Academic uses of Google Earth and Google Maps in a library setting

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 102-117

  Dodsworth, Eva ^a   Nicholson, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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EID: 84864345829     PISSN: 07309295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6017/ital.v31i2.1848     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Terry Ballard, "Inheriting the Earth: Using KML Files to add placemarks relating to the library's original content to Google Earth and Google Maps" New Library World 110 (2009): 357-65, doi: 10.1108/0307480091097579.
2. Jacobsen, Mikael and Terry Ballard, "Google Maps: you are here: using Google Maps to bring out your library's local collections" Library Journal, October 15, 2008 (accessed September 11, 2011). http://www. libraryjournal.com/article/CA6602836.html.
3. Michaela Brenner and Peter Klein, "Discovering the Library with Google Earth" Information Technology and Libraries 27 (2008): 32-6.
4. Michael Vandenburg, "Using Google Maps as an interface for the Library Catalogue" Library Hi-Tech 26 (2008): 33-40.
5. Troy Swanson, "Google Maps and Second Life: Virtual Platforms meet Information Literacy" College & Research Libraries News 69 (2008): 610-12.
6. Annette Lamb, and Larry Johnson, "Virtual Expeditions: Google Earth, GIS, and Geovisualization Technologies in Teaching and Learning" Teacher Librarian 37 (2010): 81-5.
7. A list of McGill Library's air photo indexes can be viewed at http://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-findinfo/maps/airphotos/ (accessed September 8, 2011).
8. McMaster University Library Map Index can be found at http://library.mcmaster.ca/maps/ww1/ndx5to40.htm, (accessed September 8, 2011).
9. The Brock University Historical Air Photo Collection can be accessed at: http://www.brocku.ca/maplibrary/airphoto/historical.php (accessed September 8, 2011).
10. The Yale University Sanborn Indexes can be found at http://www.library. yale.edu/MapColl/print-sanborn.html (accessed September 8, 2011).
11. The University of Vermont Library's Google Map can be found at: http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/browseCollection.xql?pid=longtrail&title= Long%20Trail%20Photographs (accessed September 8, 2011).
12. The Cleveland Memory Project can be found at: http://www.clevelandmemory. org/hlneo/ (accessed September 8, 2011).
13. The University of Waterloo Map Library website can be found at: http://www.lib.uwaterloo.ca/locations/umd/project/ (accessed September 8, 2011).
14. The University of North Carolina Library provides interactive maps at http://www.lib.unc.edu/dc/ncmaps/interactive/overlay.html (accessed September 8, 2011).
15. The University of Connecticut Library offers GIS files online here: http://magic.lib.uconn.edu/connecticut-data.html (accessed September 8, 2011).
16. Campus Map examples include: Yale University Library at http://maps.commons.yale.edu/venice/ example maps for Library locations on campus include: Brock University Library
17. http://www.brocku.ca/maplibrary/general/where-is-the-ML.php University of North Carolina
18. http://www.lib.unc.edu/libraries-collections.html (All accessed on September 8, 2011).