[Web4lib] Google Book Search and interlibrary loan practice?

[Andrew Shuping]

We'll check Google Books if its a book that we can't easily come up
with via ILL (basically anything published before 1950 is what we
usually end up searching for.)  It's a great resource to have, it's
easy to search, and our patron doesn't have to wait for it too arrive.

Andrew Shuping
Learning Commons/Emerging Technologies/Interlibrary Loan Librarian
Jack Tarver Library
Mercer University

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about life: it goes on."



On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:36 AM, Jorge Serrano Cobos
<jorgeserrano at gmail.com> wrote:
> For a major client, we have integrated -in Koha- Google Books Search inside
> the search process, and also Amazon (with "look inside" feature)
>
> If full text is online, it can be read with a click (or two) straight ahead
> from the SERPS or from the bibliographic record.
>
> Users seem to feel comfortable with it (as far as we know ;-)
>
> (By the way, we are now taking a look at Open Library API and Internet
> Archive, any experience on integrations?)
>
> Thanks,
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> On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:46 AM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought some libraries are adding the books right to their catalog, so
>> they might not even had to search Google Book directly.
>>
>> Brian Gray
>> mindspiral at gmail.com
>> bcg8 at case.edu
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 8:44 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > A couple of days ago a doctoral student mentioned to me that she'd had an
>> > ILL request cancelled by her university library because the full text of
>> > the book in question was available via Google Book Search (GBS).
>> >
>> > I'd never thought of that before. Just wondering how many libraries are
>> > checking GBS before going ahead with an ILL request?
>> >
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