Hilary,
Don't forget Scriblio, the open source catalog replacement named in
the Google press release for the GBS API. Support is built in to
Scriblio, and you can see an example at my library here:
httpd://library.plymouth.edu/read/184908
Casey Bisson
__________________________________________
Information Architect
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, New Hampshire
http://Plymouth.edu/
http://about.Scriblio.net/
http://MaisonBisson.com/
ph: 603-535-2256
On Jun 3, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Kraus, Hilary 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:
>
> 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
> available by default. You can see it in action here:
> http://dev.gapines.org/opac/en-US/skin/default/xml/rresult.xml?rt=keywor
> d&tp=keyword&t=shakespeare&f=at The cover art there is provided by
> Syndetics, but as you can see, there are "Browse in Google Book
> Search"
> links available for those titles that Google has available.
>
> Simple textual links at this point on our III catalog. A few
> examples of
> our integration: http://kentlink.kent.edu/search/Xnativism ;
> http://kentlink.kent.edu/search/Xwhitman ;
> http://kentlink.kent.edu/search/Xsleepy+hollow. Scroll down until you
> see links: "Information at Google Books" (some content), "Preview at
> Google Books" (more content, some full text), "Read at Google Books"
> (full text). If you're patient enough on the Sleepy Hollow example,
> and
> scroll down enough, you'll see all three link examples.
>
> We've incorporated Google Books content in addition to our content
> from
> Syndetics: http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2467484 or
> http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/record=b2720408 The display of our item
> records is a little off now as we have both Sydetics reviews and
> LibraryThing for Libraries on trial.
>
> At Boston College, we have implemented a link to Google book
> information
> from the full bib record view. Our catalog is at
> http://www.bc.edu/quest. We also use Syndetics, so we do not display
> the
> cover image from Google. We recently added the link and we need to
> tweak
> the display, but it's at the bottom of the bib information for the
> moment.
>
> 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
> lnhup
>
> http://phebe.bowdoin.edu/record=b1000147~S1
>
> We have just implemented links to Google Book Search in the Swedish
> National Union Catalog, LIBRIS. ... 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". 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
>
> I hope this is helpful. Thanks again to everyone for their helpful
> responses!
>
> Best,
> Hilary Kraus
>
> Hilary Kraus
> Reference/Instruction Librarian
> hkraus_at_depaul.edu / 773-325-7274
Received on Sat Jun 07 2008 - 17:55:32 EDT