Google Book Search to Link to OpenWorldCat

Like Google Scholar has done for some time now, Google has announced that Book Search will have more "Find it in a library" links to connect to OpenWorldCat records. While I'm glad to see that a librarian at Google makes the announcement, I was disappointed in that few of the records I found had the link. For the many I looked at, it was less than 10%. However, it sounds as if they are planning on expanding that number significantly, and I hope it does increase soon.

On a related issue, I am still disappointed that books scanned via the Google Library program do not give attribution to the library providing the book. Perhaps the libraries prefer this to protect them from legal concerns, but from a scholarly viewpoint it would be good to know which library copy was used. Then the record could be tied to more detailed bibliographic records about the item from that library. In the meantime, try looking at the first few pages for a library stamp if you'd like to know the originating library.