Google Scholar and more : new Google applications and tools for libraries and library users / edited by William Miller and Rita Pellen.

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In only a few years, Google has become an authoritative provider of multiple products which have changed the digital information landscape. This book discusses how libraries can go beyond Google's basic search and Scholar functions to expand services for their patrons. Respected authorities reveal the expanding variety of new Google applications developed in the past few years, many of which have not received wide attention and are as yet not often used in libraries. Applications explored include Google Co-op, Google News, Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Calendar, and Google Talk.nbsp;

This booknbsp;also discusses different important aspects of the company's expansion of functions, such as the failure of the Google Answers experiment, the broad variety of free Google applications that librarians can use to collaborate, and the success of Google's Blogger, among others. A helpful chronology of Google's growth is provided, as well as comparative analyses between various Google functions and other functions that are currently available. The book is extensively referenced.

This booknbsp;is an invaluable resource for academic librarians, public librarians, school librarians, library science faculty, and special librarians.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Innehållsförteckning levererad av Syndetics

• Introduction: Using Google Applications: Expanded Tools for Libraries (p. 1)
• 1 Google: A Chronology of Innovations, Acquisitions, and Growth (p. 5)
• 2 Thinking Inside the Box: Comparing Federated Search Results from Google Scholar, Live Search Academic, and Central Search (p. 31)
• 3 It's All Academic: Google Scholar, Scirus, and Windows Live Academic Search (p. 43)
• 4 Join the Conversation: Show Your Library's Google Scholar and Book Search Expertise (p. 53)
• 5 The Triumph of Expediency: The Impact of Google Scholar on Library Instruction (p. 65)
• 6 Worth the Price? Virtual Reference, Global Knowledge Forums, and the Demise of Google Answers (p. 73)
• 7 Google and Collaboration (p. 87)
• 8 Scheduling Smorgasbord: Google Calendar and Key Contenders (p. 99)
• 9 Blogger: Your Thoughts Here (p. 119)
• 10 Blogger, WordPress.com, and Their Pseudoblog Alternatives: A Comparison of Focus, Features, and Feel (p. 139)
• 11 Libraries and Google Co-op (p. 181)
• 12 A Squatter on the Fourth Estate: Google News (p. 191)
• Index (p. 207)