The Official Newsletter of GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online Spring, 2007

GALILEO's Anniversary In 2281 AD (or CE) Ray Calvert, Coastal Georgia Community College I have now wrestled with writ- in Philadelphia. The day I visited fiction writer Vernor Vinge. In a ing this article for five months. the Library Company it was busy presentation at NASA's VISION- When asked to write an article with patrons. As you recall, I indi- 21 Symposium (http://mind cated that the Library Company stalk.net/vinge/vinge-sing.html) was formed in 1731 making it over in 1993, Vinge talked about a 275 years old. Think of GALILEO’s time when technological change 275th anniversary in the year 2281 would be driven by machine in- AD (or CE if you prefer). Will telligence. Change would then GALILEO still be busy with patrons accelerate so rapidly that a new

Ray Calvert 275 years from now? reality would result reducing the In the Law of Accelerating Re- distinction between human and for the GALILEO Planet last turns (http://www.kurzweilai.net/ machine. In their writings, November I was told that I could articles/art0134.html?printable=1), Kurzweil and Vinge each suggest write about anything I wanted, Ray Kurzweil indicates that the rate however, I found myself chal- of technological change is accel- lenged by the problem so com- erating exponentially. Moore's Law monly faced by every college (http://www.intel.com/technology/ freshman, finding something to mooreslaw/index.htm) predicted that machine intelligence will ex- write about. At the celebration that the number of transistors that ceed human intelligence within of GALILEO’s 10th anniversary, could be integrated on a circuit the next thirty years. While this board would double every twenty- sounds like the stuff of fantasy, four months. Kurzweil's law of ac- the Technology Review on celerating returns suggests that July 13, 2006 (http:// paradigms such as Moore's Law www.technologyreview.com/ grow exponentially until they "ex- read_article.aspx?id=17163&ch= haust their potential" at which point biotech) reported how two para- I chose to compare the history Kurzweil indicates that a paradigm lyzed patients with neural im- and vision of GALILEO with shift occurs allowing exponential plants successfully controlled a Benjamin Franklin’s Library growth to continue. Kurzweil says computer and a robotic arm. The Company (http://www.lib that this process continues until it machine converges with the hu- rarycompany.org/). After reaches an event horizon he refers man in order to aid the human. GALILEO's 10th anniversary, to as the "Singularity" (http:// Then there is ASIMO (http:// while at a conference in Phila- w w w. k u r z w e i l a i . n e t / m e m e / asimo.honda.com/), a function- delphia, I had the opportunity to frame.html?m=1), a term associ- ing humanoid developed by visit Carpenter’s Hall as well as ated with black holes (http:// Honda. The machine begins to the Library Company. The Li- f i l e r . c a s e . e d u / s j r 1 6 / have human attributes. Perhaps brary Company is still an active stars_blackhole.html). Kurzweil the new reality or "singularity" is library located on Locust Street borrowed this term from science already occurring. Continued on Page 9

The GALILEO Planet Page 1 Arts of the United States By Digital Library of Georgia Staff Arts of the United States, a study’s objective was to create a When distribution of the slides joint project between the Univer- collection of images that would stopped in 1998, possession of sity of Georgia Lamar Dodd support the teaching of American School of Art, the University of art. To identify the images, Dodd Georgia Library, and Yale Uni- recruited six nationally-recog- versity Librariy, contains over nized scholars to form an advi- 4,000 images of works important sory board, which in turn invited seventeen specialists to select materials from the following ar- eas: American architecture, the negatives and all rights re- verted to the University of Geor- gia. Carmon Colangelo, Director of the to the study of the history of art Lamar Dodd School of Art, coor- in the United States. The pieces, dinated the return of the dating from the 17th century Carnegie photographic collection through the 20th, include archi- to the university. Mindful of pres- tecture, decorative arts, painting, painting, sculpture, graphic arts, ervation, he secured an environ- sculpture, graphic arts, photog- the decorative arts, costume de- mentally-controlled storage unit raphy, and stage and costume sign, photography, the theatre, for the negatives. design, as well as Native Ameri- and Native American art. The re- can art and artifacts. Although the sulting core of selected art im- Soon after, the libraries of the majority of artists represented in ages represent the acknowl- University of Georgia and Yale the database are American, sig- edged and agreed-upon ex- University embarked on a project nificant works created by non-na- amples of American art from its to digitize and make available the tive artists while in the United beginning until the completion of Carnegie collection slide set. States are included. the study in 1960. Staff at the two libraries jointly prepared online cataloging infor- The Carnegie Arts of the The Carnegie study advisory mation for each image that may United States photographic col- board chose Sandak, Inc., a be accessed through WorldCat. lection had its genesis four de- prestigious color laboratory, to In 2001, the University of Geor- cades ago in the Carnegie Study photograph the objects selected gia Libraries received a grant by the Carnegie Study. For forty from The Andrew W. Mellon years after the study ended Foundation to digitize the mas- ter negatives for inclusion in the foundation’s ARTstor database of art images. In addition, the Uni- versity of Georgia Libraries is pro- viding freely-available access to of the Arts of the United States. the Carnegie Collection through The study began in 1956 as a the GALILEO database, Arts of multi-year project directed by the United States. Lamar Dodd, chairman of the University of Georgia’s Depart- Sandak, Inc. continued to provide Visit the Arts of the United ment of Art, and was funded by a duplicate slide sets to a nation- States database at http:/www.gal $110,000 grant from the (then) wide audience in support of Art ileo.usg.edu/express?link=arts. Carnegie Corporation. The education.

Page 2 The GALILEO Planet Creating Reading Lists with NoveList and Book Index with Reviews By GALILEO Staff In Jon Scieszka’s Summer lists on many topics and appeal- Reading Is Killing Me!, three boys ing to different age groups from encounter Long John Silver, the pre-K to adult. Click on the Wild Things, and other literary School Resources tab in characters in the skewed world NoveList K-8 for “Grab and Go of a summer reading list come Lists” that focus specifically on alive in a dreadful way. If you the topics that students, teach- want to add this book to a read- ers, and librarians have asked ing list you are creating, it’s easy NoveList staff to cover. Click on to do with NoveList’s Personal the “For Readers” tab for anno- Lists feature. Using this feature, tated book lists and read-alike you can create as many separate lists. lists as you want and add titles For non-fiction titles, Book In- easily. You can save the lists over dex with Reviews, while not as PUBLICATION time and add or delete titles as robust a readers’ advisory tool as INFORMATION you wish. You can e-mail any of NoveList, has many of the same your lists to others. If you have a features, including the saved list topical bibliography, such as “Va- and search alert features. Both cation Mysteries,” you can set up NoveList and Book Index with a search alert searching for rel- Reviews include limiters to help evant titles and be notified by e- refine searches, including param- Jayne Williams, Editor mail when a book that matches eters for Lexile ranges, grade lev- your search criteria is added to els, number of pages, Dewey The GALILEO Planet is the database, making it easy to number, and more. published quarterly as a web- keep the list current. While in NoveList or BIR, don’t based newsletter reporting on NoveList also includes already- forget to look up your own next GALILEO-related information. completed thematic and genre read. Suggestions and contributions Upcoming Conferences are encouraged. Look for GALILEO Staff and the GALILEO exhibit booth Email: [email protected] at these upcoming Fall Conferences Website: http://www.usg. GOLD/GALILEO User’s Group, August 3, 2007, Georgia Cen- edu/galileo/about/news ter for Continuing Education, Athens, GA GALILEO is an Initiative of the Council of Media Organizations (COMO) Conference, October Board of Regents of the 17-19, 2007, Jekyll Island Convention Center, Jekyll Island, GA University System of Georgia.

Georgia Council for the Social Studies Annual Conference, The Classic Center, Athens, GA

USG Annual Computing Conference, October 24-25, 2007, Rock Eagle 4-H Camp, Eatonton, GA

Georgia Educational Technology Consortium (GAETC) Confer- “Creating A More ence, November 14-16, 2007, Georgia International Conven- Educated Georgia” tion Center, College Park, GA

The GALILEO Planet Page 3 Meet the Staff: Courtney McGough and Dave Falke By GALILEO Staff Courtney McGough and Dave University of Tennessee’s dis- ence in libraries, including work- Falke are the newest members tance education program for In- ing with serials, GIL, binding, of the GALILEO Support Ser- formation Sciences. She will be physical collection maintenance, vices staff. They began working receiving her Master of Science supervision of student assistants, as Information Analysts with in Information Science degree in reporting, macro-creation, GALILEO in January 2007. May 2007. Congratulations, microforms, shelving, and web Before joining the GALILEO Courtney! development. team, Courtney was already a While attending graduate Dave came to UGA from very busy individual. She grew school from a distance, Courtney Schaumburg, Illinois, by way of up in rural and received worked as a Library Specialist at a late-high-school move to her Bachelor of Science degree Oxford College of Emory Univer- Kennesaw, Georgia. Now a per- in Psychology from Troy State sity, where she became familiar manent resident of Athens, he University in Troy, Alabama. with the whole gamut of library has continued his education with services including ILL, print seri- coursework in computer science als, reference, instruction, work- and has interests in database station troubleshooting, and the development, problem-solving, all-important-unjamming of copi- and data control. ers and printers! When Dave is not teaching When Courtney is not complet- himself computer programming, ing school work, she enjoys he enjoys watching movies, lis- Courtney McGough spending time with her husband tening to music, working on his Next, she obtained a Master of Michael, reading, cross-stitching, house, and just being an Athens Education and Education Spe- hiking, and scrapbooking. townie. cialist degree in School Psychol ogy from Georgia State Univer- Dave Falke comes to the Courtney and Dave may al- sity. While enrolled at Georgia GALILEO team by way of the ready be familiar to those who State, she was amazed to dis- University of Georgia (UGA) Gov- have enlisted GALILEO support cover during a library orientation ernment Documents processing – they are quickly learning to an- session to the psychology collec- department. No doubt his dual swer questions and solve tech- tion that someone with an inter- degree in Mathematics and Cog- nical problems, while mastering est in a field could contribute nitive Science from the Univer- a long list of acronyms that are through librarianship. She was sity of Georgia prepared him well new to them. They will soon be so intrigued that she took a posi- for the challenges of being a U.S. spotted at the GLMA Summer tion as a student assistant at the Documents Technical Associate. Institute in June and at the Pullen Library. With degree in GOLD/GALILEO Users Group hand, Courtney worked for the Meeting in August – we hope ev- Rockdale County Public School eryone will say hello. System as a school psychologist evaluating children for eligibility in special education programs and consulting with school per- sonnel and parents about chil- Dave Falke dren with academic and behav- ioral difficulties. Prior to his graduation with a But Courtney could not quite Bachelor of Arts in 2004, Dave forget the lure of the library! In also worked as a student assis- 2005, she decided to make a tant at the UGA library. Overall, career switch and enrolled in the Dave has five years of experi-

Page 4 The GALILEO Planet Journal A-Z & Citation Linker By GALILEO Staff The Journal A-Z & Citation To create a persistent URL, Linker gives users the ability to click the double-down arrows to browse or search journal titles the left of “More Options” and and to create links for specific click “Save persistent URL or ci- articles. tation.” You will be presented with a new window from which you create a direct URL to the article.

“Starts with,” “Contains” or “Ex- act”. Click the “Find Journal” but- ton. To search for a specific article by citation, fill out the appropri- ate fields under “Find Citation” – Just click the link for the Jour- then click the “Find Citation” but- nal A-Z & Citation Linker under- ton. Future enhancements neath the heading “Find Books After you perform your search, Currently the Journal A-Z & Ci- & Journals” on the GALILEO you will either be presented with tation Linker only searches re- homepage to get started. The a result list containing several sources provided by GALILEO. tool is divided into two sections journal titles or a list of resources In the future, users will be able – one for searching and brows- containing the journal title or ar- to search local GALILEO/Local ing journal titles, and one for ticle from which to choose. If you Resource Integration (GLRI) re- searching for journal articles. are presented with a list of jour- sources as well, allowing librar- To browse for a journal by title, nal titles, click a journal title to ians and patrons the ability to cre- simply select the letter of the al- view a list of resources that con- ate persistent URLs to an even phabet you wish to browse at the tain that journal. wider range of articles. top of the form. To view the journal, click the link To search for a specific jour- to the resource underneath the For Your nal title, type as much of the jour- “Online” heading. nal title as you know and select To view print holdings, click the Information an appropriate limiter: link under the “Print” heading. • To subscribe to the GALILEO listserv, go to http://www.usg.edu/ galileo/about/news/list.phtm

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Congratulations to the Georgia Institute of Technology Library, • For a complete list of GALILEO Subcommittees, see http:// recipient of the ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries Award. www.usg.edu/galileo/about/ Sponsored by ACRL and Blackwell’s Book Services, the award governance/committees.phtml. recognizes the staff of a university library for programs that deliver exemplary services and resources to further the educational • To learn more about the mission of the institution. was selected for its GALILEO initiative, go to http:// www.usg.edu/galileo/about. impressive five-year transformation into the heart and soul of the community. The library made imaginative use of public space • For GALILEO questions and for two information commons, a café, a presentation room, and technical support, call 1-888-897- a multimedia center, transforming the library into a place where 3697 or e-mail the community gathers. [email protected].

The GALILEO Planet Page 5 World Data Analyst By GALILEO Staff · Does your student need to Country Snapshots and several statistics of interest compare economic factors Country Snapshots allows us- to compare in a table or chart for- for Canada and Mexico for ers to obtain brief, ready refer- mat. social studies? ence statistics for many countries Chronological Comparisons · What countries in the world around the world. Statistics in- are in the top ten for total square miles? · Do your students need to analyze data in a chart or compare statistics for math class? · Have you ever wondered how the number of cell phone subscriptions in the clude information on demogra- UK has changed over the phy, vital statistics, economy, last five years? transportation, communication, · Want to travel to Egypt? Do education, health, and military. you know the official language of Egypt? Country Comparisons Country comparisons allow All of these questions and users to create tables and charts many more can be answered in comparing statistics from several the World Data Analyst database. countries through Current Com- This resource provides statistical parisons or examining statistics information for over 200 countries in countries over time using Chro- across the globe. It also includes nological Comparisons. tools to make charts and tables Teachers of geography, math, The Chronological Compari- comparing statistics from differ- and history may find the student sons feature creates tables or ent countries. activity for country comparisons charts comparing statistics from World Data Analyst is a re- helpful in assisting students to countries over time. source from Encyclopædia meet particular Georgia Perfor- Ranked Statistics Britannica that was made avail- mance Standards. The activity The Ranked Statistics feature able through GALILEO in De- description and teacher tips can compiles information from all cember of 2006. This collection be found in the Help section of of statistics can be found in the database. GALILEO by choosing “News/ Facts & Reference, AZ” on the Current Comparisons News/Facts Reference tab or by With Current Comparisons, choosing “World Data Analyst” one can select several countries from the Databases-A-Z list. However, this information may also be found by clicking on the “World Data” link in the academic and public library editions of Encyclopædia Britannica Online.

Page 6 The GALILEO Planet Three New Digital Collections on UGA History By Steven Brown and Toby Graham, Digital Library of Georgia In 1785, Georgia became the their families and an impressive This initial offering provides first state to charter a state-sup- 1,749 completed forms were re- scans of the first few years pub- ported university. The General turned. These were placed in al- lished, 1886-1899, volumes 1- Assembly set aside 40,000 acres phabetical order, bound into sev- 12. Volumes were not published eral volumes, and deposited with for 1889 and 1891. Later vol- the University Libraries. Eventu- umes will be added over time. ally they came to be housed in The Pandora site is available the University Archives unit of the at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ Hargrett Rare Book & Manuscript pandora/. Library at the University of Geor- of land to endow the college, and gia Libraries, where they have University Bumblebee in 1801 the University of Geor- proved to be a valuable resource Don’t look for honey in the gia was formally established to historians and genealogists. pages of the Bumble Bee. In five above the banks of the Oconee Included are biographies of many issues, appearing from 1889 to River in what would later become prominent men of 19th century 1902, graduating students at the the city of Athens. The Univer- Georgia and the South, some- University of Georgia departed sity provided young men with a times written in their own hand. with a few last stings of vicious classical education, including In 2006 the fragile documents satire aimed at UGA faculty and study of Greek, Latin, history, phi- were removed from their bind- administration. Whether its losophy, literature, mathematics, ings, at times revealing informa- pages are filled with base libel or and science. tion long hidden beneath the grains of truth, it certainly lives up Three new resources from the stitching. The forms then were Hargrett Rare Book and Manu- scanned and are presented script Library and the Digital online by the Digital Library of Library of Georgia document the Georgia at http://dlg.galileo. history of the University of usg.edu/centennialcatalog. Georgia during its first hundred years. Pandora: Yearbook of the Uni- versity of Georgia to the wordplay of its slogan, “We Centennial Alumni Catalog, sting where we light. We light of- 1901 ten.” In 1901, to celebrate 100 years of classes at the Athens campus, Perhaps the Bumble Bee was the University of Georgia as- more than mere vicious fun. The sembled the Centennial Alumni authors of the book Class of Catalog, containing, “as far as Since 1886, the Pandora has Eighteen Ninety-Seven, 1897- possible, a full but concise ac- been the yearbook of the Univer- 1947 claim that their class’s edi- count of the life and services of sity of Georgia. Starting as a pub- tion of the Bumble Bee, a particu- all alumni during the century.” lication of the fraternities, the larly scathing issue, became the Although the word “alumni” was Pandora combined facts, photog- basis for a report issued by the used, the project attempted to raphy, cartooning, and humor (of University Board of Visitors. They collect biographical data about varying quality) to provide an an- credit that report with leading to anyone who matriculated at the nual record of University activi- the modernization of the Univer- university during that first century, ties. Its serious and satirical ar- sity and the appointment of whether or not they graduated. ticles both provide interesting his- Walter B. Hill as Chancellor. A four-page questionnaire was torical details about student life Read issues of the Bumble mailed to known matriculates or on campus and in Athens. Bee at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ bumblebee/.

The GALILEO Planet Page 7 many, many Library Media pro- grams are worthy of the award. More information on the award can be found at http:// Congratulations to media spe- The Library Media Specialist is www.glc.k12.ga.us/pandp/media/ cialists Melissa Johnston at the catalyst for a dynamic pro- exemplary.htm Vickery Creek Elementary, Jo gram that supports student Beth James at Royston El- achievement, fosters a love of ementary, and Marie Archer reading, collaborates with teach- Teasley at Cherokee County ers and parents so that students Middle School, all winners of the are empowered to achieve, be- 2006 Exemplary Library Media lieve, create, discover the love of Program. Melissa, Jo Beth, and books and the power of access- Marie recently hosted open ing information. The exemplary house events in their media media program spotlights three media programs each year, but 2006 Exemplary Library Media centers. Program winners Melissa Johnston, Jo Beth James, and Marie Archer

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GALILEO Quick Search-Find It Online Orientation Sessions · May 8 at 2:00-3:00 p.m.

· June 12 at 2:00-3:00 p.m. Casey Potts, Peggy Callaway, and Paul Davenport · July 19 at 2:00-3:00 p.m. of Union County Schools, attend GALILEO training at Pioneer RESA in Cleveland, Georgia. LexisNexis Academic Training LexisNexis will launch a completely redesigned version of LexisNexis Academic for all subscribers in July 2007. To get a jump on the new interface and new functionality, attend one of the following online training sessions.

LexisNexis Academic: The New Interface Online Sessions · June 12 at 10:00-11:00 a.m. · June 13 at 2:00-3:00 p.m. · June 14 at 10:00-11:00 a.m.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Sessions · May 22 at 10:00-11:15 a.m. Britannica for Public Libraries · May 22 at 2:00-3:15 p.m. Britannica for Academic Libraires

Announcements about new training opportunities are made through the GALILEO listserv. You may also find out about upcoming training opportunities by checking the training registration site at http://www.usg.edu/oiit/training/register.phtml. If you have suggestions for upcoming training, please contact Karen Minton at [email protected].

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Recently, in testimony before What if there was no real differ- Georgia and Pennsylvania by the U.S. House of Representa- ence between those two experi- road and days to travel by sea. tives Subcommittee on Telecom- ences? This past Christmas Both forms of transportation in- munications and the Internet Sir Nintendo introduced its new volved the potential for injury or Tim Berners Lee (http:// video game platform, Wii (http:// loss of life. In our world informa- dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/03/01- us.wii.com/). Nintendo describes tion is easily accessed anywhere ushouse-future-of-the-web) out- these systems as Touch Genera- using devices that are small lined three key features of the tion (http://us.touchgenerations enough to fit into a pocket. The World Wide Web in the future. .com/) games. Wii users interact greatest risk we face today is the First, he pointed out that data on with the system via motion sens- potential loss of personal infor- the Web will be easier to access ing (http://wii.nintendo.com/ mation through malfunctions or because of new Web develop- controller.jsp) controllers. Multiple human mischief. In the 18th cen- ment technologies such as OWL game users can experience feed- tury, the modes for delivering in- (Web Ontology Language) (http:/ back based on physical motion formation were limited to hand- in an online environment. This writing, print or public perfor- potentially enables people to par- mance. Now we are able to com- ticipate in sports and other types bine media so that print, images, of physical activity without being audio, video and interactive me- /www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/) located together in the same dia may coexist in a rich presen- that will support robust methods place. Jackie Lee, a research as- tation. Furthermore, in our time of describing and tagging data. sistant at MIT's Media Lab devel- the presentation of media is fur- Such technology will enable in- oped "lover's cups" (http:// ther enhanced through electronic tegration of data based on rela- w e b . m e d i a . m i t . e d u / networks that enable collabora- tions with other data. The Se- %7Ejackylee/cups.htm) which tion, sharing and presentation to mantic Web (http://www.w3.org/ connect common drinking cups audiences located anywhere 2001/sw/) will allow data to be to wireless networks enabling around the globe in real time. By integrated and accessed irre- people to experience having a now, we have all heard numer- spective of where it is stored or drink with another person, even ous references to the "ten flatten- how it was created. Second, Sir when separated by distance. Wii ers" that changed our world as Berners Lee indicates that the and lover's cups are devices that described in Thomas Friedman's web will be accessible from a work on very different human- book, The World Is Flat. There diverse collection of networks machine interaction paradigms in is even an updated and ex- that will support a variety of de- which emotional (http:// panded edition of the book. What vices ranging from small vismod.media.mit.edu/pub/tech- is not emphasized very often is handheld devices to large reports/TR-541.pdf), perceptual the fact that The World Is Flat is screens. Third, he indicated that (http://ralyx.inria.fr/2006/Raweb/ essentially a history book. The web applications will populate prima/uid31.html) and sensory changes Friedman describes our lives through many of the ap- (http://alumni.media.mit.edu/ have already happened, they are pliances that we use in everyday % 7 E j o f i s h / t h e s i s / not in the future. Our challenge life. Synthesizing this testimony symbolic_olfactory_display.html) is to comprehend the forces and with the points made by Kurzweil responses become features of in the Law of Accelerating Re- usability design. turns, do we finally reach a point When considering the compari- where there is no distinction be- son between GALILEO and the tween reality and virtual reality? Library Company, it is worthwhile Today we talk about having vir- to note that in Benjamin tual meetings with people in con- Franklin's world information re- trast with face-to-face meetings. quired weeks to travel between Continued on Page 10

The GALILEO Planet Page 9 GALILEO's Anniversary In 2281 AD (or CE) Continued from page 9 technologies that will influence a point where the technology is Ray Calvert is the Library Director at Coastal Georgia Community College and our world tomorrow. In particu- creating significant social and former Chair of the Regents Academic lar, what potential paradigm cultural changes. In order to re- Committee on Libraries. main relevant to our communities library services must adapt to new attitudes, new services and new resources. In order to cel- ebrate GALILEO's anniversary twenty-nine years from now we shifts do libraries and GALILEO must anticipate tomorrow's face by the year 2016? Consid- changes and collectively deter- ering studies conducted by mine to stay on top of the OCLC (http://www.oclc.org/re- changes that are occuring around ports/default.htm) and the Pew us. GALILEO’s 275th anniversary Internet & American Life Project will be in the year 2281 AD. The Members of the AMPALS (/Macon (http://www.pewinternet.org/) it is Library Company has served its Private Academc Libraires) Consortium clear that technology driven patrons for 275 years. Will Committee gather for their monthly meeting. change is creating dramatic so- GALILEO be serving its patrons cial and cultural change at a very 275 years from now? rapid pace. Shopping, news media, entertainment, financial GALILEO Users Speak Up Through Annual transactions, education and so- cial networks are all changing as Users Survey a result of accelerating techno- By GALILEO Staff logical change. Libraries are not Finding out what GALILEO In general, users are satisfied immune. users expect, what they like, and with GALILEO and believe it to I learned to swim at the beauti- what they don’t like is not only be a valuable service. One user ful beaches of Puerto Rico when imperative to advising future reports, “I love GALILEO, it is a I was in elementary school. At design and development, it’s fun great tool for research, I am in certain times of year, the waves and interesting. An important tool AP Courses and I am constantly at Puerto Rican beaches are very used for such information doing research on GALILEO. It tall, even for adults. In order to gathering is the annual GALILEO has improved tremendously and learn how to swim in heavy surf user survey, conducted each I applaud everything that has my father taught me to anticipate year in November. The results of been done to maintain the site.” the rise of the swells in order to the 2006 survey is posted in Forty-seven percent of the survey safely avoid being caught in the “About GALILEO” at http:// respondents completed a waves, or if I chose, to ride the www.usg.edu/galileo/about/ question asking for suggestions waves into the shore. Timing was assess/2006/. for improvement. Suggestions everything. If I timed the swell For the first time, an incentive ranged from the desire for more correctly, everything was fine. If of a video iPod prize drawing was content to more tutorials to I did not time the swell correctly, offered for completing the survey, comments on the new the force of the crashing wave and the number of surveys technologies recently im- would pull me under. The rate of completed increased 92% over plemented into the web site. The technology change is accelerat- 2005, a figure probably narrative report can be found at ing at an exponential rate as in- attributable to the iPod drawing. http://www.usg.edu/galileo/about/ dicated by Ray Kurzweil and oth- Ginny Walker, Franklin Forest assess/2006/improve.phtml. ers. We have already arrived at Elementary School, LaGrange, GA, was the lucky winner.

Page 10 The GALILEO Planet Board of Regents Salutes Thomas County Librarian on Being Named New York Times Librarian of the Year Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr. “We are very proud that Georgia recently joined the Thomas and the Board of Regents saluted librarians have received New County Public Library board of the services provided by York Times Librarian of the Year directors in congratulating Georgia’s public libraries and one awards three times in the past Tillinghast and the entire library South Georgia librarian in particu- four years,” he said. “Librarians staff at a celebratory brunch. In lar at the board’s April meeting fill vital roles in our state and in March, The Thomasville-Thomas at Georgia Southern University in our society. They bring together County Chamber of Commerce Statesboro today. Davis and the communities and foster the pur- also honored Tillinghast as its board formally recognized the suit of knowledge. This national 2007 Woman of the Year. accomplishments of Nancy recognition for Nancy and her Tillinghast, director of Thomas staff is well deserved. The inno- “As working librarians, we often County Public Library System in vative and community-focused don’t get a lot of attention,” Thomasville, who recently re- library services in Thomas Tillinghast said. “We just do our ceived the library world’s equiva- County and elsewhere in Geor- jobs and strive to give our best lent of the Oscar — a New York gia are models for public librar- efforts to our communities. I am Times Librarian of the Year ies across the United States.” so overwhelmed by this recogni- Award. tion that I’m speechless. It is not More than 1,300 nominations really for me, however; it’s our li- Now in its sixth year, the Times’ from 45 states were submitted to brary that’s being honored, along program honors librarians from the Times for this year’s awards. with Thomas County and the around the country who have pro- Tillinghast was nominated for the State of Georgia.” vided outstanding public service award by Liz Crockett, director of and have had a strong and posi- the Thomasville Community Re- tive impact on their communities. source Center. This year’s winners represented 17 states, and this is the third time In her letter of nomination, that Georgia has produced a win- Crockett praised Tillinghast and ner. her staff for their tireless efforts to instill the love of reading in Tillinghast follows in the footsteps Thomas County’s citizens, to or- of 2003 winner Silvia Bunn, ganize workshops for its service branch manager at the Mildred organizations and to increase the L. Terry Branch of the accessibility of library service in Mary Tillinghast (center) surrounded by Chattahoochee Valley Regional the county’s most rural areas. Diane McNulty, Executive Director of Library System in Columbus, and “Without Nancy out there talking Community Affairs for the NYTimes (left) 2005 winner Scott Routsong, to every organization and com- and Alyse Myers, Senior Vice President children’s services librarian at the munity group, I doubt that Tho- and Chief Marketing Officer for the New York Times Media Group (right). Brunswick-Glynn County Library. mas County would have voted in the Special Purpose Local Option According to the Chancellor Sales Tax (SPLOST),” Crockett Davis, Tillinghast’s exemplary wrote. The SPLOST supports a service demonstrates the value number of education-related ini- the University System of Georgia tiatives in the county. adds to the communities it serves through its Georgia Public Library Rep. Mike Keown (R-Coolidge) Service unit. and Rep. Ellis Black (D-Valdosta)

The GALILEO Planet Page 11 Up-to-Date With the GALILEO Upgrade By GALILEO Staff Big things are happening with ies, and academic libraries. Us- - “The tools that we used allowed the GALILEO Upgrade. Working ing web conferencing software us to come together from groups, prototypes, usability test- that allowed the members of the around the state and partici- ing, planning, and much more are three CCWG’s to speak, listen, pate without having to leave underway in this second phase share, and look from their com- our school libraries. The tech- puter desktops, each group met nology provided us this great weekly to review their audience, opportunity to do this. “ conduct a needs assessment, The working group members discuss the user requirements for have provided a great service to the interface and resource cat- all of the GALILEO libraries in egorization and selection, and their dedication and commitment plan and conduct usability test- to participating in this process. ing. In addition, the groups used Their findings have been com- of the three-year Upgrade project a web discussion forum that al- piled into a report on user func- that last year brought GALILEO lowed them to share and review tional requirements that will be users Quick Search federated documents and provide feedback used to guide the implementation searching and Find It full-text link- on discussion topics. Use of this process now underway. The ing, A-Z journals lists, and cita- approach was challenging, as Community Customizations tion finder. Deploying these new each participant had unique com- Implementation Team also com- tools primarily occurred behind puter and Internet access con- piled a report on the technical and the scenes. The goals for this figurations that had to be ad- administrative functional specifi- second year include a much-im- dressed for successful use of the cations necessary to support the proved user experience through online software, and for many of project. Both reports are avail- the development of interfaces the participants these technolo- able on the project website for customized for each community gies were brand new. However, review. The reports reflect the in the Community Custom- the convenience and opportunity goal that five user views will be izations Project. Additional for meeting without requiring accessible to all GALILEO insti- projects include a pilot of the travel and time away from the tutions through navigation, but MetaLib federated search solu- workplace seemed to offset the each community will have one of tion as a possible alternative to hurdles for most. Positive com- these as their default. However, the WebFeat-powered federated ments from committee members it is hoped that individual institu- search for academic libraries regarding the process included: tions will also be able to select (MetaLib Pilot Project) and the any as their local default through development of enhanced tools - “With this software, we were bookmarking and possibly insti- for the integration of GALILEO able to meet from all across tutional registration. In order to content into websites and online the state, but we didn’t have discuss fundamental questions courseware (Courseware and to spend an entire day travel- related to system architecture Website Integration Project). ing.” and navigation among user - “I was able to participate more views, the reports employ the fol- Community Customizations for often and at a more consistent lowing working terminology for the GALILEO Interface level than would have been the five new interfaces, which will Throughout the Fall and into possible if I had had to travel be finalized through usability test- early February, the Phase II Com- for each meeting.” ing: munity Customization Working - “The ability to include input from School (K-12 default/high school) Groups (CCWG’s) compiled the smaller libraries who don’t Kid (grades 1-5) interface requirements for the have the staff & funding to at- Teen (grades 6-8) users for each of the GALILEO tend regular face to face meet- Library (Public Library default) communities: K12, public librar- ings [was positive].” Scholar (Academic default). Page 12 The GALILEO Planet GALILEO Upgrade Continued from Page 12 Thank you to the following dedicated and adventurous Community Customization Working Group participants from around the state: The current phase now under- way is focused on the iterative, user-centered process of Academic Community Customizations Working Group prototyping and usability testing Heather King, Georgia Tech the planned five user views ac- Neil McArthur, Central Georgia Tech cording to the recommendations Leigh Hall, Chattahoochee Technical College Heather King, Georgia Tech of the requirements-gathering Amy Watts, UGA stage, leading to the production Deborah Stanley, UGA implementation of those compo- Sarah Steiner, GSU nents that can be completed by Scott Gillies, GGC August. A second phase of Steven Vincent, Southern Poly Angela Megaw, Gainesville implementation will then begin. Judy Dubus, Armstrong Currently, user interviews are Martha Reynolds, Berry College being conducted regarding pro- Mary Lou Dabbs, LaGrange totypes of the flow model among Lori Critz, Georgia Tech the different user views. Nancy Reinhold, Emory Debra Skinner, Georgia Southern Tricia Clayton, Oglethorpe Other Upgrade News Jane Summey, Southeastern Technical College The MetaLib Pilot Project has been formally initiated. A work- K-12 Community Customizations Working Group ing group composed of represen- Cawood Cornelius, Gordon County Schools tatives from GALILEO, Emory, Priscilla Gipson, Atlanta City Schools Paula Galland, Georgia Virtual High School Georgia Institute of Technology, Kirsten Pylant, Augusta Preparatory Day School Georgia State University, Medical Judy Serritella, DOE College of Georgia, and Univer- Rebecca Amerson, Woodstock High School, Cherokee sity of Georgia will collaborate on Barbara M. Heller, Henderson Middle School a proof-of-concept implementa- Melissa Johnston, Vickery Creek Elementary School Steve Piazza, Clarke County Schools tion in order to answer key ques- Cindy Thompson, Clayton County Schools tions and become more ac- Jennifer Newton, McDuffie Schools quainted with the system. Suzanne Lay, Perry High School Information sessions are now Carla Buss, UGA Curriculum Materials Center available on the use of Quick Kathleen R. Disney, DeKalb County Schools Betsey Razza, DeKalb County Schools Search and GALILEO Find It. Upcoming sessions are sched- Public Libraries Community Customizations Working Group uled monthly. More information Cheryl Morgan, Forsyth County can be found at the GALILEO Michael Tucker, Forsyth County Upgrade Project website, includ- Liz Forster, Forsyth County ing the most recent Project Sta- Penny Mraz, Forsyth County tus Report and the Reports of the Laura Carter, Athens Regional Barry Reese, Twin Lakes Library System Community Customization Work- Judy Golden, Houston County Public Libraries ing Groups and Implementation Katherine Gregory, GPLS Team: http://www.usg.edu/ Toni Zimmerman, GPLS galileo/about/planning/projects/ Daren Givens, GPLS upgrade/project.phtml. Anne Isbell, Lake BlackShear Sara Miller, Alpharetta Branch Atlanta Fulton Jane Richards, Dekalb Public Library

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