historical books @ your fingertips: using google books & internet archive to discover, collect,...
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LOUIS Users Conference, October 2009.TRANSCRIPT
Historical Books @ Your Fingertips:Historical Books @ Your Fingertips:Using Google Books & Internet Archive to Discover, Using Google Books & Internet Archive to Discover,
Collect, and Share Digitized Public Domain BooksCollect, and Share Digitized Public Domain Books
Rebecca Blakeley, McNeese State UniversityRebecca Blakeley, McNeese State University
Hurricane RitaHurricane Rita
The solution…The solution…
Nothing beats reading the print…Nothing beats reading the print…
Digital books Digital books have their
have their benefits too…benefits too…
Google Books: Google Books: Books & Magazines & Gov Docs!Books & Magazines & Gov Docs!
Google Books “Library”Google Books “Library”
RSS Feed AlertRSS Feed Alert
Demo
Quality is less than perfect…Quality is less than perfect…
Searching for books or gov docsSearching for books or gov docs
Searching for State DocsSearching for State Docs
Internet Archive: www.archive.orgInternet Archive: www.archive.org
Advanced SearchAdvanced Search
American Libraries CollectionAmerican Libraries Collection
Government Documents CollectionGovernment Documents Collection
Demo
Internet Archive “Bookmarks”Internet Archive “Bookmarks”
Modifying the RecordModifying the Record
The Completed Record!The Completed Record!
Don’t have the record in your OPAC? Don’t have the record in your OPAC? Just retrieve it from OCLC & modify accordingly Just retrieve it from OCLC & modify accordingly (i.e. add the URL)(i.e. add the URL)
Why go through all this effort?Why go through all this effort? Documents to the People = Happy PatronsDocuments to the People = Happy Patrons