Google translate is brilliant with translation to about 50 different languages available. Enter your own text or or go to a web page, select the language you want and hey presto! there it is. Quick as a flash. I could have used that back in my uni days when I was studying French and trying to read French novels. Never could quite follow the storyline. But there were no computers then.
In Google books, I clicked on Literature and then limited the results to Full View only. This gave me 708 full text books to choose from, including classics like "Persuasion" by Jane Austen, "The time machine" by H G Wells, and "Around the world in 80 days" by Jules Verne. No need to ever be short of a book to read.
Moving on to i-Google, I now have a customised Google home page with a Beach theme, which presents me with daily inspirational and motivational quotes, the weather report for the Sunshine Coast and a personalised horoscope. That should set me up for the day.
Google Calendar could be a way to send invitations to library events, allowing interested people to reply and make a booking for the event.
Google Maps and My Maps could be used to tag branch library sites, mobile library stops and outside venues for library events.
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