Librarians are helpful, Google less so

I spent way too much time trying to find a list of the magazines that Google has added to Google Books this week with so very little luck.  After a bit, I gave up and just did an Advanced search limited to “magazines” with the word “the” in them.  Nice, huh?
Naturally, it took a librarian, [...]

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Let Me Google That for You

You better believe I’m using this at the reference desk.
(via Very Short List)

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Someone broke the Google

Unfortunately, it’s causing problems with the Library’s Google site search.  I’m intrigued by the status info at the bottom of my screen as Google tries to connect– it transfers data from http://sorry.google.com Weird!

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Walking with Google

Google Maps has added a new option to their directions:  Walking.
The Walking directions pair nicely when Google Street View is in effect, I think.  I’ve played around with Google’s Public Transit options in the city and for the most part, I think it’s a good alternative to the CTA’s Trip Planner– especially since Google has [...]

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iGoogle Moved Some Things Around

It must be Fancy-up your Website day– first a new look for Facebook, now iGoogle.
If you’ve considered iGoogle and abandoned it, or created a page and never use it, you might want to reconsider and give iGoogle another chance as they’ve been playing about with some new features.
I don’t necessarily use iGoogle as my homepage, [...]

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Google docs, now with 309 flavors

Google Docs just got exponentially more exciting with the addition of over 300 templates for spreadsheets, presentations and documents!

Even though I usually don’t use design-heavy templates for my presentations, they’re still fun to look at. Plus, these templates really help cement Google docs as a solid alternative to Microsoft Word.
(via iLibrarian)

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More Catalogtastic Excitement

This fall, we’re going to have such a cool OPAC!  I’m looking forward to finding a way to make all of our upcoming changes exciting to our users (I mean, some other way than “OMG!  We have such a cool OPAC!” which I know works well on you and me, but I’ve heard most folk [...]

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Getting started with Google docs

Have you visited the Library Information Literacy Online Network? LION TV, (the “Literacy” is silent– that strikes me as an odd choice) is a site supported by ANTS (man, these acronyms… ) the tutorial sharing project and features a pretty substantial collection of videos– tutorials on everything from specific databases or features within specific databases, [...]

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Books in London

I know libraries must be doing this, they couldn’t not be, but I’m so in love with Get London Reading’s interactive Books in London Google map mashup. You can search by postcode and I found a few titles with plot action in and around where I lived when I was in London at King’s [...]

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Clever Google

Google truly has the best April Fools gags. They would have had me for more than a second with this one, but another blog got me first.
Plus there was the flux capacitor. C’mon. Everyone knows that Google just doesn’t have the proper structure to allow for adequate flux dispersal…

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