Monday, February 01, 2010
Grammy
The 52nd Grammy awards were given out on January 31. The official award site has a cornucopia of information about winners past and present!
GALILEO has resources that will offer a different perspective than the industry promotes. I started my quest with
Browse by Subject
...Arts and Humanities
.....Music.
I was disappointed in the search options. I was offered Academic Search Complete and Research Library with GIL and Encyclopedia Britannica as the Show More Options. I thought there might be something more musical in the list.
I went to the Basic GALILEO Search tab at the far right.
I typed in Grammy Awards
...Selected full text
......Selected 2010 only
Clicked on Show More Options which allowed me to add Newspaper Sources and ProQuest Newspapers (though I can not add Lexis Nexis or NewsBank) to the Basic Search alongside Academic Search Complete and Research Library .
Voila- enough articles to satisfy my curiosity about what happened and why!
Interesting to see that Research Library and ProQuest Newspapers offered more stories dated February 1 than the others!
You may get the password to use GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
-kls
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