Celebrate National Library Week 2016 with GALILEO

This week, GALILEO joins schools, campuses, and communities in Georgia and nationwide in celebrating the dynamic changes that are happening in today’s libraries. April 10-16 is National Library Week, a time to highlight the changing roles of libraries and the people who work in them.

The NLW theme this year is “Libraries Transform,” a very appropriate description of what takes place in libraries today, both in buildings and online. Libraries are helping job seekers, language learners, students studying for exams, entrepreneurs writing small business plans, family tree researchers, readers, STEAM educators and students, and scholarly researchers. GALILEO has been helping libraries meet the needs of their users for over 20 years with online resources and services available to all Georgia’s citizens and students 24/7. Transformation means that not only do libraries provide traditional spaces and print resources but engage with the user in the virtual library where they have access to more journals and magazines, encyclopedias, media, primary sources, and ebooks than could be housed logistically in one building. Transformation also means that new technologies are developed and adopted to improve the library research experience. GALILEO stays at the forefront to keep libraries continually transforming for the communities we serve.

So put on your party hats for National Library Week 2016. It’s time to celebrate!