[Web4lib] Enhanced ebook service?

[Brian Gray]

Some library catalogs are embedding the Google previews directly in the
catalog record, which included a button that jumps directly into the Google
interface where you can search the book.

Here is an example:
http://catalog.case.edu/record=b3317134~S0

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Chris (CE) <crippel at ckls.org> wrote:

>  Dear Anders,
>
> Since Google Books actually has entire print books scanned onto Google's
> computers,
> this makes "search inside the book" possible.
>
> Since library catalogs only have information about the library's print
> books and not the entire book,
> libraries catalogs can not search inside library books the way Google Books
> does.
>
> I am not aware of any library catalog that incorporates Google Books into
> the library catalog to take advantage of this feature.
>
> Thanks for making me aware of this possibility.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Rippel
> Central Kansas Library System
> 1409 Williams
> Great Bend, Kansas 67530
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