[Web4lib] Enhanced "e-book" service?!

[Tim Spalding]

Can people build up "large" collections—ie., 100,000 books in a public
library? Can we manually build up LibraryThing-sized ones (eg.,
200-2,000 books)? Can the identifiers be sent in the search request,
rather than as a pre-defined collection?

Best,
Tim

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Heather Christenson
<heather.christenson at ucop.edu> wrote:
> It's early days, but right now HathiTrust enables a user to build a
> collection of items they choose, and then perform full text queries across
> the items in that collection.  The result set lists the volumes where your
> term appears, then you can click in on each one to see the page numbers
> where the term appears.  The user can designate a collection as public or
> private.
>
> List of public collections:
> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listcs;colltype=pub;debug=
>
> Here's a sample collection, "How To Be A Domestic Goddess":
> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?a=listis;c=1679046231
>
> A search for "pumpkin" within that collection:
> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb?c=1679046231;a=listsrch;q1=pumpkin;sort=r
> el_d;pn=1
>
> HathiTrust is working to expand our capabilities and it's great to see a
> discussion of desirable functionality here on web4lib
>
> --Heather
>
> --
> Heather Christenson
> Mass Digitization Project Manager
> University of California
> California Digital Library
> http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/
>
>
>
>
> On 10/11/10 2:36 PM, "Tim Spalding" <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
>
>> No, we don't have scans of the books. We'd love to tie into a service,
>> but Google doesn't allow arbitrary sets to be searched--we'd need to
>> tell users to import them. Hathi doesn't do it either. The and, r big
>> problem is, of course, that it's very partial. It's a good thing to
>> search a portion of your books‹what proportion varies widely but it
>> would be small indeed for me‹but it's also limiting.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Norma Jean Hewlett <hewlett at usfca.edu> wrote:
>>> Tim, does Library Thing offer this feature?
>>> Jean Hewlett
>>> University of San Francisco
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to see Hathi Trust offer this feature. I'd rather not see
>>>> libraries upload their collections to Google for this, even if Google
>>>> wanted them to.
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
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>
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> Heather Christenson
> Mass Digitization Project Manager
> University of California
> California Digital Library
> http://www.cdlib.org/services/collections/massdig/
>
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