Beyond the BasicsSteven Butzel, Nashua Public Library

steven.butzel@nashualibrary.org603-589-4647, Yahoo IM: nashuaref

Google Web Search

• Phrase based searching

• +/- operators

• Filetype

• Site limiter

• Combinations

• Google Alerts

Google News Search

Google News Search

• News source: CNN, New York Times, etc.

• Date range• Location: country or U.S. state

• Occurrences: in headline, in body of article, etc.

• News archives for older than 30 days

• News alerts and RSS feeds

• Personalization options

Google Images

Google Images

• Content types: news content, faces

• Image size

• File types

• Color/Grayscale

• Domain

• SafeSearch

Google Maps

Google Maps

• Directions

• Customize route

• Satellite images

• My Maps• Featured content: gas prices, real estate, etc.

• Add landmarks, draw lines, etc.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

• Word documents, Excel workbooks & PowerPoint presentations

• Online Collaboration (including chat)

• Online Publishing• Can save the files in many formats:

Word .doc, .rtf, .txt, PDF and HTML, and often Open Office formats

• Ability to review version histories

Google Reader

Google Reader

• Aggregator for RSS feeds, etc.

• Create folders, tags

• Share items

• Star items

Google Book Search

• Title, author, publisher, subject, publication date

• Limit to library catalog• If the book is out of copyright, or the

publisher has given permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.

Google Book Search, cont.

• “Reference Pages” for books (example Bill Clinton, My Life)– Access to reviews– Reference to and from other works (link to Scholar)– Other editions

• Add to “My Library”

• Find this book in a library

Others

• Google Calendar

• Google Labs– Google Trends– Google Suggest

iGoogle!!

iGoogle

• Where it all comes together

• Personalize

• Add “stuff”