Download - Fiction book map presentation
Surrey Fiction Book Map
Gary Green - Technical Librarian (Surrey Library Service)
Celebrating Surrey
• Outdoor festival celebrating the best of music, art, community, performance, food and drink in Surrey.
• http://bit.ly/c8IFXR
Fiction Book Map
• Celebrating works of fiction set in Surrey.
Why do anything?
• Library Service supports festival.
• Show other library teams what can be done easily.
• Opportunity to experiment.
Image attribute – ‘duncan’ (Flickr)
Why a book map?
• Creative.• Visual.• More fun than plain
text.• Combine resources
from different places.
Image attribution ‘I like’ (Flickr)
What does it do?
• Bring together set of books.
• Links to resources.• Gives details of books.• How book relates to
Surrey.
Image attribution ‘Maxwell Hamilton’ (Flickr)
Which books?
• Works of fiction set in Surrey.
• Copies on our catalogue.
Who helped?
• Virtual Content Team• Other Surrey Library
Service teams• Surrey History Centre• Tweeters• Librarything• Project Gutenberg
Image attribution ‘chris_horn13’ (Flickr)
How did we make it?
• Google My Maps.• Manually added
markers.• Book covers as markers.
Book catalogue in a map
• Click on marker for more details.
• Larger book cover.• Why it’s relevant to
Surrey.
Link back to Surrey catalogue
Links to videos
Where can I find it now?
• http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111255354966596184710.00048275d760797e5ff9a&ll=51.250742,-0.484772&spn=0.341243,0.883026&z=10
Or if you can’t write that quickly...
• http://bit.ly/9ZcQN5 (Google maps)
• http://ggtestspace.weebly.com/fiction-book-map.html (a basic test site)
Where’s it going to go?
• Embed in anywhere.me? (personalised start page for libraries)
• Link from Surrey Libraries website pages.
Image attribution ‘A P Hall’ (Flickr)
Developments?
• Add more books/details.• Improve presentation.• Link to Amazon.• Link to Worldcat.• Automatic population?
Image attribution ‘Paul Hudson’ (Flickr)
Thank you
Gary Green (Surrey Libraries)