Google Spotlight (Information Literacy Month Part 2)

Spotlight on: Google

In honor of Information Literacy Month, McKillop Library is highlighting a few of Google’s fantastic tools to help you find information quickly and efficiently. 

1. Google Books:
Stick it to the man and celebrate Banned Books Week by reading a freely available banned book online! Google Books provides the full text of books that are free of copyright restrictions and snippet views of millions of others. For example, go to books.google.com and type "Call of the Wild" into the search box. Call of the Wild by Jack London was burned in Nazi bonfires in 1933.

2. Google Translate:
Talk to your new friend who only speaks Croatian! Order a cup of coffee in Urdu! Understand why that French lady in a uniform is yelling at you! Google translate can help you do all this and more. Go to translate.google.com and copy and paste this phrase into the left-hand box to get the translation (make sure English is selected in the right hand box):

Kung kailangan mong mag-translate ng web page, dokumento, o trapiko sign, Google Translate ang iyong tool.

3. Google News:
Scheduling a vacation in Melbourne?  Worried about Mom’s upcoming business trip to Karachi? Eager to impress your new Indian girlfriend with the latest news in Delhi? Google News brings you the headlines from the US and around the world. Just go to news.google.com to try it out!

4. Google Scholar:
If your EBSCOhost search is coming up short, Google Scholar is your friend. Google Scholar searches differently than the library’s databases, so you’ll find different articles and get an idea of different keywords to use in your search. You can even set your Google Scholar preferences (under "library links") to show articles that are available through McKillop Library!  Give it a try by going to scholar.google.com. Type in "facebook college students" to view the results.


Thanks to Dawn Emsellem, Instruction and Outreach Librarian, for this post!