10/1/2012 Blog Post

GALILEO is a great convenient resource that acts as an online library. GALILEO is very similar to the Ingram Library or the community libraries we have now. It is just an electronic resource and it can possibly reduce the average time spent in an ordinary library experience. GALILEO can find plenty of information related to the topic you are researching. It is just a matter of looking into the right databases that it provides and/or putting in the right keywords similar to your topic.  GALILEO organizes information by putting all the articles/information into databases.  For example, you could be researching something about math. If you go into a math database then you should be able to find plenty of math articles.  The video did a great job in showing how GALILEO organizes its information.  It showed how the library has bookshelves to place the books on and the bookshelves are organized by the alphabet.  Well GALILEO works the same way (according to the video) except databases are the bookshelves, the books are the articles and it is organized by different subjects.  Databases are large amounts of articles /information. Databases are organized with articles that are most relevant with the database's topic.