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Unveiling GALILEO: Georgia’s Virtual Library Guide

Explore GALILEO, Georgia's Virtual Library, offering resources from eBooks to primary documents. Learn navigation basics and access tools for students, educators, and professionals. GALILEO Support Services are here to assist!

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Unveiling GALILEO: Georgia’s Virtual Library Guide

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  1. Introduction to GALILEO Getting to know Georgia’s Virtual Library Russell Palmer Assistant Director, GALILEO Support Services russell.palmer@usg.edu

  2. Pulling back the curtain • GALILEO is part of the Library Services division of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia • Staffed by library and technology professionals who coordinate: • Direction, vision, content • Programming and development • Support and training • Outreach and assessment

  3. Stirring up the alphabet soup • Affordable Learning Georgia (ALG) • GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR) • New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) • Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) • GALILEO Interconnected Libraries (GIL)

  4. Today’s focus: GALILEO basics Go to: galileo.usg.edu

  5. Navigation basics • Discover Search (Search lots of resources at once) • Discover Search Resource linking (Find full text) • A-Z Lists (Databases, Publications) • Browse by subject • Browse by Type of resource (Almanac, Encyclopedia, etc.) • Help!? & Support Services

  6. Discover Search, browsing options

  7. Databases A-Z

  8. Magazines A-Z

  9. GALILEO Interfaces • Scholar • Kids • Book Collection: Nonfiction • Britannica School Elementary • Funk and Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia • History Reference Center • Primary Search • High School • 15 databases (ebooks, articles, encyclopedias and more) • Teen • 20+ databases (ebooks, articles, encyclopedias, and more)

  10. =Search by lexile level and/or grade level

  11. Note the levels: 1-3 (roughly, elementary, middle, high)

  12. GALILEO offers eBooks for K12! • Collections for all ages • EBSCO Non-fiction collection • EBSCO K8 Collection • EBSCO High School Collection • Ebrary (focus is on academic non-fiction) • Use on desktop or mobile devices

  13. Primary documents • Digital Library of Georgia • Newspaper collections and more

  14. TumbleBooks • TumbleBooks (Public Libraries) • Over 1,000 titles for grades K-6 • Animated talking picture books • Chapter books • Books in other languages • Videos

  15. Resources for your professional development • Professional Development Collection • ERIC (at EBSCO with direct links to full text when available) • ebrary • EBSCO ebook Academic Collection

  16. Need help? We have upgraded LibGuides (2.0) and added new video tutorials libguides.galileo.usg.edu

  17. We are here for you! • GALILEO Support Services

  18. More GALILEO training is available • Our training schedule is updated often • http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training • Upcoming: Using lexile limits in EBSCO resources (January 5, 3 PM) • Face to face training? • russell.palmer@usg.edu

  19. Thank you! • Q&A Time

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