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After putting it off for some weeks, tonight I finally got around to having a go at a Google Maps mashup.  The final product is our upcoming trip to China.  It’s a dead simple process as explained by this video from CNet.com (allow about 15 seconds of advertising at the start of the video). An article in [...]

View sample mashup After putting it off for some weeks, tonight I finally got around to having a go at a Google Maps mashup.  The final product is our upcoming trip to China.  It’s a dead simple process as explained by this video from CNet.com (allow about 15 seconds of advertising at the start of the video). An article [...]

What a year of change we had in 2006 getting our heads around podcasting, blogs, wikis and Web 2.0. Personally I find it a challenging but exciting time. It ’s obvious that our students are embracing these new technologies as we hear regularly about their involvement in Second Life, My Space and similar social networking [...]

Librarians and Google share have a similar a mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. We support librarians like yourself you who work each day to further that mission. This page is a first step toward improving and expanding that support. Google Librarian Center Newsletter archive

New York Times article of 31 October 2004 on the seemingly endless stream of innovations the people behind Google are producing. The Stock? Whatever. Google Keeps On Innovating. by James Fallows makes interesting reading. “GOOGLE PRINT is nearly a year old and still in beta. It lets users call up specific pages of current books [...]

The invincibility of Google is being increasingly called into question as more regular articles appear in the media questionning how much information researchers are depriving themselves of if they rely on this seach engine along to provide their answers. A Love/Hate Relationshipby Shirley Duglin Kennedy published in Information Today, Inc explores this issue. Worth a [...]