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Slide 4 in that PowerPoint mentions something about a "small set of Google Book Search information", but is also says that the items are indexed by ISBN, OCLC#, and LCCN. And yet, during the admittedly brief time that I tried out this really nice demo, I was unable to find any links to books that were available in "full view", which made me wonder if any of the search results were searching GBS with their respective OCLC #s (and not just ISBNs, if available). For example, if I use the demo site that's provided and search for "mark twain" and limit my results to publication dates of, say, 1860-1910, I don't receive a single GBS link. So I checked to see if "Eve's Diary" was in GBS and, of course, it was... and then I made sure that the copy I found in the demo had the same OCLC# as the one in GBS; and it was. So, is this a feature that will be added later, or is it just that the entire set of bib records available at the demo site are not included in the GBS aspect of the demo? Secondly, I have another question which I hope that someone can clear up for me. Again, I'll use this copy of "Eve's Diary" as an example, which has an OCLC number of 01052228. Now, if you search worldcat.org (using the advance search, basic search, of even adding things like "oclc:" before the number), the only way that I can access this item is to search for "1052228" (removing the leading zero). And this is exactly how the OCLC number displays in the metadata record, directly below the field that states that there are 18 editions of this work. All of that said, I can still access the book with either of these URLs: http://worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/1052228 http://worldcat.org/wcpa/oclc/01052228 Now, I could've sworn that GBS followed a similar route, and so, I previously searched it for OCLC numbers by removing any leading zeroes. As of at least today, though, the only way for me to access this book via GBS is to use the OCLC number as it appears in the MARC record... that is, by searching for "oclc01052228". Has anyone else noticed this change in GBS (though it's quite possible that I'm simply mistaken)? And could anyone inform me about the technical details of any of these issues? I mean, I get that worldcat has to also deal with ISSNs, but is there a way to use the search box to explicitly declare what type of number the query is... and why would the value need to have the any leading 0's removed in the metadata display (especially since the URL method can access either)? Mark Custer -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Godmar Back Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 5:40 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] google books for III millennium Hi, here's a pointer to follow up on the earlier discussion on how to integrate Google books viewability API into closed legacy systems that allow only limited control regarding what is being output, such as III's Millennium system. Compared to other solutions, no JavaScript programming is required, and the integration into the vendor-provided templates (such as briefcit.html etc.) is reasonably clean, provides targeted placement, and allows for multiple uses per page. Slides (excerpted from Annette Bailey's presentation at IUG 2008): http://libx.org/gbs/GBSExcerptFromIUGTalk2008.ppt A demo is currently available here: http://addison.vt.edu:2082/ - Godmar