steady as she goes...

I am now ou ton the reference desk for two shifts a week, which is exciting, but even more exciting, after figuring that google books has about 20% duplication of our pre-1923 monographs, Chris has devised a way using excel and GREP to speed up the process (as opposed to plugging through zotero) and prepare the URLs to be dumped into the MARC records.

Overall, google book is pretty good, except for the fact that they use the same OCLC number to describe multiple editions, and after a number of click-throughs, they repeatedly ask you to type in those messed-up words to make sure you're not a hacker. Their map/book mash-up looks to be promising as well.