[Web4lib] including google books in library catalogs?

[Varnum, Ken]

Several libraries have added public domain books from Google Books and/or HathiTrust, including the University of Michigan (where the project originated):


 *   The University of Michigan Library loads all records for HathiTrust content. You can find HathiTrust content by searching this part of their online catalog, Mirlyn:  http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/F/?local_base=hathitrust
 *   The University of Chicago Library adds records for public domain materials into their discovery system, Lens:  http://lens.lib.uchicago.edu/
 *   Johns Hopkins University has embedded links to books from several sources, including HathiTrust, Google Book Search, and the Internet Archive, into their online catalog:  http://catalog.library.jhu.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=default  . See http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/umlaut-digital-book/ for an explanation of how it works:

MARC records from the HathiTrust are available via OAI.  See http://www.hathitrust.org/bibliographic_data_distribution for details.


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Ken Varnum
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University Library                       E: varnum at umich.edu
University of Michigan                   T: 734-615-3287
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On 2/23/09 12:32 PM, "Ken Irwin" <kirwin at wittenberg.edu> wrote:

Hi folks,

I feel like this has probably come up before, but didn't find anything
in the archives: *Is anyone include MARC records for freely-available
Google Books in library catalogs?* We had a professor ask if we could do
this, and it sounds like a daunting volume of material.

Are there MARC records for the books?
Is it easy/possible to keep freely-available books distinguishable from
"teasers"?
Anyone adding 856 links to Google Book versions of books you own?
Where's FRBR when we need it?

Ken

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Ken Irwin
Reference Librarian
Thomas Library, Wittenberg University

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