Archive for the ‘GIL (Libraries Catalog)’ Category
Monday, October 19th, 2009
A student asked if it was possible to browse our collection of DVDs; she was looking for documentaries on a subject, but didn't know of any specific titles, and a keyword search of GIL seemed to return only books.
In fact, you can limit a search of the GIL catalog by ...
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Festschrift is one of those great German "portmanteau" (or "suitcase") words. Fest means "celebration" and schrift is a "written thing," and a Festschrift is a publication celebrating something - most often a distinguished senior academic's birthday (65th, 70th, or older!) or retirement. Often a Festschrift is an edited book that ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Last week the U.S. Government Printing Office's (GPO) PURL server failed, disrupting access to online U.S. government documents. "PURL" stands for persistent URL - these are the links that start with http://purl.access.gpo.gov... and are listed in associated GIL records as "Online Text." While GPO is in the process ...
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
New graduate students have a high level of interest in finding and getting copies of dissertations - maybe so they can see what others are doing!
Searching for Dissertations
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (University of Georgia) - in GALILEO
Search for dissertations and theses completed at UGA since 1999; some are available ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
In an ongoing effort to eliminate all non-essential uses of the Social Security Number, logging in to your GIL “My Account” using the SSN is no longer available. To login, use the complete barcode number on your UGACard or UGA ID. Most barcodes begin with 627541 810. Questions? Please ask ...
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Wait, what's a citation?
A citation is the information about a scholarly resource: author's name, title, source (journal or book or whatever), page numbers, year. It's the information you include in the bibliography when you write a paper, and it's the information a GALILEO database will give you when you do ...
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Friday, April 3rd, 2009
What is the Bindery?
Sometimes you will see "bindery" listed as a location in the online GIL catalog. This most often occurs with print journals, and most often appears in the spring. Why? A print journal may arrive at the library quarterly, monthly, or even more often than that. The individual ...
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
You are off-campus, searching in the GIL catalog, and find an e-book you want to look at. But when you click through you can't get in!
Getting to NetLibrary e-books from off campus takes a few steps.
First, go to NetLibrary through GALILEO.
You'll get asked for the GALILEO password (what's that?) - ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
An old friend who is a faculty member at another school mused to me (on Facebook!): "Actually, it has occurred to me that there really ought to be a good central place to go for scanned scholarly books that are out from under copyright...the Zygouries and Palace of Minos volumes ...
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Friday, February 2nd, 2007
Have you ever been searching in the Libraries Catalog (GIL) and a record just looks really strange? You can't quite put your finger on it, but it seems like there are multiple titles with the same call number? Or perhaps, the information for the holding location isn't there although ...
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