Assistive Technology at your library

Assistive Technology in the Library

This is a team blog created for the LT 130 course Library Media and Technology at Palomar College. It will cover assistive technology as it relates to the library setting, and will be used to showcase our ideas and activities on this topic.

Our purpose is to learn something new about assistive technology, and to share what we have learned with you.

The team members include:
-Renee Shelton
-Shellie McCurdy
-Amba Walters
-Kim Milan
-Rebecca Kingsley
-Luke Tesluk

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Google books

Google Books – What is it?

Google books is an online resource of books available to browse and borrow from lending libraries in Google’s Partner Program and Library Project or to buy from Google Play store.

Google Books gives you the ability to search through a large database of books/texts using the keywords and search terms. It’s just like searching the web – you’re just searching books instead!! Here’s what Google says of your ability to search:

Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results.
What began as an experiment in digitizing books in 2002 has since expanded into adaptive technology that allows access to partnership with public and private sources with a global reach in interacting with books.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/googlebooks/about/index.html

About the Library Project

The Library Project is an important part of Google's efforts to make it easier to find information -- in this case, the information found in print books. By partnering with libraries to digitize books from their collections, we aim to build a searchable catalog of the world's books online. The Library Project makes it possible for users to search on Google through millions of books written in many different languages, including books that are rare, out of print, or generally unavailable outside of the library system.
If a book is determined to be in the public domain, Google will make it available for full view. You'll be able read the book from start to finish. Otherwise, you'll still be able to search through the text of the book, but Google Books will only display a few snippets to show you where your search term appears, along with a few sentences of context. If the book appears to be useful to you, you can find a print copy by using the retailer or library links provided.
The Library Project makes Google Books even more useful for users, as well as providing valuable benefits to the libraries we're working with.

How to use Google Books

On Google Books, you can read books and magazines, download them, cite them, and translate them. Some books are provided by publishers, while others are scanned as part of the Library Project.
Read, download, cite, link, or translate a book or magazine
  1. Go to Google Books.
  2. Search for the title, author, ISBN, or keywords. 
  3. To search with filters, do an advanced search. Learn more about searching Google Books and how much of the book you can see.
  4. Click a title.
  5. To download, cite, link or translate, follow the steps below.                                            https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/43729?hl=en           






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKEaypYJbb4

How to Download Google Books

















https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4byPGd6HaY




For further research into the validity of Google Books as a database source for research, explore this article:

“The purpose of this paper is to compare Google Books with WorldCat and to assess some other functionalities of Google Books. Design/methodology/approach – Over 500 random samples generated from WorldCat were searched on Google Books. The search results were used to compare the coverage between Google Books and WorldCat, to estimate the successful link rate to a local library catalogue, the percentage available as full view, snippet, and preview on Google Books, and other services of Google Books. Findings – Google Books can retrieve almost all the books catalogued in WorldCat. Its "Find in a library" link to a local library catalogue works 75 percent of the time. Fewer than 10 percent of Google Books items have free full views, and about 15 percent have snippets and previews, respectively. Previews are much more useful than snippets. Google Books probably indexes books that it does not possess in digital form, in addition to indexing all the books that it has acquired in digital form. Originality/value – No previous empirical studies of this kind have been found. This study assesses Google Books' coverage and services with quantitative measures.”

Chen, Xiaotian. “Google Books and WorldCat: A Comparison of Their Content.” 
Online Information Review, vol. 36, no. 4, July 2012, pp. 507–516.
EBSCOhost, doi:10.1108/14684521211254031.


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