Description
Have you ever thought about tying your wagon to an Internet giant and seeing where you might go? Google offers a myriad of services and Web development tools to everyone, including libraries, for FREE. In January 2008, iGoogle held over 26% of the personalized homepage market share, averaging almost 22,000,000 visitors a month. iGoogle’s drag and drop interface allows users to create customized virtual spaces or personal portals. Libraries can capitalize on Google’s commitment to personal virtual space development, by utilizing iGoogle Sandbox tools and documentation to create a myriad of library-related Web applications. Library staff with minimal understanding of Web development will be able to create Web-applications for searching library resources like the catalog, journal lists and databases, as well as Web-applications that incorporate and create RSS feeds and blogs into users personalized iGoogle pages. Google provides libraries with a platform for connecting with and serving communities, while allowing users to integrate library collections and services into their daily virtual lives.
Start Date
17-3-2010 10:10 AM
iGoogle-ErlandsonErb.pptx
iGoogle Sandbox for Libraries
Have you ever thought about tying your wagon to an Internet giant and seeing where you might go? Google offers a myriad of services and Web development tools to everyone, including libraries, for FREE. In January 2008, iGoogle held over 26% of the personalized homepage market share, averaging almost 22,000,000 visitors a month. iGoogle’s drag and drop interface allows users to create customized virtual spaces or personal portals. Libraries can capitalize on Google’s commitment to personal virtual space development, by utilizing iGoogle Sandbox tools and documentation to create a myriad of library-related Web applications. Library staff with minimal understanding of Web development will be able to create Web-applications for searching library resources like the catalog, journal lists and databases, as well as Web-applications that incorporate and create RSS feeds and blogs into users personalized iGoogle pages. Google provides libraries with a platform for connecting with and serving communities, while allowing users to integrate library collections and services into their daily virtual lives.