Friday, October 5, 2012

What is GALILEO?


What is GALILEO? How does it organize information? What is a database and how does it organize information?

GALILEO stands for Georgia Library Learning Online. GALILEO is basically a giant online library that is available to students here at the University of West Georgia and students all over the state (and is run by the state). I used to think that GALILEO only had journals and articles when actually GALILEO contains articles, e-books, government documents, dissertations, pictures, maps, videos, statistics, archives, and a number of primary resources.

Within GALILEO there are a bunch of databases that are broken down into different subjects similar to the stacks located in a library. Instead of having bookshelves with books GALILEO is different in that the databases are the shelves and the articles are the “books” on them. The same way a library may have a history, nature, education, or science sections, just to name a few, the databases are also broken down into these same topics.
If wanting to find an article on a particular subject you want to go to GALILEO to search for a particular topic within the databases. From there you can read through the different journals and in looking through those find an article.
         GALILEO
            Databases
              Journals
                Articles
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  1. UnknownOctober 5, 2012 at 5:02 PM

    I shared the same thoughts as you on GALILEO. I thought it only had articles as well. I like your response, because it is simple and clear. I can understand it and it makes much more sense to me. I feel like I was too thorough on mine. Good job.

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