Archive for the ‘GIL (Libraries Catalog)’ Category
Friday, January 15th, 2010 - Viki Timian
Beginning Jan. 19th users will need their PIN to make GIL Express requests through the Universal Catalog (https://giluc.usg.edu/).
If you have already gotten your PIN through GIL’s My Account page (https://gil.uga.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=pbLogon) you do not need another one. You will use the same PIN for GIL Express that you use to access ...
Posted in Access Services, GALILEO, GIL (Libraries Catalog) by Viki Timian | No Comments »
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 - phoebe
This past semester, the UGA Libraries introduced the beta version of a new search interface for the GIL catalog. Called GILFind, this interface provides a more inclusive search with keywords or phrases, and then allows you to narrow the search results by topic, call number area, format, author, language, location, ...
Posted in GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library Notes by phoebe | 3 Comments »
Monday, October 19th, 2009 - phoebe
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 ...
Posted in GIL (Libraries Catalog), Media, Question of the Week by phoebe | 1 Comment »
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - phoebe
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 ...
Posted in Books, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library lingo by phoebe | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 - Kristin Nielsen
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 - phoebe
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 - Kristin Nielsen
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 - phoebe
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 ...
Posted in About us, E-journals, GALILEO, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library lingo, Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
Friday, April 3rd, 2009 - phoebe
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 ...
Posted in E-journals, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Library lingo, Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
Thursday, March 26th, 2009 - phoebe
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?) - ...
Posted in Books, GALILEO, GIL (Libraries Catalog), Question of the Week by phoebe | No Comments »
