Internet sites in GALILEO

We are able to add program specific web sites to GALILEO. This makes GALILEO - with the link to our card catalog, the databases that come with GALILEO- a one stop location for finding information that will support the learning that is going on in each program!

We just added two sites to GALILEO for the Allied Health programs (the two sites will be visible on Saturday).

• The CDC Wonder <http://wonder.cdc.gov/> provides a single point of access to a wide variety of reports and numeric public health data.
• The National Health Information Center <http://www.health.gov/nhic/> NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers.

Both these sites will benefit our nursing students as they look for ways to help patients!

You can get the password to use GALILEO at home from your local library in Georgia!

Georgia History

Do you ever wonder what happened in Georgia history?
Would you like to read about the event from the perspective of someone who lived through it?

Georgia Historic Books on GALILEO has 80 titles that might help you understand life in Georgia prior to 1950.

The Georgia Historic Books database contains full-text, fully searchable books related to Georgia's history and culture. Most are from the 19th to early 20th century and focus on Georgia history, biography, and literature.

Yes, you get tha password to use GALILEO at home from your librarian if you're a resident of the state of Georgia.

Advertising- some things never change

Do you want to look at advertising posters from the 1700's?
Just to see how the public was informed?

GALILEO
.... select Digital Library of Georgia (Databases A-Z or the Georgia tab)
........Browse by Topic (left hand side of the screen)
............Select Transportation (don't ask me why these are in Transportation)
.................Jump to H
......................Scroll to Historical Broadsides

"Over 2,100 broadsides from the 1740s through the 1980s that depict life, politics, and religion in Georgia and the country as a whole. Many of the Georgia-related broadsides advertise events at the University of Georgia."

An interesting place to compare current trends in advertising with what worked in the past.

Citizens of Georgia can get the password to use GALILEO at home from their librarian.

EbscoHost

I Attended a workshop on using EbscoHost to the fullest!

You can create a free account at Sign in to MyEbscoHost. This allows you to save your searches, have alerts sent to you when new information for your search has been added to Ebsco and to have journals and magazines e-mailed to you when they are added to Ebsco. The alerts are so convenient!

The Academic libraries have Academic Search Premier.
The Public libraries have MasterFile Premier.
Both databases offer over 2000 magazines and journals.

All these resources are paid for with your Georgia tax dollars!

Georgia residents can get the password to use GALILEO at home from your librarian!

Great Books of The Western World

Do you have a set of books called Great Books of the Western World? Many families purchased sets of these books from Encyclopedia Britannica in the 50's and 60's to provide their children with the classics.

My parents bought a set. It came with its own bookcase!

North Metro has a set. The complete cataloging record has been added to our card catalog. The titles aren't listed just the authors.

http://libcat.northmetrotech.edu/scripts/websafari.exe

1. The great conversation, by R. M. Hutchins.--2-3. The great ideas.--4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey.--5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes.--6. Herodotus. Thucydides.--7. Plato.--8-9. Aristotle.--10. Hippocrates. Galen.--11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus.--12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius.--13. Virgil.--14. Plutarch.--15. Tacitus.--16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler.--17. Plotinus.--18. Augustine.--19.-20. Thomas Aquinas.--21. Dante.--22. Chaucer.--23. Machiavelli. Hobbes.--24. Rabelais.--25. Montaigne.--26-27. Shakespeare.--28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey.--29. Cervantes.--30. Francis Bacon.--31. Descartes. Spinoza.--32. John Milton.--33. Pascal.--34. Newton. Huygens.--35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume.--36. Swift. Sterne.--37. Henry Fielding.--38. Montesquieu. Rousseau.--39. Adam Smith.--40-41. Gibbon.--42. Kant.--43. American state papers. The Federalist. J. S. Mill.--44. Boswell.--45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday.--46. Hegel.--47. Goethe.--48. Melville.--49. Darwin.--50. Marx.--51. Tolstoy.--52. Dostoevsky.--53. William James.--54. Freud.

Come and borrow one of the Great Books of the Western World!
Abraham Lincoln didn't attend college- he taught himself by reading and reading and reading!

Your library can provide you with the best education known to man- for free!