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Module 3: Using GIL
What is GIL?
A library
catalog
GIL stands for GALILEO
Interconnected Libraries. The catalogs of the University System
of Georgia libraries are called GIL. Each library has its own
GIL catalog.
The catalog of a library is where
you find out what books, periodicals, government documents,
audio-visual materials, maps, and other materials are in that
library. Unlike GALILEO, which identifies articles that exist,
but may not be available locally, GIL identifies the materials
in a particular library.
A link to GIL can be found on the
Library's homepage
http://www.gsw.edu/~library/.
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GIL vs. GALILEO
Should I use GIL or GALILEO?
Use GIL to find books, periodicals, and
other materials found in the James Earl Carter Library.
Use GALILEO to find journal articles.
GALILEO indexes articles in thousands of periodicals.
Those periodicals could be found in your library, or in a
library in Seattle, or only exist in a database on a server in
Washington.
GIL does not index periodical articles but
it does identify whether a library subscribes to a periodical,
and if so, what years it owns.
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GIL Home Page
On the GIL home page, you are presented
with a number of search options right away.
What do these links mean?
GIL Quick Search: Search
most of the GIL record fields without access to limits.
Keyword Search (and GIL – search
the library catalog): Construct complex searches with
multiple terms that can be focused on several or specific GIL
record fields. Searches can be limited by date, language,
format, or location.
Exact Search: Perform a
search in a specific GIL field such as author or title.
Search Course Reserves:
Search by department, instructor, course name or section to
locate materials put on reserve (limited use) by class
instructors.
Access my GIL account to:
View due dates of items you have checked out, renew items you
have checked out, view any library fines you have, and get the
GALILEO password.
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GIL Quick Search
The search option available on the GIL
homepage is the GIL Quick Search. The Quick Search, which
functions much like an internet search engine search, allows you
to search words or phrases in all GIL record fields. After you
type your term(s) in the search box, use the drop down menu to
select how you want the term(s) searched.
GIL Exact Search
The Exact Search allows you to:
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search for materials when you have exact
information, such as author or title.
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search by specific pieces of information
such as call number.
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search specific GIL record fields.
When
should I use an Exact Search?
Use the Exact Search when:
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You have the complete information
for a title, author, etc.
Examples:
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Search for the book The Business
of America.
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It is not necessary to capitalize
the first letter of proper nouns or titles.
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Since the title begins with an
article (the), omit the article and begin the search
with business. (You can omit any article {a, an,
the} at the beginning of a title.)
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Search for the scholarly journal
American Journal of Speech and Language Pathology.
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Once again, it is not necessary
to capitalize the first letters of titles.
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GIL allows you to search for a
periodical (newspaper, magazine, journal) in your
library, but GIL does not allow you to search for
articles in a periodical.
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GIL Keyword Search
To display the keyword search screen, you may
select either the Keyword Search option or the GIL-search the
library catalog option available on the GIL home page.
The Keyword search gives you more control
over your search. Use it when you want to specify multiple
fields such as an author search in the first search box and a
title search in the second.
The Keyword search is good to use if, for
example, you only know a couple of words of a title, or part of
a subject heading. The Keyword search does not require an exact
match like the Exact Search does.
For each line, the association between search
words must be indicated using the "all of these"/"any of
these"/"as a phrase" drop down menu.
If more than one line is used, the lines must
be related using the Boolean operators AND/OR/NOT.
Search for: Enter your search words
here.
All of these: Use this drop down menu
to indicate whether to search for any or all terms, or to search
terms as an exact phrase.
Search in: Select the fields in the
GIL record in which your search words should appear.
And/Or/Not: You can enter search words
in multiple 'Search for:' boxes. If you do, you must indicate
how the search boxes should be related.
When Should I Use
the Keyword Search?
Use the keyword search:
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when you are looking for materials on a
topic, but you don't have a particular book or author in
mind.
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to build complex searches by combining
terms using Boolean operators (and, or not).
Examples:
To find materials about Thomas Jefferson that were published
in 2003-
To find books about John Adams written by
John Ferling:
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when you have partial information.
Example:
You are uncertain of the complete title of a book. Use what
you think are a few key words from the title.
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when you want to search multiple related
terms with one search. (In this example, you will use the
truncation symbol for GIL, “?.”) By using the truncation
symbol, you will retrieve materials that have democracy,
democratic, democrats, etc. in any GIL record field.
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The results of your search
A "Title List" is a list of titles you
retrieve when you've done a search. The list contains links to
records that match your search parameters. Your search
parameters are detailed across the top of the title list.
Title: The title of the item. Click on
the title or the line number to display the record for the item.
On the record display, click on the top 'Title Results' button
to return to this screen.
Author: The author of the item. If the
item is edited (contributions by multiple authors), this column
will be blank.
Date: The date of publication. If the
record is for a periodical, this date indicates the date the
periodical began, not the years owned by the library. View the
full record for that information.
Location: Where the book is located.
This may indicate a collection (general or main, media,
reference, etc.) or a floor.
Call Number: The call number for the
item. This will help you locate the item on the shelf.
Status: Whether the book is available.
"Not Checked Out" means it is not checked out to another patron,
and should be on the shelf.
To see a complete record of an item, click on
either the title or the line number.
When more than one copy of an item is in the
library, you will see a 'Location' entry that says 'Multiple
Item Statuses.' You must click on the title to see the location
and status of each copy.
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GIL Find
In July 2010,
GIL-Find was introduced. GIL-Find provides a new look for the
Library’s catalog. GIL-Find's searching is more inclusive,
allowing for exploration and discovery of library resources with
the ability to narrow large result lists by topic, call number
area, format, author, language, location, and more. GIL-Find
also provides options that allow users to:
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Login to
mark favorites and add comments and tagging to records
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Set up RSS
feeds to receive updates to important searches
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Text call
number and location information to a cell phone
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Link to
Amazon reviews, Google Books previews, etc.
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