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  September 2006

*In This Issue:*

Letter from the Editor <#10dd250053a120c4_1>
*Updates and Releases:*
Google Book Search <#10dd250053a120c4_2>
Google Scholar Poster and Flyer <#10dd250053a120c4_3>
Google News Archive Search <#10dd250053a120c4_4>
Accessible Search <#10dd250053a120c4_5>
Google Help <#10dd250053a120c4_6>
Quiz: Test your Google Knowledge <#10dd250053a120c4_7>
  *Celebrate your freedom to read*   Google has joined the American Library
Association (ALA) in celebrating the 25th anniversary of Banned Books Week
(Sept. 23-30). Check out our Banned
Books<http://books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/>page and ALA
President Leslie Burger's
post<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com...>on
the Google blog.

Welcome to the fifth issue of the Google Librarian Newsletter

The last few months have brought many exciting developments relevant to the
library community, so we're dedicating this newsletter to sharing them with
you.

In this issue, you'll find updates on a wide variety of tools to help your
patrons track down the information they're looking for – both on the web and
in libraries. You'll also find new downloads – a poster, flyer and quiz –
you can use as educational resources.

You may have noticed that this newsletter looks a little different
from our past
issues <http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_newsletter.html>. To
make it easier to read, we've changed the format so you can quickly skim the
headlines to find topics and articles you're interested in. We hope you like
it. As always, we invite you to contact
us<http://www.google.com/support/librariancenter/bin/request.py>with
your feedback, ideas and suggestions for making this newsletter more
useful.

Thanks for reading,
Jodi Healy
Manager, Library Partnerships Team
 Google Book Search

We launched PDF downloads for out-of-copyright books, making the public
domain treasures in some of the world's greatest library collections more
accessible to people everywhere. Now, anyone can freely download full copies
of well-known classics like Shakespeare's
*Hamlet<http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC08973989&id=Ml4tuuEijhoC&pg=PA1...>
*and obscure gems like John Joseph Ogle's *The Free
Library*<http://books.google.com/books?vid=LCCN02006048&id=AJCpexX5NUMC&pg=PA3...>.

Download the classics<http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogleblog.blogspot.com...>–
Google blog

We also rolled out two key features to help connect more people to materials
in libraries:

   - More (a lot more!) books have links to help users find them in their
   local library. When users click on these links, they see results from OCLC's
   Open WorldCat and other catalog services around the world.
   - Library Catalog
Search<http://books.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=9261>– While
searching the full text of books, people can also search and see
   results from national union library catalogs if they're relevant. And by
   choosing the "Library catalogs" mode in Advanced Search, they also have the
   option of searching only library catalogs.

We'd love to see more libraries and union catalogs participating. If you're
interested in making your holdings visible to people using Google Book
Search, we encourage you to contact
us<http://www.google.com/support/librariancenter/bin/request.py>.

Would you like to add Google Book Search to your site? Now you can – simply
by copying and pasting a few lines of code. Follow this link for
details<https://services.google.com/inquiry/books_email>.

  <http://www.google.com/librariancenter/downloads/Scholar_17x22.pdf>

Google Scholar Poster and Flyer

Eager to help your patrons push their research beyond a typical web search?
We've created a poster that gives you the basics on Google Scholar, a search
tool for finding relevant scholarly publications. We also created a flyer
that contains the same information, so it's easy for your patrons to take it
home with them.
Google Scholar Poster and
Flyer<http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_tools.html>

 Google News Archive Search

Ever wish that Google News covered more than the last 30 days of news? Now
you can search articles stretching back more than 200 years, from the
archives of Time Magazine, The Guardian, CNN, the San Francisco Chronicle,
the New York Times, the Washington Post and aggregators like LexisNexis and
Factiva.

Try searching for " The Battle of
Stalingrad<http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&sa=N&q=battle+of+stalingrad>,"
"Jackie Kennedy<http://news.google.com/archivesearch?hl=en&sa=N&q=jackie+kennedy>"
or any other topic you'd like to see in historical context. For any search
query, you have the option of seeing a "timeline view," which highlights the
most important dates.
Google News Archive Search <http://news.google.com/archivesearch>

Google Accessible Search

The web can be a frustrating place for the visually impaired, so we created
Google Accessible Search – a search engine that identifies and prioritizes
search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired
users.
Google Accessible Search <http://labs.google.com/accessible/>

Google Help

After months of creative brainstorming, we've launched Google Help – an
umbrella support portal to help people learn the ins and outs of our many
search tools and services. We hope having a single "go to" page makes it
easier for you and your patrons to find the support information you need.

Google Help <http://google.com/support>

  <http://www.google.com/librariancenter/downloads/Librarian_Quiz.pdf>

Quiz: Test Your Google Knowledge

At this year's ALA conference in New
Orleans<http://www.google.com/librariancenter/librarian_movies.html>,
we passed out a quiz to test your knowledge about specialized Google search
tools. Most attendees aced it (natch), but many of you asked us to post the
quiz online so you could test colleagues and friends. Now we've updated the
quiz and made it available for download at the Librarian Center, along with
an answer key. Go ahead – give it a whirl, and feel free to use it as a
teaching tool for patrons and students as well.
Test your Google
Knowledge<http://www.google.com/librariancenter/downloads/Librarian_Quiz.pdf>
Answer Key<http://www.google.com/librariancenter/downloads/Librarian_Quiz_Answer...>

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