GALILEO Planet News
Posted May 16, 2013
Job and Career Resources for the Recent Graduate
Congratulations to all the recent graduates of Georgia’s schools and colleges!
You may be leaving your school behind, but did you know that you can still access GALILEO through your Georgia public library? Just contact your local public library for the GALILEO password or information on accessing your public library’s online resources.
Now, let’s talk about the job and career resources in GALILEO that you can access through your public library.
Job and Career Accelerator helps you create professional and effective resumes and cover letters, master interviewing techniques, improve your work skills, and prepare for occupation-related exams. It will also help you explore occupations and find your occupation match. See our earlier tips on how to use this resource to build your resume and write your cover letter.
LearningExpress Library offers practice tests, tutorials, and eBooks related to job search and workplace skills improvement, career certification and licensing exam preparation, college entrance and graduate school admissions exam preparation, GED exam preparation, and more. Check out our earlier tip on how to use this resource to practice for occupational exams.
Georgia Career Information System can help you explore occupations, identify occupations based on your skills, locate schools with your program of study, find job opportunities, create resumes and cover letters, prepare for job interviews and more. You will need to log in to GALILEO through PINES or with a public library password, and then you will need to get the GCIS username and password for your library to access the database.
Find these resources and more in the Browse by Subject > Careers section of GALILEO and see this handout for a list of resources.
Some links may not work off site. Log in to GALILEO first for access.
Image from Encyclopædia Britannica
Posted May 15, 2013
Go Ride a Bike!
May is National Bike Month. Whether you’re interested in getting fit, saving some gas money, just having some fun, or all of the above, cycling can be the way to go.
Use the Discover GALILEO search box to find articles on many aspects of bicycles and cycling. Try searching for bicycles or cycling, but you could also try searching for something more specific, such as bicycle equipment, mountain biking, BMX bikes, bicycle racing, or bicycle evaluation (for articles on choosing a bike).
GALILEO also includes magazines, such as Bicycling and TransWorld Ride BMX.
For institutions that purchase the Britannica resources, check out the Bicycle article in Encyclopædia Britannica to learn about the development of bikes from treadle-powered velocipedes to boneshakers to the ordinary to the modern bicycle.
Some links may not work off site. Log in to GALILEO first for access.
Image from the Vanishing Georgia collection in the Digital Library of Georgia
Posted May 10, 2013
Celebrate National Train Day with GALILEO
National Train Day is coming up on May 11th. We thought this would be an excellent excuse to show off all things train-related in GALILEO.
The railroad was an influential part of Georgia’s history. For a review of the expansion and decline of the railroad in Georgia, take a look at the Railroads article in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. You can even find out how the origin of Atlanta is connected to the railroad. For a lot of wonderful historical images, take a look at all the trains in Digital Library of Georgia.
For a broader look at trains and their history, search Discover GALILEO for railroad to see articles and images on the history of the railroad, including how the development of railroads impacted the West and how they took the “Wild” out of it.
For a deeper look at train cars, rails, and the operation of them, take a look at the Railroad article in Encyclopædia Britannica (for the institutions that purchase Britannica resources). Also, Annals of American History offers a first-hand perspective of the railroads in America with letters, government documents, and other primary sources, including this letter describing the birth and explosive growth of the railroad towns that would spring up around the rail lines.
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Image from the Vanishing Georgia collection in the Digital Library of Georgia
Posted May 3, 2013
GALILEO Resources to Support STEM Education
Today is Georgia STEM Day, a day for schools, students, teachers, and companies to raise awareness, celebrate, and engage in activities involving science, technology, engineering and math
To honor this, let’s look at some of the GALILEO resources that support STEM education for K-12 schools.
Discover GALILEO includes magazine and journal articles, images, and much more. Just search for any topic to find these.
Encyclopædia Britannica includes articles, images, diagrams, and videos on many science topics. Also, the Learning Materials offers science activities and interactive lessons for all grade levels.
SIRS Discoverer includes full-text articles, diagrams, and images for many science-related topics. Students can also check out the Activities section to find science and nature projects with fun ideas for experiments and activities to encourage discovery of science concepts.
For teachers, the National Science Digital Library provides instructional materials and other online educational resources to support teaching and learning in the STEM disciplines.
For these resources and more, see the Science and Math category in GALILEO High School and the Science category in GALILEO Teen. Elementary students can check out the resources listed on the GALILEO Kids page.
Image from STEM Georgia site
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Posted May 1, 2013
Reading the World of Downton Abbey
If you are missing Downton Abbey, the NoveList editors have provided some read-alike suggestions for you to fill the void until the next season starts.
- Reading the world of Downton Abbey (Season 3)
- Reading the World of Downton Abbey: Episode 2
- Reading the World of Downton Abbey: Episode 3
- Reading the World of Downton Abbey: Episode 4
- Reading the World of Downton Abbey: Episode 5
- Reading the World of Downton Abbey: Episode 6
- Reading the World of Downton Abbey: The End of Season Three
Also, see Downton Abbey Read-Alikes for reading suggestions for earlier seasons.
Contact your local public library for assistance.