[Web4lib] Enhanced ebook service?

[Brian Gray]

Google Books offers the ability to display certain data. I do not think it
allows someone to take all their information and incorporate into your own
system to allow searching.

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


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 8:02 PM, Chris (CE) <crippel at ckls.org> wrote:

>  Brian,
>
> Thanks for giving an example of how libraries are incorporating Google
> Books in their catalogs.
>
> I had missed this development.
>
> Do you know of any library catalogs that incorporates Google Books so that
> one search will search inside all the books in the library the way Google
> Books does?
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/11/10 1:28 PM, Brian Gray wrote:
>
> 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<http://catalog.case.edu/record=b3317134%7ES0>
>
> 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
>> 620-792-4865 (voice)
>> 620-792-5495 (fax)
>> crippel at ckls dot org
>> http://ceprojects.blogspot.com
>> http://creatingreaderfriendlylibraries.blogspot.com
>> http://publiclibraryshelftalkers.blogspot.com
>>
>> Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably
>> will themselves not be realized. ~ Daniel Burnbam, Architect for Plan of
>> Chicago, 1909
>>
>> The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be
>> honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you
>> have lived and lived well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Rippel
> Central Kansas Library System
> 1409 Williams
> Great Bend, Kansas 67530
> 620-792-4865 (voice)
> 620-792-5495 (fax)
> crippel at ckls dot orghttp://ceprojects.blogspot.comhttp://creatingreaderfriendlylibraries.blogspot.comhttp://publiclibraryshelftalkers.blogspot.com
>
> Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. ~ Daniel Burnbam, Architect for Plan of Chicago, 1909
>
> The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
>
>
>