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NoveList and GPS
An overview of NoveList K-8*, a fiction advisory database available to
Georgia schools and libraries through GALILEO
A look at how NoveList K-8 and NoveList help educators meet Georgia
Performance Standards
NoveList and NoveList K-8: Available in
GALIELO to Georgia schools and libraries
NoveList is the
complete fiction
advisory database
NoveList K-8 is a subset
of NoveList that
includes only titles
appropriate for grades
K-8
NoveList K-8 has 64,000+ titles that reflect
the collections in a typical library.
From Beowulf to
Christopher Paul Curtis
to Mo Willems,
NoveList has you
covered.
NoveList K-8 Has Books
For Readers of All Ages
13,817 Teen Titles
(13 – 18 years old)
27,625 Older Kid Titles
(9 – 12 years old)
22,792 Younger Kid Titles
(up to 8 years old)
•See NoveList for Adult Books
NoveList K-8 has Over 36,000
Subject Headings
Genres
Topics and Themes
Adventure Stories
Realistic Fiction
Survival
Mysteries and even subgenres such as boy
detectives
Characters Identified By…
Name, Gender, Ethnicity/Nationality,
Age, Occupation, Relationship
African-American Teenagers
Vampires
Teachers
Clementine
NoveList K-8 has Over 36,000
Subject Headings
Time Periods
Historical Events
Locations
Southwest
South Africa
South Carolina
Southern States
World War II
Twentieth Century
Civil War
Series
Alex Rider
Perry Jackson and the Olympians
Twilight
Here are some of the robust features you’ll
find in NoveList K-8:
Author
Biographies
Book
Discussion
Guides
BookTalks
Recommended
Reads
Award
Winners
Here are some of the robust features you’ll
find in NoveList K-8:
Working with Kids
BookTalks
Curricular Connections
Picture Book Extenders
Grab and Go Book Lists
Finding NoveList K-8 in GALILEO
http://www.galileo.usg.edu
Default GALILEO interface for
K-12
1. Choose the Databases A-Z
Tab
2. Type <novelist> in the
search box
3. Select NoveList or
NoveList K-8
The NoveList K-8 Home Page
Getting to Know the Home Page
The Find Bar
Single Search bar allows you to do
searches like:
Find a Favorite Author
Title
Series
Describe a Plot
You can also limit searches by level.
The Browse Panel
All of the customized feature content in
NoveList K-8 is grouped by audience and
right here at your fingertips.
For more information about the different
types of content, click on
found at the
top right corner of the panel.
Getting to Know the Home Page
My NoveList
Tour NoveList
Links you to a short video tour of NoveList K-8, designed to
assist you in learning how to navigate NoveList K-8. This
tour covers the basic features of the database. This link also
contains a Quick Start Guide, PowerPoint, and Help Sheets.
My Folders & Alerts
Quickly access your folder and alerts.
Spotlight
Highlights key content and informs you of
any enhancements or updates to the
product.
About NoveList
Find out more about the NoveList K-8 product as well as
the NoveList staff and contributors.
NoveList Newsletters:
Sign up for one of our three newsletters, such as School
News which is filled with NoveList practical advice,
professional resources, best practices and more all geared
toward those who work with children.
Searching
Basic Search – Author Search
A reader asks you for a list of a specific author’s
works – what do you do?
Use the Find Box
for quick results.
Let’s try a search for Jane Yolen.
Simply type jane yolen in the Find Box and click Go. This
is a keyword search for “jane” and “yolen.” NoveList K-8’s
Relevancy ranking will bring Yolen’s titles to the top of your
Result List.
Basic Search – Author Search Results
You get a Results List with a variety of tabs indicating where Jane Yolen is referenced.
Here’s a closer look at a brief record
NoveList Best indicates
that a book has been
selected for any of our
feature content or is an
award winner.
The Brief Record contains a book jacket,
annotation, links to reviews, a link to your
library catalog and other helpful
information.
Basic Search – Author Search Results
Clicking on the title in the
Brief Record will take you to
the Title Record
The Title Record contains rich data like
Author Information
Pseudonyms
Subject Headings
Reviews
(found at the bottom of the screen),
links to Find Similar Books and All
Books by the author.
Basic Search – Author Search Results
Remember all those tabs on the Result screen?
Let’s take a closer look at a few.
Award Winners
Author
Grab and Go Book
Contains any award
Biographies
Lists
Access a biography of lists that include
Contains lists of in-print
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen. We have
titles, on a variety of
biographies for about
curriculum-related
150 authors.
subjects, that include
Jane Yolen.
Recommended
Series
Reads
Shows all the Series
Contains lists of titles
by Jane Yolen
on a wide variety of
genres/topics, great for
recreational
reading, that include
Jane Yolen.
Basic Search – Title Search
A reader asks you for specific information about
a particular title or wants to find more books
like a particular title – what do you do?
Use the Find Box
for quick results.
Let’s try a search for City of Ember.
Simply type city of ember in the Find Box and click Go.
Basic Search – Title Search Results
Once again, you get a
robust Results List.
Clicking on City of
Ember takes you to the
Title Record.
Within the Brief Record you’ll find
links such as Reviews and First
Chapters.
(NoveList K-8 contains 3,000 First Chapters)
Notice that this record
includes sections like:
Author Information
Subject Headings
Find Similar Books
Basic Search – Title Search Results
Clicking on Find Similar Books takes you a
separate screen that allows you to find books
based on similar aspects.
Basic Search – Title Search Results
For example, when looking for books similar
to City of Ember, your reader might be most
interested in Dystopia and Survival stories
on the Teens reading level. This selection
would give you results like these
Basic Search – Title Search
● Additional Title Search Tips
• If the title is a one word title or has a lot of common words, enter the title
with the author. For example, if you’re looking for Little Brother by Cory
Doctorow enter “little brother Doctorow” for better results.
• If you cannot remember the author and need to make sure that only the
title field is being searched, select the Title button (next to Search) and
type your title in the Find box. Doing this ensures that NoveList will
search only titles.
Basic Search – Series Search
A reader asks you for the latest in the Heartland
series – what do you do?
Use the Find Box
for quick results.
Let’s try a search for the Heartland series.
Simply type heartland in the Find Box and click Go.
Basic Search – Series Search Results
You can access the complete Heartland
series by either selecting the Series tab at
the top of the Results List, or by clicking on
the Heartland link in the Brief Record
Basic Search – Printing Series Search Results
If your reader wants a copy of
the series to take with them,
simply click on Quick Print
for a printer-friendly version of
your list in reading order.
Basic Search – Describe a Plot Search
A reader asks you where to find the book they are
looking for but can only remember that it’s about a boy
and a girl that travel through time – what do you do?
Use the Find Box
for quick results.
Simply type time travel boy girl in the Find Box, select
Describe a Plot, then select Older Kids, and click Go.
Basic Search – Describe a Plot Results
There are over 200 results
for books and several
feature content tabs that fit
this search criteria.
Basic Search – Describe a Plot Results
At the Results List screen you can
use the Sort by drop-down box to
sort your list by Popularity as
well as Relevance, Author,
Title, Date Descending, Date
Ascending, and Volume
You can also narrow your results by
subject. Narrow Results by pulls
the subject headings that appear the
most for the titles in your list.
Basic Search – Describe a Plot Search
A teacher asks you to find books on the Civil War to
complement a lesson – what do you do?
Use the Find Box
for quick results.
Simply type Civil War in the Find Box, select Describe a
Plot, and click Go.
Basic Search – Describe a Plot Results
There are over 500 results for
books. The feature content
tabs will help you find
professionally prepared
materials on the topic.
Getting to Know the Advanced Search Screen
Enter your search terms in the Find Box.
Select the Document Types that you want. If
you want to find results for all document types
be sure they are all checked. If you want only
specific document types check only the type
that you want.
For information about the different document
types, see the About Our Articles and Lists
page, under the Browsing section of Help.
Choose a Field from the Select a Field dropdown box (note that this is optional).
Getting to Know the Advanced Search Screen
Limit Your Results
Reading Level
Adults (19 and up), Teens (13-18), Older Kids (9-12), Younger Kids (birth to 8)
Grade Level
Range from “Babies/Toddlers" to "Adult."
Lexile Reading Level
Choose from preset Lexile ranges.
Lexile Range Search
Enter a Lexile rating in this field.
Publication Year
Enter a range of publication years in the boxes.
Number of Pages
Limit book results to a number of pages, or more/less than the number entered.
Author's Gender
Limit your search to Male, Female, or All authors.
Author's Nationality
The name of the country (or countries) where the author claims nationality, lives
now, and/or has lived for a significant time.
Author's Cultural Identity
Identification with, or membership in, a particular ethnic, cultural, or national
group, sharing language and customs.
Review Available
This option will search only titles that include one or more reviews.
Award Winner
This option will search only titles that have won awards.
Dewey Range Search
Use this limiter to search for books with an assigned Dewey number in the
ranges specified.
NoveList Best
Limit your search to titles that are referred to in NoveList feature content, award
winners, and titles that have received starred reviews.
Performing an Advanced Search
For example, a teen reader is looking for titles
that have a Lexile score between 300 and 500.
You can search using just
the limiters, without
entering a search term.
From the Reading Level
limiter select Teens and
from the Lexile Reading
Level limiter select 300500.
Performing an Advanced Search
There are over 80 titles that have
Lexile scores between 300 and
500 and are geared towards teen
readers. You can now sort your
list by Popularity or Date
Descending.
Persistent Folders
Save book lists indefinitely in
multiple folders.
Persistent Folders
Links to:
• American Revolution,
500-700
• Picture books about
Franklin, Jefferson,
Roosevelt
• Immigration, 750-950
Persistent links to searches let
you re-execute a search by
clicking a URL.
Links can be e-mailed or
embedded in any HTML
document.
NoveList and the GPS
NoveList and the GPS
Reading in
All Curriculum Areas
● Read a minimum of 25 grade-level
appropriate books per year from a
variety of subject disciplines and
participate in discussions related to
curricular learning in all areas.
● Read both informational and fictional
texts in a variety of genres and modes
of discourse.
One Suggestion….
●Language Arts
●Social Studies
●Science
●Math
40%
30%
20%
10%
Discussing Books
● Discuss messages and themes from books
in all subject areas.
● Respond to a variety of texts in multiple
modes of discourse.
● Relate messages and themes from one
subject area to messages and themes in
another area.
● Evaluate the merit of texts in every subject
discipline.
● Examine author’s purpose in writing.
Building Vocabulary
● Demonstrate an understanding of
contextual vocabulary in various subjects.
● Use content vocabulary in writing and
speaking.
● Explore understanding of new words
found
NoveList K-8>Help>Training
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