What ABOUT the book? Google-izing the Catalog with Tables of Contents
Angi Herold Faiks, Amy N. Radermacher, Amy Heck Sheehan · DigitalCommons-Macalester (Macalester College) · 2007
Meeting User Expectations in the Age of GoogleWhether Google's massive efforts to create the "world's largest digital library" (Thompson D01) make your heart race in anticipation or cause your blood to boil in exasperation, there is no question that the Google search engine and its many features-including Google Book Search-have forever changed the way that people expect to interact with information.These new developments have increased information seekers' expectations.Web users are already accustomed to finding information freely available online.Google's book digitization project, intended to digitize the full text of millions of books for online access does the same thing as regular Google, but with the full text of books.With this project, Google has further increased user expectations by allowing users' searches to delve deeply into the content of books and library collections in a way that is currently not possible using library catalogs of primarily print volumes.The data included in basic catalog records