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Google Scholar: What it Means for Libraries

Thursday, January 12, 2006
1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Cleveland Hall, Room L2, Mount Holyoke College

Program FULL
Thanks to all for the great response to the Five College's Google Scholar program at Mount Holyoke College. Regretfully, we have maxed out the room's capacity and now must close the program to any new attendees. If you have already sent an RSVP to either Marilyn Billings or Janet Ewing, and have not heard otherwise, then please come ahead and we'll be glad to have you. We're sorry we haven't the room to take more.

Snow date: Friday, January 13, 2006; 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

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You are invited to join colleagues from Western Massachusetts and nearby areas of New England in mid-January for an interesting and informative program about Google Scholar. Two invited speakers will discuss its nuts and bolts and consider what Google Scholar means for libraries, librarians and other information professionals.

Google Scholar is an Internet-based search engine designed to locate scholarly literature available across the Web. The Library Links option enables Open URL linking so that researchers may easily connect from Google Scholar to their home libraries' resources.

Guest Speakers:

Oren Beit-Arie, Chief Strategy Officer
Ex Libris USA, Inc.
title: "Where Google and Libraries Meet"

abstract: With the recent beta releases of Google Scholar and Google Book Search, Google is positioning itself in the library space as a key resource for many library patrons. These developments have received mixed reactions in the library community. However, Ex Libris saw a great opportunity to promote library services and has worked with Google and a number of SFX libraries to achieve links between Google Scholar and link resolvers (such as SFX) through the implementation of the OpenURL standard. In addition, EX Libris has developed a new service "ScholarSFX" -- a free service targeted at libraries that do not yet have a link resolver.

bio: Oren Beit-Arie, who joined the Ex Libris Group in 1988, is one of the primary developers of the OpenURL standard and has been deeply involved in the creation of MetaLib and SFX. He holds a B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A. in Theoretical Linguistics from Tel-Aviv University.

PowerPoint presentation

 

Tim Shearer, Web Access Librarian
Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
title: "Google Scholar, OpenURL and the Academic Library"

abstract:
Google Scholar presents a focused opportunity to consider the relationship between the resources and services of the library and those found more broadly on "the Internet." The UNC Libraries added a Google Scholar link to its home page in the spring of 2005. This decision came only after considerable effort was given to exploring technological, organizational, and social facets of the issue. Among the items that cropped up were the merits and politics of Google Scholar, client and server based approaches to OpenURL linking, and the proxy server. Library reaction to Google Scholar begs the broader question of how a library inserts itself into the research click stream of users.

bio:
Tim Shearer, UNC Web Access Librarian, completed his MSLS at UNC in 1997 and is currently a student in the ILS doctoral program. He is primarily interested in how information systems infrastructure can serve both the public and staff as users.

PowerPoint presentation

 

Please note: Expected attendance for this program has reached full capacity. Send questions to:
Marilyn Billings (mbillings@library.umass.edu) or Janet Ewing (jewing@mtholyoke.edu).

Links to additional information:

About Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com/scholar/about.html

Library Links Program
http://scholar.google.com/scholar/libraries.html
+ sample screen

ScholarSFX (free Ex Libris service for use with Google Scholar)
http://www.exlibrisgroup.com/scholar_sfx.htm

"Technically Speaking - If you can't beat 'em, join 'em", by Andrew K. Pace,
American Libraries, Vol. 36 Issue 8, p78-79 [Sept. 2005]
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/techspeaking/2005colunms/techSept05.htm

"Is Metasearching Dead?", by Roy Tennant, Library Literature online [July 15, 2005]
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA622685.html

"Google in the Academic Library", by Carol Tenopir, Library Literature online [Feb. 1, 2005]
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA498868.html

"UC Libraries Use of Google Scholar", by Ellen Meltzer [August 2005]
A report for the California Digital Library
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/assess/evaluation_activities/docs/2005/googleScholar_summary_0805.pdf
CDL: http://www.cdlib.org

LITA Top Technology Trends
ISSUE #7: Google Print, Scholar, and MetaSearching [midwinter 2005]
http://www.ala.org/ala/lita/litaresources/toptechtrends/midwinter2005.htm#GOOGLE

available by subscription:

Wieklinski, Joann M., "Studying Google Scholar: Wall to Wall Coverage?"
Online, May/Jun2005, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p22-26
                    

O'Leary, Mick, "Google Scholar: What's in it for you?"
Information Today, Jul/Aug2005, Vol. 22 Issue 7, p35-39
                    

Grogg, Jill E & Ferguson, Christine L., "OpenURL Linking with Google Scholar"
Searcher, Oct2005, Vol. 13 Issue 9, p39-46
                    

 

Please send corrections to Sika Berger:
sberger@email.smith.edu
Last updated January 9, 2006