Getting the Most Out of GALILEO Public Library Edition

Navigation basics Discover Search (Search lots of resources at once) Placards (Mango, LearningExpress) A-Z Lists (Databases, Publications) Browse by subject Browse by Type of resource (Almanac, Encyclopedia, etc.) Help!? & Support Services

Discover Search, browsing options

Databases A-Z

Magazines A-Z

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)

Overwhelmed yet? Helpful tools GALILEO Toolbar Express Links Search widgets (Consumer Reports, Discover) Persistent links

Easier access to express links

Part 1: Hands on time! Using the discover search, find an article about the novel “salvage the bones” by jesmyn ward. Using the A-Z magazines browse--can I get the most recent version of the Consumer Reports Buying Guide? What about the most recent issue of Consumer Reports? Using the A-Z databases guide, Find the “Garden, Landscape and Horticulture Index”. Once you locate and access the database, see what kinds of articles you can find on library programs and gardening. Bonus: An 8th grade student comes in to search for articles for her National History Day project at school. Use the databases by subject guide to identify a database to search. Once you find a database, search for her topic: African-American women during the Civil Rights Movement

Show and tell time: databases Ancestry Gale LegalForms TumbleBooks (k-6) TumbleBookCloud (6-12) Academic Search Complete

Gale Legal Forms

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

TumbleBookCloud

Academic Search Complete

Bonus! LearningExpress (career prep, test prep) GALILEO Ebook Collections (Ebook Central, EBSCO ebooks) Thousands of ebooks!

LearningExpress

Ebook Central

EBSCO ebooks: Public Library Collection

Part 2: Hands on time! Find an article in Academic Search Complete that offers a recommendation for the best bluetooth speaker. A patron who needs information on planning a will. While you aren’t able to give this person legal advice, see if you can find some documents in Gale LegalForms help this person get started. Use Ancestry to find a census entry for a relative. If you want to search for a known person, look for my grandmother, Nora Palmer in Polk County, Georgia, in the 1940 census. A student left her copy of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night at school during the Labor Day weekend. Do you have a digital copy she can read? It would be helpful if she could listen online, too.

Digital Library of Georgia: New features I will call out each one of these features separately here, and then demonstrate one by one in a deeper exploration of the whole site. During the live overview of the site I will highlight and share: --browsing by county --browsing on the US Map --The inline email, text, cite and reuse features --The free to use limiter/feature --Educational materials --Generally, site navigation, pointing out how the page is sectioned, including the top scroll, the tabbed area for featured collections, and DLG and me

Digital Library of Georgia: Content Government information Books Photographs Newspapers* Historical manuscripts Audio Video More! I’ll use this as an opportunity to give a basic tour of the site, then I’ll focus on the “BROWSE” and “Medium” Options to illustrate how to find specific types of materials by collections, so that this is also a basic collections tour. Clarify that DLG only hosts a small percentage of total digital objects, but COLLECTIONS from other CHO’s are in DLG, and the items in those collections are owned by the holding institution.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Part 3: Hands on time! A patron would like to find newspaper articles documenting the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps around the state of Georgia in the 1930s and 40s. I heard that Coretta Scott King once hosted a concert with performances by Stevie Wonder and Gladys Knight. Are there any video clips from that event? Bonus question: point your browser to http://dp.la Search for your hometown. Share with the group anything interesting you find.

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