[Web4lib] Google Print snippets

[Sloan, Bernie]

I was wondering if anyone has thought about how useful/useless the
"snippet" might be to users?

As Google puts it:

"Library books still in copyright: For books that we have scanned from a
library which are still in copyright, you will only be able to view the
bibliographic information and a few short sentences of text around your
search term."

Here's an example of what these "snippets" look like:

http://tinyurl.com/do7ww 

Not much info is displayed.

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820-5752

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu