GALILEO is there: Helping Your Students with Homework
In celebration of National Library Week, we are doing a series on how GALILEO is there supporting your community.
Earlier this week, we talked about GALILEO resources to help your career, to help you find your next favorite book, and to help you research your family history.
Now, let’s talk about getting homework help at the public library. Whether it’s for a public school student, a homeschooler, or a college student, GALILEO provides resources to help get through that assignment.
By default, anyone logging in to GALILEO at their public library will see the GALILEO Library view for general use.
However, K-12 students can try going to the GALILEO High School or GALILEO Teen views to find resources by topic or subject, and college students can go to the GALILEO Scholar view to see scholarly resources for a particular subject.
Good resources for any topic are Kids Search (elementary), Student Research Center (middle and high school), and Academic Search Complete (scholarly, peer-reviewded articles). Also, the eBooks at EBSCOhost collection can be a helpful resource for research projects, particularly literature papers.
Finally, students accessing GALILEO at their public library will see only the resources that the public libraries purchase, but colleges and K-12 schools purchase different resources designed for students. If students know the GALILEO password for their school, they can click the “Log in as another user” link in the upper right corner of the GALILEO main page to see the additional resources that their school system or their college or university offers.
Contact your local public library for assistance with these resources and to see what additional homework help your library may offer.