[Web4lib] Query: union search for online books

[Brian Gray]

Are these digitized book records finding their way into WorldCat?

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Henry Gladney <hgladney at gmail.com> wrote:

> In recent years several giant digitizations of (mostly) out-of-copyright
> books have been mounted, some by commercial enterprises and some by
> academic
> institutions.  My relatively cursory Google search has not led me to a Web
> service from which one can mount a search that inspects a large fraction of
> these to determine whether or not a book (or a scholarly article) is
> available in digital form.  (I am aware of Google Book Search (see
> http://books.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about.html ) but currently
> believe its scope to be limited.)
>
> I wonder, has the kind of service been programmed and made available?  (I
> believe that providing it would be a relatively straightforward programming
> task.  If not, perhaps some list member will take it on.)   If you know of
> an example, I would be grateful for a pointer to it.  I suspect that other
> members of this distribution list would be as interested as I am.
>
> Best wishes, Henry
>
> H.M. Gladney, Ph.D.     HMG Consulting http://home.pacbell.net/hgladney/
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