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Winter-Spring 2003 GALILEO Planet 3-31 The Official Newsletter of GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online Fall, 2007 GALILEO: Georgia’s Cathedral of Learning By Tamera Lee, Chair, GALILEO Steering Committee Since GALILEO brings that GALILEO has grown GALILEO “serves a greater together Georgia’s libraries and tremendously over the years and purpose than our home libraries librarians of all types, of course has improved its search capacity, and institution” as it “betters the our focus is customer service- especially for general research future of Georgia’s citizens.” our hallmark and what we do needs. From another, I learned Peter also referenced Peter about an appreciated genealogical Morville’s presentation at the source, Ancestry Library Edition 2007 ALA conference in which he and local newspaper archive— retold the parable of three both made freely accessible, while medieval stonecutters, each their dot com counterparts required doing the same job of cutting paid subscriptions. I listened to the block. The first said, “I am value placed on GALILEO as a making a living.” The second “child friendly” learning resource said, “I am doing the best job of Tamera Lee void of “splash of trash” porn stone cutting in the county.” The invasions frequented through third said, “I am building a best. Through our service, I popular techie tools. cathedral.” If GALILEO is think library staff know well the GALILEO holds a common Georgia’s cathedral of learning, allure of technology, yet we theme for internal and external then we’re responsible for understand its limitations and customers: a vehicle for con- building it. know that it doesn’t solve tinuous, life-long learning. My everything. So what do these twenty-five years of experience as Tamera Lee is the current Chair of the Regents an academic librarian have taught Academic Committee on Libraries (RACL) and priority internal customers, the the GALILEO Steering Committee. Tamera is a passionate people who provide me that the central mission of Professor and Director of the Robert B. Greenblatt meaningful library service, think higher education is not teaching, Memorial Library, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia. about GALILEO? research, or service—it’s learning! I recently asked a few library And to the best of my knowledge, staff members what GALILEO all educational institutions value means to them and heard that it learning. is “a great place to find Peter Shipman, who knows information of every sort…about GALILEO well as Outreach Georgia and current events and Librarian for the Medical College quick reference.” I also heard of Georgia, reminded me that Take The GALILEO Planet Survey We need your feedback! Please take a few minutes to complete The GALILEO Planet survey. We will use the information we collection to improve The GALILEO Planet. Take the GALILEO Planet survey at http://www.surveys.usg.edu/se.ashx?s=06C2C3B97D8DBC96 The GALILEO Planet Page 1 Meet the Staff: Sarah Ricker By Edward Johnson, Georgia HomePLACE Sarah Ricker began her work of 2004, working on the family, scattered all over the as Civil Rights Metadata Librarian HomePLACE-supported country, will be able to see the at GALILEO’s Digital Library of Encoded Archival Description work that I do online.” Georgia (DLG) in March 2006. project with Auburn Avenue Research Library. While in “Working with the Civil Rights Athens, Sarah met her future Digital Library has been a great husband, whom she married in opportunity to learn more about May 2005. Sarah has served as the Civil Rights movement. I’ve a metadata assistant for digital also had the chance to see how collections at Brigham Young other institutions approach digital University for two years, worked libraries and how they present with PASCAL in South Carolina digital resources.” to help plan their digital collections program, and (after moving back to Athens) worked As a key staff member in the Civil at Baker and Taylor in Rights Digital Library (CRDL) Commerce. PUBLICATION initiative, Sarah describes WSB Although she works hard at INFORMATION video footage of civil rights events the DLG, Sarah also pursues included in the collection, several hobbies during her free identifies other institutions with time. She loves to travel, enjoys digital civil rights material, crochet, and is an avid reader. develops partnerships, and So how did Sarah become Jayne Williams, Editor “massages” metadata to be interested in libraries in the first included in the portal. place? The GALILEO Planet is Sarah came to her current published quarterly as a web- position educationally well- “I wanted to be a librarian in third based newsletter reporting on prepared. Although born in grade, and in fifth grade was GALILEO-related information. Anaheim, California, she moved given the privilege of skipping Suggestions and contributions with her parents to Juneau, one recess a week to go to the are encouraged. Alaska in 1984, where she library; I would save that for graduated from Juneau-Douglas Friday morning recess. In Email: [email protected] High School. Her parents still live college, when I realized I enjoyed in Juneau, which continues to helping people find information Website: http://www.usg. seem like home to Sarah even and answer random questions, I edu/galileo/about/news though she now lives in Georgia. found a job in the library and She earned her Bachelor of Arts started looking into library GALILEO is an Initiative of the in Comparative Literature at schools.” Board of Regents of the Brigham Young University in University System of Georgia. Provo, Utah, and her Master in And now she’s focused that Library and Information Science interest on digital libraries. at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. “I love digital libraries, partly Sarah also brings a lot of because of the universal access relevant experience to her CRDL factor. It is so exciting to share work. In fact, she served as an historical resources online. It is “Creating A More intern at DLG during the summer fun to know that my friends and Educated Georgia” Page 2 The GALILEO Planet Finding “All” of It: Localizing the Find It Service for Your Institution By GALILEO Staff Subscription Find It @ GALILEO is the pub- If your institution is interested in Information lic name of the GALILEO SFX participating in localization of project. In phase one of the SFX, or if you have questions • To subscribe to the GALILEO Upgrade Project, about the process, please sub- GALILEO listserv, go to GALILEO-managed resources mit a request to GALILEO via the http://www.usg.edu/galileo/ were configured within SFX for Contact Us link located in the top about/news/list.phtm. your institution. In the current right corner of the GALILEO phase of the GALILEO Upgrade, Homepage. • To subscribe to the we are beginning the process of GALILEO Planet, send configuring local resources within Please see our FAQs for more your email address to SFX. Several steps are required, information about Find It: http:// [email protected]. including the following: www.usg.edu/galileo/help/ index.phtml?topic=findit . • For a complete list of · sharing information about GALILEO Subcommittees, your institution’s online re- see http://www.usg.edu/ sources through a permanent galileo/about/governance/ web-based workspace for committees.phtml. your institution · communicating with vendors • To learn more about the · configuring the resources GALILEO initiative, go to (GALILEO will do this based http://www.usg.edu/galileo/ on the information you pro- about. vide) · testing configured resources Teachers Teaching Teachers Recently, GALILEO staff members and representative media specialists from Georgia schools joined the weekly webcast of Teachers Teaching Teachers to discuss ways database content can enrich students’ learning. Teachers Teaching Teachers is a weekly international webcast on the EdTechTalk channel of the WorldBridges network. Discussions via webcasts are held every Wednesday evening at 9:00 pm EST. These conversations are archived as a podcast on the Teachers Teaching Teachers blog. Their purpose is to develop teacher knowledge and leadership in their schools and to then use this knowledge to improve students’ online reading and writing through the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and webcasts. Please refer to the Teachers Teaching Teachers website http://teachersteachingteachers.org for additional information and for archived webcasts. To listen to the database sessions mentioned above, tune into the August 8th, 15th, and 22nd podcasts. August 8th http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=129 August 15th http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=130 August 22nd (Link not posted at time of publiction) The GALILEO Planet Page 3 Getting Alerts as RSS Feeds in EBSCO By GALILEO Staff • Are you having trouble keeping up with professional reading? • Do you check several news sites or blogs each day and need to speed up the process? • Do you know teachers or professors who need to keep up with certain research topics? • Have you been trying to teach your students how to use an RSS reader and want to know what RSS feeds are available through GALILEO? If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, then this article may help! But first, some of you may be asking, “What is RSS?” One quick explanation is that RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and refers to a way to easily publish content that is updated frequently. Common Craft has also created a great video to explain RSS: http://www.commoncraft.com/ rss_plain_english. So, what are some ways that you can use RSS? Here are some ideas: • Keep up with daily news without having to visit all of the individual websites of the newspapers • Keep up with recent research, an area of interest, or your favorite hobby by receiving notifications when articles are added to a particular magazine or journal that you like (see RSS journal alerts in EBSCO) or when articles are added matching certain search criteria that you choose (see RSS search alerts in EBSCO) • Read blog entries from your favorite blogs all in one place without having to go to each blog’s site to check for new entries In order to use RSS feeds, you will need an RSS reader, also called a feed reader or an aggregator.
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