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The complete guide to using Google in libraries. Volume 1 : instruction, administration, and staff productivity / edited by Carol Smallwood

Published
Lanham, [Maryland] : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 online resource (326 pages)
Additional Creators
Smallwood, Carol, 1939-
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Contents
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Library Instruction for Users; 1 App It Up; 2 Developing Research Skills with Developmental Students; 3 Enhancing Access to Master's Thesis Research with Google Fusion and Google Maps; 4 Google Trends as an Academic Research Tool; 5 Helping College Students Make the Most of Google Scholar; 6 Using Google for Primary Sources; Part II: Collaborations; 7 Hanging Out with Google; 8 Harnessing the Power of Google Docs for Writing Collaboration; 9 Taking Interlibrary Loan Operations from Good to Great Using Google Collaboration Tools., 10 Using Google Calendar Collaboratively for Library Organization11 Using Google Sites as Library Intranet; Part III: Library Administration; 12 Google Analytics and Library Websites; 13 Google Video and YouTube; 14 Incorporating Google Trends into Library Administration; 15 Organizing Employees Using Google; 16 Using Google Drive for Library Assessment; 17 Using Google Forms and Google Drive for Library Use Surveys; Part IV: Collection Management; 18 Google Books API; 19 Google Books as a Library Resource; 20 Google Ngram Viewer., and 21 Managing Electronic Resources License Agreements and Other Documentation with Google Drive22 Simplifying "Contact Us"; 23 Does Google Scholar Help or Hurt Institutional Repositories?; Part V: Library Productivity; 24 Embedding with Google; 25 Librarians' Everyday Use of Google Tasks, Voice, Hangouts and Chat, Translate, and Drive; 26 Google Alerts, Trends, and Chrome in Public Relations; 27 Google Drive for Library Productivity; 28 Google Translating and Image Searching for Foreign-Language Cataloging; 29 Understanding Our Users; 30 Using Google to Locate Government Information; Index.
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.
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ISBN
9781442246911 (e-book)
144224691X (e-book)
Note
Includes index.
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