Women's History Month Links

March is Women's History Month, and GALILEO has some great links to help you celebrate the heroines of the women's rights movement.

You can find the complete list of links here, or check out some of the highlights we've linked to below!

Encyclopedia Britannica Profiles 300 Women Who Changed the World (link)
A great collection of biographies, videos, maps and timelines of women around the world who changed history.

Women of Distinction in Georgia (link)
Biographies of famous Georgian women through history, including author Flannery O'Connor and Haines Institute founder Lucy Craft Laney.

Georgia Women's Movement Oral History Project (link)
Listen to spoken recordings of women discussing their role in the Georgia women's rights movement.  Find interviews through the letter tabs at the top of the webpage.

Happy 200th Birthday to Pride and Prejudice!

Pride and Prejudice turns 200 today!  First published on January 29, 1813, Jane Austen's novel of money and marriage has endured over the years to become a modern classic.  Though Pride and Prejudice describes a very 19th century courtship, its themes of love, independence and family bonds still resonate today.  In fact, the novel has become so much a part of our times that nowadays you can catch heroine Elizabeth Bennet doing anything from killing zombies to dancing with a gospel choir on the beach. 

Want to learn more about Jane Austen and her most famous novel?  Check out these links from the British Library and  GALILEO, the library's online academic article resource!

Jane Austen: Author Page

Database: Literary Reference Center

What's on it: Biography, analysis, plot summaries, reviews, links to full novels.

Pride and Prejudice Book Discussion

Database: NoveList

What's on it: Discussion questions, analysis, similar books

Jane Austen Manuscripts

Database: British Library

What's on it: Scans of Jane Austen's writing in her original handwriting.

Educational E-books

Cramming for an Anatomy final?  Or searching for sources for an English paper?  Even if you can't make it to the SCTC Libraries, you have access to hundreds of e-books and articles online through Salem Press.  Covering health, history, literature and science, these books have an easy search interface that can help you find exactly what you're looking for. Check out our full catalog of resources below.


Salem Press - Health

• Cancer
• Genetics and Inherited Conditions
• Infectious Diseases and Conditions
• Magill's Medical Guide (6th edition)
• Psychology and Mental Health

Salem Press - History

• Great Lives from History: Ancient World
• Great Lives from History: Middle Ages
• Great Lives from History: Renaissance
• Great Lives from History: 17th Century
• Great Lives from History: 18th Century
• Great Lives from History: 19th Century
• Great Lives from History: 20th Century
• Great Events from History: Ancient World
• Great Events from History: Middle Ages
• Great Events from History: Renaissance
• Great Events from History: 17th Century
• Great Events from History: 18th Century
• Great Events from History: 19th Century
• Great Events from History: 20th Century
• Modern Scandals
• Encyclopedia of American Immigration
• Historical Encyclopedia of American Business
• Weapons and Warfare
• Great Athletes
• Inventors and Inventions
• Musicians and Composers of the 20th Century
• Milestone Documents in African American History
• Milestone Documents in American History
• Milestone Documents in World History

Salem Press - Literature

• Critical Insights: Death of a Salesman
• Critical Insights: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Critical Insights: The Joy Luck Club
• Critical Insights: A Streetcar Named Desire
• Critical Insights: Jane Austen
• Critical Insights: Benjamin Franklin
• Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver
• Critical Insights: Toni Morrison

Salem Press - Science

• Encyclopedia of Global Resources
• Encyclopedia of Global Warming
• Forensic Science
• The Solar System

Women's History Month: Suffragettes

EMMELINE PANKHURST - (1858-1928). English Woman-suffrage Advocate. Mrs. Pankhurst Arrested Outside Buckingham Palace, London, While Trying To Present A Petition To King George V, 21 May 1914.. Fine Art. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 7 Mar 2012.http://quest.eb.com.proxygsu-scre.galileo.usg.edu/images/140_1678023

Yesterday, thousands Georgians headed to their local voting booths to choose a Republican candidate.  Voting is such a simple process that it's hard to imagine the hard-fought - and sometimes violent - battle that went into assuring that 50% of the current population could take part.

Even looking at just one suffragette's history shows a full range of the challenges and brutalities these protesters faced.  Emmeline Pankhurst, from the photo above, was fifty years old the first time she was arrested. Over the course of her career, she would experience more arrests, degrading prison conditions, rocks and mud hurled at her in the streets, sexual assault from the British police, force feeding during hunger strikes, and numerous other abuses.  She - and other members of the Women's Social and Political Union - endured these attacks just to achieve the simple liberty of participating in politics.

To learn more about these courageous women, you can check out:

• Profiles of Suffragettes on Biography.com (link)
• A digital collection of newspaper clippings, banners, and memorabilia from the suffragette movement in the Miller Suffrage Scrapbook (link)
• "Women Who Dare," a video profile of the women - including suffragettes - who helped shape America (link)
• Through GALILEO, you can access Britannica's online visual history of women's suffrage (link)

Black History Month: GALILEO resources

Romare and Nanette at the Neighborhood Arts Center. Neighborhood Arts Center photographs series. Jim Alexander collection. Archives Division, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.

Ranging from the Civil Rights Digital Library to Community Art in Atlanta, GALILEO has pulled together a great collection of its resources to highlight video clips, timelines, historic photographs, biographies and articles relating to Black History Month.

For the full list, follow the link: GALILEO Resources for Black History Month

Finding gold in GALILEO

Welcome to the second day of classes!  Now that you have your class syllabi in hand, you may be eyeing up a research project or two that you have in your future.  Different instructors want different things, but almost every research paper stresses the same need: sources!  

This is where GALILEO can step in to help you out.  You may have heard of GALILEO as a great resource for scholarly articles, but it's also more than that.  Scratch a little beneath the surface, and you'll find some fascinating video, image, and historical document collections.  Here's just a sampling of some unexpected collections you might find on GALILEO!

C-SPAN Visual Library (Link)
Through GALILEO, you have full access to up-to-date C-SPAN videos on topics ranging from the federal budget, to climate change policy, to U.S. health care.  As an election year, 2012 should be especially eventful for the C-SPAN library - check out Q&A and campaign events with presidential hopefuls!  Browse by subject or date, or search for a specific video.

Arts of the United States (Link)
This database includes more than 4,000 examples of high-quality artworks by American artists, dating back to the 17th century.  These images can be sorted into groups and emailed in bulk.  Ranging from classic American painters like Thomas Eakins to architects like Frank Lloyd Wright, this site is a fantastic resource for anyone interested in art!

The New York Times (Link)
You can browse both new and classic New York Times issues through GALILEO, but we're linking to the more recent articles, because - crosswords!  Current events!  Movie, book, fashion, and music reviews!  There's nothing like having a reliable, interesting news source at your fingertips.

Georgia Stories (Link)
Georgia Stories takes you back in time through Georgia's history with its in-depth collection of videos, biographies and podcasts.  This is a great resource for learning about Georgia's past, and its series of 107 videos ranges from early Native American history to the present day.

National Book Month: Finding Books Reviews and Literary Criticism

Reposted from GALILEO News and Announcements:

October is National Book Month, an annual celebration of writers and readers. In honor of this celebration, we have been offering tips each week on how to use GALILEO resources to find books and authors along with reviews and criticism.

This month, we have learned how to find book lists, find the next book to read, and find more authors like a favorite.

For our last tip in this series, we will see how to quickly find reviews and literary criticism for books and authors.

In Literary Reference Center, search for an author or book title (or even a theme). Click the Literary Criticism tab to see work analyses and criticism, or click the Reviews tab to see book reviews from a variety of sources.