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Posted February 6, 2013
GALILEO Resources for Presidents’ Day
In honor of President’s Day this month, it seems fitting to highlight some of the great resources in GALILEO that provide biographical information on our nation’s presidents.
First of all, search Discover GALILEO for any president by name to find articles and more about him.
Here are a few tips for limiting search results:
1) Use Subject on the left of the search results to limit to articles about a particular president by clicking his name.
2) Use Limit by Type to search just for primary source documents, magazine articles, or journal articles. Or, to just remove reviews, click the Show More link under Limit by Type, check the Check All box, and then uncheck Reviews.
3) To see items from the Digital Library of Georgia and the Civil Rights Digital Library, check Georgia Digital Collections Only under Refine your results.
For institutions that purchase Britannica resources, Encyclopædia Britannica includes articles on all presidents from Washington to Obama. For multimedia, essays, primary sources and more, check out Britannica’s spotlight on The American Presidency. Also, Annals of American History provides speeches, letters, and more primary source documents. Some more recent speeches have audio clips with them. Just search for a president of your choice to see these.
To search resources individually, go to the Browse by Type > Biographical Sources section of GALILEO Scholar, the Browse by Subject > Biography section of GALILEO Library, the Browse by Type > Biographies section in GALILEO High School, or the By Type > People section in GALILEO Teen.
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Posted January 28, 2013
Bepress Digital Commons Now Available in GALILEO
Bepress Digital Commons, which provides thousands of open access journals, is now available through GALILEO. More information is included below.
Express Link: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=bpoa
Bepress Digital Commons is a database of full-text, open access scholarship that is curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, representing thousands of disciplines and subject areas from architecture to zoology. It includes scholarship from hundreds of universities and colleges, including peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work. It continues to grow rapidly thanks to the contributions of researchers, librarians, faculty, and students who believe that scholarship is a community enterprise.
If you have any questions or need more information, please use the GALILEO Contact Us form or contact the ITS Help Desk at helpdesk@usg.edu or 1-888-875-3697.
Posted January 22, 2013
How Does a Bill Become Law in Georgia?
With the Georgia General Assembly in session, you may have been seeing news stories about bills going through the Georgia House of Representatives or the Georgia State Senate. If you’ve ever wondered about the process of how a bill becomes a law in Georgia, here are few resources for you.
GeorgiaInfo provides a graphic with the steps to pass a law in Georgia, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia provides a more detailed explanation. The Georgia General Assembly also offers an outline on tracking a bill through the General Assembly. To help students learn about the legislative process, GPB Education has provided Five Ways to Introduce Students to the Georgia Legislature.
For more resources, see the Georgia Laws and Legislation section in GALILEO Scholar or GALILEO Library or the State Government section in GALILEO High School.
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Posted January 17, 2013
GALILEO Resources for Black History Month
Black History Month will soon be here, and GALILEO includes many articles, images, and videos to share.
Start by entering a person or event associated with African American history in the Discover GALILEO searchbox, such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Zora Neale Hurtson, Civil Rights Movement, Selma Montgomery March, Harlem Renaissance, African American arts, and more.
The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) offers a variety of primary sources on the Civil Rights Movement, including films clips, images, oral histories, and more.
For a look at the history of African Americans in Georgia, the Digital Library of Georgia offers historical images (Vanishing Georgia in particular), newspapers, and more. You can browse by your county or by subject (such as Peoples and Cultures) to see collections. Several collections of note are “Integrated in All Respects”: Ed Friend’s Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation; Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987: Jim Alexander’s Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center from the Auburn Avenue Research Library; and The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s.
For the institutions that purchase it, Encyclopædia Britannica offers authoritative information on famous African Americans and historical events. Don’t miss the spotlight on Black History because Britannica has pulled together a nice collection of biographies, documents, multimedia, learning activities, and more.
NoveList and NoveList K-8 offer book recommendations for all ages. Search for African Americans to see books, lists, and articles related to this topic, or check out the Advanced Search where you can limit your search to books written by African American authors (Hint: Leave the search box blank and choose African-American in the Author’s Cultural Identity field to see a list of books by African American authors.). Check out the Teaching with Books section on the right of the main page in NoveList to see award lists (including the Coretta Scott King Awards), BookTalks, Book Discussion Guides, Picture Book Extenders, and more.
For a closer look at these resources, see the archive of the GALILEO Black History Month Resources webinar.
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Posted January 15, 2013
Resources for International Holocaust Remembrance Day
In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a memorial day for the victims of the Jewish Holocaust.
GALILEO provides several resources with images, videos, articles, and more to help us remember the events of that time.
Use the new Discover GALILEO search box to search for articles as well as historical images and videos. Search for Jewish Holocaust or any related person, place, or event, such as Adolf Hitler, Auschwitz, or Nuremberg Trials.
For institutions that purchase it, Encyclopædia Britannica offers a special spotlight titled Reflections on the Holocaust with encyclopedia articles, images, videos, educational materials, and much more.
For book recommendations, search NoveList for Jewish Holocaust to find books for all ages. The NoveList editors also offer suggested book lists for grades 3-5, grades 6-8, teens, and adults as well as a list of picture books for grades 3-8.
For a Georgia perspective, browse or search Georgia historical newspaper, the Southern Israelite, in the Digital Library of Georgia. The Southern Israelite covers not only the news of Jews in the southern United States, but also the issues that involved Jewish populations throughout the nation and world. For news articles related to the Jewish Holocaust, search for “Nazi holocaust” or extermination.
You can also view the archive of a webinar on Holocaust Resources in GALILEO.
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