DATABASES : ACADEMIC RESEARCH : LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS: Google
Scholar and Libraries

To preface the current remarks, here is a previous post of mine regarding
Google and its relationship with OCLC owners of the searching service
First Search and the international online catalog database WorldCat not to
mention the full text book collection NetLibrary.

RESOUR> [NetGold] LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS : INTERNET: SEARCH:
RESOURCES: OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google
From: Gleason Sackmann <gleason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetHappenings <nethappenings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:09:41 -0600
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:46:21 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: NetGold <NetGold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [NetGold] LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS : INTERNET: SEARCH:
RESOURCES: OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google
<http://www.freelists.org/archives/nethappenings/11-2003/msg00080.html>

LIBRARY: ONLINE CATALOGS AND OPACS : INTERNET: SEARCH: RESOURCES: OCLC
Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google

OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google
by Barbara Quint
Search Engine Marketing or SEM Services
<http://www.search-engine-marketing-sem.com/Google_news2/news5_27.htm>
INFODAY
<http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031027-2.shtml>

"October 27, 2003 OCLC has announced to its library members that it will
begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The
project will extract a 2 million record subset from the more than 53
million records in the WorldCat database. The subset will target the most
popular and widely available books by only selecting records with a
minimum of 100 libraries holding each item. Searches on Google will
retrieve the records and link through OCLC to library holdings. The move
expands the scope of the Open WorldCat yearlong pilot project to make
library resources available from non-library Web sites and will test the
effectiveness of Web search engines in guiding users to library-owned
materials. (Details for potential participants can be found at
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/pilot/default.htm .) The Google/OCLC
connection should be active by mid- to late November.

Over 12,000 academic, public, and school libraries that have contributed
holding records or cataloging information to OCLC will automatically
participate in the program. Corporate library collections will not be
assumed to participate."

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Worldcat
<http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/>

"WorldCat is a worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively
by more than 9,000 member institutions. With millions of online records
built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing
libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

WorldCat is the foundation of many OCLC services that let your library
process, manage and share information resources and let your users search
for and obtain them.

52 million quality records and counting
WorldCat-listed resources span thousands of years and nearly every form of
human expression. Records exist for everything from stone tablets to
electronic books, wax recordings to MP3s, DVDs and Web sites. Whether an
item is physical or digitally preserved, popular or one-of-a-kind, the
integrity of its record is maintained by the input of cataloging members,
our standards and quality control.

Built by catalogers around the globe, WorldCat is the leading
bibliographic database in the world, providing libraries with an extensive
and rich source of cataloging records. This resource increases efficiency
by ensuring a high hit rate for materials of all formats."

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The RLG organization that also has an international database of books and
other materials online that is free that was the subject of a past NetGold
post.

BOOKS: RESOURCES : DATABASES: BOOKS PUBLICATIONS ONLINE CATALOGS: RLG's
RedLightGreen Project
<http://lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu/LAWLIB/Sept03/0484.html>

[I have corrected the above URL to provide a location where this post may
now be seen.]

Those who use these resources will certainly find that they become all
booked up.

Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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The announcement about OCLC in the above post led to a useful service in
Google, Worldcat records for many books could be found amongst Google
search results for a book title or when a book listing was a search result
of a Google search. The Worldcat link from Google enabled one to find
a list of libraries in the multistate region of a zip code entered by the
person who followed the Google search result link to the Worldcat search
interface.

Now that Google Scholar has been released and made available to the
public, the other show has dropped in the Google relationship with OCLC's
Worldcat.

In this post of a little while ago about Google Scholar, I provided sample
search results.

From: "David P. Dillard" <jwne@...>
Date: Thu Nov 18, 2004 1:45 pm
Subject: DATABASES: Google Scholar
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Net-Gold/message/2775>

Scholar Results 1 - 10 of about 5,970 for afghanistan and women.

Amongst the shown and other results were some articles and some books.

Here is one book result:

BOOK] Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Womens Resistance - Library Search
- Web Search
C Benard, C Benard - Cited by 3
New York: Broadway Books, 2002

Please notice in this search result the hyperlink "Library Search"

Clicking on this link produces this record:

Veiled courage : inside the Afghan women's resistance
By: Cheryl Benard; Edit Schlaffer
Type: English : Book : Non-fiction
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2002.
ISBN: 0767913019
Subjects: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
Women in politics -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Women in Islam -- Afghanistan.
Government, Resistance to -- Afghanistan.

Links: Publisher description Table of contents

It also in a dialog box on the right hand side provides these options:

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Available for this title:
OCLC FirstSearch
Search the catalog at Temple University Libraries
Request item

The OCLC controlled link, I suspect this is the case, is able from ISP
recognition, I again believe, to determine that I am using a Temple
University computer and gives me Temple Appropriate options for finding
this book from that dialog box that I have pasted immediately above this
paragraph.

Selecting the search Temple Libraries Catalog option shows that Temple
does not own the book by linking to the Temple Catalog and performing the
search. The search done is of the ISBN number for the book.

No matches found; nearby ISN'S are:
Result page: Prev Next

Mark Year Entries

0767911660 : Paley Library 2003 1
0767911725 : Paley Library 2003 1
0767911857 : Paley Library 2002 1

Your entry 0767913019 would be here

0767913442 : Law Library 2004 1
0767913531 : Law Library 2004 1

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The Worldcat search option produces this result

Veiled courage : inside the Afghan women's resistance /
Author: Benard, Cheryl, 1953-; Schlaffer, Edit, Publication: New York :
Broadway Books, 2002
Document: English : Book Internet Resource
Libraries Worldwide: 1492
More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author | Advanced
options ...
See more details for locating this item

For those not on a computer of an institution that subscribes to Worldcat,
at the bottom left of the page is the option to enter a zip code and find
the libraries in the region of that zip code that own this book.

Back to the record for this book from Worldcat shown above, clicking on
the link to the full record, the hyperlinked book title, leads to this
full record.

Veiled courage :
inside the Afghan women's resistance /
Cheryl Benard; Edit Schlaffer

2002 1st ed.
English Book Internet Resource 293 p. ; 22 cm.
New York : Broadway Books, ; ISBN: 0767913019 (alk. paper)
Get This Item
Access: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/2002020657.html
Availability: Check the catalogs in your library.
Libraries worldwide that own item: 1492
Search the catalog at Temple University Libraries
Borrow this item from another library (Interlibrary Loan)

Find Related
More Like This: Search for versions with same title and author | Advanced
options ...
Title: Veiled courage :
inside the Afghan women's resistance /
Author(s): Benard, Cheryl, 1953- ; Schlaffer, Edit,; 1950-
Publication: New York :; Broadway Books,
Edition: 1st ed.
Year: 2002
Description: 293 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Standard No: ISBN: 0767913019 (alk. paper); LCCN: 2002-20657
Contents: Men, boys and dust -- Petal and the rock: Meena -- Work of RAWA
-- "I can be a sword": life in the underground -- Shahla in November --
Books and flowers -- RAWA and the men's questions -- Boxing with Hashemi
-- RAWA and postmodern politics -- No place at the men's table -- Gender
apartheid and the political order.
Access: Materials specified: Publisher description
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random045/2002020657.html
Materials specified: Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy034/2002020657.html
SUBJECT(S)
Descriptor: Women in politics -- Afghanistan.
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions.
Women in Islam -- Afghanistan.
Government, Resistance to -- Afghanistan.
Named Corp: Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan.
Class Descriptors: LC: HQ1236.5.A3; Dewey: 305.42/09581
Responsibility: Cheryl Benard in cooperation with Edit Schlaffer.
Document Type: Book; Internet Resource
Entry: 20020126
Update: 20040510
Accession No: OCLC: 49504565
Database: WorldCat

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Clicking on the Libraries Icon for this record produces a list of
libraries in the region that own the book of which this is a sample.

Location Library Code
PA ABINGTON TOWNSHIP PUB LIBR ABG
PA ALBRIGHT COL, GINGRICH LIBR ABI
PA ALLEGHENY COL AVL
PA BEAVER CNTY LIBR SYST BFJ
PA BETHLEHEM AREA PUB LIBR PBL
PA BRYN MAWR COL BMC
PA BUCKS CNTY FREE LIBR DPB
PA CALIFORNIA UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA CSC
PA CAMBRIA CNTY LIBR SYST JOC
PA CARNEGIE LIBR OF PITTSBURGH CPL
PA CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA DIST LIBR CTR PCB
PA CHESTER CNTY LIBR & DIST CTR PWC
PA CHESTNUT HILL COL CHE
PA CITIZEN'S LIBR WWC
PA CLARION UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA REC
PA COMMUNITY COL OF ALLEGHENY CNTY AIC
PA COMMUNITY COL OF BEAVER CNTY MPF
PA COMMUNITY COL OF PHILADELPHIA PDC
PA DAUPHIN CNTY LIBR SYST HBP
PA DELAWARE CNTY COMMUN COL PAC
PA DELAWARE CNTY LIBR SYST DEL
PA DELAWARE VAL COL PAD
PA DESALES UNIV ALL
PA DICKINSON COL DKC
PA DUQUESNE UNIV LIBR DUQ
PA EASTON AREA PUB LIBR EAP
PA EDINBORO UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA EIB
PA ELIZABETHTOWN COL ELZ
PA FRANKLIN & MARSHALL COL LFM
PA FREE LIBR OF PHILADELPHIA PLF
PA HARCUM COL LIBR PAE
PA HARRISBURG AREA COMMUN COL HAC
PA HAVERFORD COL HVC
PA JUNIATA COL PJU
PA KINGS COL KOL
PA LA SALLE UNIV LAS
PA LAFAYETTE COL LAF
PA LANCASTER CNTY LIBR LKC
PA LEBANON CNTY LIBR SYST LL$
PA LEBANON VAL COL LVC
PA LOCK HAVEN UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA LQS
PA LUZERNE CNTY COMMUN COL LIBR LZC
PA MARTIN MEM LIBR PYM
PA MERCERSBURG ACAD MGB
PA MERCYHURST COL HAMMERMILL LIBR QRA
PA MESSIAH COL, MURRAY LIBR PGM
PA MILLERSVILLE UNIV, HELEN GANSER LIBR MVS
PA MONTGOMERY CNTY COMMUN COL MGC
PA MONTGOMERY CNTY, NORRISTOWN PUB LIBR MNL
PA MORAVIAN COL MOR
PA NORTHAMPTON CNTY AREA COMMUN COL PNC
PA OSTERHOUT FREE LIBR OST

This list continues and covers about eight nearby states as well as the
rest of Pennsylvania libraries with record of owning this book.

If I click on the link for one of the library names in the above list that
is hyperlinked, not all of them are, I am taken in at least some of the
cases to that library's online catalog and the record for that book is
shown. Here is what results when Haverford Library, for example is
selected:

Author Benard, Cheryl, 1953-
Title Veiled courage : inside the Afghan women's resistance / Cheryl
Benard in cooperation with Edit Schlaffer
Publisher New York : Broadway Books, c2002
Edition 1st ed
Descript 293 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 22 cm
Summary "In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work
or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone
and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the
burqa. A woman's slightest infractions were met with brutal public
beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and incredible that the sole
effective civil resistance to Taliban rule was made by women. Veiled
Courage reveals the remarkable bravery and spirit of the women of the
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), whose daring
clandestine activities defied the forces of the Taliban and earned the
world's fierce admiration." "If caught, any RAWA activist would have faced
sure death. Yet they persisted. With the overthrow of the Taliban now a
reality, RAWA faces a new challenge: defeating the powers of Islamic
fundamentalism of which the Taliban are only one face and helping build a
society in which women are guaranteed full human rights." "Cheryl Benard,
an American sociologist and longtime adviser to RAWA, uses her inside
access to write the first behind-the-scenes story of RAWA and its
remarkably brave women. Veiled Courage will change the way Americans think
of Afghanistan, casting its people and its future in a new, more hopeful
light."--BOOK JACKET


LOCATION CALL NO STATUS
H Magill HQ1236.5.A3 B45 2002 AVAILABLE
B Canaday HQ1236.5.A3 B45 2002 AVAILABLE
Subject Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Women -- Afghanistan -- Political activity
Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions
Women in Islam -- Afghanistan
Government, Resistance to -- Afghanistan
Note Includes index
ISBN 0767913019 (alk. paper)
Alt. entry Schlaffer, Edit, 1950-

Thus Scholar Google promises to be a very powerful tool for public and
academic libraries and for the users of these libraries.


Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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