Readers have a new tool for helping to discover books they love — a new category of appeal terms called illustration appeals. These new appeal terms are now available in NoveList and NoveList K-8.

Illustration appeals describe the visual impact of book illustrations. Are the drawings colorful and bold? Photographic? Or maybe dark and nightmarish? Having access to this information helps readers identify books with their favorite style of imagery. Readers who love highly visual genres such as graphic novels or picture books will now be able to pinpoint books that appeal to them visually.

Search NoveList or NoveList K-8 to see these.

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If you’re looking for books to keep children and teens reading this summer, NoveList provides several book lists for younger and older children and for teens that go along with the summer reading program at your Georgia public library.

• Summer Reading: Dig into Reading! (Younger Kids)
• Summer Reading: Can You Dig it? (Older Kids)
• Summer Reading: Beneath the Surface (Teens)
• Summer Reading: Underground (Teens)

For even more summer reading lists, just search for summer reading in NoveList and click on the Lists and Articles tab.

You can also check out the Recommended Reads List in a variety of genres in NoveList K-8.

Find these books and more at your local public library.

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May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, so here’s your excuse to get out and enjoy the great weather!

If you need ideas or tips to get you started in the right direction, just search Discover GALILEO for physical fitness, sports, exercise, or your favorite activity, such as walking, running, hiking, skating, biking, swimming, or whatever you enjoy, to find articles, fact sheets, and more. If you have a particular topic that you like, you can click Alert/Save/Share at the top of your search results to set up an email alert, which will send you emails when an article about your topic is added.

GALILEO offers access to the full text of several popular sports and fitness magazines, such as American Fitness, Bicycling, DIRTSports, Men’s Health, Shape, Sports Illustrated, Swimming World, and Runner’s World. If you want to know when a new issue is added, you can you can click the Alert/Save/Share in the publication information to set up a journal alert that sends emails as new issues appear.

Finally, check out the Exercise subject area of GALILEO for more resources.

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Please see the following announcement from EBSCO.

As of August 2013, some changes will be made to Harvard Business Review (HBR) article access for Business Source customers. This change will not affect institutions that have already purchased the expanded rights from Harvard Business Publishing. Further, customers buying a site license will not be impacted.

As you are likely aware, full-text licensing agreements with publishers are subject to change in all databases, and EBSCO is committed to providing our customers with as much advance notice as possible on full-text content changes as often as we possibly can. With that said, we would like to inform you that as of August 1, 2013, all databases containing HBR will experience a change for 500 of the articles. These articles will become read-only, and will be clearly marked as such.

For example, in Business Source Complete, there are currently 12,824 full-text articles from HBR, and 12,324 will continue to have the existing access functionality. If libraries wish to prevent the read-only limitation on these 500 articles, and expand usage rights to all 12,824 HBR articles to include course use, they should contact Harvard Business Publishing for expanded rights. For an upgrade fee, Harvard Business Publishing offers full course use rights for all articles. For pricing information please contact us at permissions@harvardbusiness.org.

We thank you for your understanding, and please don’t hesitate to contact us at information@ebscohost.com if you have any questions.

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.

On this day in 1850, Henry W. Grady was born in Athens, GA. He was known as the “Spokesman of the New South” and was the managing editor for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s.

Before working at the Atlanta Constitution, Grady shared ownership in the Atlanta Daily Herald (which can be found in the Athens Historic Newspapers Archive). In 1874, he wrote an editorial in which he first used the term “New South” and advocated for industrial development to solve the economic and social problems facing the South at that time. You can read this editorial on page 3 of the March 14, 1874 issue of the Atlanta Daily Herald.

To read more about him, see the Henry W. Grady (1850-1889) article in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. For historical photos and more, search for Henry Grady in the Digital Library of Georgia.

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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.

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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.

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Image from the Vanishing Georgia collection in the Digital Library of Georgia

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

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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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.