GALILEO Overview for K12 Teachers and Media Specialists Russell Palmer Assistant Director, GALILEO Support Services russell.palmer@usg.edu

Access Website: galileo.usg.edu Password: turtle (Aug. 6=diving) Also: MackinVia Add GALILEO resources to any school site (express links)

GALILEO serves as part of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia. GIL: 313 miles (503 KM) from Dalton State to Valdosta State, same day delivery via GIL Express Illustrate the way that all the programs are interconnected and interoperable, up to a point beginning with “Mother GALILEO and her creation in 1995” through to the success of OER/ALG Since ALG started in 2014-15, the program has saved USG students over 31 million us dollars in textbook costs

Navigation basics Discover Search (Search lots of resources at once) Discover Search Resource linking (Find full text) A-Z Lists (Databases, Publications) Browse by subject Browse by Type of resource (Almanac, Encyclopedia, etc.) Help!? & Support Services

Discover Search, browsing options

Databases A-Z

Magazines A-Z

GALILEO Interfaces Scholar Kids Book Collection: Nonfiction Britannica School Elementary Funk and Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia History Reference Center Primary Search High School 15 databases (ebooks, articles, encyclopedias and more) Teen 20+ databases (ebooks, articles, encyclopedias, and more)

=Search by Lexile and/or grade level

Note the levels: 1-3 (roughly, elementary, middle, high)

GALILEO offers eBooks for K12! Collections for all ages EBSCO Non-fiction collection EBSCO K8 Collection EBSCO High School Collection Ebook Central (focus is on academic non-fiction) Use on desktop or mobile devices

Primary documents Digital Library of Georgia New Georgia Encyclopedia Georgia Historic Newspapers National History Day Portal

Georgia Historic Newspapers

National History Day

Resources for your professional development Professional Development Collection ERIC (at EBSCO with direct links to full text when available) Ebook Central EBSCO ebook Academic Collection

Media Specialists! Integrating GALILEO resources into Learning Management Systems Creating lists of resources and using permalinks Accessing GALILEO resources outside the GALILEO portal web page Creating accounts to save research GALILEO content

Making the most of GALILEO in the classroom and beyond Express Links Direct links to books/articles Curriculum builder

We are here for you! GALILEO Support Services

Authentication With OpenAthens

Goal: Make authentication as easy as possible

GALILEO Portal Redesign Project

GALILEO Development Advisory Committee K12 Representatives Katie Dirr (kdirr@oconeeschools.org), Malcom Bridge Middle School Leigh Perisino (tanya.perisino@cobbk12.org), Kincaid Elementary Maile Steimer (maile_steimer@gwinnett.k12.ga.us), Jones Middle School Jess Burke (jburke@georgiahumanities.org), Georgia Humanities Council/National History Day

Demo and Q&A time

GALILEO training is available Our training schedule: http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training Face to face training? russell.palmer@usg.edu

Thank you! russell.palmer@usg.edu