NMTC will be making student ID cards in the Admissions office next week.
(Mon-Fri, Jan 23-27)
The official NMTC student ID card allows a NMTC student to utilize both the Kennesaw State and Southern Poly libraries! This gives our students a much bigger resource pool to search in!.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Quoth the raven
Edgar Allan Poe was born this day in 1809.
Encyclopedia Britannica notes "American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature."
There is a museum dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond, Virginia http://www.poemuseum.org/.
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.
Encyclopedia Britannica notes "American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature."
There is a museum dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond, Virginia http://www.poemuseum.org/.
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.
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
A. A. Milne
Today would be the 124th birthday of A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne- the creator of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin.
Read more about A. A. Milne's work in LION (Literature On-line) "a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. 164 new and revised biographies; new releases of the African Writers Series and Twentieth-Century Drama; enhancement to ABELL records; Firefox support; read more in What's New? "
GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
........Jump to L
.............Select LION
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.
Read more about A. A. Milne's work in LION (Literature On-line) "a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. 164 new and revised biographies; new releases of the African Writers Series and Twentieth-Century Drama; enhancement to ABELL records; Firefox support; read more in What's New? "
GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
........Jump to L
.............Select LION
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.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Staying home
On those days when you get to stay home and read a good book....how do you find that good book?
"NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction."
GALILEO
.....Databases A-Z
........Jump to N
...........Novelist
Password for home use of GALILEO is available from your Librarian!
"NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction."
GALILEO
.....Databases A-Z
........Jump to N
...........Novelist
Password for home use of GALILEO is available from your Librarian!
Monday, January 16, 2006
MLK Day
"In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and upcoming Black History
month, a free newspaper archive of 50,000 newspaper pages about Dr. King has
been released on MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com...The website is a free
service of NewspaperARCHIVE.com and contains original stories about the
Montgomery bus boycott, the 'I Have A Dream' speech, details about King's
assassination on April 4, 1968, along with thousands of other headlines
detailing Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and work."
http://martinlutherkingjrarchive.com/
You might also look in GALILEO- check out LexisNexis Academic (#98 on the NMTC of GALILEO, Databases A-Z, list) for broadcast transcripts.
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.
month, a free newspaper archive of 50,000 newspaper pages about Dr. King has
been released on MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com...The website is a free
service of NewspaperARCHIVE.com and contains original stories about the
Montgomery bus boycott, the 'I Have A Dream' speech, details about King's
assassination on April 4, 1968, along with thousands of other headlines
detailing Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and work."
http://martinlutherkingjrarchive.com/
You might also look in GALILEO- check out LexisNexis Academic (#98 on the NMTC of GALILEO, Databases A-Z, list) for broadcast transcripts.
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.
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