Gasoline prices

You can read about the rising gas prices all over the country by looking at ABI Inform on GALILEO.

Select the News/Facts Reference tab
....ABI Inform Dateline
...... search for Gasoline prices
...........limit date range to last seven days

Lexis/Nexis will give you the transcripts from CNN if you'd like to read what they are saying on TV.

Visual Dictionary

We are becoming a pictographic society- symbols are used in so many public locations to present information.

We acquired The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary: English, Spanish, French, German, and Italian (REF P 361 C668 2004).

It is fascinating- pictures with the word in a column next to the picture. The topics are divided by subject. It's not alphabetical by the words.

It's fun to just thumb through the book looking at the pictures and comparing the words. Spanish, French and Italian are so similar since they are based on Latin. English and German have common roots in the Anglo Saxon heritage.

GOOGLE alerts

OK- I usually just send you to GALILEO but GOOGLE does have a link on their page for News about Hurricane Katrina . Get the latest news on hurricane katrina with Google Alerts.

You click on this link, scroll to the bottom and they offer you the option of getting an alert once a day, as it happens, once a week-

This is for the true news junky!

International News

You can use LexisNexis to get wire service news. LexiNexis doesn't provide the e-mail alerts that Ebsco and ProQuest offer.
GALILEO
...Databases A to Z
......Jump to L
..........LexisNexis

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.

Getting the news

You're a news junky but you just can't keep on surfing the web to get the latest story. You can create an e-mail alert in EbscoHost or Proquest to have current info sent to your e-mail.

I just set up an alert in Proquest to cover Hurricane Katrina (my brother lives in New Orleans). The alert will last two weeks and will be sent daily as new information is posted in Proquest.


Here's how to do this in Proquest:

Go to GALILEO
Select Proquest (to the right of South America on the left side of the screen)
Select Advanced search (second tab in)
Fill in your topic
Select date range (I picked the last 7 days)

Search
If anything comes up that interests you, then click on Set Up Alert

If you didn't get the results you hoped for- edit your search
Fill in the form- (select how long you want to get alerts)
Save

Proquest will send you an e-mail confirming that you really do want this alert.

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.

Deerproofing your yard

A new book on the shelf at NMTC-

Deerproofing your Yard & Garden by Rhonda Massingham Hart (SB 994.D4 H375 2005).

The deer are nibbling away at your garden- how do you stop the deer from using your garden as a buffet line without harming the deer? Ms. Hart has a chapter on Deer-o-scaping, Deer deterrents, and the Deerproof garden.

Will her suggestions work? Jim Wilson, former host of the Victory Garden on PBS, wrote in the forward: "Other than high fences, Deerproofing your Yard & Garden doesn't offer a universal recommendation for protecting gardens from damage, but it does offer you a sampler of strategies that work most of the time under most conditions, and it gently but firmly pooh-poohs ineffective gadgets and panaceas."

Read and try!

New books arrive!

We sent in Purchase Orders as soon as the money was released for this fiscal year.
The new books are arriving!

It's a party - opening boxes, oohing and ahing over what we ordered.

The new books will be on the shelves with in two weeks.