In the Yippee!–It’s-About-Time department, comes the news that Google Scholar is now tied into Open WorldCat. Great news! I’m sure this will be all over the biblioblogosphere in no time. This feature allows persons searching Google Scholar to readily determine whether or not a book they find in a citation is held by a nearby library.

[Updated 2/21/2006: Stupid me, I need to clarify this post in a big way. There has always been a Library Search link in Google Scholar since it's beginning in late 2005 2004. The news to which I referred was about an expansion into new countries so that more people in more parts of the world can benefit from the Library Search link. Sorry! Now I wonder if/whether Google will address the Library Search link issue in Google Books...]