The 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. 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.

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