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Lourens, Hannalie | 2 Jun 08:18
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Re: New Library Technology Blog from the University of Michigan Library

Sou hierdie blog jou dalk interesseer?  Ek is al by so baie listserves dat ek wraggies nie nog 'n enkele ander
ding kan monitor nie.  Ek sal later nie meer tyd hê om te werk nie.
Hannalie

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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB <at> LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Varnum
Sent: 30 May 2008 03:50 PM
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] New Library Technology Blog from the University of Michigan Library

"[BLT] Blog for Library Technology" -- http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/blt/ -- is the new Library
Information Technology blog from the University of Michigan Library.  We'll talk about technological
innovations we're developing in the U-M library.  Want to learn about developments in the Google book
scanning project (MBooks) at U-M?  Find out more about MTagger?  Keep up with our MLibrary Labs
experimental and test tools?  This is the place to do it.
And, of course, we welcome your comments on any and all of it.

Recent [BLT] entries include:

- Full-Text MBook Searches from the Library Catalog
- MLibrary Labs Project Summary
- What to do with Books in Copyright
- MTagger Update
- University of Chicago Integrating MBooks in Catalog using OAI
- What is MBooks?

Visit [BLT] at http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/blt/

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Ken Varnum
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Oliver Flimm | 3 Jun 10:44
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KUG - a NGC at the University of Cologne

Hi,

at the University Library of Cologne (www.ub.uni-koeln.de, Germany) we
use the open source software OpenBib (www.openbib.org, GPL) as our
central search portal named KUG (Koelner UniversitaetsGesamtkatalog =
Collective catalogue of the University of Cologne,
kug.ub.uni-koeln.de) for the library catalogues of the numerous
institutes (around 145 in 110 separate catalogues) at our university
as well as 'other interesting sources' like local OAI repositories,
special collections etc.

At the moment KUG consists of 6892554 titles in 139 separate
catalogue databases.

Although we seem to live on a different planet in germany
library-wise, with other data formats (MAB instead of MARC21) and
cataloguing rules (RAK instead of AACR2) our KUG might still be
interesting for a short announcement to this list.

The main principle behind KUG is to build a central system with
separate uniform databases that is fed daily with the data of
different sources, mainly library catalogues. In this way we can do
stuff like enriching our catalogue data (e.g. ISBN10/13) while loading
into KUG, nothing new after all. Because we end up with *uniform* data
in our KUG, several additional features across all our catalogues are
possible. Time critical availability and holding information is merged
from the corresponding separate ILS on-the-fly with web-services.

OpenBib is a typical LAMP application using (Debian)Linux, Apache with
mod_perl, MySQL, Perl, Xapian (www.xapian.org) as our search engine
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Kraus, Hilary | 4 Jun 01:07
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Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Oops! Sorry, keyboard shortcut sent that one a bit early.

Starting over:

Thanks very much to everyone who responded with examples of their
implementations of the GBS content; I've summarized those examples
below. Since I'm interested more in look and feel than the technical
details of the implementations, I'm including mainly links with a little
description, snipping the longer technical explanations.

Examples of OPACs that have added buttons or links for the Google
content:

Google Books and Amazon:
http://library.willamette.edu/search~S1/c?SEARCH=DF+229+.T5+J6#

Individually adapted link to Google Book Search on a full title view
page: http://opac.fh-burgenland.at/

Google Books and Google Book covers: http://cf.catalog.fcla.edu/cf.jsp/
(good sample search: bear)

Worldcat.org links to Google Books and to Amazon:
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777896&referer=brief_results; Worldcat
Local inherits this functionality from the Worldcat.org platform with a
slightly different presentation (UW does not have Amazon links turned on
here): see
http://uwashington.worldcat.org/oclc/777896&referer=brief_results

The next major release of Evergreen will have integrated GBS browse
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Kraus, Hilary | 4 Jun 01:04
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Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Thanks very much to everyone who responded with examples of their
implementations of the GBS content; I've summarized those examples
below. Since I'm interested more in look and feel than the technical
details of the implementations

Hilary Kraus
Reference/Instruction Librarian
hkraus <at> depaul.edu / 773-325-7274
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Nicole Engard | 4 Jun 14:21
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Re: Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Hi Hilary,

Koha 3.0 will also have Google Books content.  Users will have the
choice to pull from Amazon, Google, or Baker & Taylor by default.  I
don't have a link yet, as no one is live with Koha 3.0 yet.

--
Nicole C. Engard
Open Source Evangelist, LibLime
(888) Koha ILS (564-2457) ext. 714
nce <at> liblime.com
AIM/Y!/Skype: nengard

http://liblime.com
http://blogs.liblime.com/open-sesame/

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Kraus, Hilary <HKRAUS <at> depaul.edu> wrote:
> Oops! Sorry, keyboard shortcut sent that one a bit early.
>
> Starting over:
>
> Thanks very much to everyone who responded with examples of their
> implementations of the GBS content; I've summarized those examples
> below. Since I'm interested more in look and feel than the technical
> details of the implementations, I'm including mainly links with a little
> description, snipping the longer technical explanations.
>
> Examples of OPACs that have added buttons or links for the Google
> content:
>
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Oliver Flimm | 4 Jun 14:55
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Re: Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:07:54PM -0500, Kraus, Hilary wrote:
> Starting over:

I'd like to add our KUG with OpenBib that implements GBS without the
use of JavaScript in a browser. We use the GBS JavaScript-API in our
backend to show different images on the availability of a given titel
in GBS. Currently we only show full and partial access in GBS on the
full title page.

As stated in my previous post a good example is:

http://kug5.ub.uni-koeln.de/portal/connector/permalink/inst006/6439/1/inst006/index.html

Here 'Teilzugriff' means 'partial access'.

We use this image-instead-of-JS-approach for other lookups as well,
e.g. availability in BibSonomy or as an e-book.

Regards,

Oliver

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IT-Dienste :: Abteilung Universitaetsgesamtkatalog
Universitaetsstr. 33 :: D-50931 Koeln
Tel.: +49 221 470-3330 :: Fax: +49 221 470-5166
flimm <at> ub.uni-koeln.de :: www.ub.uni-koeln.de
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Jonathan Rochkind | 4 Jun 17:06
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Re: Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Oliver: So you're making querries to GBS not from the browser, but from
the server-side?  Have you run into any problems with Google
traffic-limiting defenses?

Thanks for sharing your experience,

Jonathan

Oliver Flimm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 06:07:54PM -0500, Kraus, Hilary wrote:
>
>> Starting over:
>>
>
> I'd like to add our KUG with OpenBib that implements GBS without the
> use of JavaScript in a browser. We use the GBS JavaScript-API in our
> backend to show different images on the availability of a given titel
> in GBS. Currently we only show full and partial access in GBS on the
> full title page.
>
> As stated in my previous post a good example is:
>
> http://kug5.ub.uni-koeln.de/portal/connector/permalink/inst006/6439/1/inst006/index.html
>
> Here 'Teilzugriff' means 'partial access'.
>
> We use this image-instead-of-JS-approach for other lookups as well,
> e.g. availability in BibSonomy or as an e-book.
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Oliver Flimm | 4 Jun 17:54
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Re: Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Hi Jonathan,

On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 11:06:15AM -0400, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Oliver: So you're making querries to GBS not from the browser, but from
> the server-side?  Have you run into any problems with Google
> traffic-limiting defenses?

not until now. But I was expecting this problem, too. I tried to
propose this 'image'-approach as an official extension of the GBS-API
through Googles BookAPI-Newsgroup, but didn't get a reaction... :-(

On the other hand it would be quite easy to implement a local GBS
availability cache consisting of ISBN and the 'full/partial'
information of a given title - without any further contents of GBS...

Regards,

Oliver

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IT-Dienste :: Abteilung Universitaetsgesamtkatalog
Universitaetsstr. 33 :: D-50931 Koeln
Tel.: +49 221 470-3330 :: Fax: +49 221 470-5166
flimm <at> ub.uni-koeln.de :: www.ub.uni-koeln.de
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Popp, Mary Pagliero | 4 Jun 22:01
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Re: Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Hi!  We found all of the information that has been sent by others to be very helpful in setting up our
GoogleBooks link inside the Indiana University Libraries catalog, IUCAT.   Our installation went live
this past Sunday, June 1.

We took a different approach; we actually linked buttons to the different types of views from GoogleBooks. 
We have three different types of buttons:
        Full text (linking directly to the screen where full text exists)
        Limited Preview
        More Information (linking to books with metadata and snippet views)

To see these, check out our catalog at:
http://www.iucat.iu.edu

To see examples of the different buttons search for:

The life of Abraham Lincoln, by Henry Ketcham (1901).   -   Full text

Bonds of affection: civic charity and the making of America-Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln, by Matthew
Scott Holland (2007) -   Limited Preview

President Lincoln: the duty of a statesman, by William Lee Miller (2008) -   More Information

--Gary Charbonneau and Mary Popp, Indiana University Libraries

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Jonathan Rochkind | 4 Jun 22:28
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Re: Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs -- summary of examples

Does anyone know,  does "Limited Preview" always mean that "search
inside the book" capability is there, or might "limited preview" just
mean a table of contents or something without search inside the book?

Is there any way to tell from the GBS API response if search inside the
book (with excerpts only in results) is enabled, when full text isn't
present?

Jonathan

Popp, Mary Pagliero wrote:
> Hi!  We found all of the information that has been sent by others to be very helpful in setting up our
GoogleBooks link inside the Indiana University Libraries catalog, IUCAT.   Our installation went live
this past Sunday, June 1.
>
> We took a different approach; we actually linked buttons to the different types of views from
GoogleBooks.  We have three different types of buttons:
>         Full text (linking directly to the screen where full text exists)
>         Limited Preview
>         More Information (linking to books with metadata and snippet views)
>
> To see these, check out our catalog at:
> http://www.iucat.iu.edu
>
> To see examples of the different buttons search for:
>
> The life of Abraham Lincoln, by Henry Ketcham (1901).   -   Full text
>
> Bonds of affection: civic charity and the making of America-Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln, by
Matthew Scott Holland (2007) -   Limited Preview
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