Complete Guide to Using Google in Libraries

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.

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 Foreward Acknowledgments Part I Library Instruction for Users Chapter 1. App it Up: Using Google Apps in Library Instruction Heather Beirne, Ashley Cole, Sarah Richardson Chapter 2. Developing Research Skills with Developmental Students Theresa Beaulieu Chapter 3. Enhancing Access to Master's-Thesis Research with Google Fusion and Google Maps Geroge L. Wrenn Chapter 4. Google Trends as an Academic Research Tool: Expanding Scholarly Search Strategies Sarah Cohn and Amy Handfield Chapter 5. Helping College Students Make the Most of Google Scholar Aline Soules Chapter 6. Using Google for Primary Sources Alejandro Marquez Part II Collaboration Chapter 7. Hanging Out With Google Amy James & Robbie Bolton Chapter 8. Harnessing the Power of Google Docs for Writing Collaboration Jaena Alabi and William H. Weare, Jr. Chapter 9. Taking Interlibrary Loan Operations from Good to Great Using Google Collaboration Tools Sarah Troy Chapter 10. Using Google Calendar Collaboratively for Library Organization Misti Smith Chapter 11. Using Google Sites as Library Intranet Diana K. Wakimoto Part III Library Administration Chapter 12. Google Analytics and Library Web Sites Wei Fang Chapter 13. Google Video and YouTube Deborah Hamilton Chapter 14. Incorporating Google Trends into Library Administration: Marketing, Outreach, and Collection Development Amy Handfield and Sarah Cohn Chapter 15. Organizing Employees Using Google Adam Fullerton Chapter 16. Using Google Drive for Library Assessment Seth Allen Chapter 17. Using Google Forms and Google Drive for Library Surveys Steven Richardson Part IV Collection Management Chapter 18. Google Books API: Adding Value to Print Collections Andrew Weiss Chapter 19. Google Books as a Library Resource Amanda Dinscore Chapter 20. Google Ngram Viewer Andrew Weiss Chapter 21. Managing Electronic Resources License Agreements and Other Documentation with Google Drive Apryl C. Price Chapter 22. Simplifying "Contact Us": How to Offer Free Multi-Channel Virtual Reference and Monitor it from a Single Unified Dashboard Laura Baker Chapter 23. Does Google Scholar Help or Hurt Institutional Repositories? Peace Ossom Williamson and Rafia Mirza Part V Library Productivity Chapter 24. Embedding with Google: Using Google to Optimize Embedded Librarian Involvement Samantha Godbey Chapter 25. Everyday Use of Google Tasks, Voice, Hangouts and Chat, Translate, and Drive Fantasia Thorne-Ortiz and Neyda Gilman Chapter 26. Google Alerts, Trends, Chrome in Public Relations Chelsea Dodd Chapter 27. Google Drive for Library Productivity Teri Oaks Gallaway and Jennifer Starkey Chapter 28. Google Translating and Image Searching for Foreign Language Cataloging Laura Bohuski Chapter 29. Understanding Our Users: Feedback and Quizzes Using Google Forms Josh Sahib and Mark Daniel Robison Chapter 30. Using Google to Locate Government Information Christopher C. Brown Contributor bios