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.