Are You a Visual Learner?

Have you been a little reluctant to use the Libraries’ Online Catalog?  No need to fear!  Help is here!

The GIL-Find Instructional Videos are tutorials to assist you with your research or any questions you may have regarding GIL-Find, the Libraries’ Online Catalog.  These tutorials were designed to help you learn about the Libraries’ resources and services.

These short, easy to understand tutorials show how to:

·       Access and Use Your Library Account

·       Do a Title Search in GIL-Find

·       Do an Author Search in GIL-Find

·       Do a Subject Heading Search in GIL-Find

·       Do a Keyword Search in GIL-Find

If you need additional assistance, please contact Information Services, 706.507.8671 or use our Connect with a Librarian services.

NetLibrary eBooks are Now on EBSCOhost!

CSU Libraries are happy to announce that our NetLibrary eBooks are now searchable via the EBSCOHost platform!

eBooks (at EBSCOhost), formerly known as NetLibrary, provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online.

One of the great benefits of this change is that now you can search across eBooks and other EBSCOhost content for integrated results. Other changes include the ability to browse by subject, genre, and language; use of an enhanced viewer for examining documents;

and the ability to view table of contents from the Result List and Detail Record.

You can access CSU's eBooks (at EBSCOhost) directly from GALILEO or in your results list using GIL, CSU's online catalog.

For more information about CSU's eBooks, please see our Electronic Resource Guides or Ask a Librarian.

Happy Reading!

Announcing GIL-Find : A New Alternative to Searching the Catalog

The library would like to announce the new GIL-Find library catalog interface. Meant to compliment the Classic GIL, GIL-Find provides an alternative for searching for items within our library catalog. Both options will remain available to you. Please try searching in both to see the differences yourself.

Designed to be more intuitive for users trying discover resources, GIL-Find offers some really fun and unique tools to help you with your research. One of the major differences you will notice is that GIL-Find uses faceted searching. Faceted searching allows you to narrow your search according to location, format, topic, language, time period, etc. just by clicking! This is particularly useful when you're browsing or not exactly sure how to define your search parameters.

Here's an example of what the search results might look for a basic search on "cats". You can see that a wide variety of results will appear. If you decide you're mostly interested in reading fiction about cats, you may want to click on the "P-Language and Literature" link under the Call Number category. That will narrow your results to only fictional works about cats.

What else can it do? Text yourself a citation. Directly export an item into a citation manager (EndNote, Refworks). See an image of the cover of the work. Add tags to an item record. Add your own user review. Set up an RSS feed of searches. Get suggestions of similar items. Read or preview the book in Google Books. And more! There are so many options that we're excited about!

Your feedback is important. We're looking forward to hearing what you think of the new GIL-Find!