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<h1><b>Google Book Search features links to
WorldCat</b></h1><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The
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Google Book Search</a> now features links to WorldCat's free Web service.
The Google service, which lets you search the full text of books provided
by participating libraries and publishers, includes "Find this book
in a library" links that lead to the WorldCat Web record for an
item. There you can enter a geographic identifier such as postal code and
receive a list of nearby libraries that hold the item.<br><br>
The "Find this book in a library" link to WorldCat typically
appears in the right-hand column of any Google Book Search
"view," beneath descriptive information for a book (title,
authors) and "Buy this book" purchase options.<br><br>
The WorldCat link appears within all four available Google Book views:
<ul>
<li>the <b>Full View</b> offering access to the full content of a
digitized title;
<li>the <b>Limited Preview</b> that lets you read only several pages of
the book;
<li>the <b>Snippet View</b> that contextually presents passages of the
book which contain your search terms; and
<li>the <b>basic record</b> view which does not feature a content
preview.
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<h2><b>Advanced Book Search also has Library Catalogs
option</b></h2><br><br>
Google's
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Advanced Book Search</a> also now allows you to limit a search to
"Library Catalogs." Results produced by this limited search
contain "Find libraries" links that lead to the WorldCat Web
record for each item. (Some search results may also include links to
other non-U.S. national catalogs.)</blockquote>
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Suzanne Lorimer<br>
Coordinator of Research Services<br>
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
(phone) 203-432-8371 (fax) 203-432-8527<br>
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