Google Library Inventory items

Owned by Allison Powers
Last updated: Oct 25, 2023
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This dashboard presents items from the Google Library Inventory Subject Area. Google Library Inventory includes the following data:

    • Alma derived item, holdings, and bibliographic metadata for over 1 million Harvard volumes sent for scanning from 2004-present
    • Google data for tracking items through the scanning workflow including check-in date, date of scan, and viewability
    • Google data for scan quality and OCR accuracy
    • Google data for physical condition of items including items rejected for scanning due to condition
    • HathiTrust data for copyright status, full text availability, scanning agent and more
    • URNs linking to full text, if available

The dashboard has numerous prompts and a default display of core data. All columns from the Subject Area are available to include in the dashboard. See the dashboard customization documentation for instructions on adding, excluding re-ordering dashboard columns. To open the Hathi Scanned Item Link right click twice on the URN and select the option "Open link in new tab".