Photograph book cover or page. Checked if already scanned and made available. Or what is incomplete.
Entering in title and author too tedious and too much work considering how much there is to scan.
Something for people do do instead of spray paint bulildings. Provide security for people doing it so librarians don't call cops because the right thing is usually/always illegal.
Or break in and do a section. A few months later a library main or archive scanned.
Then browse and judge by cover or blurb whether it's for you.
Selection like
Last.fm did before money was involved.
Browse too by snippets of what people presesed volume down then up within a few seconds to indicate they liked sonething on that page. First pages browsed first as not to spoil something later.