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First of all, I'm going to say I know little in this area. I've done some preliminary research about search indexing (Google's) and investigated a few OPAC robot.txt files. Now to my questions: - Can someone explain to me or point me to research as to why local library catalog records do not show up in Google, Bing, or Yahoo! search results? - Is there a general prohibition by libraries for search engines to crawl their public records? - Do the search engines not index these records actively? - Is it a matter of SEO/promoted results? - Is it because some systems don't mint URLs for each record? I haven't seen a lot of discussion about this recently and I know Jason Ranallo has done a lot of work in this area and gave a great talk at code4lib Seattle on microdata/Schema.org, so I figured this could be part of that continuing conversation. I look forward to being educated by you all, Tod -- Tod Robbins iSchool GSA Crew MLIS Candidate 2012 University of Washington