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7 CommentsLike Ben Zimmer, I’ve complained more than once (e.g., here) about the glaring deficiencies of Google Books; now I learn from his latest post at the Log that
…the Hathi Trust has been established by the thirteen university libraries that make up the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. This includes the University of Michigan, which has contributed a major portion of Google’s scanned material thus far. The Hathi Trust is not nearly as wary as Google in providing page images and fully searchable text for public domain materials. What this means is that if you find something on GBS that only gives you “snippet view,” “limited preview,” or “no preview available,” you may be able to find the full page images by going to a CIC library site. The University of Michigan has already implemented this as part of its Mirlyn Library Catalog, with links to public domain material provided under the name “HathiTrust Digital Library.” (Roy Tennant of Library Journal has also mocked up a prototype search service, but it still needs some work.)
Go to his post for an example of how he used Hathi to antedate “an old bit of British comedy”; frankly, I’m very disappointed that Google has shown so little interest in remedying the problems with its book search, but it’s great that the Hathi Trust is doing so.
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