The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity

Carol Smallwood

doi:10.5771/9781442246911

Summary

Carol Smallwood's The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 1: Instruction, Administration, and Staff Productivity explores how Google's suite of tools, from Google Docs (now Google Drive), Google Scholar, Hangout, Forms, and others made freely available to the Internet Community can be used by libraries to expand the role of digital operations in the management of library materials, to communicate with their patrons and collaborators, to exploit the resources on the Web, and many others. The book has 29 chapters organized into sections that focus on ways that Google’s suite of tools can be applied to address problems in a specific area of library concern. The section headings are: Library Instruction for Users; Collaboration within and among libraries; Library Administration; Collection Management; and Library Productivity. In each topical area, the chapters show how librarians are taking advantage of these tools to change the way that their library works. All of this without the burden of an additional bill to pay. Through these carefully selected case studies from real libraries, you will be able to learn about the surprising and powerful potential that exists through Google tools to improve library operations.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2015
Copyright year: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-4689-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-4691-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 310
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Foreword No access
3. Preface No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1 App It Up No access
2. 2 Developing Research Skills with Developmental Students No access
3. 3 Enhancing Access to Master’s Thesis Research with Google Fusion and Google Maps No access
4. 4 Google Trends as an Academic Research Tool No access
5. 5 Helping College Students Make the Most of Google Scholar No access
6. 6 Using Google for Primary Sources No access
1. 7 Hanging Out with Google No access
2. 8 Harnessing the Power of Google Docs for Writing Collaboration No access
3. 9 Taking Interlibrary Loan Operations from Good to Great Using Google Collaboration Tools No access
4. 10 Using Google Calendar Collaboratively for Library Organization No access
5. 11 Using Google Sites as Library Intranet No access
1. 12 Google Analytics and Library Websites No access
2. 13 Google Video and YouTube No access
3. 14 Incorporating Google Trends into Library Administration No access
4. 15 Organizing Employees Using Google No access
5. 16 Using Google Drive for Library Assessment No access
6. 17 Using Google Forms and Google Drive for Library Use Surveys No access
1. 18 Google Books API No access
2. 19 Google Books as a Library Resource No access
3. 20 Google Ngram Viewer No access
4. 21 Managing Electronic Resources License Agreements and Other Documentation with Google Drive No access
5. 22 Simplifying “Contact Us” No access
6. 23 Does Google Scholar Help or Hurt Institutional Repositories? No access
1. 24 Embedding with Google No access
2. 25 Librarians’ Everyday Use of Google Tasks, Voice, Hangouts and Chat, Translate, and Drive No access
3. 26 Google Alerts, Trends, and Chrome in Public Relations No access
4. 27 Google Drive for Library Productivity No access
5. 28 Google Translating and Image Searching for Foreign-Language Cataloging No access
6. 29 Understanding Our Users No access
7. 30 Using Google to Locate Government Information No access
Index No access Pages 295 - 300
About the Contributors No access Pages 301 - 310