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Help me get a list of magazines included in Google Book Search?

In response to this Google Blog post, and last night’s episode of Uncontrolled Vocabulary, I’m on a quest to get a list of magazine titles out of Google. Here’s my opening salvo sent to gblog@google.com, the feedback address for the Google blog. Please feel free to help me out by sending your own e-mail to Google.

Speaking for myself and many other librarians we love the fact that you’re now including magazines in Google Book Search. However, it would be very useful for us if there was a list of indexed titles available. Does such a list exist online and if so where? If not, to whom would we direct such a request?

Thanks!

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Michael Sauers, Technology Innovation Librarian
Nebraska Library Commission
The Atrium, 1200 N Street, Suite 120
Lincoln, NE 68508-2023
402-471-2045
800-307-2665 (NE only)
Fax: 402-471-2083
msauers@nlc.state.ne.us
http://nlc.state.ne.us/
http://www.travelinlibrarian.info/
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And their automated response:

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Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.

3 Replies to “Help me get a list of magazines included in Google Book Search?”

  1. You probably noticed that I think we should just crowdsource the list. The issue is just where to put it and make it available?

  2. As I said in last night’s UV, I’m not against that in the end but if Google is willing to just post the list if we ask/convince them, they we wouldn’t need to do the work to duplicate something that does already exist, just not publicly. Failing in that mission, I’m all for crowdsourcing it.

  3. Already done this off my own bat – getting the issue amongst my fellow kiwi librarians, will get your post in our discussion list, thanks!

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