You'll be singing

11)Santa Claus is coming to town
12)Up on the house top
13)Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
14)Away in a manger
15)Go tell it on the mountain
16)O little town of Bethlehem
17)I saw three ships
18)Hark the Herald angels sing
19)Jingle Bells
20)As Shepherds watched their flocks by night

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Librarian will be on break till Jan 2.

Still thinking

Here are ten more Christmas song titles! Thank you to the members of LM_NET for sharing these.

11. The red-suited pa is due in this burg.
12. Stepping on the pad cover.
13. Uncouth dolt has his beezer in the booze and thinks he is a Dark Cloud's boyfriend.
14. Far back in a hay bin.
15. Leave and do an elevated broadcast.
16. That exiguous hamlet south of the holy city.
17. Behold! I envisioned a trio of nautical vessels.
18. Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully.
19. A joyful song relative to hollow metallic vessels which vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck.
20. As the guardians of little woolly animal's protected their charges =in the shadows of the earth.

The answers will be provided tomorrow.

The answers are....

Here are the answers. Don't groan too loudly.....

1)The Nutcracker Suite
2) Little Drummer boy
3)Deck the Halls
4)Silent Night
5)Noel (No L)
6)All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.
7)It came upon a midnight clear
8)Joy to the world
9)12 Days of Christmas
10)Do you hear what I hear

There are ten more that I'll post tomorrow. Get ready!

Holiday hours

The library will be open from 8 am to 5 pm
Mon, Dec 18
Tues Dec 19 (closed from 12-2 for a holiday party)
Wed Dec 20
Thurs Dec 21 (closed)
Fri Dec 22 (closed)

Closed while NMTC is closed Dec 25-Jan 1.

Tues, Jan 2, 8-5
Wed, Jan 3, 8-5
Thurs, Jan 4, 8-5
Fri, Jan 5, 8-4

Regular hours begin again January 8th

What does this mean?

On the library list serve, LM_NET, a librarian shared this list of Christmas songs retitled using a thesaurus and dictionary!

Put on your thinking caps to figure out the titles (answers on Tuesday):

1. The apartment of 2 psychiatrists.
2. The lad is a diminutive percussionist.
3. Decorate the entry-ways.
4. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis
5. A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
6. Present me naughty but dual incisors for this festive Yuletide.
7. The smog-less bewitching hour arrived.
8. Exuberation to this orb
9. 288 Yuletide hours.
10. Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure which stimulates my auditory sense organs

Happy holidays!

Festivals of Light

The darkest time of the year and we celebrate with candles and fires. Search in the The Religion & Philosophy Collection (EbscoHost)- use these search terms to read about the ways humans celebrate life at its darkest:

• Light -- Religious aspects
• Candles & lights
• Fire -- Religious aspects

GALILEO

...Databases A-Z

.......Jump to R

.........The Religion & Philosophy Collection

(the password will change December 31 - if you think you might be using GALILEO over the break, check with the Librarian for the new password)

The end is nigh

Yes, the Fall quarter ends this Saturday. Exams are being given. Final papers are being turned in.

The library is humming with inventory. We are discovering old friends. Right now the Librarian is amidst the "PR's" (which is literature). Lovely to scan through the Victorian classics. Touched A Christmas Carol by Dickens and thought about the modern interpretations we see on the Big Screen.

Many things to be thankful for as we hear Tiny Tim bless us all.

Mozart for free

Starting on December 12, 2006 the ISM and the Packard Humanities Institute will make the complete musical texts of the NMA available to everyone for private, scholarly, and educational use as NMA Online.

Free access will be provided on the Internet at http://dme.mozarteum.at/

Why do I feel like this?

Check out your symptoms using the Web sites selected for NMTC programs. The Allied Health list has authoritative places to go for accurate and timely information.

What happened?

Reading diaries helps complete a historic event. There are several diaries as part of the Digital Library of Georgia - Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861 - 1862 Pages 98 - 103 covers December of 1861.

Page: (99 [View Image] importance. the clouds are banking up & the prospect for snow is good,
Tuesday Dec [December] 3rd, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
after a slight rain in the night and now the earth is frozen with a sheet of ice upon top, Wednesday Dec [December] 4th, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
We were visited by snow during the last night. to about shoe mouth deep and the weather is horribly cold this morning, the 45th Virginia regt [regiment] ordered to put up huts, great excitement among the officers & soldiers who agree in refusing to put up here..Thursday 5th. [View Civil War timeline for this date]
orders to Doublin [Dublin] Depot on the Virginia & Tenn [Tennessee] rail road [railroad] . Sunday evening 3, oclock [o'clock] [View Civil War timeline for this date]
now at dublin a beautiful valley between the blue ridge & alighanies [alleghenies], for four miles back the prettiest country seen since, around Richmond, after a travel of 25 miles from our camp near Peterstown, Friday night Dec [December] 13th.. 9 oclock [o'clock] . [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
the long desired news has come at last a telegraphic dispatch for the
Page: 100) [View Image] 13th Reg. Ga vol. [Regiment Georgia volunteers] to report themselves at Charleston S.C [South Carolina],, I happened to be at the depot to see a couple of friend [friends] of Philips. who were going home, when the dispatch came,, I could not believe it untill [until] I saw the copy that was drawn for "Colonel Ector",, I then made my way to camps as quick as convenient & told the good news, but others were as I had been, the news had come so often before, & turned out to be false, that nothing Short of a sight of the dispatch would satisfy them of its reality,, I told them that I had read it. they believed me but suspected a wrong somewhere, But in a short time, a most prodegious [prodigious] yell broke out about the Colonels tent which brought faith, and the yelling spread like fire in hay untill [until] the wood around us rang & the echo sounded for miles around, New life & vigor pervaded every system,, & every object unfurled new beauties, & the dead wood [deadwood]
Page: (101 [View Image] almost looked alive,

Comparing countries

Last week I noted the demo version of World Data Analyst will create charts and tables comparing countries.

The regular Encyclopedia Britannica will also create tables and charts and handouts comparing two countries (and provide images, web links, history, flags, maps...)

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to E
.........Encyclopedia Britannica
Left hand side under Research Tools
About the 5th one down - Compare Countries
Pick your countries
Keep scrolling - you'll get to a graphs section where Statistical Information can be displayed

This is entertaining. More information than you'll need in a trivia game - very interesting.

Something new!

New resources have been added to the GALILEO database menus in the
demo system .


World Data Analyst from Encyclopædia Britannica includes current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world. The resource includes tools for comparing and ranking data and creating tables that can be exported into spreadsheets.

It is fun- the database allows you to create tables and charts- with bar graphs! This will be super for country reports.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to W
.........World Data Analyst

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 day that will live.....

in infamy

Quick Search for "Pearl Harbor" in GALILEO pulled up these results:

--> -->
Hits...Database
1540...Academic Search Premier
125.....LexisNexis Academic
2168...MasterFILE Premier
1685...Research Library

Read and remember.


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.

Password will change

The password for GALILEO will change for North Metro on December 31! Happy New Year. If you think you'll be using GALILEO during the Holiday please ask the librarian for the new password.

The tallest, the shortest, the biggest

Where do you go to find lists of information for the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest? You go to the Almanac!

Browsing through the print edition can be a series of "ah ha" moments. We have several older copies of The World Almanac (AY 67 .N5 W7) available for borrowing.

There is a World Almanac available through GALILEO via First Search.
The more notes in GALILEO offer this information:

The World Almanacs, first published in 1868, is a reference database that covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes and much more.
The database is made up of:
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
The World Almanac for Kids
The World Almanac Knowledge Source

It's not colorful and image intensive. It's a database by First 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.

FYI Garden Literature Index

Garden Literature Index (Ebsco product) is a wonderful resource. However with advertising, encouraging, and teaching - it's not being used. We will not be renewing our subscription at the end of December.

Upgrading system

The library circulation system is "down" for the morning while we do some techy stuff to make it more efficient!

Voting in Georgia on Tuesday

Believe it or not, tomorrow is an election day in the state of Georgia. There is a statewide run-off.

Your single vote may just make a difference!

Numbers count

The monthly report with statistics, from what program areas use the computers to how many reference questions have been asked, is being compiled. These numbers help the librarians assess how to provide the best library services.

Conference

ACTE - The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers.

ACTE is meeting in Atlanta for their annual conference. A wonderful opportunity for Technical Educators from around the country to meet, greet, and learn!

What to say, how to say it

It's getting to the end of the quarter. Students are beginning to panic about writing that paper.

We have posted three guides for research papers on our "Web sites collected for NMTC Programs" (look under Research-English).

In NetLibrary, there are three titles that might prove helpful:

Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers Schaum's Quick Guide Series by Rozakis, Laurie.Publication: New York McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999.

How to Write a Paper
by Hall, George M.Publication: London BMJ Books, 2003.

Last Minute Term Papers
by Fry, Ronald W.Publication: Franklin Lakes, NJ The Career Press, 2002.

You need a login/password created through NMTC GALILEO or created on the NMTC campus to use NetLibrary. Check with the librarian if you need assistance.

Who has the manuscript?

Looking for unique information can be very difficult. Google will pull up popular, common information but what about that special manuscript or primary document, how do you find it?

From GALILEO notes -

ArchivesUSA is a unique database for scholars and researchers who use primary source materials. It provides location information for primary source materials. The database integrates three major information resources:

Resource 1: A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988.

Resource 2: Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s through the end of 1997, covering some 76,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection.

Resource 3: Names and detailed subject indexing of over 44,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

The NUCMC and NIDS information has been integrated to provide a single record for each collection, with detailed information drawn from both resources when available. The first installment of a growing body of collection records submitted directly to ArchivesUSA has also been included.

The full text manuscript is not in the database but the location of the information is noted. We can borrow materials through InterLibrary Loan. Most institutions will copy and fax articles up to a certain page length.

Ask your librarian!

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Scroll to ArchivesUSA

Welcome Woodland High School

On Tuesday, Nov 28, 800 students from Woodland High School will be touring the NMTC campus. A great opportunity for them to see what NMTC offers for higher education!

Pro & Con

Some classes require a Pro & Con "hot" topic to be researched. The GALILEO description for SKS WebSelect notes - that SKS is an online database of Internet resources providing access to quality Web sites on almost any subject. WebSelect is continually updated to include new sites and dynamically changing data. Summaries provide a concise overview of site content and authority. Keyword, Subject Heading, and Topic Browse searches can be performed. Topics are assigned based on site content and mission. WebSelect is dynamically updated and offers Internet resources from around the globe, including those of leading universities, government agencies and respected organizations.

What is very helpful for researchers - on the right side of the SKS home page is "Your Top Ten Pro vs Con: Leading Issues". Click on the icon for the topic and voila- an overview, articles, links, resources!

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to S
........SKS Web Select

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 ready for family

GALILEO offers this Ebsco database - The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection which is a database with more than 470 full-text journals. It covers topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Search for Holiday dinner and read a wonderous story of An Unforgettable Christmas Dinner., By: Petrie, Phil, Essence, 00140880, Dec2002, Vol. 33, Issue 8. It brought tears to my eyes.

Or search for Thanksgiving dinner and read a study on memory -
Changes in the Subjective Properties of Autobiographical Memories with the Passage of Time. Authors: Dewinstanley, William J. Friedman Patricia A. Source: Memory; Jul98, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p367-381, 15p

In any event, create memories for you and yours this holiday season.

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
......Jump to P
.........The Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection

Holiday shopping

The retailers are enticing shoppers with visions of savings for each purchaser.

If you haven't decided what electronic gizmo to buy, check out Computer Source, in GALILEO, "provides the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database features over 120 full-text periodicals covering market information in computers, telecommunications, electronics, and the Internet."

Playstation 3 as a search term brought up 156 articles
wii as a search term brought up 47 articles
.... both had references in PC Magazine, 11/21/2006, Vol. 25 Issue 21

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
......Jump to C
.........Computer Source (an Ebsco Database)

What to read?

With Holidays soon to be here and free time to fill...what can you read that might be fun and relaxing?

NovelList has a Readers Advisory e-mail they call - "NoveList Notes which is an e-mail service that is designed to increase usage and knowledge of the product. Each "issue" provides concrete scenarios that involve using NoveList to answer everyday readers' advisory or curriculum support questions. The Notes may also include activities, tips, or other practical tidbits that our customers can use to enhance their ability to use the database.

NoveList Notes is not a newsletter; it is a short, practical, hands-on "note."

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to N
..........Novelist
..........5th tab is Readers Advisory

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.

Edited Library Page!

Check out the edited NMTC Library page!

Thanks to the efforts of the NMTC IT department, the library site is a bit "cleaner" and easier to navigate.

Wish you were here

Postcards tell our friends what we're doing on vacation- maybe not in what we write but in the picture on the postcard.

GALILEO notes tell us that the database "Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library System consists of forty turn-of-the-twentieth century Augusta-related picture postcards selected from the collection Augusta and Environs: Picture Post Cards in Color held at the East Central Georgia Regional Library in Augusta, Georgia. The postcards in this collection depict the commercial development, economic prosperity, and social customs of Augusta and its inhabitants during the opening years of the twentieth century. Furthermore, the picture postcards document the interplay between Augusta, Georgia, North Augusta, South Carolina, and Summerville, Georgia before and immediately following Summerville's incorporation into the city of Augusta in 1912. The postcards, as collected by Augusta resident Ella C. Mayo Belz at the turn of the twentieth century through 1914, include images of notable Augusta landmarks such as the Augusta Canal, Augusta Country Club, Bon Air Hotel, Lake Olmstead, Meadow Garden (home of the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Walton), Medical College of Georgia, and the Partridge Inn. Several postcards in the online collection relate specifically to Augusta's position as the second largest inland cotton market in the United States. These postcards show cotton fields, harvested bales, mills, and other scenes of production associated with the cotton industry in Augusta. There are also many scenic postcards that depict views along the Savannah River and the commercial and residential streetscapes along both Broad and Greene Streets. "

Registration & Orientation

8:30, 1 & 4 - the times for orientation for new students. Hear and see what students need to do to succeed in their program!

Get ready for Winter Quarter.

Rainy day

Weather junkies love to read about weather happenings. Horticulture students are frequently weather junkies.

We've added 28 web sites for Horticulture to our "Web sites collected for NMTC programs" link in GALILEO.

Among those 28 sites is:

The Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network which "was established in 1991 by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the University of Georgia. The objective of the AEMN is to collect reliable weather information for agricultural and environmental applications. Each station monitors air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction, soil temperature at 2, 4, and 8 inch depths, atmospheric pressure, and soil moisture every 1 second. Data are summarized at 15 minute intervals and at midnight a daily summary is calculated. A microcomputer at the Georgia Experiment Station initiates telephone calls to each station periodically and downloads the recorded data. The data are processed immediately and disseminated via the world wide web ( www.Georgiaweather.net)"

What a treat for weather junkies. Graphs, charts, soil temperature, soil moisture - yesterdays conditions, today's conditions, 31 day summary. A treasure trove of information. You type in your zip code and there is all this data to peruse. A great rainy day place to surf.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....at the top of the list is the Web sites collected link
.......Horticulture
.......horticulture - scroll down a bit to find the link

OR go to the del.icio.us site for NMTC http://del.icio.us/NMTC_Librarian

Planning to travel?

Will you be driving to see friends and family over Thanksgiving?
Do you need to check up on your car?

Try using the Auto Repair Reference Center in GALILEO. It provides repair information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. You can print out the information to have a hard copy while you're working on your vehicle.

Best to be safe before you start out on a road trip!

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.

Holiday jobs

It may be too late to acquire the perfect Holday job. The link to these job sites has been added to GALILEO so you don't have to remember how to find them.

The Atlanta Job Bank was created to serve the needs of the Atlanta job seeker, employer, and recruiter and is offered as a completely FREE service by D&B Services, Inc.

Career Depot: CareerDepot.org was developed to provide universal access by our customers to information about resources in our region in the areas of employment, education and training, supportive services, etc.

Survey for GALILEO

Dear GALILEO users,

Take the 2006 GALILEO Annual User Survey and be entered to win a 30 GB video iPod or other great prize!

The annual GALILEO User Surveys, conducted since 1997, have provided valuable firsthand feedback from users about what they think about the GALILEO web site, as well as experiential feedback from library staff on how their patrons are (or are not) navigating the menus and databases.

To help encourage participation this year, particularly by patrons, students, and other end users, a 30 GB Apple iPod will be awarded to a lucky survey respondent.

Be sure to encourage your users to complete the survey to be entered into the drawing. The survey will be conducted November 7-13, 2006. Just click on the survey link on the GALILEO home page to participate.

Thank you in advance taking the time to contribute your opinions and ideas.


Regards, Karen


Karen Minton, Virtual Services Librarian,
GALILEO Library Services Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
2500 Daniells Bridge Road ,
Building 300
Athens, GA 30606-3539

Phone: 888-875-3697
Fax: (706) 583-2294
karen.minton@usg.edu

http://www.galileo.usg.edu/

More than a sales weekend

Veterans Day is more than the first sale of the holiday season. In our collection we have 51 titles when I searched for "veterans". Most of the titles can be read on-line in netLibrary.

One special book can be found in our Early Childhood collection at PZ 7. B91527 WAL 1990 written by Eve Bunting,The wall, illustrated by Ronald Himler. A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.

Remember those who fought and gave their all.
Remember those who served and came home.
Remember each service person.

Native American Month

November is the month set aside to honor Native Americans. The Pilgrims wouldn't have made it without the help of the locals.

In GALILEO there is a database titled Native American Documents.

"This database contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast. "

News Transcripts

Did you fall asleep before the results were in? Would you like to read what various commentators had to say about the election?

You can pull up transcripts to news shows on LexisNexis Academic in GALILEO.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to L
.......Lexis Nexis

Select Guided News Search (second tab)
Step 1. Select News Transcripts
Step 2. Select the news organization- you have quite a choice
Step 3. Enter your search term
Step 4. Narrow your search to a specific date range
Step 5. Search publication titles


GALILEO notes "LexisNexis Academic contains approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English, other languages, and translations of international papers), legal news, general interest magazines, medical journals, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications (such as the federal case law, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Testimony, etc.), law reviews, and reference works (such as the Forbes Annual Directory, the Official Guide/American Marketplace and the US Global Trade Outlook). "

Advising

• Yesterday was the Fall Festival. Wonderful food (BBQ), music and games (even in the rain)
• This week is Advisement (meet with your Program Advisor)
• Next week is early Registration

Election Day

Please vote. Each vote does count. It is your civic duty to cast your vote for the candidate you think will best represent you.

Civic Duty

Today the Librarian begins Jury Duty in Cherokee County.

Read about the law in Georgia by going to the Georgia Code. The GALILEO Notes tell us that the Georgia Code is the compilation of the laws of the state of Georgia that are currently in force. The database is searchable by keyword and by code number.

GALILEO
....Social Sciences tab
.......Georgia Code

A rose by any other name

Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet reminds us that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

The name of the link to the NMTC_Librarian del.icio.us site has been changed in GALILEO to Web sites collected for NMTC Programs - simple, clear, and to the point.

We remember

Many Christians celebrate All Saints Day on November 1 and All Souls Day on November 2. They are days to remember those who have gone ahead.

Using the Religion and Philosophy Database (EbscoHost) in GALILEO, searching for "All Souls Day" brings up 16 articles. Most of the articles reflect on what the day means to the author.

The GALILEO more notes tell us that "The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a database with more than 243 full-text journals. It covers topics in spiritual, ethical, philosophical, cultural, and historical aspects of the world's major religions."

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.......Jump to R
..........Religion & Philosophy

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.

Who uses it?

Librarians regularly gather statistics to note how many patrons use what resource.

You can see the numbers for GALILEO usage by going to the right hand side of the GALILEO home page

Under GALILEO information
....About GALILEO
.......At the bottom of the left hand blue column - Usage Statistics
..........Usage Statistics Reporting Tool
...........You have lots of options- week, month, day
...........The Institution
...........The database

Numbers are fun to play with- see who uses what and how 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.

Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Bones

It's Halloween and skeletons are a must have decoration. What are those bones called?

Try the E-Skeleton Project.

"The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animations, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information. eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur."

We did add eSkeleton to GALILEO for NMTC.

All Hallows Eve

How many treats do you have stockpiled to give to treaters who arrive at your door? Snopes Urban legends notes that Halloween is not the second most expensive holiday (read Halloween Loot, 29 Oct). We may be more public in our participation but we aren't spending more money- because the treats we hand out are not the expensive gifts of the other holidays!

Flu season begins

The ads are running- time to get your flu shot.

What if you'd like to try a non chemical remedy for the flu? Where would you go to get information?

"Alt HealthWatch focuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full-text content comes from more than 160 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, and book excerpts. " GALILEO description

Alt Health Watch is an Ebsco product.

There is a link called Find It which will show you the libraries in Georgia that own the periodical. You can search in the Georgia Libraries Journals List (GOLD) to discover the library that has the periodical. Your librarian can borrow the article through InterLibrary Loan.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....scroll to Alt Health Watch

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.

Where to go

and what to do when I get there....

Travel guides can be a great way to arm-chair travel. Travel guides can give you an idea of what to do when you get to your location.

NetLibrary has a collection of 31, Hunter Travel Guides. The guides range in date from 1998 to 2005.

GALILEO
....Find a a database by name
........Jump to n
...........netLibrary
..............Limit your search to title
..............Hunter Travel Guides

Happy traveling!

Guess who's coming to dinner?

Are you beginning to think about holiday gatherings? While the family is gathered, ask questions and start to gather the names and dates that build a family tree. Best of all, tape record the stories being told around the table or in the kitchen or on the porch. The stories tell more about the family than the names and dates.

Once you have a few names and dates you can use Ancestry.com on campus to look up more names and dates! If you use your public library GALILEO password, you can access Heritage Quest from home. Heritage Quest is similar to Ancestry.com- but not the same.

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.

Stocking stuffers

Halloween hasn't happened yet but stores have Christmas treats out to tempt you to spend ahead on the holiday season. If your loved one has everything and you'd like to get something that doesn't have to be dusted...some "money folks" suggest buying a single share of stock as a gift.

To find out about a company, you can search in Hoover's Company Records in GALILEO . The link leads you to Proquest so you aren't in the Hoover's you might be familiar with. The information is concise and readable.

I searched for bicycles- if I was giving a gift of stock, I might choose a stock that related to my recipients hobbies. 65 companies came up with the search term bicycles. Many are private companies so I couldn't buy stock. If it is a public company, the ticker symbol is included in the brief description.

"Hoover's Company Capsules & Profiles includes brief information on 15,000 companies, including an overview of company operations, addresses, phone and fax numbers, names of key officers, a list of top competitors, sales and employment figures, and stock symbols.

Direct access to Hoover's Company Capsules and Profiles can be found within full-text articles in ABI Inform Complete and ABI Inform Dateline. Links are indicated with an information icon followed by a company name."

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.

On line video instruction

Do you learn best by seeing and hearing the instruction?

Chattahoochee Technical College is creating online video instruction for using GALILEO. Their first module teaches about the Quick Search function:

http://www.ctcdlg.org/training/quicksearchdemo/quicksearchdemo

Try it- it's about ten minutes long. Let it load first, then play it.

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.

Autumnal delights

The colors in north west Georgia are magnificent. Bright reds, yellows, and oranges with burgundy thrown in for delight! It almost looks like a New England fall when you drive up the mountain roads.

Last year I took you to Access Science @ McGraw Hill to look for information about photosynthesis and autumn color.

This year lets do a Quick Search using the term Fall Leaves and limit our search to Science and Technology.

Amazing.

The articles float down to us like the falling leaves.

The first article in Health Source : Consumer Edition has a complete description of the physiology involved in leaves turning red. Scrolling down shows articles about gas prices and leaf watchers from USA Today.

Fun to see what comes up in a Quick Search.

What to do with all those apples

Autumn festivals abound especially apple festivals in North Georgia. What does one do with the abundance of fruit?

EbscoHost database Academic Search Premier and Research Library at ProQuest both offer the search limiter recipe.

GALILEO - Databases A-Z
...EbscoHost
.....Academic Search Premier
.........Advanced Search -full text
.............Document type- scroll to recipe!

122 apple recipes in Academic Search Premier were pulled up - from sources like Natural Health, Scholastic Parent & Child, Hispanic, & Better Nutrition!

GALILEO - Databases A-Z
....Proquest Databases or Research Library at Proquest
.......Advanced Search - full text
..........More options
.............Document type - recipe

716 documents were retrieved. Vibrant Life, Chatelaine, Simple Life, Prevention, and Sunset are a few of the magazines used!

Happy cooking!

Flying time

Spent Thursday learning about creating a culture of innovation. Heard interesting ways to tie the library and research together.

Databases offer students 24/7 access to resources needed to build their knowledge base. GALILEO at NMTC offers over a 100 databases.

Check out GALILEO. Each database can offer you a wealth of information.

Charitable Giving

Listening to NPR this morning as they asked for donations, made me think about Foundations and charitable giving. How do you find out what charities are "real"?

In GALILEO you can go to
Business and Economics (tab)
...Georgia Corporate Search
"lists all organizations or individuals licensed for business by the Georgia Secretary of State. Information provided for each license holder includes: address, chief executive officer, secretary, and chief financial officer"

I typed in Foundation and 7680 records came up.

Fascinating information!


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.

Something quick

When you're looking for something to read and it's too yucky to go outside....we have 44,000 books in netLibrary that you can select from!

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to N
.........Select netLibrary
I started with romance as the keyword search.
Nothing came up that looked like a fiction title.
netLibrary suggested the Topic American fiction in English
I selected that and over 1400 fiction titles came up!
netLibrary also suggested English fiction as a topic.

I don't have to go out in the rain to find a good story to read.

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.

Cooling down

It's getting cooler, Autumn really is here. The leaves are turning orange, red and yellow. Not the vibrant colors one sees in pictures from the North East but still colorful enough. Which brings me to Horticulture.

HORT 100 learned about the resources available to them through GALILEO. They said- if only we'd know about these resources for our first project. Now they know for their second project.

Web sites suggested by the students and faculty in EHO (Environmental Horticulture program) have been added to GALILEO and to the NMTC_Librarian del.icio.us link.

You'll see the NMTC Librarian link is a Try Me First link when you select Databases A-Z in GALILEO.

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.

Be Afraid, very, very afraid

---or not.

It's the second Friday the 13th for 2006. At Urban Legends there is a description of why we feel Friday the 13th is so unlucky.

Being concerned about the number 13 is not original with western thought or Christianity.
I like the idea that early humans had 10 fingers and two feet so counting beyond that was scary.

Are you concerned about Friday the 13th?

The Most Famous Man

......you've never heard of

Pop stars, rappers, sports stars, public personas - who will remember them in 100 years? Andy Warhol talked about each persons 15 minutes of fame. On the shelf at NMTC is a book - Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of ( GV 1811 .R4 C37 2001) by David Carlyon.

Who was Dan Rice? The jacket blurb by David Carlyon paints an intriguing picture of a man who came from nothing to entertain millions and then sunk to a sentimental obscurity. What is stylish in one era becomes an embarrassment to another generation. What will the people of 2050 think of our "stars"?

Borrowing, stealing, using?

Did you happen to watch Studio 60 on Monday night?

It was a wonderful illustration of the seriousness of plagiarism. Lots of hollering, lawyers being called, jobs threatened…..
The ending was a superb example of the organization owning the copyright to work produced by an employee - Intellectual Property rights.

Plagiarism is serious business…. Here are a few sites that might help you avoid stealing others work:

Gananda Library, NY: Plagiarism is no big deal is it?
http://www.gananda.org/library/mshslibrary/plagexamples.htm
This web site gives examples of what happens to those who steal another person’s work through plagiarizing.

Michael Harvey’s “The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing”
http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/plagiarism.html
This web site offers you ways to take information and make it your own

And of course, in GALILEO there is the How do I...box with a link for citing a source. The tutorials have sections on citing sources, too.

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.

Exploring

Thinking about Columbus inspired me to look around GALILEO and see what I haven't clicked on.... Click on Kids (center of the Banner, bottom line).

Voila- bright, easy to use, not overwhelming. Might even be fun for grown-ups!

Welcome Back Fair

Pizza will be served in the 100 building from 11-1 and again from 5-6 - at no cost to you.

There will be tables set up with information about

• Student Discounts
• Campus Services
• Student Organizations
• Coupons

What do you get?

Today is Columbus Day. In some parts of the country there is a celebration of his risk taking and PR abilities. He came, he saw, he went back and told people!

If you do a Quick Search for Columbus in GALILEO, limiting yourself to the News/Facts & Reference tab- you'll be astonished at what comes up- articles about places named Columbus.

The Oxford English Dictionary does mention Christopher Columbus :
Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Results 1 to 1 of 1 Select or Deselect all
1. The name of Christopher Columbus, the explorer (1451-1506), used allusively for an explorer or discoverer.

Changing my search to "Christopher Columbus" (in quotes) narrowed the search. Interestingly, Oxford English Dictionary did not pull up the article.

There is the Advanced Search option which allows you to use Boolean operators.

Widen and narrow your search to find exactly what you're looking for!

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.

Information Literacy?

What is information literacy?

-the ability to determine what information you need- knowing what you don't know
-being able to find out who has the information you need
-once you find the information - is it really what you need, is it correct
- then combining what you learned with what you know
- using that new pool of information to accomplish something

Being able to read words and getting the meaning from them is one form of literacy.
Being able to "read" the pictures used to tell a story on TV or in a commercial is another form of literacy.
Knowing what you don't know and how to fill that gap is Information Literacy!

Are you information literate?

Breaking ground!

Today is a big day in the life of North Metro Technical College. We are breaking ground for an Allied Health building! This is the first "real" building to be added to the campus since the school was built.

Ground breaking ceremonies will be held at 1:30. You can see the tent for the dignitaries (including Governor Perdue) from I-75 between exits 277 and 278!

What do I have?

And how do I go about finding some answers? If you have a health problem and wonder who can answer your questions....here is a site (on the web and linked in GALILEO ) where you get links to authoritative organizations:

The National Health Information Center (NHIC) is a health information referral service. NHIC puts health professionals and consumers who have health questions in touch with those organizations that are best able to provide answers. NHIC was established in 1979 by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Knowing where to go to get answers is half the battle!

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.

LISTA: Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts

"Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA) indexes more than 600 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s."

EBSCO is providing this database at no cost, as a gift to Librarians.

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.

First Day of the Quarter

The parking lot is filling up with eager students. The first days of the quarter are full of positive energy.

Who?

Literature Online (LION) is the place to go to find authoritative information about authors and their work:

"Welcome to Literature Online, a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 192 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. 62 new and revised biographies; 10 new full-text journals; new releases of African Writers Series and Twentieth-Century Drama; additional Shakespeare editions..."

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 Quiet on the Western Front

Registration is over. Faculty are gathering materials to prepare for the first day of classes on Tuesday Oct 3. It's very quiet. The phrase all quiet on the western front slipped into my head.

Did you see the movie or read the book All Quiet on the Western Front? There are Cliff notes in netLibrary about All Quiet on the Western Front.

All Quiet on the Western Front Notes by Mary Ellen Snodgrass, M.A. University of North Carolina at Greensboro including • Life and Background • Remarque's Literary Works • Remarque's Films • Introduction to the Novel • A Brief Synopsis • List of Characters • Critical Commentaries • Map of the Battlefront • Critical Essays Style Symbolism Rhetorical Devices A Note on World War I and Its Technology • Character Analyses • Review Questions and Essay Topics • A Selected Bibliography INCORPORATED LINCOLN, NEBRASKA 68501 heavily. While working for various movie studios, Remarque settled in a colony of German expatriates in west Los Angeles until 1942, when he moved to New York's Ambassador Hotel and eventually to an apartment on East 57th Street, which he considered his permanent home. Life became less oppressive for Remarque in his last two decades. A reader of Malraux, Proust, Flaubert, Balzac, Stendhal, Poe, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Rilke, London, Wilder, and Zen philosophy, he also devoted himself to book discussions, long walks, and collecting Iranian rugs and Chinese bronze figurines, which his wife later sold to relieve the burden of guarding his costly treasures. Remarque's Literary Works Unlike many classic authors, Remarque achieved enough monetary return from All Quiet on the Western Front to allow him the luxury of time and selectivity.

Check it out!
Go to our card catalog online.
.....Go to Advanced search (far left in the blue column under Search)
........Select Keyword search
..........Type in All quiet on the Western Front - title
..............Select EBK as material type
Two titles will be pulled up!

Orientation

Three times today, we'll tell new students what they need to do to succeed at NMTC!
First orientation has begun (8:35 AM). Two more - 1PM and 4PM.

Poetry

The leaves are turning colors.
The swaths of brilliance cross the hills.

Are you looking for ways to express your delight in the seasonal changes?
Poetry is one way to clearly articulate what is happening around you.

If you're looking for poetry-
GALILEO
....Quick Search
.........autumn poem ( GALILEO will put the quotes around the phrase)


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.

Beauty in Stone

From GALILEO:

Beauty in Stone: The Industrial Films of the Georgia Marble Company is now available in the GALILEO demonstration system at: http://dlgmaint.galib.uga.edu/georgiamarble

The Digital Library of Georgia, the Pickens County Library of the Sequoyah Regional Library System, the Marble Valley Historical Society, the Georgia Archives, and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection are pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: Beauty in Stone: The Industrial Films of the Georgia Marble Company.

The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, and the widespread use of their marble, limestone and serpentine products.

Georgia Marble Company's use of the industrial film medium served to promote its products by capturing in live action the skill and industry required to create "beauty in stone."

The first film, New Face on Capitol Hill, depicts Georgia Marble Company's role in the reconstruction of the east façade of the U.S. Capitol building prior to John F. Kennedy's inauguration, and includes footage of president John F. Kennedy at his 1961 inauguration, the former vice president Richard M. Nixon, and Architect of the Capitol J. George Stewart.

The second film, Producing America's Buried Treasures, focuses more closely on the company's overall history, its quarrying and finishing facilities in Georgia, Tennessee and Vermont, the breadth of applications for Georgia marble products and related limestone and serpentine industries in Alabama and Virginia. Unique to this film are its highlights of uses for processed marble in products that include roofing material, and turf marking for athletic fields.

Both Producing America's Buried Treasure and the New Face on Capitol Hill feature the company's marble quarrying and finishing operations in Pickens County, Georgia; both include pictorial examples of marble-quarrying and marble-shaping machinery, of stone cutters working in the quarry, and of craftsmen sculpting the marble. Many beautiful high-quality products were produced by the Georgia Marble Company, and a number of well-known structures comprised of Georgia marble are interspersed throughout both films. Most notable are the statue Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, and the façade of the U.S. Capitol Building, the centerpiece of New Face on Capitol Hill.

Beauty in Stone is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Pickens County Library of the Sequoyah Regional Library System, the Marble Valley Historical Society, the Georgia Archives, and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This 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.

Where shall we go?

Atlas' offer a superb arm chair tour of the world. Travel books offer details about the country and the people.

We recently acquired a "coffee table" book - The Travel Book (G 153.4 .T715 2004). It's not really an atlas (a book of maps) though it does have small icon maps of the countries visited. Each country has a two page spread with large and small pictures. There is a standard display of information which makes it easy to compare countries for visiting!

Begin traveling without leaving home.

Fall is here

The first day of Autumn for 2006 was September 22. Have you decorated your home with pumpkins, gourds and colorful leaves?

A Quick Search of GALILEO turned up this article in MasterFILE Premier:

From my home to yours.Stewart, Martha - Martha Stewart Living 2006-10 155 27(4) ISSN: 10575251 Description: The article highlights the use of pumpkins, squashes and gourds in a variety of decorative ways to celebrate the arrival of autumn and the approach of Halloween. When green gourds were grouped on the picnic table, they attracted a tremendous amount of attention. House doors were also enhanced with bright golden and orange bittersweet wreaths.

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.

The answers

As promised on Monday, here are the answers to the scavenger hunt.

First, a repeat of the questions:
1) Which of the following men did NOT sign the Constitution? GeorgeWashington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, JamesMadison, Jr. ________
2) What year was the Constitution signed? ______
3) In what city was the Constitution signed? _____________________
4) Which two signers of the Constitution later became U.S. Presidents?__________
5) Fill-in-the-blank: The Constitution consists of a preamble, 7 articles, and _____ amendments.
6) The first 10 amendments are also known as the _________________.
7) Which amendment gives freedom of religion, speech, and the press?____
8) Which amendment limits the President to two terms in office? ___
9) Which amendment gives 18-year-olds the right to vote? ___
10) Which amendment gives women the right to vote? ___
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Answers: 1) A. Lincoln; 2) 1787; 3) Philadelphia; 4) G. Washington and J. Madison; 5) 27; 6) Bill of Rights; 7) Amendment 1; 8) Amendment 22; 9) Amendment 26; 10) Amendment 19

Georgia's Constitution

How many Constitutions' has Georgia had?

Check out the State Archives Virtual Vault
.....Search keywords - type in Constitution
.......The original documents are scanned and available for you to read. The handwriting is magnificent.

Liberty and Law

Dr. Thomas Scott from Kennesaw State University gave an inspiring talk to the EtowahChapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Cartersville. He concluded his remarks by reminding us that the first order of business after the Revolution for each state was creating a Constitution.

One is not free unless there are laws to protect each persons rights.

Quick search

Quick search at GALILEO looks through multiple databases at one time. Try doing a search for constitution and then search for constitution united states. Different results. Changing the search terms can broaden or narrow 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.

Scavenger Hunt

Just for fun, here are a few questions that were compiled by Cheri Jost of Garland, Texas for LM_NET.

You can find the answers to these questions in an encyclopedia. You can use Encyclopedia Britannica in GALILEO.

1) Which of the following men did NOT sign the Constitution?
George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, Jr.

2) What year was the Constitution signed? _______

3) In what city was the Constitution signed? _____________________

4) Which two signers of the Constitution later became U.S. Presidents?

5) Fill-in-the-blank: The Constitution consists of a preamble, 7 articles, and _____ amendments.

6) The first 10 amendments are also known as the _________________.

7) Which amendment gives freedom of religion, speech, and the press?____

8) Which amendment limits the President to two terms in office? ___

9) Which amendment gives 18-year-olds the right to vote? ___

10) Which amendment gives women the right to vote? ___

Answers on Friday..........

We the People

September 17 to September 23 is Constitution Week. We celebrate the Constitution of the United States. To read the Constitution you can go to the Library of Congress : American Memory .

Lace draperies

This morning the dew had settled on the spider webs and created a lacey effect on the bushes. The question popped up- how do the spider webs affect the bushes?

Garden Literature Index in GALILEO has articles about spider webs!

Garden Literature Index is an Ebsco Database that NMTC subscribes to for the Environmental Horticulture Department.

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.

Feeding the Information Tiger

Do you want to know what is happening but really don't want to play with RSS feeds and aggregators?

You can "Set an Alert" in ABI/Inform (or any ProQuest Database) which will send you an e-mail when your topic is addressed. You get one e-mail a day for up to a year on your topic.

"ABI/INFORM Dateline is a full-text database that focuses on local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. It provides information not typically found in the national press sources. Topics cover subjects such as agriculture, company profiles, corporate strategies, executive profiles, financial services, high technology, manufacturing, marketing, regional business environments, retailing, and service industries.

Direct access to specific company information via Hoover's Company Capsules and Profiles can be found within full-text articles in ABI Inform Complete and ABI Inform Dateline. Links are indicated with an information icon followed by a company name. "

What did they do?

From an e-mail to the GALILEO users:

The Digital Library of Georgia and the Athens Regional Library are pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1912-1920.

The online collection consists of a minute book, covering the years 1912-1920, from the Athens Woman's Club collection housed in the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library that documents the social, philanthropic and reform activities of the Athens Woman's Club during the height of the Progressive Era. The minutes also chronicle the relationships between the Athens Woman's Club and various other organizations of local, state and national significance such as the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The materials help define the complexity of regional roles and events, with particular regards to the Club's delayed participation in the national suffrage movement. Chartered in 1899, the Athens Woman's Club, like many other women's clubs in Georgia and throughout the United States, was originally formed as a literary club dedicated to the educational and cultural development of its members.

Over the next two decades, the club gradually directed its efforts to serve the community beyond its membership by embarking upon social reform and civic improvement initiatives. The following set of minutes illuminates this critical transition and the notable work performed by members of the Athens Woman's Club, who fundraised, lobbied and organized to support relief efforts during World War I, to establish institutions such as the Ella F. White Memorial School and the Crawford Long Infirmary, and to persuade university trustees to admit women as students at the University of Georgia.

For Our Mutual Benefit is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Athens-Regional Library as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This 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.


For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1912-1920 has been added to the GALILEO demo system and is available for your review at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athenswomansclub.

New books, old books

When we purchase a new reference edition, the old reference edition (unless its dangerously outdated information) becomes a circulating copy. This week the American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants revised edition 2004 joined our Reference collection.

The 1997 edition is available for check out.

Patriot Day

Fly the Flag
Remember
What were you doing on September 11, 2001?
How has your life changed?

Read news transcripts from September 11, 2001 by going to LexisNexis in GALILEO.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to L
.........LexisNexis
Guided search
..US News
..Pick a news source - NorthEast Regional News Sources - or Georgia..
..Subject: World Trade Center
..Limit Date: 11 Sept 2001 to 12 Sept 2001

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.

Stingrays

With the accidental death of the Crocodile Hunter,Steve Irwin, questions about stingrays may come up. Do you know where to find authoritative answers to your questions?

Try "Encyclopedia of Animals which is a full-text database in Searchasaurus of over 2,200 entries about the life and habitat of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, and dinosaurs appropriate for the research needs of school students. Some entries include photographs. "



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.

Wiki, wiki

Check us out - NMTC Library wiki.

"Wiki wiki" means "quick" or "hurry" in Hawai'ian . Classic wiki's encourage the community to participate in adding to the information available. The NMTC Library staff is creating this wiki for quick access to the Library Policies and Procedures for NMTC library staff. The site is not open for public editing. Though our patrons will not be allowed to collaborate on the Policies and Procedures, we hope this information will be useful.

Long weekend

Are you rested? Ready to begin the Holiday countdown? Between Labor Day and New Years we have several high profile holidays!

Halloween is becoming an adult fantasy holiday. If you're looking to create just the right costume- check out 20,000 years of fashion :the history of costume and personal adornment / by Franðcois Boucher ; with a new chapter by Yvonne Deslandres.
by Francois Boucher.

There's nothing new under the sun, as you'll notice when you skim through this book!

Like Christmas!

New shelving arrived this afternoon. We'll be busy shifting books! Oh boy. Come see what we've done. It looks like a new library!!!!

Getting to know you

Orientation, advisement, registration.
First experience in higher education.

Getting to know us can be intimidating.
Just ask questions.
If we don't know the answer, we'll find out for you!

First orientation at 8:30 is over- students have scattered to their advisors.
Soon they'll be registering on-line.

Next orientation is at 1PM.
The last orientation is at 4PM.

Test drive a book, Sept 1-30

netLibrary offers a Book of the Month for a test drive of netLibrary. NMTC users may access netLibrary through our OPAC (catalog) and through GALILEO.

September eBook of the Month:
The History Highway: A 21st-Century Guide to Internet Resources, Fourth Edition

"Just in time for back to school. The September eBook of the m onth will help save hours upon hours of research time. Extensively revised and expanded, The History Highway, Fourth Edition (M.E. Sharpe, 2006) is widely recognized as the one essential tool for students, teachers and researchers seeking a reliable guide to history sites on the web. Now, with live links to all of the websites covered in the eBook, access to this information is just a mouse click away.
Since its inception in 1996, The History Highway has become a valuable resource for anyone conducting web-based research. Offering the broadest, most current coverage of historical information available online, this best-selling reference covers U.S. and World history and provides detailed, easy-to-use, and up-to-date information on more than 3,000 web sites.
Designed to increase awareness of online resources and highlight the value of your eBook collection, the September eBook of the Month is provided through the generous support of M.E. Sharpe. Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your NetLibrary collection by sharing this indispensable road map to history resources on the web."

The History Highway will be provided with free, unlimited access September 1-30.

©2006, NetLibrary, a division of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. 4888 Pearl East Circle, Ste. 103, Boulder, Colorado 80301. All rights reserved.

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.

Early Registration

Hard to believe but we are doing early registration for the Fall Quarter. Last week was advisement for current students. This week is registration. New students will be able to attend orientation, advisement, and then register on Thursday (Aug 31).

Fall quarter begins Tuesday,October 3.

Making a plan

Successful businesses have a plan. They plan for success. Entrepreneur Magazine's Business Plans Made Easy [HD 30.28 .H474 2005] by Entrepreneur Press and David H. Bangs, Jr will help you "create a high impact business plan that can mean the difference between success and failure."

Our business classes prepare the small business owner for a profit making enterprise. Part of that profit making comes from having a plan.

Rarely do we start out on a vacation without a destination in mind or at least a time frame for our wanderings. Starting a business is more than making a business card and posting flyers.

Check out our business collection for materials that will help you plan your business into life!

Woof Woof

Pluto was downsized from a planet last week.
GALILEO has current articles about the change.
Encyclopedia Britannica Online has edited their article (available through GALILEO).
Wikipedia has locked their article on Pluto because of vandalism but it does have the updated information.

Online resources can get you accurate and timely information. Check your sources.

Spelling counts

The gentleman who settled Georgia - was it James Ogelthorpe or James Oglethorpe?

Both spellings will bring up information about the first Governor of Georgia in Google . Search using "Governor Ogelthorpe" and then "Governor Oglethorpe". Interesting results.

The correct spelling is in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.

Testing study guides

To enroll in a college, entrance tests must be taken. There are study guides to help you prepare for any entrance exam. Print study guides for the Compass test and the GED are on Reserve at North Metro - they can only be used in the library.

Go to our catalog on-line - use Advanced Search - enter study guides AND test. This pulls up 81 records. The first 18 items are available through netLibrary!

Get ready!

Private publicity

In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes." ... Andy Warhol

Today on NPR there was conversation about the Human Resources departments checking social networking spaces like MySpace and Friendster or doing a Google search on an applicant.

What you post on the internet is available to everyone (your parents, your boss, a future employer, a significant other). They can read whatever you post. Be aware that what you think is "funny" or "cute" may not come across that way to a prospective employer - they may see your post as immature and irresponsible. Very few employers choose to hire someone that has shown themselves to be immature or irresponsibile.

Make your fifteen minutes of fame something to be proud of - not something to explain away as a youthful indiscretion.

If you'd like to read the conversation- check LexisNexis for the transcript for the August 23 Morning Edition on NPR. You can get to LexisNexis through GALILEO.

2 versions

There are two versions of Business Source Premier in GALILEO- regular and enhanced. Both have the same content but the look of the search page is different:

Regular- looks like an Ebsco search page - predominantly green, opens on the Basic search page, advanced search has the fields across the screen

Enhanced - looks different - predominatly blue- opens on the Advanced search page with more options visible, the search boxes are vertical in relation to each other rather than horizontal

Content is the same- the delivery package looks different!
Explore which package appeals to you.

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.

Wiki what?

From Wikipedia - A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː] [1]) is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative authoring. The term wiki can also refer to the collaborative software itself (wiki engine) that facilitates the operation of such a website (see wiki software), or to certain specific wiki sites, including the computer science site (and original wiki), WikiWikiWeb, and the online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia. The first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, is named after the "Wiki Wiki" line of Chance RT-52 buses in Honolulu International Airport, Hawaii. It was created in 1994 and installed on the web in 1995 by Ward Cunningham, who also created the Portland Pattern Repository. "Wiki-wiki" means "hurry quick" in Hawaiian. It also refers to a type of fish native to the islands.

Most educators (and Wikipedia itself) do not suggest you use Wikipedia for your primary documentation. It is a good jumping off point- as is any encyclopedia (Encyclopedia Britannica is available through GALILEO) - to get introductory information. Once you have that beginning information- go to other sources for confirmation and expansion!

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.

Early Bird....

....catches the worm

This is the week for Fall Quarter advisement- early registration for Fall Quarter starts next week.

Meet with your program advisor this week to figure out the best way to complete your program efficiently and effectively.

Register on-line next week for the classes you need to finish your program.

NMTC offers an education that works!

Something new

In Book Index With Reviews and in NoveList (through GALILEO via NMTC) there is a link to the public WorldCat .

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to B for Book Index with Reviews
.....Jump to N for NoveList
........search for the title or author or topic you're interested in.
..........Select the book
............Look to the left of the screen and see the links - to Ebsco Host Author search, EbscoHost Title search and to WorldCat!

Each library that subscribes to BIR and NoveList can have the databases customized. NMTC has chosen to have the World Cat link added. We want our patrons to only have to look once. By using World Cat rather than our catalog- if we don't own the book, the patron will find out who has the item without making a second search.

This is so handy. Get your library card out and be ready to borrow!

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.

Letting folks know!

Do you have a group of people with whom you like to share information? At the Ebsco workshop on Tuesday, we were taught how to set up Journal alerts for other people! Setting up an alert for oneself was common knowledge- setting up an alert for others was new information!

The alert process works the same but there is a box where you can add other addresses. This is great for a cooking group where you'd like to share recipes or a study group where you'd all like to have the same articles!

New faces

Georgia Highlands is hosting their fall orientations today at NMTC. This orientation is for students who will be taking classes at the Acworth campus of Georgia Highlands.
.....One orientation for students
........One orientation for parents

New beginnings. Everyone looks excited and nervous.

First Chapter

Novelist has added a feature that book browsers will enjoy....the first chapter of a book!

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to N
........Novelist
...Search Our Database (second tab)
......Select the way you'd like to search- Find an Author, Find a title, etc
.........Type in your author, title, etc
............Select the book
..................In a box with other links will be a link titled First Chapter

(So far in my searching in Novelist I only found two titles that had The First Chapter - the Firm by John Grisham and The Long Firm by Jake Arnott. Today was the roll out for this addition to Novelist, perhaps more books will have The First Chapter as time goes by.)


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.

Flowers, bushes, and trees!

It feels like NMTC has a good collection of materials for our Environmental Horticulture program. (Check our card catalog)

This weekend while getting an orientation to the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, our collection shrunk in comparison to the Cherokee Garden Library: Center for the Study of Southern Garden History. Their collection has "over 6500 volumes, the library contains 350 years of the literature of horticulture, landscape design, botany, and garden history."

The Kenan Research Center is open to the public at no charge,Tuesday through Saturday from 10-5.

Atlanta History Center
...Kenan Research Center (left side of the screen down about 4 buttons)
.... accessing the collection (left side of the screen third button)
...Related items (right side of the screen)
...Terminus Our Online Catalog

Plugs in the floor

While rearranging the library, we discovered four electric outlets in the floor! We've put a round table over the outlets. Patrons are now able to plug in their laptop. We have wireless access, too!

Surf the web, check your e-mail, do your research from the comfort of the library.

Finding a needle in a haystack

Looking for just the right book can be difficult. "The OCLC Online Computer Library Center, a nonprofit group, announced this week that it was making available to the public WorldCat’s search engine of library holdings. WorldCat, which is maintained by the library center, is a database of materials from 10,000 libraries worldwide. Previously, only library patrons could gain access to WorldCat’s search tool. Now available through WorldCat.org, the search tool also helps people locate the library nearest them that has the book, article, or video or audio recording they are looking for. "People are starting their searches on the Web rather than in the library, and that’s where we want to be," said Bob Murphy, a spokesman for the library center.—Andrea L. Foster" http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/1480/library-searches-made-easy

Reminding the faculty

This afternoon the librarian will be reminding the faculty of the resources available through the Library at NMTC.


Books- over 5000 at NMTC
...Inter Library Loan
...KSU, SPSU, Georgia Highlands
...All DTAE libraries

Periodicals

Study Carrels
Small Group Study Room

7 computers soon to be 10
Printer
Fax
Copier

Online resources
...NetLibrary – new screen
...GALILEO
...Auto Repair Reference Center
...Garden Literature Index
...Encyclopedia Britannica

New search box for periodicals
http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/demo >
Find Books & Journals >
Journals A-Z & Citation Linker

Web sites added to GALILEO for the programs

Del.icio.us
Blog – View from the Library
http://northmetrotechlibraryatacworth.blogspot.com/

Oh so pretty

The carpet is in, the furniture is rearranged, the books back on the shelves.
The library looks spacious!

Stop by to see what we've done!

Testing, testing

Have you wondered where a journal can be found? Which database has the journal on-line? You could search each database for the publication titles. GALILEO has a new tool in preview:

A preview of the new GALILEO Find It electronic journals list is now available from the GALILEO homepage in the GALILEO demonstration system. The electronic journals list is powered by SFX with authentication support by EZproxy and provides a searchable list of all electronic journals available to your institution via GALILEO. Once the list is in production, linking among GALILEO resources will be implemented so that citations without full-text in one resource can link to full-text available in another.

http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/demo > Find Books & Journals > Journals A-Z & Citation Linker

Try it you'll like it!

Yummy for the tummy

Tasting new dishes while traveling is a treat. Recreating those tastes at home can be a fun way to remember the vacation.

Find recipes using GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to E
........EbscoHost
.........Advanced Search
.........Type in the food
..........Limit to full text
..........In Document type - scroll down and select recipe

Bon Appetit!

One last trip

School is beginning to start in Georgia. Cherokee County began on Tuesday. Other counties begin this Monday. You still want to take a quick trip but don't know where to go?

ProQuest and EbscoHost use all sorts of magazines to get their articles. You can select one magazine to scroll through! I went to ProQuest, selected the Publications tab, typed in Travel (that limited the magazine search) - 15 titles came up. Among the titles were Travel & Leisure, Arthur Frommer's Travel, and Travel Holiday.

You may not have time to travel but these articles can whet your appetite for the next trip!

GALILEO
.....Databases A-Z
.........Jump to P
............ProQuest Databases
................Publication tab
....................Travel