We use a mix of Google and our own digital collections for our 11
universities. Here is an example:
http://ncf.catalog.fcla.edu/nc.jsp?st=everglades+ecology&ix=kw&fl=bo
- Michele
On 5/25/2012 12:49 PM, David and Betsy Hammes wrote:
> At Computers In Libraries 2011 a Google employee gave a great tip for
> finding book cover images using Google images. She very quickly had an
> answer to a question similar to "that blue book about bunnies".
>
> She used Google Images and its color filter buttons on the left margin to
> find a "pink book about Rosa Parks." All she did was type "Rosa Parks" into
> the search bar, select the pink tile from the left margin, and one of the
> images in the search results was a biography about Rosa Parks - book cover
> pink.
>
>
> From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
> [mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Sullivan
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 12:03 PM
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] cover image and amazon
>
>
>> But then how do patrons search for 'that blue book that was next to
>> the one about bunnies' ?
>>
> Aside from that example - a very real one in public libraries - I have found
> it handy when patrons are trying to distinguish between books with identical
> titles, or figure out the last book they read of a series.
>
> We use Syndetics to provide cover images in our Polaris catalog.
>
> --
> Bob Sullivan
> Schenectady County (NY) Public Library
>
>
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