Plan Now to Attend the Upcoming GALILEO Webinars

New webinars have been added to the GALILEO training calendar.

Webinars are easy to attend and are great tools for professional
development. Connection instructions are sent a day before the webinar
to everyone who has registered. The instructions include a connection
wizard that helps you make sure your computer is ready. Certificates
of participation are sent to all attendees soon after the session.

Below is a list of upcoming sessions currently scheduled. More will be
added, so keep a watch on the training page and this list for new
opportunities. The training page where you can register is at
http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training/

Upcoming webinars:

-Black History Month Resources—Demonstration of the Civil
Rights Digital Library and GALILEO subscription resources

-Films on Demand Overview—Overview includes a look at the
new platform, content, and functionality

-Holocaust Resources in GALILEO—In time for International
Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27

-Grab GALILEO for Great Multimedia Projects—This session is
great preparation for submissions to the Georgia Student Media
Festival

-Meet GALILEO for Elementary/Middle/High School—Separate
session that focus on each grade level

-Digitized Maps in the Digital Library of Georgia—A look at
Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps and an examination of historical maps to
trace the changing environment of a Georgia city

-Civil War Resources—Explore subscription and DLG resources
covering the American Civil War

-Bueno GALILEO: Language Resources—GALILEO foreign-language
resources include encyclopedias for several languages and
Spanish-language magazines

-Journals and Magazines: Best Practices in GALILEO—Tips on
searching journals and magazines in GALILEO and optimizing usage with
alerts and linking


Archived webinars include a wide range of topics for all audiences.

Great Things to Know About GALILEO is a series of self-paced learning
modules designed for public library staff, but there are topics of
interest to other audiences.

GALILEO News is available at: http://about.galileo.usg.edu/news/

GALILEO News and System Status Announcements are now available via RSS
feed. Please consider subscribing via the links below:

-GALILEO News: http://about.galileo.usg.edu/news/feed/
-GALILEO System Status Announcements: http://status.galileo.usg.edu/site/feed/

For more information about GALILEO Webinars, please Ask a Librarian or call 706-562-1492.

Happy 2012! Happy Discovery!

Don't Miss the GALILEO Webinars!

If your interest is Spanish-language periodicals, then take advantage of the Informe webinar scheduled for Thursday, December 1st.

Is legal research your thing? Be sure to register for the LexisNexis Academic webinar.

Interested in Films on Demand? Register for a December or January webinar.



Register today! http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training/


Archived sessions of the webinars offered this past fall are available at:

http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training/self_guided/#training_archived

For more information, please Ask a Librarian or call 706-562-1492.

Happy Discovery!

Films On Demand Webinar Series.

We would again like to highlight the fantastic resource and teaching tool Films On Demand, and once again invite you to learn more about this valuable service.

Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Lease or purchase one or one hundred videos, or subscribe to one or more of our subject-specific streaming video collections. Thousands of videos are available for in-class use and remote viewing from the library, in the dorm, or at home. The high-quality streaming videos can be accessed by librarians, faculty, and students through online card catalogs, learning management systems, and distance learning courses. And special features built into the Films Demand platform allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, store quick links to favorite videos, and manage their entire collection through an administrative reporting system.

Join us for a webinar to learn tips on best navigation and usage of Films on Demand. The webinar is open not only to librarians but to faculty and any other educators or administrators who want to know more, so please forward the registration information to anyone who may be interested.

Films On Demand Webinars.

The overview will contain the same content as previous overview sessions presented in

October-December. The Playlists and Sharing session will delve deeper into these features.

Films On Demand Overview

January 26 at 11:00-12:00 (registration deadline January 24)

Description: Films on Demand (Master Academic Collection) consists of

7,000 video titles (77,000 segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences,

Business & Economics, Health, and Science. Join the vendor trainer for

an in-depth look at this resource.

Register: http://www.ciclt.net/sn/events/e_signup.aspx?ClientCode=bor&E_ID=500535&RegType=ATT

Films on Demand: Playlists and Sharing

February 22 at 11:00-11:30 (deadline February 21)

This 30-minute webinar will focus on using playlists to manage films

and segments of films and sharing them with others. Playlists can

consist of any combination of films or segments.

Register: http://www.ciclt.net/sn/events/e_signup.aspx?ClientCode=bor&E_ID=500537&RegType=ATT

Films On Demand Webinar

We would like to highlight a fantastic resource and teaching tool called Films On Demand, and invite you to learn more about this valuable service.

Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7! Lease or purchase one or one hundred videos, or subscribe to one or more of our subject-specific streaming video collections. Thousands of videos are available for in-class use and remote viewing from the library, in the dorm, or at home. The high-quality streaming videos can be accessed by librarians, faculty, and students through online card catalogs, learning management systems, and distance learning courses. And special features built into the Films Demand platform allow users the ability to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, store quick links to favorite videos, and manage their entire collection through an administrative reporting system.

Join us for a webinar to learn tips on best navigation and usage of Films on Demand. The webinar is open not only to librarians but to faculty and any other educators or administrators who want to know more, so please forward the registration information to anyone who may be interested.

Films on Demand webinar

December 9, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon

Register at: http://www.ciclt.net/sn/events/e_signup.aspx?ClientCode=bor&E_ID=500493&RegType=ATT

Find more training opportunities at http://help.galileo.usg.edu/librarians/training/