spring!

The Googleboooks project continues at a crawl, which is to be expected, but I will be starting to write an article about it with Chris Brown, and hopefully get it finished by June!

He and a practicum student are doing a similar project with NASA documents (setting up excel files with automatically generated URL's by OCLC or SUDOC numbers and then copying in the exact URL to be imported into MARC records). It looks like the NASA materials are getting much higher return rates at about 60% as opposed to Googlebooks, which is still hovering in the 20-23% range. That being said, I am quite happy with the turnout.

Microsoft now has their book search, which has beautiful PDF's (unlike Google) but it is a bit of a mess because they are identified by title, which makes automatically generated URL searching a little sketchy at best.