I haven’t really populated any shelves yet, but here’s the idea:
Where previews are available, deep links into books will be available as part of the search results.
Google go to my library full#
So what immediately comes to mind is that if you’re running several courses, you could add the books used in the course to a My Library shelf, and then publish a link to a search context for that shelf to give a full text searchable version of the books on the list (assuming they’ve been scanned by the Goog, of course). (Shelves appeared at the start of 2010, it seems: Updated Books Home Page and My Library.) But it seems that it’s now possible to create separate collections by tagging books in your Library onto “shelves”: Google Books for Publishers).Īnyway – one of the problems I originally had with My Library was that you could only maintain a single collection. (At the moment I don’t think you can get statistics back on the searches carried out on a My Library profile, though Google books can do stats for publishers e.g. Complementing the OPAC With a Full Text Search Book Catalogue where I describe the use of the service by Wiltshire Heritage Library ( example) and the Penn State University Press booksearch ( example)). I’ve previously commented on the My Library aspect of Google Books in the context of its possible use by libraries for providing a full-text search option over books in their collection (e.g.
Searching your library finds all the books in your library collection that contain the search phrase if a preview of the book is available returns deep links into the book to the point(s) at which the search terms appear: One of the little known (I think?) features of Google Books is the “My Library” personalisation which allows you to create a collection of books and search over them.
Google go to my library free#
It’s been some time since I last had a look at the “My Library” service in Google Books, but with the announcement of Google eBooks store (currently US only, except for out-of-copyright free downloads) I popped over to my Google Books account to see whether anything else had changed…
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