OCLC and Google

[OCLC Abstracts: May 19, 2008 Vol.11,No.20]
Soon people who Google will be able to search digitized library collections!

OCLC and Google will soon link library collections via their search engine. "OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search program, which makes the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share their ........ records with Google .........Google will link from Google Book Search to WorldCat.org, which will drive traffic to library OPACs......"

WorldCat is an extensive database of more than 9,000 worldwide librarys' material collections. The number of holdings is currently 1,276,919,634 with 105,528,717 records. This database grows with a new record every 10 seconds.