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In Galileo Pre-K, a library is best thought of as an electronic filing cabinet. It is an electronic filing cabinet filled with all of a teacher’s or all of a program’s interest area ideas, activities, and lesson plans. This technology will allow you to replace the big, metal filing cabinets at the back of your room. Once these items are created and stored in the libraries, they may be accessed, edited or printed anytime, at the click of a mouse.
When a Galileo user initially sets up the system for program use and creates user accounts, the Galileo system will automatically create libraries for teachers to use when they are lesson planning. Galileo sets up three libraries for every Class-level user -- an activity library, a lesson plan library, and a scale library. These libraries will be labeled according to how the user account was named when the user was originally set up. For example, the user’s first name was Meesha and the user’s last name was Mahoney then the default libraries would be called:
Meesha Mahoney–Activities
Meesha Mahoney–Lesson Plans
Meesha Mahoney–Scales
In addition, the system comes with a Galileo library of interest areas that everyone may use. Most agencies find that using the default libraries fits most of their curriculum needs. However it is possible for users to create additional libraries.
1. Click Setup>Libraries>Library Builder.
a. Page is also accessible from the:
i. Scale Builder: Add/Edit a Scale page Related Options box.
ii. Class Notes page Related Options box.
iii. Activity Build and Select page Related Options box.
2. Use the drop-down menu to select the Center.
3. Use the drop-down menu to select the Class.
4. Use the drop-down menu to select the Library Type.
5. Now you may create, view, edit, or delete a library.
1. Access the Library Builder page.
2. Click the New Library link.
3. You are brought to a 3-tabbed setup process. The book icon in the upper right-hand corner will take you back to the Library Builder home page.
4. Type the library name.
5. Select the desired program year availability by clicking the appropriate radio button.
6. Click the Save and Next button.
7. If you are a Class-level user and therefore can only create a Class-level library, you will automatically skip the Library Assignment tab and be brought to the Summary tab.
8. Determine which users you would like to have access to this library. You may choose only those users who have the same user level as the library assignment you selected, or you may select all users.
9. Click in the desired radio button.
10. Determine whether you wish these users to have Read-Only access, or Write access to this library. Users with:
a. Read-Only access will only be able to view the contents of the library, and will need to make a copy the contents to their own libraries to edit them.
b. Write access can edit the contents of the library, and all other users with permissions to that library will see and be affected by the changes.
11. Click the Save and Next button.
12. You will automatically be brought to the Summary tab.
13. This will tell you to what program year, agencies, centers, classes, and users this library has been made available. The creator of the library will always have write-access to the library, and will automatically be listed under Users.
14. You may repeat the previous steps for new libraries, or to create different access permissions to the same library for different centers and classes. For example, you may want to give class-level users Read-Only access to a library, but give other agency-level users Write access to the same library.
15. When you have finished creating the library, you may click the books icon to return to the Library Builder home page.
16. You may repeat the previous steps for new libraries, or to create different access permissions to the same library for different centers and classes. For example, you may want to give class-level users Read-Only access to a library, but give other agency-level users Write access to the same library.
Last Updated: 08.29.17