OCLC and Google to exchange data, link digitized books to WorldCat
"OCLC and Google Inc. have signed an agreement to exchange data that will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google search services.Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Searchâ„¢ program, which makes the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google to better facilitate discovery of library collections through Google....
Google recently released an API that provides links to books in Google Book Search using ISBNs, LCCNs and OCLC numbers. This API allows WorldCat.org users to link to some books that Google has scanned through a “Get It� link. The link works both ways. If a user finds a book in Google Book Search, a link can often be tracked back to local libraries through WorldCat.org...."
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I love that Google and OCLC continue to work together to create links that remind Google users about items their libraries own. Now, if we could only get links to full text available via Google Books into MNCAT, that would be really something.
Cheers,
Martha