Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:47:13 +0000 (GMT)
From: "[iso-8859-1] shankar goud"
Respected Professionals
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."
for further details visit
http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/pilot/default.htm
Banda Shankar
Student, DRTC.
