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This 240+page study looks at how librarians from 31 medical and other scientific libraries are using Google and its features such as Gmail, Drive, Google Scholar, Google Books, Google Forms, YouTube, Google Images, Google Advanced Search, Chrome and many other Google features and apps. Survey participants include librarians from an array of 31 academic and scientific institutions including but not limited to Harvard Medical School, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, the University of Leeds, Johns Hopkins University's William H. Welch Medical Library, the University of North Carolina Health Science Library, Kaiser Permanente, NHS Education for Scotland, Vanderbilt University and the University of London's St George's, among many others. Data in the report is broken out by many variables including type of institution, scientific focus, age gender and work title of survey participant, among other variables. Data is broken out separately for academic medical school libraries, academic scientific libraries and non-education sector medical/scientific libraries. Just a few of the report's many findings are that: Survey participants used the Google search engine for roughly 55% of their online searches, this percentage is somewhat higher among participants in academic medical libraries and those focused primarily on medicine, biology or pharmacology.38.71% of survey participants use Google Maps very often and 29.03% use it often, whereas 16.13% report seldom or no use at all.Use of Google Advanced Search is especially popular among participants in academic medical libraries, 58.34% of whom find it quite useful or essential, and by participants working in reference or information literacy, 70% of whom feel the same.On average, survey participants spent 3.68 hours using YouTube over the past month; use was disproportionately by female participants, participants under forty, and those in academic medical libraries.
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. This book 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 book 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.
The report presents findings from a survey of 22 corporate and business librarians, predominantly drawn from major corporations and leading business schools. The 188-page study presents detailed data on use of Google, YouTube, Chrome, Gmail, Drive and a myriad of other Google Features and Apps including but not limited to: Google Maps, Google Advanced Search, Google Books, Google Scholar, Google Images, Google Photos, Google Notifications, Google Calendar, Google Sky, Google Forms, Google Groups and many others. Data is broken out separately for corporate and business education libraries (largely those of MBA programs) and by library size and by age, gender and compensation level of survey participant, among other variables. In addition to providing data on the extent of use and usefulness of these various features and apps, respondents identify their favored features and apps and how they benefit from them. Just a few of the surveys major findings are that: *For librarians sampled working in corporate libraries 57.75 percent of searches are conducted through the Google search engine; the median is 58 percent, in a range of 40 to 75 percent. *31.82 percent of all librarians sampled said they use Google Images very often, 27.27 percent use it often, 27.2 percent sometimes use it, and 9.09 percent said they never really use it.*In the past month, the librarians in the sample spent on Google Maps a mean of 1.1 hours of their work time; the median was 0.88 hours in a range of 0 to 5 hours. *YouTube is most useful to librarians working in libraries with more than 12 FTE staff, 60 percent of whom said it is essential while the remaining 40 percent said it is quite useful. For further information view our website at www.PrimaryResearch.com.
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.
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.
Effective administration of libraries is a crucial part of delivering library services to the public. To develop and implement best practices, librarians must be aware and informed of the recent advances in library administration. Library Science and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a comprehensive reference source for the latest scholarly material on trends, techniques, and management of libraries and examines the benefits and challenges of library administration. Highlighting a range of pertinent topics such as digital libraries, information sciences, and academic libraries, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for academicians, researchers, practitioners, and librarians seeking current research on library science and administration.
This report is the proceedings of a 2003 symposium on "Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and Its Implications," which brought together experts in STM publishing, both producers and users of these publications, to: (1) identify the recent technical changes in publishing, and other factors, that influence the decisions of journal publishers to produce journals electronically; (2) identify the needs of the scientific, engineering, and medical community as users of journals, whether electronic or printed; (3) discuss the responses of not-for-profit and commercial STM publishers and of other stakeholders in the STM community to the opportunities and challenges posed by the shift to electronic publishing; and (4) examine the spectrum of proposals that has been put forth to respond to the needs of users as the publishing industry shifts to electronic information production and dissemination.
The International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science was published to widespread acclaim in 1996, and has become the major reference work in the field. This eagerly awaited new edition has been fully revised and updated to take full account of the many and radical changes which have taken place since the Encyclopedia was originally conceived. With nearly 600 entries, written by a global team of over 150 contributors, the subject matter ranges from mobile library services provided by camel and donkey transport to search engines, portals and the World Wide Web. The new edition retains the successful structure of the first with an alphabetical organization providing the basic framework of a coherent collection of connected entries. Conceptual entries explore and explicate all the major issues, theories and activities in information and library science, such as the economics of information and information management. A wholly new entry on information systems, and enhanced entries on the information professions and the information society, are key features of this new edition. Topical entries deal with more specific subjects, such as collections management and information services for ethnic minorities. New or completely revised entries include a group of entries on information law, and a collection of entries on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
This is the 68th volume (supplement 31) in a series which examines library and information science.