. It's now possible to uncover
sometimes obscure sources rich in personal details. 

	My question is about citing a print source that was consulted
through Google Books. Should we identify that as the medium in the 670?
E.g.,

	The gentleman's magazine, May 1855, via Google Books: p. <...>

	OR 

	The gentleman's magazine, May 1855: p. <...>

	

	

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