Finding a Deal

Biggest shopping day of the year. Yesterdays papers were crammed with sales flyers (well the papers have been crammed with sales flyers for a week.....).
Where can you go to find out about a particular product? The magazine, Consumer Reports, has built a reputation as a reliable authority for product testing but you haven't saved all those issues in a neat stack.
The library doesn't open till after the shopping malls.
Where can you find out if that particular widget is the best widget to buy?

Yes, GALILEO!
Select EbscoHost (Academic Search Premier (at EbscoHost)
.....Select the Publication button (sort of in the middle of the screen)
.........Search for Consumer Reports
............Click on Consumer Reports (it does have a three month delay so you need to keep the last three months of the print issues)
...............Then you can "Search within this publication" (the link is toward the right of center)

Voila! Information about the widget you desire. Notice that you can set a Journal Alert and EbscoHost will e-mail you the latest entry for your search!

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.

What did they say?

Cheers, laughter, marching bands, more cheers - did you miss what the commentator said about that float? What was that quip made during the newscast? LexisNexis carries transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. It takes about 4 hours for the transcript to appear.

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to L
...........LexisNexis
...............limit your search by timeframe, be as specific as you can for what you're looking for

Happy Thanksgiving! Be grateful for the wonderful resources available to the citizens of Georgia through GALILEO . And don't eat too much.......

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.

Silence

No classes on Wednesday.
Library is closed.
Very, very quiet.

Are you ready for the holiday?
Be thankful for GALILEO .

Feeling ones age

How old are you? Mentally, physically, spiritually, socially, chronologically? Regularly someone is quoted as saying "I only feel...." and of course it's many years younger than their chronological age.

Dr. Andrew Weil has written a book titled "Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well Being". Chapter 9, Body II: The Anti-Inflammatory Diet refers to the science of nutrition and notes articles in Medical Journals.

Yes, I'm going to send you to GALILEO to look for articles on nutrition. You know where to go- start with EbscoHost, then try ProQuest. You can look for medical publications in both databases and limit your searches to those publications!

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.

Bring one, take one

The long weekend coming up might offer time to read for fun. We don't purchase popular fiction for our collection. We exist to support the programs at NMTC. Yet, some of our patrons do like to read for fun....we have set up a cart with paperbacks for trading. Bring one in and take one out. It's run on the honor system. It looks like we have more paperbacks than when we started! If you're looking to trade in some older paperbacks and take away something new to read...come on by Room 103.