There is another online resource noted in GALILEO, FDsys(GPO's Federal Digital System), which provides public access to government information submitted by Congress and federal agencies and preserved as technology changes.
The folks at GALILEO are providing a super portal for information that will help the citizens of Georgia!
Get the password to use GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
-kss
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Online anytime
First Search, through GALILEO, offers a specific E-books index (Electronic Books) which includes records for more than 675,000 eBooks that have been cataloged by OCLC member libraries, including titles available from NetLibrary and other providers. Much of the electronic CTC collection is listed in the index.
CTC has over 90,000 electronic books through NetLibrary, E-brary, Ovid, and Credo. Using the E-books index shows our books as well as other electronic books. Some may be available because they are government publications or in Google Books. Some are in licensed databases that we don't have access to. If we don't have access, check the Libraries link to see which library holds this resource. It might be a neighboring post-secondary institution. You may ask to use the resource as a guest in their facility!
This E-books index pulls together many electronic collections. Search and read to your hearts content.
You may get the password to use GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
-kss
Links to full-text content: Users can access Web links to full-text electronic book collections licensed by their libraries from NetLibrary and other providers and free resources that are available in the public domain from education, government, and commercial Web sites.
CTC has over 90,000 electronic books through NetLibrary, E-brary, Ovid, and Credo. Using the E-books index shows our books as well as other electronic books. Some may be available because they are government publications or in Google Books. Some are in licensed databases that we don't have access to. If we don't have access, check the Libraries link to see which library holds this resource. It might be a neighboring post-secondary institution. You may ask to use the resource as a guest in their facility!
This E-books index pulls together many electronic collections. Search and read to your hearts content.
You may get the password to use GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
-kss
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Which version to use?
Discover America from Compton's by Britannica provides access to statistics and summary information for every state.
The facts are the standard capital, bird, flower, population variety. What I found interesting is the main link in GALILEO takes you to the Middle School version. There are no hyper-links within the state information. At the bottom of the page there are tabs for High School and Elementary. In High School I chose the Discover America link to get to the same map visual. Choosing the identical state provided links to articles from within the text.
The elementary version has the same facts but a simpler Introduction to the state (and no hyperlinks).
I wonder why there are links to other information in the high school version but not the middle school version?
To access Comptons in GALILEO, you need to get the current password from your Georgia librarian!
-kss
The facts are the standard capital, bird, flower, population variety. What I found interesting is the main link in GALILEO takes you to the Middle School version. There are no hyper-links within the state information. At the bottom of the page there are tabs for High School and Elementary. In High School I chose the Discover America link to get to the same map visual. Choosing the identical state provided links to articles from within the text.
The elementary version has the same facts but a simpler Introduction to the state (and no hyperlinks).
I wonder why there are links to other information in the high school version but not the middle school version?
To access Comptons in GALILEO, you need to get the current password from your Georgia librarian!
-kss
Monday, January 24, 2011
One, two, three, four
The 1950's Godfather of Fitness went to the fitness center in the sky yesterday. Jack LaLanne inspired millions to get off the couch, exercise and eat right!
I wondered what information I would find about Jack LaLanne in GALILEO. I selected Browse by Subject, Company and Industry Information. A search for Jack LaLanne did pull up references to him. I realized that a search in the document helped me quickly find the mention of his name. Not many articles were about his business in particular. Current fitness practitioners do talk about his influence on them!
When you see a news story, go to GALILEO to see what else there is to know about the topic!
-kss
I wondered what information I would find about Jack LaLanne in GALILEO. I selected Browse by Subject, Company and Industry Information. A search for Jack LaLanne did pull up references to him. I realized that a search in the document helped me quickly find the mention of his name. Not many articles were about his business in particular. Current fitness practitioners do talk about his influence on them!
When you see a news story, go to GALILEO to see what else there is to know about the topic!
-kss
The show will go on
If you missed an interview, speech or government event, the show will go on
in the C-Span archives. GALILEO collects web sites that will help Georgia residents get the best information, like C-Span archives.
C-Span Video Library includes over 160,000 hours of coverage of C-SPAN programs since 1987. The C-SPAN Archives, which records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses, records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text.
Yes, one can do a Google search for C-Span archives and get the site. For me, it is convenient to do the research in one place like GALILEO, especially when I forget about the specialty sites available on the wild web.
You may get the current password for GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
-kss
in the C-Span archives. GALILEO collects web sites that will help Georgia residents get the best information, like C-Span archives.
C-Span Video Library includes over 160,000 hours of coverage of C-SPAN programs since 1987. The C-SPAN Archives, which records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses, records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text.
Yes, one can do a Google search for C-Span archives and get the site. For me, it is convenient to do the research in one place like GALILEO, especially when I forget about the specialty sites available on the wild web.
You may get the current password for GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
-kss
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