1. bibliotek.dk in Google Kirsten Larsen Head of Department for bibliotek.dk and DanBib kl@dbc.dk Dansk BiblioteksCenter Danish Bibliographic Centre

2. bibliotek.dk in Google What is bibliotek.dk? Why consider Google as an access point? Google Scholar project Google Books Google

3. bibliotek.dk – in short End-user-version of the national union catalog DanBib Access to 10 million records Request facilities to all Danish libraries (1.38 million requests in 2005) Up to 100.000 visits per week Funded by the Danish state Developed and hosted by the Danish Bibliographic Centre - Dansk BiblioteksCenter.

4. Records in Google? – why? Users to whom libraries are not the obvious choice might find it Visibility to information seekers when they don’t think of libraries To brand the libraries as a quality resource centre.

5. First project: Google Scholar Because that was Google’s choice Google Scholar is tuned for that (they thought – we thought..) –

6. Format – export/harvesting You have to make a special website for robots First try: harvesting of our existing database – didn’t work Extra database for harvesting xml-format – Google ”standard” – includes number of libraries per record – names/links to libraries (we skipped that).

7. The Google Scholar solution? Only records already in Google Scholar get library links Google try to match their records with our records Their format does not have type of material (book, article, video, etc.) Number of libraries is used for ranking (wasn’t in the beginning..).

9. The linking to bibliotek.dk Google wanted choice of library as in the links to Open WorldCat. We only wanted a link from the record in Google and the library choice to be as usual in bibliotek.dk. Compromise: when coming from Google Scholar the user can see library holdings, but choose library as usual. Danish users (=IP-addresses) go to the Danish version of bibliotek.dk.

11. Shortcomings - statistics Type of material Lack of users - usage: 0.1% of bibliotek.dk visits (June- September) comes from Google Scholar (total 1 mill. visits). Lack of work display – FRBR - as in bibliotek.dk

12. bibliotek.dk – FRBR display all editions Google Scholar – highest ranked edition

13. Google Books – no extra work for DBC All bibliotek.dk-records of books are used Good tool for librarians all over the world using only ”Library catalogs”? Usage: 1.2% of visits (25. August- 24.September) comes from Google Books (total 0.33 mill. visits).

15. Google links to bibliotek.dk Many Danish web pages link to bibliotek.dk – and these pages are indexed by Google The Subject guide in bibliotek.dk is indexed because it’s a webpage-hierarchy We’ve optimized the urls of the Subject guide – now all result pages are also indexed Usage: 23% of visits (August-September) comes from google.dk, -com, -de, -no, -se… (total 0.33 mill. visits).

17. Is bibliotek.dk dispensable? 50% of our users go directly to bibliotek.dk Many functions are only found here - libraries can update informations every minute Creating a website based on a bibliographic database leads to other solutions than search engines optimized for working with full text documents Knowledge of standards for bibliographic data is a fairly good thing!

18. Contact scholar-library@google.com if you want links from Google Scholar to your catalog scholar-library@google.com kl@dbc.dk if you want information about our solutions kl@dbc.dk