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)