Google Books Preview

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Hi All,

Thank you for the feedback! Good questions all around.

@Patty & Tom:

Unfortunately, I have no control over the size of that popup frame. I can make the popup a link to the Google Books page instead, but that means our patrons navigate away from the Catalog -- perhaps not the outcome we want. I'll probably bring this issue to usability for our WebOPAC testing. We could set up a test with both solutions and get some feedback from our patrons about which they prefer.

@Jen:

WebOPAC Committee is looking into doing something like that. We learned
that some universities (U Michigan, I believe) are actually loading in
the Google Book previews as MARC records into their systems, which
would then be indexed for search with the rest of our materials.

@Priscilla:

The Google Books preview works by sending an ISBN to Google, and having
Google tell us if there is a book with that ISBN. If Google has the
book, then a link is generated, if not, no link is generated.

In the cases you mentioned, it looks as though no ISBN is associated
with the records. Therefore, we aren't passing any info on to Google
for a response, and therefore no link is generated. The only way to fix
this would to add ISBNs to the records where they may be missing, but
I'm guessing there might be some reasons why ISBNs aren't already
associated with those records.

Brian

This is very cool. I could only see the preview button for recent items, though, and only some of those - how does it link the records?

Here are two examples of a work that is available full view at GB but that no button appeared for:

milton a sheaf of gleanings
http://webpac.library.unlv.edu:2082/search~S1?/cPR3581+.H8/cpr+3581+h8/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CE/frameset&FF=cpr+3581+h8&1%2C1%2C

the nez perces since lewis and clark
http://webpac.library.unlv.edu:2082/search~S1?/cE99.N5+M2/ce++++99+n5+m2/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CE/frameset&FF=ce++++99+n5+m2&1%2C1%2C

It would be wonderful if it worked for items from the Library of English Literature series - they're all on an exotic form of microfiche and most of them are public domain. Their catalog data is specific to the microform edition, though

(example http://webpac.library.unlv.edu:2082/search~S1?/tLibrary+of+English+literature+;+LEL+20627-28/tlibrary+of+english+literature+lel+20627+++28/-3%2C-1%2C0%2CE/frameset&FF=tlibrary+of+english+literature+lel+20621+++24&1%2C1%2C

Nice work!

This is awesome! Too bad there is not a way to integrate a Google books search for items we do not own. So that people could look at the book before Link+. Or is there a way?!

I really like the Google Preview. For the few titles I tried, I at least got front and back cover, table of contents, and the introduction. I think that will really give users a good idea if they want the book.

I use Firefox and had the same issue with the window. Would be nice to be able to resize it.

OK - I tried to post to the blog and since I couldn't read the test letters - it rejected my entry --AND made me write it all over again - didn't just give me another test word.

So here goes - take two. Hopefully the next word I get will be legible enough for my old eyes.

I found my first google book - a title we had only in print in the stacks - but the google book button allowed me to see the full text online -- so I was able to browse and decide if I want to go check it out. very cool!

The google window that it opened in was very small - less than 1/4 of my screen - with no ability to make larger. I don't know if this is a feature or my older Internet Explorer browser.

Thanks for working on this.