The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries

From the Forward by Michael Lesk:
Google has now developed services far beyond text search. Google software will translate languages and support collaborative writing. The chapters in this book look at many Google services, from music to finance, and describe how they can be used by students and other library users.
Going beyond information resources, there are now successful collaboration services available from Google and others. You can make conference calls with video and shared screens using Google Hangouts,
Writing documents with small numbers of colleagues often involved delays while each author in sequence took over the writing and made edits. Today Google Docs enables multiple people to edit the same document at once. An ingenious use of color lets each participant watch in real time as the other participants edit, and keeps track of who is doing what. If the goal is to create a website rather than to write a report, Google Sites is now one of the most popular platforms. Google is also involved in social networking, with services such as Google+
Other tools view social developments over time and space. The Google Trends service, for example, will show you when and where people are searching for topics. Not surprisingly, searches for "swimwear" peak in June and searches for "snowmobile" peak in January.
The Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries, Volume 2: Research, User Applications, and Networking has 30 chapters divided into four parts: Research, User Applications, Networking, Searching. The contributors are practitioners who use the services they write about and they provide how-to advice that will help public, school, academic, and special librarians; library consultants, LIS faculty and students, and technology professionals.

Carol Smallwood received an MLS from Western Michigan University, and a MA in History from Eastern Michigan University. Librarians as Community Partners: an Outreach Handbook; Bringing the Arts into the Library are recent ALA anthologies. Others are: Women on Poetry: Writing, Revising, Publishing and Teaching (McFarland, 2012); Marketing Your Library (McFarland, 2012); Library Services for Multicultural Patrons: Strategies to Encourage Library Use (Scarecrow Press, 2013). Her library experience includes school, public, academic, special, as well as administration and being a consultant; she's a multiple Pushcart nominee. In 2019, Carol Smallwood was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who.

Preface Foreword Acknowledgments Part I Research Chapter 1 "Beyond "Good" and "Bad:" Google As a Crucial Component of Information Literacy Andrew Walsh Chapter 2 Enhancing Music Collections: YouTube as an Outreach Tool to Share Historic Sheet Music Steven Pryor, Therese Zoski Dickman, Mary Z. Rose Chapter 3 Filtering Google Search Results Using Top-Level Domains John H. Sandy Chapter 4 Google Digital Literacy Instruction: Richmond Public Library Natalie Draper Chapter 5 Google for Music Research: More than Play Rachel E. Scott and Cody Behles Chapter 6 Google Translate as a Research Tool Andrew Wohrley Chapter 7 Googling for Answers, Grey Literature Sources, and Metrics in the Sciences and Engineering Giovanna Badia Chapter 8 Legal Research Using Google Scholar Ashley Krenelka Chase Part II User Applications Chapter 9 Better Images, Better Searchers: Google Images and Visual Literacy in the Sciences and Social Sciences Melanie Maksin and Kayleigh Bohémier Chapter 10 Enhancing Information Literacy Instruction with Google Drive Laksamee Putnam Chapter 11 Fusion Tables for Librarians and Patrons Rebecca Freeman Chapter 12 Google and Transcultural Competence Alison Hicks Chapter 13 Google in Special Collections and Archives Michael Taylor and Jennifer Mitchell Chapter 14 Public Library Summer Reading Registration on Google Forms Deloris J. Foxworth and Roseann H. Polashek Chapter 15 Seeing Libraries Through Google Glasses Barbara J. Hampton Chapter 16 YouTube: Advanced Search Strategies and Tools Julie A. DeCesare Part III Networking Chapter 17 Google Tools & Problem-based Instruction: Collaborate, Engage, Assess Janna Mattson, and Mary Oberlies Chapter 18 Group Projects Facilitated by Google Collaboration Tools Michael C. Goates and Gregory M. Nelson Chapter 19 Real Life Experiences and Narratives Steven Pryor, Therese Zoski Dickman, Mary Z. Rose Chapter 20 The Use of Google Sites to Create ePortfolios for Graduate Students as a Means to Promote Reflective Learning in the Development of Dissertation Topics Jesse Leraas and Susan Huber Chapter 21 Using Google+ for Networking and Research Felicia M. Vertrees Part IV Searching Chapter 22 Advanced Search Strategies for Google Teresa U. Berry Chapter 23 Evaluating the Sources of Search Results Jennifer Evans Chapter 24 Free, Easy and Online with Google Sites John C. Gottfried Chapter 25 Google Books: Shamed by Snobs, a Resource for the Rest of Us Susan Whitmer Chapter 26 Google Drive for Library Users Sonnet Ireland Chapter 27 Google Finance Ashley Faulkner Chapter 28 Let's Google "Skepticism"; Easy Searches to ExplorePage Rank, Types of Websites, and What Relevance Really Means Jordan Moore Chapter 29 Navigating Health Information on Google, Why "I'm Feeling Lucky" isn't Always the Best Lara Frater Chapter 30 Underutilized Google Search Tools Christine Photinos Bio List Index