Community College Librarian

Ok, so librarians get all twittery when they encounter masses of full text. Myself included.  It doesn’t matter what kind of full text either: journal articles, research reports, newspaper articles and, of course, books.  Though we love the fact that google is cranking out the e-books as fast as we can catalog them…there’s a big HUGE problem.  Google book links are not always persistent.  That’s bad.   That’s very bad.  But here’s the cool tool for your iGoogle desktop anyway. You know you have one.  http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2007/12/go-go-book-search-gadgets.html

Oh, there’s also a gadget for google scholar. I know! Pass the smelling salts.  Too bad Scholar makes me want to cry since the student can’t get to the full text most of the time. Then they call to ask me why.