Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Ah- the old time newsboy - shouting the availability of current news. In todays information glut you can read the news before it happens through internet sites of all shades and persuasions.

But if you like to read the news after someone has a chance to check facts and get the timeline straight...then newspapers are for you! Here is one source on GALILEO that is focused on newspaper articles:

Newspaper Source (EbscoHost database) provides current information from daily feeds from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service Newspaper Source as well as cover to cover coverage of The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. The database also contains selected full text from more than 180 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Macon Telegraph, Savannah Morning News, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, and The Miami Herald. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News.

It doesn't have every article from every paper. I did a spot check for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. It's only available at school.


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.

Checking the facts

Folks used to believe if it was in print, it must be true. That belief in the authority of a published work has transferred to the internet - "isn't everything available on the internet?" , "isn't everything on the internet true?" (real questions from real people).

GALILEO offers SKS WebSelect- a database of Internet sites that have been selected by a person and looked at to make sure the site is authoritative.

For the people who are sure everything on the internet is true -here's a website that might be good to use to discuss the problems with accepting everything on the Internet at face value Dihydrogen Monoxide - DHMO Homepage.

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.

That's where it was!

A few weeks ago I wrote about photographs of cities showing what was no longer around. Today let me share - maps that document what once was:

"The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability
of a new online resource: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922.

The digital collection consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company
depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133
municipalities. Originally designed for fire insurance assessment, the
color-coded maps relate the location and use of buildings, as well as
the materials employed in their construction. The maps indicate which
city utilities--such as water and fire service--were available.
Fire insurance maps document the changing face of towns and cities,
providing highly detailed information for each neighborhood and block.
The Library of Congress web site refers to them as "probably the single
most important record of urban growth and development in the United
States during the past one hundred years."
The Sanborn Maps database is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia
as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA
funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of
Regents of the University System of Georgia. The maps represented are
from the University of Georgia Libraries Map Collection.

"Sanborn," "Sanborn Map," "Sanborn Map Company," and "Sanborn Fire
Insurance Maps" are recognized trademarks of the Sanborn Map Company, a
subsidiary of Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR). The presentation
of the historic maps on this site is in no way connected with either the
Sanborn Map Company or Environmental Data Resources, Inc."

GALILEO
......Digital Library of Georgia (center of the page next to GALILEO Planet, right above Quick Help)
.........Collections A-Z (scroll down on the left)
............Jump to S
................Scroll down past the Sam's to Sanborn

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.

Leaf color

Driving around town one sees gorgeous reds and oranges and yellows. It's like being in a paint box! So what causes the leaves to change colors?

Look in Access Science @ McGraw Hill in GALILEO. I used the search term "Autumn leaf color" (in quotes). Photoperiodism seems to best explain the change in colors.

"AccessScience@McGraw-Hill: The Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology is the web version of McGraw-Hill's authoritative, print multi-volume counterpart. Included in the online version are The McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, weekly science and technology news articles, research updates, comprehensive and current science biographies, study guides, recommended web sites. The major subjects areas covered in AccessScience are: Agriculture, Forestry & Soils; Anthropology & Archaelogy; Astronomy & Space Science; Biological & Biomedical Science; Chemistry; Computing & Information Technology; Data, Tables, and Tools; Earth Science; Engineering & Materials; Environmental Science; Food Science & Technology; General Science & Technology; Mathematics; Medicine; Military Science; Navigation; Paleontology; Physics; Psychiatry & Psychology; and Veterinary Medicine.
Database provider: A McGraw-Hill Database"

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.

All Hallows Eve

This is a holy day for some Christians- the Eve of All Saints Day. Encyclopedia Britannica has information about Halloween- its history and evolution into a more adult oriented holiday.

On This Day in Encyclopedia Britannica according to tradition, Martin Luther this day in 1517 posted on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, his Ninety-five Theses, a manifesto that turned a protest about an indulgence scandal into the Protestant Reformation.

I wonder what Martin Luther would think of Halloween in the United States?

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.