[Web4lib] google & library catalogs

[Chris Stearns]

Yeah, that would suck if everyone did it because the world's Googlers 
are looking for the info itself. For the most part, they want the text 
of Hamlet, not a record for my library's Hamlet holdings (much less 
20,000!).

If there were a way to specify via Google that you're searching for 
Hamlet holdings at any library within 30 miles of you, then let Google, 
Google Maps, etc. find it all for you then spit out directions and the 
reference librarian's name, that might be kinda cool, but it would have 
to be one of those "tucked-away" Google features that you have to 
specifically call and which isn't enabled by default, else the 20,000 
Hamlets (and having studied Hamlet for an entire semester in grad 
school, 1 hamlet is definitely enough :-)


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Chris Stearns
Software/Programming
Auburn University Libraries
http://www.lib.auburn.edu