The Official Newsletter of GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online Fall 2001 GALILEO Opens the DOOR by Brad Baxter, GALILEO Technical Coordinator The GALILEO interface has undergone a major change. The familiar lists of resources are now being generated from a new database of databases named DOOR: The GALILEO Database of Online Resources. Presently, the change is not obvious, but it marks the beginning of our being able to make modifications and enhancements to GALILEO more quickly and easily. Because DOOR database records can be created via a web-based administrative interface, it will be possible for participating institutions to begin to add their local resources to the GALILEO database menus. This increased accessibility will enable one stop shopping for institutions patrons. All of the valuable resources each institution has purchased can potentially be found in one place, GALILEO. Adding local resources for so many institutions is a significant undertaking. It is not clear yet how heavily it will impact GALILEO staff, and what measures will be needed to keep up with the changes. For that reason, there will be careful testing and pilot projects to ensure the success of the integration of these local resources. As the number of databases increases it is necessary to make them easier to find. Each record in the DOOR contains rich metadata to facilitate sophisticated and powerful searching via a database discovery tool now being developed. The metadata in the DOOR will continue to be expanded to help patrons find the resources they need. The DOOR database system is the right tool for generating database menus. It has a simple structure that is centralized, data-driven, and compatible with most standards. The centralized design makes simple changes easy. More staff have access to the inner workings of GALILEO, enabling faster response to requests and problems. Because the system is data-driven, many complex programming changes are easy, too. In addition, it can import and export data in most standard formats, XML, Dublin Core, MARC, CSV, etc., and eventually it (continued, page 3) Inside... GALILEO Opens the DOOR Informacin, por favor! GALILEO Resources Grow for Spanish Speakers e-Rights? e-Wrongs? E-volving! Proud of My State: My Year on the Steering Committee How netLibrary Changed My Life GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Gathers in Athens Informacin, por favor! GALILEO Resources Grow for Spanish Speakers by Philip McArdle, GALILEO Services Coordinator Magazine and journal articles are now much more accessible to Spanish-speaking Georgians through GALILEO. Informe!, the Gale Groups database of articles from Spanish-language and bilingual publications, and Spanish interfaces to five of GALILEOs most popular EBSCOhost databases now appear on a special menu accessible through a new Spanish/Espaol link on the GALILEO homepage. Informe! offers a searching experience entirely in Spanish, which makes it unlike any database that has been available in GALILEO before. Its search screens, instructions, and content are all in Spanish, and users can search for and retrieve articles using Spanish search terms alone. However, this database is not just for Spanish speakers: Informe! features a complete English interface also, and offers both Spanish and English titles for each article in the database. This allows English-speaking librarians to help Hispanic patrons find useful materials more easily, and makes the database a valuable learning tool for students of either language. Popular Hispanic magazines such as Actual and Siempre!, Spanish editions of (continued, page 3) e-Rights? e-Wrongs? E-volving! by Judy Kelly, Director of Virtual Library Development On June 25th, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling on what is often referred to as The Tasini case. The seven-to-two decision affirmed a lower-court ruling (www.supremecourtus.gov/ opinions/00slipopinion.html). They found that electronic publishers infringed the authors copyrights by reproducing and distributing the articles in a manner not authorized by the authorsPrint publishers infringed the authors copyrights by authorizing the electronic publishers to place the articles in the databases and by aiding the electronic publishers in that endeavor. How did it all begin? Rosalind Resnik tell us in her article Writers, Data Bases Do Battle, March 7, 1994, the National Law Journal: THREE YEARS ago, Jonathan Tasini, a New York freelance writer who has published articles in the New York Times, the Village Voice and Atlantic Monthly, received a strangelooking check for an op-ed hed (continued, page 4) GALILEO Planet Page 1 Guest Perspective Proud of My State: My Year on the Steering Committee by Beth Hedrick, Coordinator of Library & Media Services, Lanier Technical College Coming Soon! New K12 Databases KidQuest JuniorQuest ProQuest Platinum When I got the message about a year ago that my colleague and friend Carol Stanley desperately needed me to fill in for her at a GALILEO Steering Committee meeting, my initial reaction was the same as it is for all of us when a meeting comes up in our busy calendars. Lets see, how in the world can I get this done? Oh, bother! Another meeting. Then I stopped to think just what meeting this was I was attending: the Steering Committee for GALILEO. Wow. I have to go back just over five years to a time when I attended another meeting. It was the first time I had heard about GALILEO and Ill never forget how astounded I was at what we Georgians were about to do to make electronic information so accessible to students. I walked away from that meeting proud of my state and in awe of the huge undertaking that was beginning to take shape. At that time I was working in a technical institute and recognized the incredible advantages GALILEO would offer to a small library with a limited budget. Today, as library director of Lanier Technical College and the one who has to make that budget stretch to fit the needs of our tech-savvy students, I am even more aware of these advantages. This past year I have been promoted from occasional member of the Steering Committee to regular attendee as the representative for technical colleges. It has been an honor to be a part of this group and to be able to speak for the needs of the technical college students and faculty. GALILEO has become a essential tool to help our students to walk through those doors of opportunity in the working world. It speaks well for GALILEO that it is flexible enough to serve the needs of all Georgia students, from postgraduate work in the humanities to occupational studies in Allied Health, Automotives and Computer Sciences. Last year I attended a Computers in Libraries conference in Washington DC. At lunch I sat down with a group of other librarians, both public and academic, from all over the country. When the discussion turned to electronic databases it was quickly apparent that each of them were very proud of being able to afford just one or two of the many databases we in Georgia almost take for granted. I found it awfully hard not to brag! I enjoyed my year serving on the Steering Committee. GALILEO makes me proud of my state for financing this huge project and very proud of my profession for putting aside competition between libraries and allowing the spirit of collaboration and resource sharing to lead us. Im looking forward to GALILEOs future. To quote that great philosopher Jimmy Buffet, Yesterdays over my shoulder, and I cant look back for too long. Theres just too much to see waiting in front of me and I swear that I just cant go wrong. Trolling for Internet Resources by Karen Minton, Virtual Library Development Specialist We are all experienced now in searching, surfing, crawling, and mining the Web. One of the best ways of building a good collection of Internet resources, however, is trolling the Web. The OED defines troll as to angle with a running line, so trolling the Web means leaving lines out there ready to catch a good web site. Such a line may be a mail list or newsletter of new site an- nouncements and updates to reputable Internet directories. Below are some of the lines we cast for GALILEOs Internet Resources. LII New This Week w w w.lii.org/search/file/ mailinglist This newsletter includes a selection of the best sites added to the Librarians Index to the Conference Schedule GALILEO will participate in the following conferences during the coming year: University System of Georgia Annual Computing Conference Rock Eagle 4-H Center, Eatonton, GA October 24-26, 2001 Georgia Council of Media Organizations (COMO) Conference Jekyll Island Convention Center October 31-November 2, 2001 Internet (LII) each week. LII by Carol Leita and her crew of librarians is one of the best directories out there. The Scout Report http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/report/ sr/srsubscribe.html This weekly report from the Internet Scout Project of the University of Wisconsin is one of the Internets oldest (since 1994) and most respected publications for online resources. Net-Happenings http://listserv.classroom.com/archives/net-happenings.html From Classroom Connects Gleason Sackman come announcements about the latest Internet resources, especially K12 education-related sites. Mike Madin now has advertising on the site but still has a great directory and useful monthly updates. Neat New Stuff http://marylaine.com/ neatnew.html Former editor of St. Ambrose Universitys Best Information on the Net, Marylaine Block finds sites no one else finds. Internet Resources Newsletter w w w.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/ irn.html This one comes from the U.K. (Heriot Watt University Library), so it sometimes has sites we havent come across yet. Georgia Educational Technology Conference Savannah International Trade and Convention Center April 16-18, 2002 Academic Info Whats New www.academicinfo.net Your Gateway to Quality Educational Resources from GALILEO Planet Page 2 How netLibrary Changed My Life by Rand Raynor, GALILEO Support Specialist My mechanic told me that the clicking noise I heard when I accelerated was caused by a blocked valve in my intake manifold. I nodded my head to indicate, falsely, that I knew what he was talking about. Then I asked what the cost would be to repair it. Imagine my shock when quoted a price of five hundred and seventy five dollars. Many thoughts went through my mind. Liar! Cheat! Inventor of imaginary car problems! Ill never pay! But what I said was, Okay. You see, I had a problem with assertiveness, or rather the lack thereof. But as I wrote out my check to the mechanic for seven hundred and fifty dollars (I let him talk me into si- monizing the Buick logos on my Regal) I thought to myself, Never again! This time I would do something about my spinelessness. Id get a selfhelp book. Id reinvent myself as a man of action. But how could I do this without letting librarians or bookstore clerks know what a weak-kneed, trembling leaf of a man I was? Then it hit me: GALILEO! There must be a resource in my collection of licensed databases that could help regain my self-respect. Going to the Full-Text Books database category menu, I found myself searching through the netLibrary database. Surely a database priding itself as one of the largest providers of full-text electronic books would provide me with a solution to my problem. Sure enough, I found the book that would prove to be my salvation, The Complete Idiots Guide to Assertiveness. Immediately I started to read the online book, feeling more empowered with each chapter. When fatigue started to overtake me I downloaded the book to netLibrarys eBook Reader on my laptop, and continued to read at the coffee shop. Thanks to netLibrary, when I was finally finished, I was a new man. I raced to my car, anxious to drive to the mechanics shop and give him a well-deserved piece of my mind. Unfortunately, my car wouldnt start. Let Us Know! Have you or your patrons discovered GALILEO search tips that you would like to share with other GALILEO users? If so, please send your comments and suggestions to galileoplanet@oit.peachnet.edu for possible inclusion in future editions of the GALILEO Planet. Do you know individuals who would like to be notified via e-mail about future editions of the GALILEO Planet? If so, please send their email addresses to galileoplanet@oit.peachnet.edu for inclusion on our e-mail distribution list. (DOOR, continued from page 1) will be compliant with OpenURL, Z39.50, and the Open Archives Initiative. In addition to the database discovery tool mentioned above, other examples of possible modifications and enhancements to GALILEO include: Expanded, multi-tiered subject categories. Institutions may possibly choose from a number of subject category strategies. Redesigned homepage with greater flexibility. Since authentication now occurs at the homepage, it may be possible to present more custom information on the opening page. session time-outs, retaining useful information longer. User authentication now happens up front at the homepage and is fast, fully featured, and well integrated with the rest of GALILEO. It retains the features of both IP and password authentication. Its improved integration allows better management as the database menus are expanded to include local resources. In conclusion, we are excited about the DOOR. It opens a larger realm of possibilities as we endeavor to maintain GALILEOs standing as one of the premier library systems in the world. (Spanish, continued from page 1) familiar U.S. magazines such as Time and People, and nearly fifty other publications are available in full-text form. Thanks to funding from the Library Services and Technology Act, this database is now available at all of GALILEOs participating institutions. EBSCOhosts Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Health Source: Consumer Edition, MAS FullTEXT Ultra, and MasterFILE Premier databases are already popular GALILEO resources, but the new EBSCOhost Espaol service makes these available with a complete Spanish interface and a helpful translating feature. Now full-text articles from the thousands of journals and magazines included in these databases not only are easier for Spanish-speaking users to locate, but can be translated into Spanishand even into other languagesinstantly. GALILEO hopes that Informe! and EBSCOhost Espaol will be valuable not just to Spanish speakers, but also to the English-speaking and bilingual librarians, media specialists, and instructors who help them daily. As the Hispanic community of Georgia continues to grow, GALILEO is making its world of information more accessible than ever before. Direct linking to database lists and search screens. Direct linking is important for distance learning courses and other course materials as educators increase their use of the Internet. It will allow more customization and be more convenient for users. For Your Information GALILEO marketing and instructional materials www.usg.edu/galileo/materials/materials_form.phtml GALILEO training opportunities www.usg.edu/oiit/training/sched.html Finally, the DOOR provides improved management of sessions and authentication. Patrons will experience fewer More about the GALILEO initiative http://www.usg.edu/galileo/ GALILEO Planet Page 3 GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Gathers in Athens by Tim Brown, GALILEO Marketing Specialist On August third, over two hun- address, entitled, Whats Your dred people attended the Annual Story?, Ms. Coleman ex- GOLD/GALILEO Users Group pressed her admiration for Conference at the University of Georgias librarians, noting that Georgias Center for Continuing the librarians story is power- Education. The GOLD/GALILEO ful and effective just as it is, and Users Group Conference is in- needs no embellishment.the tended to provide librarians, most compelling stories are paraprofessionals and technical those based on truth and told staff from academic libraries, with courage, clarity and public libraries, technical librar- grace. ies, K-12 schools and special li- braries throughout Georgia with Conference sessions covered a professional development fo- many topics, including a dis- rum related to using GOLD (the cussion about the Virtual Ref- Georgia Online Database) and erence Desk, an overview of GALILEO. GALILEOs DOOR (Database An informal discussion during the GOLD/GALILEO Users Group Conference of Online Re- sources), an sharing through interlibrary terlibrary lending. OCLC profiles update on the lending and a serials union each member of a GAC group Digital Library listing throughout the state. so that all members have ac- of Georgia GOLDs consortium is com- cess to each others biblio- project, and a prised of over 200 academic, graphic, locations, and sum- discussion of public, technical, private, K-12 mary holdings records. The t e c h n o l o g y s and special member libraries. OCLCs WorldCat database, the impact upon In- The Georgia Online Database is worlds most comprehensive terlibrary Loan a Group-Access Capability bibliographic database, is com- (ILL) proce- (GAC). A Group Access Ca- prised of more than 41 million dures. During pability (GAC) group consists of records. Online information the confer- libraries that use the OCLC sys- about GOLD can be found at ences lun- tem for resource sharing and in- www.public.lib.ga.us/pls/gold. cheon, after plaques of ap- preciation were presented to the members of the GOLD/ GALILEO Advi- sory Commit- tee, the 2001 GALILEO staff members Rand Raynor and Philip McArdle GOLD Interli- discuss GALILEO with an attendee of the 2001 GOLD/ brary Loan Li- GALILEO Users Group Conference. brary of the Year Award The conferences keynote ad- was presented to the Univer- dress was delivered by Chris sity of Georgia Libraries. Coleman, a technology market- ing pioneer, author of The Green Administered by the Office of Banana Papers, and lecturer who Public Library Services, a unit has launched and promoted of the Board of Regents of the more than two hundred technol- University System of Georgia, ogy companies worldwide. In her GOLD promotes resource (Tasini, continued from page 1) written for Newsday. On the back, just beneath the space where he was supposed to sign his name, he says he found some legal language stating that, by endorsing the check, he would be granting the Long Island newspaper the right to republish his article electronically. Mr. Tasini, who is president of the New York-based National Writers Union and a staunch advocate of writers legal rights, says he scribbled out the offending language, then signed and deposited the check. Shortly afterward, he says, he discovered that Newsday had The rest is history (and we all know how that keeps changing). In the mid-1990s, publishers began including electronic rights into writers contracts. However, for material published between that point and the rise of electronic databases, it remains to be seen if (as the freelancers hope) publishers will track them down and pay them for the use of their work in electronic form; or, simply remove content from the databases. The dissenting opinion of Justices Stevens, joined by Justice Breyer, mentions that unfortunate possibility. In closing, Justice Stevens says, The majority is correct that we cannot know in advance Publication Information The GALILEO Planet is published quarterly as a web-based newsletter reporting on GALILEO-related information. placed an electronic copy of his article on Nexis, an online data base that for a fee makes the effects of todays decision on the comprehensiveness of electronic databases. We can be fairly certain, however, that it will provide little, if any, benefit to ei- Suggestions and contributions are encouraged. available articles ther authors or readers. Website: www.usg.edu/galileo/news.phtml E-mail: galileoplanet@oit.peachnet.edu printed in major newspapers and magazines. GALILEO is an Initiative of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia GALILEO Planet Page 4