Wireless arrives!

NMTC now has wireless access for students and visitors (as of April 7, 2006). Tech Services installed an access point (AP) near the Café North Metro. This location was decided on because the coverage area would encompass the Library, Café, Auditorium, and the common area in front of the Admissions Office.

The AP can be utilized by the students as well as faculty and staff without having to enter a username and password. They will have access to the Internet, but not the NMTC network shares (P, H, and I). Also their Internet traffic will still be monitored/filtered by WebSense.

Please let your students know that this new service is available, but also remind them of a few things…

· Students and employees utilizing Technical College-provided Internet access are responsible for good behavior on-line just as they are in a classroom or other area of the college.

· The purpose of Technical College-provided Internet access is to facilitate communications in support of research and education. To remain eligible as users, students' use must be in support of and consistent with the educational objectives of the Department. Access is a privilege, not a right. Access entails responsibility. (Abuse could lead to removal of this privilege!)

· All information created, stored or transmitted by Department or Technical College computers or networks is subject to monitoring for compliance with applicable laws and policies.

Poems of Love

We're on a roll with love poems! William Shakespeare wrote The Sonnets: Poems of Love. Sonnets are 14 lines usually in iambic pentameter and usually rhymed.

"Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in their wealth, some in their body's force,
Some in their garments, though new fangled ill,
Some in their hawks and hounds, some in their horse;
And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure,
Wherein it finds a joy above the rest,
But these particulars are not my measure;
All these I better in one general best.
Thy love is better than high birth to me,
Richer than wealth, prouder than garment's cost,
Of more delight than hawks or horses be;
And having thee, of all men's pride I boast:
---Wretched in this alone, that thou mayst take
---All this away, and me most wretched make."

William Shakespeare
The Sonnets: Poems of Love , pg 91

(PR2848 A2 B837 1980 )

The People's Poet

Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), born Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, took the name of the Czech poet Jan Neruda because he knew his family would not approve of a man writing poetry.

Pablo went on to write more than 35 books and win the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Love poems begin this collection. These poems are something to take along on a picnic and regale your sweetheart.

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, edited and with an introduction by Ilan Stavans (PQ 8097 .N4 A2 2003)

P is for Poetry

The Library of Congress cataloging system uses 21 letters of the alphabet to designate subject areas. Coincidentally - P is the Literature, Language Arts, and Poetry section!

Poetry for Dummies: A reference for the rest of us can be found at PN 1042.P579 2001.

I'm a poet, my feet show it,

They're Longfellows
(more poetry from the schoolyard)

April is National Poetry month.
Do you consider yourself a poet?
Do you wish you could write flowing, flowering,rhyming verse?

The Rhyming Dictionary can help you!
There are several Rhyming Dictionary sites on the web. There is also a print version in the Reference section.

Fun fact

The Atlanta Journal Constitution noted it and an e-mail is making the rounds with this fun fact!

At one AM in the morning, actually at two minutes and three seconds past one AM on the 5th of April in 2006 - for that one second - the time, date stamp will be:

01:02:03 04/05/06

April showers bring May flowers

And you know what Mayflowers bring...... (answer at the bottom)

To begin celebrating National Poetry Month:
Check out LION in GALILEO (and notice the new search system in GALILEO)

Kilmer, Joyce, 1886-1918:
TREES [from [Poems, in] Joyce Kilmer [1918]]
(For Mrs. Henry Mills Alden)

1 I think that I shall never see
2 A poem lovely as a tree.
3 A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
4 Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
5 A tree that looks at God all day,
6 And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
7 A tree that may in Summer wear
8 A nest of robins in her hair;
9 Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
10 Who intimately lives with rain.
11 Poems are made by fools like me,
12 But only God can make a tree.

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.

From an old children's joke- Mayflowers bring......Pilgrims!

The work piles up

When a person takes a break from work, the work doesn't stop. When the person returns to the desk- the stacks await.... Stacks are being diminished as the Librarian returns to the fold.

Students are on campus getting oriented to NMTC, meeting with advisors, and registering for classes.

Spring quarter begins on Wednesday.