4. Why do anything? Library Service supports festival. Show other library teams what can be done easily. Opportunity to experiment. Image attribute – ‘duncan’ (Flickr)
5. Why a book map? Creative. Visual. More fun than plain text. Combine resources from different places. Image attribution ‘I like’ (Flickr)
6. What does it do? Bring together set of books. Links to resources. Gives details of books. How book relates to Surrey. Image attribution ‘Maxwell Hamilton’ (Flickr)
8. Who helped? Virtual Content Team Other Surrey Library Service teams Surrey History Centre Tweeters Librarything Project Gutenberg Image attribution ‘chris_horn13’ (Flickr)
9. How did we make it? Google My Maps. Manually added markers. Book covers as markers.
10. Book catalogue in a map Click on marker for more details. Larger book cover. Why it’s relevant to Surrey.
13. Where can I find it now? http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=111255354966596184710.00048275d760797e5ff9a&ll=51.250742,-0.484772&spn=0.341243,0.883026&z=10
14. Or if you can’t write that quickly... http://bit.ly/9ZcQN5 (Google maps) http://ggtestspace.weebly.com/fiction-book-map.html (a basic test site)
15. Where’s it going to go? Embed in anywhere.me? (personalised start page for libraries) Link from Surrey Libraries website pages. Image attribution ‘A P Hall’ (Flickr)
16. Developments? Add more books/details. Improve presentation. Link to Amazon. Link to Worldcat. Automatic population? Image attribution ‘Paul Hudson’ (Flickr)