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Making your bookshelvesGoogle searchableDemo of a proof of concept by J煤lio dos Anjosfor Internet Librarian 2009

How it started鈥淎re you ready for a world where all your books are full text searchable on Google?鈥漇tephen AbramMany years ago in a roundtable I heard through a podcast long lost10/26/20092J煤lio dos Anjos

Maybeitwas鈥︹€淎re you ready for a world where all your Libraries are full text searchable on Google?鈥�10/26/20093J煤lio dos Anjos

Anyway鈥hy has no one done it yet?Can it be done?How can it be done? it: = the library鈥檚 paper based resources becoming full text searchable by Google10/26/20094J煤lio dos Anjos

BasicsCreate a Google account (not necessarily a Gmail account) LoginGo to Google BooksGo to My libraryImport ISBN鈥檚You now have a 鈥渓ibrary鈥� searchable by google!10/26/20097J煤lio dos Anjos

Create a Google AccountGo to https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount10/26/20098J煤lio dos Anjos

Wait for email confirmation10/26/20099J煤lio dos Anjos

Activate account10/26/200910J煤lio dos Anjos

Access Google BooksGoto http://books.google.com/10/26/200911J煤lio dos Anjos

Access My libraryClick on My Library10/26/200912J煤lio dos Anjos

We need to add booksClick on Import Books10/26/200913J煤lio dos Anjos

Create the Nickname10/26/200914J煤lio dos Anjos

We are now ready to import books10/26/200915J煤lio dos Anjos

Grab a list of ISBN鈥檚 and paste it10/26/200916J煤lio dos Anjos

Caveats100 ISBN鈥檚 at a time10/26/200917J煤lio dos Anjos

CaveatsSome books will be unknown to Google10/26/200918J煤lio dos Anjos

Keep adding books100 ISBN鈥檚 at a time10/26/200919J煤lio dos Anjos

When finishedAccess View my library10/26/200920J煤lio dos Anjos

Accessing the Library10/26/200921J煤lio dos Anjos

Our library is now ready10/26/200922J煤lio dos Anjos

Method 1Click 鈥淪earch this user鈥檚 library鈥滷ill the search termAll your books which obey the search are found10/26/200924J煤lio dos Anjos

Simple SearchList View10/26/200925J煤lio dos Anjos

Simple SearchCover View10/26/200926J煤lio dos Anjos

Advanced Search10/26/200927J煤lio dos Anjos

Advanced Search fails miserablyMy library 鈥渇ilter鈥� is lost10/26/200928J煤lio dos Anjos

Method 2Capture the link under 鈥渕y library鈥漊se the link in a web page or send it to someone elseYou 鈥渓ibrary鈥� is searchable by everyone10/26/200929J煤lio dos Anjos

Capture Link10/26/200930J煤lio dos Anjos

Use the link elsewherehttp://books.google.com/books?uid=9624650586634350416&rview=1Send It by Email Embed it on a WebPageAccess by someone else will10/26/200931J煤lio dos Anjos

Notice the changes10/26/200932J煤lio dos Anjos

Method 3Use your own web based 鈥減rogram鈥� to search the libraryUse your own pages to present the resultUse Google Preview Libraries to preview the found books10/26/200933J煤lio dos Anjos

Myownprogram10/26/2009J煤lio dos Anjos34

Whythename?Becausethedomainnamewasfree... Whyelse?10/26/2009J煤lio dos Anjos35

Access BiblioThetichttp://bibliothetic.com10/26/200936J煤lio dos Anjos

Paste UID Parameter from http://books.google.com/books?uid=9624650586634350416&rview=110/26/200937J煤lio dos Anjos

Fill your search terms10/26/200938J煤lio dos Anjos

Click the Search button10/26/200939J煤lio dos Anjos

Clicking on a cover10/26/200941J煤lio dos Anjos

Clicking on a coverRelevant passages highlighted10/26/200942J煤lio dos Anjos

Clickonthe Google PreviewButton10/26/200943J煤lio dos Anjos

FullPreviewwithsearch box10/26/200944J煤lio dos Anjos

Embedable10/26/2009J煤lio dos Anjos45

Embeddable on10/26/2009J煤lio dos Anjos49MoodleiGoogleNetVibesFaceBooketc

Considerthistoolbecause10/26/2009J煤lio dos Anjos52The short time needed to set up a Google account and activating itThere are several methods of generating a list of ISBN鈥檚 for almost every purposeLibraryThing, OPAC鈥檚 , Etc

Considerthistoolbecause10/26/2009J煤lio dos Anjos53Easy to create 鈥渟earch boxes鈥� for all kinds of purposes Short bibliographies, Long bibliographies, your Science Fiction collection, your Business Management collection, your Whatever collection 鈥ou can have always a list of books and some passages where the 鈥渟earch terms鈥� occur in the paper resourcesGoogle Book Search box is not easily embeddableAnyway, books are notavailable to readthroughthrough Google Books, butyoubookshelves are.

Biblio + Thetic+ the setting forth of propositions or principles10/26/2009J煤lio dos Anjos54

Current status ofproject:Still a proof of concept, although it works almost perfectly Proves that one can use Google to do 鈥渇ull text search鈥� of book collectionProves that one can use Google鈥檚 own Results PageProves that one can create Results pages and integrate with several Google Book presentation tools10/26/200955J煤lio dos Anjos

Next Steps:Advanced SearchEmbeddable results on you page like Google Custom Search EngineCollection uploader with subject taggingIntegration with Open URL resolvers and OPAC鈥檚 Universal Search Resolver ( as Target)10/26/200956J煤lio dos Anjos

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