Website: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/welcome/Publisher/Place of Publication/Date: GALILEO stands for GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online, an initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.
Price: Free
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Reading Level: Varies across the content available
Brief Description of Content: Provides a variety of online databases, journals, and other sources of information to Georgia citizens. The goal of the Consortium is to provide equal access to all Georgia citizens. GalileoKids offers Kids Search, Britannica Elementary, Kids InfoBits, the Digital Library of Georgia, and FirstGov for Kids. Searchasaurus is a search engine for the Internet that includes a kid-friendly interface and appropriate filtering and website selection(similar to netTrekker.) IT also includes an Encyclopedia of Animals.
Personal Review: Galileo is an amazing resource that too few people utilize. For public libraries that have websites, Galileo is available for free from any computer with an Internet connection; you don't even have to be in the library. It offers a number of resources for all age groups including encyclopedias and journal articles, as well as access to electronic and audio books and Novelist - a searchable database of books including reviews.
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The resources available in Galileo can be used to support all Georgia Performance Standards as well as other, information literacy-based standards.
Selection rationale: Galileo is a free resource that any Georgia citizen can access and use. It is important for public agencies such as school districts to help promote this resource as it is publicly funded and if it is not used enough, the funding could get cut. Usage statistics from the Galileo website show that searches in Galileo have increased greatly over the past three years. Using Galileo with students is a great way to perpetuate and increase its use.
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