Google Books’ Coverage of Hawai’i and Pacific Books

摘要

This poster reports on a recent quantitative study of GoogleBooks ’ coverage of Hawaiian and Pacific books using theUniversity of Hawaii’s collection as a benchmark. A totalof 1,500 books were randomly selected from the Universityof Hawai’i at Manoa5s Hawaiian, Pacific, and generalstacks collections. Their level of access was thendetermined in Google Books by observing whether thebooks had a metadata record, were full-text searchable, andwhether they were available in snippet, preview, or full-textviews. Results show that Google Books has a sizablenumber of metadata records for Hawaiian and Pacificbooks, but has only a limited number available for full-textsearching. In contrast, a larger number of books from thegeneral stacks were available for full-text searching.