RE: Google's Library Up and Running

["Jill Oneill" <jilloneill@nfais.org>]

Based on the links provided in the original Slashdot posting, the
materials being accessed are actually the same ones that have existed on
Google for some 12-18 months. The Books icon, seen at the top of the page
after you click through on the title link, indicates books that have been
scanned in by Google as part of the Google Print project and not as part
of the Google Library partnerships.

However, one should note that on Google Scholar, there currently appear
links that take the user to OCLC's WorldCat, thus alerting users to local
availability of book content.

I could, of course, be mistaken about the Google/Library materials. Might
one of the actual libraries partnering with Google provide us with an
official update as to the status of digitized materials from their
particular collections? Or are confidentiality clauses being invoked?

Jill O'Neill
NFAIS