Well, my visit yesterday to Google was fantastic. A tour, a feast in Charlie’s Cafe (the first and largest of the wonderful Google Cafeteria’s), and, best of all, active discussions with Google gurus on a number of topics — Google Scholar, Book Search/Library Program, public sector initiatives, and my fav, YouTube! Google Book Search, a free way to publicize your books, now includes 27 libraries and 10,000 publishers; and through Library Search and the 25 international union catalog partners plus OCLC’s WorldCat, you can find where a physical copy of a book can be found. Their plans to improve book users experience include more comprehensive search, more languages, and more features for users and publishers. Google Scholar, the single place to search scholarly material, now includes 1400 (mostly academic) libraries. Google works with all the major link resolvers to make this happen. They also work with aggregators, like Ebsco & Gale, to connect large consortiums. This service is open to all libraries and there is not cost. If you want to enable your aggregator, email Google — scholar-library(at)google.com. And if you don’t have a link resolver, Ex Libris offers a free one which works with Google Scholar.