How much is that doggie in the window?

Have you started playing the "I remember when it only cost....?" game.
The game can be played by almost any age group.

Do you need a resource to jog your memory of what something cost?
In our reference collection, we have The Value of a Dollar 1860-2004, 3rd edition.

It's interesting to flip through and note what has increased (and sometimes decreased) in cost. There are charts and graphs for income and expenses (food basket- in 1905 beef steaks cost 13.64 cents a pound in Atlanta; education- Harvard was only $150 a year in 1911).

Get those statistics for when you start playing the "I remember when it only cost..." game.


The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Archives USA

Faculty regularly ask students to use "primary sources" for an assignment. Where does one locate "primary sources"?

There is a resource on GALILEO that will tell you who has collected "primary sources" for a given topic:

ArchivesUSA® is a current directory of 5,550 repositories and 149,218 collections of primary source material housed across the United States. Powerfully integrated with detailed subject indexing, this research tool is a central collection of descriptive archival information.

When I did a search for Georgia, 64 sites came up as locations of "primary source" material.
The record notes phone numbers, addresses, web links, and materials collected.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

A thousand words

We're becoming a pictographic society- a picture being worth a thousand words (Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 17th edition, pg 851-4, notes the quote is a misattributed Chinese proverb).

To accomodate those who would rather watch the movie rather than read the book (and yes, sometimes I'd rather watch the movie- it can be quicker to get the storyline through a movie- though not all movies follow the printed versions storyline....) we have purchased a TV/DVD combo for patron use. We already had three TV/VCR combos in the library.

The videos/DVD's owned by North Metro are noted in the NMTC card catalog at http://libcat.northmetrotech.edu/scripts/websafari.exe.

Most of our videos are checked out to the program areas but Faculty have been known to loan videos to a student for review purposes.

Scirus

We added Scirus to GALILEO for North Metro students because Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 200 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:

...Pinpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
...Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals that other search engines miss.
...Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers

See what Scirus finds when you search for the phrase "Space Shuttle" then compare the results to a search on Google.

You can get to Scirus through the web by using http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/

Advisement

Next week, faculty will be advising current students in preparation for early registration for the fall quarter.

You can check out the school catalog (which is available on-line in PDF format) http://www.northmetrotech.edu/catalog.asp to get an idea of what you have to take to complete your program.

There are exemption tests for some of the core courses like Eng 101, Math 101 and SCT 100. Check with admissions to sign up and pay for the exemption tests.

Who has that book?

Your librarian can borrow materials for you through InterLibrary loan.
How does the librarian find out "who has that book"?

One resource the librarian checks is WorldCat.
You can check WorldCat yourself in GALILEO.
GALILEO
....Databases A to Z
......Jump to W
.........Select WorldCat
........Do your search and then click on the highlighted link for Libraries

What if you just want to browse a neighboring library's catalog- how would you find that particular catalog? Yes, you could do a Google search but you know I'm going to send you to GALILEO.

GALILEO has a link - Library Catalogs - just under the link for GALILEO Planet. Many libraries in Georgia are listed- academic libraries, private college libraries, public libraries and special libraries- let your fingers do the walking!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available from your local librarian. The resources noted for North Metro Technical College may not be available through your local public library.

Changes are a coming!

Many Georgia librarians met Friday in Athens for the GOLD/GALILEO conference.

Lots of fun references to "Gold being in them thar hills" (you can read about Georgia's Gold rush in The New Georgia Encyclopedia: " By late 1829 north Georgia, known at the time as the Cherokee Nation, was flooded by thousands of prospectors lusting for gold. Niles' Register reported in the spring of 1830 that there were four thousand miners working along Yahoola Creek alone.")

Something that is coming to GALILEO is a search tool that will search through the databases in GALILEO so you don't have to go to each one. This feature will be available in the next year.

Now that's a gold nuggett worth waiting for!

You can get to the New Georgia Encyclopedia through GALILEO or through NGE's own web link http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Home.jsp