FY2009 HIGHLIGHTS and FY2010 UPDATES
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Collections / Databases
Database Changes for FY2010
Many of the GALILEO vendors continued to provide pricing concessions so that in spite of
significant budget cuts GALILEO was able to maintain most of the offerings (if the budgets stand
as allocated).
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In honor of GALILEO ‘s 15th birthday, all institutions currently participating in GALILEO
ProQuest package will receive additional content. This upgraded package provides many
additional databases and new newspaper content, including the current Atlanta Journal
Constitution. The upgraded package includes:
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ProQuest Accounting and Tax
ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
ProQuest Banking Information Source
Career and Technical Education
ProQuest Computing
ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest European Business
ProQuest Military Journals
ProQuest Newspapers
ProQuest Pharmaceutical News Index
ProQuest Religion
ProQuest Social Sceince Journals
ProQuest Telecommunications
In addition ProQuest is providing Research Library and ProQuest Newspapers to the
public and private K-12 schools at no additional charge.
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The University System and some AMPALS and GPALS institutions have opted to get the
NetLibrary Lyrasis Shared Collection 9, which will include 2,500 to 3,000 titles. The
collection is projected to include content from leading publishers such as McGraw-Hill,
Oxford University Press, AMACOM, Taylor & Francis and university presses.
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All Technical College System of Georgia institutions will switch from LexisNexis
Academic to WestLaw Campus Research.
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Handouts for GALILEO databases are available at the GALILEO website
http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/documents/
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Digital Library of Georgia (DLG)
Recently added collections:
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The Southern Israelite Archive has expanded to include issues from 1929-1986,
covering the previous gap from 1959-1983. This newspaper served as the voice of the
Jewish community in Atlanta for those years. The Southern Israelite database is a project
of the Digital Library of Georgia, a GALILEO initiative that shares Georgia’s history and
culture online. Digitization is made possible by the Cuba Archives of the Breman Museum
and the generosity of the Srochi family of Atlanta.
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The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive is now available in GALILEO and from the
DLG website. It provides online access to fourteen newspaper titles published in Atlanta
from 1847 to 1922. Consisting of over 67,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides
historical images that are both full-text searchable and can be browsed by date. The site
provides users with a record of Atlanta’s history from its origins as a railroad terminus,
through the devastation of the Civil War, to its eventual growth into one of the nation’s
largest cities. The archive includes the following Atlanta newspaper titles: Atlanta Daily
Examiner (1857), Atlanta Daily Herald (1873-1876), Atlanta Georgian (1906-1911),
Atlanta Intelligencer (1851, 1854-1871), Atlantian (1911-1922), Daily/Georgia Weekly
Opinion (1867-1868), Gate-City Guardian (1861), Georgia Literary and Temperance
Crusader (1860-1861), New Era (1869-1872), Southern Confederacy (1861-1864),
Southern Miscellany, and Upper Georgia Whig (1847), Southern World (1882-1885),
Sunny South (1875-1907), Weekly Constitution (1869-1882). The Atlanta Historic
Newspapers Archive is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as part of the Georgia
HomePLACE initiative. The project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by
the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service,
a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
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American Turpentine Farmers Association Minute Books, 1936-1999, is now
available in GALILEO and from the DLG website. The American Turpentine Farmers
Association Minute Books, 1936-1999 provides the administrative record of the American
Turpentine Farmers Association (ATFA), which was established in March of 1936 by
Judge Harley Langdale of Valdosta, Georgia, along with 900 other men from the
Southern turpentine industry. ATFA was formed to represent the interests of gum naval
stores factors, producers, and dealers in the United States “turpentine belt” (Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas). Activities of the American Turpentine Farmers Association
(ATFA) document the interconnection of land use and environmental stewardship to the
broader issues and policies of modern Georgia\’s rural development. The American
Turpentine Farmers Association Minute Books site is a project of the Richard B. Russell
Library for Political Research and Studies, the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and
Peabody Awards Collection, and the Digital Library of Georgia.
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Gordon County, Georgia Obituaries in partnership with the Calhoun-Gordon County
Library of the Northwest Georgia Regional Library is available and includes over 46,000
records online, digitized from an extensive card-based set of Calhoun-area obituaries
drawn from local newspapers.
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The New Georgia Encyclopedia
The New Georgia Encyclopedia, launched 2004, continues to be a popular site. NGE had over 11 million
page requests from July 2009-June 2010. The NGE is a project of the Georgia Humanities Council, in
partnership with the University of Georgia Press, the University System of Georgia/GALILEO, and the
Office of the Governor. GALILEO provides the technical support. Through grant funding and the
leveraging of resources and expertise, work done for NGE benefits DLG and CRDL as well. The top five
most popular articles in FY2010 were Sherman’s March to the Sea, Alice Walker, Civil Rights Movement,
Geographic Regions, James Edward Oglethorpe. The five most popular searches were: Nancy Hart,
Jimmy Carter, Austin Dabney, Elijah Clark, and Tomochichi. Since the technology that NGE uses was
developed in 1998, plans are underway to look for other alternatives that may be more sustainable and
allow for improvement of the user experience.
GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR)
The GALILEO Knowledge Repository (GKR) project has received an $857,000 grant from the Institute of
Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to initiate a cooperative institutional repository (IR) service and
model for USG institutions that are managing and providing access to their campus’ digital scholarship,
research information, and related works. The GKR will include a metadata repository for federated
searching and browsing across these institutions' repositories for the citizens of Georgia and the scholarly
community at large. Content will include electronic theses and dissertations, technical and research
reports, pre-print research, working papers, research proposals, conference papers, electronic journals,
service publications and more. This is certainly a bright spot when reductions are happening with other
budgets and a testament to the persistence of the GKR project team who started work on this in 2005.
Georgia Tech is the lead for this project. Participants include: Albany State University, College of Coastal
Georgia, Georgia Southern University, Georgia State University, Georgia Tech, Kennesaw, Medical
College of Georgia, North Georgia College and State University, Valdosta State University, and the
University of Georgia. The IMLS grant is providing funds for this initial set of USG colleges and
universities. The hope is to be able to expand to include other institutions as resources will allow
Access and Support
New CMS
GALILEO implemented a new Content Management System allowing GALILEO staff to more easily
update information about GALILEO and to provide more timely and regular news. The GALILEO
PLANET has been folded into the news features of the system. .
Courseware and Website Integration
The Courseware and Website Library Resource Integration (CWLRI) Working Group composed
of librarians from the academic libraries gathered requirements for integration tools; their report
was finalized based on review with library colleagues and VISTA administrators. The
implementation team has been working on the tools since January of 2009. The GALILEO
toolbar was released on July 28th. A link-building widget is still in development, to be released
later in FY2011.
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MetaLib Implementation
GALILEO is in the process of developing MetaLib for use as a federated search solution in the
GALILEO system for academic libraries. The transition to MetaLib is expected to be seamless for
users and academic libraries when it occurs later in FY2011.
Training
GALILEO Staff continued efforts to provide training in a number of databases and in
understanding the technology supporting GALILEO, employing the Wimba online classroom
product for many of the session, as well as working with vendors to deliver online and on-site.
Over 105 online (76) and on-site training (29) hours were provided to 1532 attendees.
USG
AMPALS
GPALS
DTAE
Public Libraries
K-12
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58
35
84
487
632
1532
Register for upcoming training at: http://www.usg.edu/oiit/training/
GALILEO launched the Great Things to Know About GALILEO, a collection of self-paced
learning modules useful for librarians, media specialists, and library staff new to GALILEO or
interested in learning more about some aspect of GALILEO or using research databases.
GALILEO continues to add more short point of need videos which can be used such as Finding the best
database, Lexile Levels, Finding Journals in GALILEO.
http://help.galileo.usg.edu/searching/tutorials/
Conferences/Presentations/Exhibits
GALILEO provided exhibits and/or presentations at conferences reaching more than 5000 conference
attendees and more than 600 session attendees. Conferences included: Georgia Council of Media
Organizations (COMO); Georgia Council of Social Studies; Georgia Educational Technology Consortium
(GAETC), GLMA Leadership Conference, GOLD/GALILEO User Group Conference, USG Annual
Computing Conference. These activities were well attended and provided opportunities for the GALILEO
staff to meet GALILEO Users and gain welcome feedback on GALILEO activities and services. GALILEO
is currently planning for FY11 conference presentations and exhibits.
Staff News
Jay Forbes, GALILEO Web Developer, resigned in February after 8 years and has moved to Philadelphia
with his family. A search is underway for a new Web Developer.
Annual Survey
The Annual GALILEO User Survey, conducted in November 2009 was completed, compiled, and
analyzed. Respondents continue to express high satisfaction levels with GALILEO overall. Ninety-five
percent of respondents strongly agree or agree that GALILEO is a valuable service. The 2009 Survey
also asked about preferred channels for receiving information and mobile optimization. Survey results can
be found at: http://about.galileo.usg.edu/docs/user_survey_docs/AnnualSurveyReport_2009.pdf.
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GALILEO USAGE
GALILEO has recently launched a new statistics graphing tool to help libraries. However the statistics are
only as good as those we receive from vendors. The chart below represents all institutions and all
databases, but as you can see we are still missing some 2010 data from March -June. This remains an
ongoing challenge. A guide to the this new tool and information about vendor statistics in general is
available at: http://about.galileo.usg.edu/docs/statistics_docs/StatsGuide_020110.pdf
RECOGNITION
Ambassador Andrew Young ‘s feature-length civil rights documentary, "How We Got Over: A
History of Civil Rights for the Digital Age which premiered last year won an Emmy. The
documentary is largely about the Civil Rights Digital Library, and in particular the footage from the
WSB and WALB archives and Ed Friend Highlander Folk School film. The CRDL was created by
a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to the University of Georgia Libraries.
GALILEO is a partner in the project. It was a great testament to the value of libraries keeping,
preserving, and organizing materials so they are available to be digitized and made in this case
freely available on the web.
GALILEO was recognized in October for excellence in customer service at the Chancellor's
Awards on Customer Focus with the Gold Award for Outstanding Customer Service Improvement
Initiative Award. Ed Johnson, Director of the Georgia HomePlace Project and Shelia McAlister,
Assistant Director of the DLG accepted the award on behalf of the Georgia Newspaper
digitization team. Accomplishments included developing a process for digitizing more Georgia
newspapers and meeting customer needs at less cost. Over 371,000 pages have been digitized
and there is more to come. http://customerfocus.usg.edu/recognition/2009
MEMBERSHIP NEWS
GALILEO welcomes first time participants from the GISA Community:
 Academe of the Oaks
 The Howard School
 Stratford Academy
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