Hi,
We have just implemented links to Google Book Search in the Swedish National Union Catalog, LIBRIS. Since earlier, we have covers from different providers - of which the largest is Nielsen. We have discovered that the covers from these providers and those from Google to some extent complement each other, although for many titles the same cover is available from both sources. However, the covers from the Google Books API are only thumbnails, and in general of lower quality than the covers we already have. Therefore the Google covers are only displayed when no others are available.
Regarding the different types of preview, we choose to distinguish between the "partial" and "full" previews on the one hand, and the "noview", on the other. The two former are presented as links in the title presentation, analogue to how we present links to freely accessible resources, whereas for books with "noview", the Google-links are only displayed in the right column under "Search outside LIBRIS".
We also discovered the problem, described by Janes, that the script stops the loading of the page. We tried an AJAX workaround, but that got stuck in Google's security precautions, resulting in a 401-response. The solution we choose was to make sure that the Google-script is the last thing to be added to the page when loading.
Some examples:
"Full preview" + cover from Google: http://libris.kb.se/bib/2174999?language=en
"Partial preview" + cover from Google: http://libris.kb.se/bib/4717070?language=en
"No preview" + cover from Nielsen: http://libris.kb.se/bib/10361389?language=en
Regards,
Henrik Lindström, for the LIBRIS project group
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Henrik Lindström
Programmer/web developer
Department of LIBRIS
Kungl. biblioteket/National Library of Sweden
Mail: Box 5039, SE-102 41 Stockholm
Visits: Biblioteksgatan 29, Stockholm
Phone: +46 8 463 40 00
Fax: +46 8 463 40 04
E-mail: henrik.lindstrom_at_kb.se
www.kb.se
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Från: Next generation catalogs for libraries [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] För Thomas Arendall-Salvetti
Skickat: den 15 maj 2008 20:35
Till: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Ämne: Re: [NGC4LIB] Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs
<SMACK> A hundred librarians just slapped their foreheads and cried out:
"Why didn't we think of this first?".
Great idea, Susan. Open WorldCat has a stable system for generating the
URLs for its citations. That makes it possible for other libraries to
mechanically generate links to those citations and insert them into the
catalog.
This is Web 2.0 at its best. OCLC generates useful information
(citations) and makes it easy for others to get to it (stable,
predictable URLs)... and then other people (libraries) use the
information in unexpected, wonderful ways.
There is hope!
Thomas Arendall-Salvetti
Reference/Instruction Librarian
Langsdale Library
University of Baltimore
1420 Maryland Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-837-4275
tarendall-salvetti_at_ubalt.edu
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Fipps
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:38 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Integrating Google Book Search content into OPACs
Jonathan,
The citations feature is just a link to the Worldcat "Cite This Item"
link which is shown within its title page information. We just post it
in a separate link. Susan
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> How are you providing the citations feature? Do you have your own
> in-house code that formats citations, or are you using some other
> product or library?
>
> Jonathan
>
> Susan Fipps wrote:
>> Shannon,
>>
>> I can give you a general idea of how the PALNI test enhancements
work.
>> A combination of javascripting (based loosely on the Google Books API
>> examples) and PHP have been used to develop this combination of
links,
>> so there is some server-side programming involved. We are looking at
>> re-writing the whole set of scripts so right now it is in a state of
>> flux as we experiment with what is possible and useful to our
consortial
>> libraries. The citations link appears to be particularly popular
with
>> students. The code first looks for an Amazon book cover and if it
>> doesn't exist, then goes to Google to check. It could end up
focusing
>> just on Google book covers depending on Amazon's restrictions and how
>> those evolve. From Google we check for a general link to the
material
>> (Google button), check for Google full-text or sample pages
information
>> (Preview button), check for a WorldCat record (WorldCat button and if
>> so, link to the citation if available (Citation button). The table
of
>> contents (Contents button) comes from PALNI bibliographic records
where
>> it is included. The code is independent of a particular ILS. We use
Ex
>> Libris Aleph OPAC. Susan
>>
>> Shannon Shi wrote:
>>> Hi Susan,
>>>
>>> Could you tell us more about the methods you used to achieve this?
>>> The Cite
>>> this button is very cool. Thanks!
>>>
>>> Shannon
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
>>> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Susan Fipps
>>> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:58 AM
>>> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Integrating Google Book Search content into
>>> OPACs
>>>
>>> Hilary,
>>>
>>> We have implemented in the OPAC links to Google Books, Amazon,
>>> WorldCat,
>>> and table of contents (this in particular derived from PALNI
>>> bibliographic records where the contents exist). The results page
>>> shows
>>> these links when relevant to the material. We are looking at
inclusion
>>> on full-display screens as well. Here is an example URL:
>>>
>>>
http://hickory.palni.edu:4505/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=p
lnhu
>>>
>>>
>>> p
>>>
>>> We are using a combination of methods to achieve this test
enhancement
>>> to our OPACs. Regards, Susan
>>>
>>> Kraus, Hilary wrote:
>>>
>>>> ... As we determine how best to implement this feature for our
users,
>>>>
>>> we're
>>>
>>>> looking for examples of OPACs that have added buttons or links for
the
>>>> Google content; if those OPACs also have links to content from
>>>> additional providers, so much the better.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Sincerely,
>>>> Hilary Kraus,
>>>> DePaul University Libraries
>>>> I-Share Users' Group OPAC Team
>>>>
>>>>
>>> ________________________________________________________________
>>>
>>> Susan R. Fipps: M.L.S. -- Systems Analyst Voicemail: 137
>>> Department: Information Systems Email: susan_at_palni.edu
>>> Company: INCOLSA, 6202 Morenci Trail, Indianapolis, IN 46268
>>> Voice/TTD: 317.298.6570 or 800.733.1899 (in-state only)
>>> Fax: 317.328.2382 URL: http://www.palni.edu
>>> "Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby."
>>>
>>
>> --
>> ________________________________________________________________
>> Susan R. Fipps: M.L.S. -- Systems Analyst Voicemail: 137
>> Department: Information Systems Email: susan_at_palni.edu
>> Company: INCOLSA, 6202 Morenci Trail, Indianapolis, IN 46268
>> Voice/TTD: 317.298.6570 or 800.733.1899 (in-state only)
>> Fax: 317.328.2382 URL: http://www.palni.edu
>> "Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby."
>>
>
> --
> Jonathan Rochkind
> Digital Services Software Engineer
> The Sheridan Libraries
> Johns Hopkins University
> 410.516.8886
> rochkind (at) jhu.edu
--
________________________________________________________________
Susan R. Fipps: M.L.S. -- Systems Analyst Voicemail: 137
Department: Information Systems Email: susan_at_palni.edu
Company: INCOLSA, 6202 Morenci Trail, Indianapolis, IN 46268
Voice/TTD: 317.298.6570 or 800.733.1899 (in-state only)
Fax: 317.328.2382 URL: http://www.palni.edu
"Delete: Bathwater. Undelete: Baby."
Received on Fri May 16 2008 - 07:31:50 EDT