Find online books using Google BOOKS
Google BOOKS is Google's collection of digitised books, it includes a large number of books related to Old English literature and language.
You can search for books by author or by title.
Discovery Resources:
Explore Google BOOKS
Investigate what libraries are doing with Google Books
Discovery Task:
1.Find a range of digitised books in Google BOOKS
2.Create your own library by adding your choice of books
3.And finally create a post a blog about how this may be useful to your library
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I’ve got to say, I’m loving this. I’m very, very averse to receiving recommendations from computers as if I’m ‘known’, but Google Books front page has four categories that I really like (Interesting; Highly Cited; Magazines; and Random Subject), and the contents within those categories change constantly.
ReplyDelete‘Find this book in a library’ brings me directly to the UL catalogue via WorldCat – very impressive. And I love being able to search within books for half-remembered quotes.
Thing 10 "Explore any site about the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and then blog about it" [I'm posting here because there doesn't seem to be a seperate blog post for Thing 10.] I did what I was told but didn't get much of a kick out of it. Which goes to show that I'm not terribly interested in technology really, I just like when it can do something for me. The same goes for books. I'm not into rare books or first editions - it's the content of books that I love. But if a book is out of print, it's good to know where I might find it. For that reason the only new site that I bookmarked from this list was www.biblio.com. The prices are reasonable, and the descriptions of physical wear and tear were much better than the descriptions given in Amazon.
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