Summer fun!

Sometimes you can't leave home to have fun, so you sit around wondering what to do......you've played all the video games (and won), you've watched all the movies, TV is into re-runs of re-runs- so what is there to do?

Try "Searchasaurus: Primary/Elementary Search is designed for elementary school students. 55 full-text childrens' publications and 120 general publications for professionals working with students on the primary/elementary level are included. 300 full text pamphlets are also included. In additional to searchable full-text for some publications, photos are included in many articles. "

There's also "Searchasaurus: Middle Search Plus provides full text from nearly 90 general, reference, health, and science publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 130 magazines, including charts, tables, graphs, and photographs."

It is an EbscoHost product. The layout is colorful and fun to use! Encyclopedia articles, fun facts- things you never thought to ask about but there they are! It's aimed at Elemantary through Middle School students but the information is useful for any age.

GALILEO
.....DatabasesA-Z
........Jump to S
...........Searchasaurus

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.

Dissertation, thesis and more

Find out what a recent graduate from UGA's masters or doctoral program wrote for their thesis or dissertation.

The "University of Georgia Electronic Theses and Dissertations is a collection of the theses and dissertations submitted electronically to the Graduate School at the University of Georgia since the summer of 1999.

All dissertations are included, although some may not be viewable from off campus. The record for an individual document is always viewable, and will indicate the availability of the document. The author of a dissertation or thesis, in conjunction with his or her major professor, makes the determination if the work will be publicly available."

The titles are amazing!

GALILEO...Databases A-Z
......Jump to U
.........University of Georgia Electronic Theses and Dissertations

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 has the book?

World Cat is a catalog of materials owned by libraries throughout the world- hence the name World Cat!

How do you tell which library holds the item?
GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to W
...... select WorldCat

• Type in your topic, title or author
• When the results come up- see that link - Libraries Worldwide?
• Click on the Libraries Worldwide link and voila- arranged by state - starting with Georgia-are the libraries that own the title you're looking for
• You can click on the library name link, then click on their logo link and you're at their library web site which will usually have information about the location, the hours, etc

You may ask the Librarian to borrow any title found in World Cat from another library (some things don't get loaned - brand new fiction, Reference, Genealogy, Archival materials, videos, etc).

World Cat enables small libraries to serve their patrons! We're glad to be a part of the system.

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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Numbers.

In many parts of the world numbers tell a story. A search in Encyclopedia Britannica notes that Numerology is the "use of numbers to interpret a person's character or to divine the future. The theory behind numerology is based on the Pythagorean idea that all things can be expressed in numerical terms because they are ultimately reducible to numbers. " There is more in the Encyclopedia about numerology.

You might also use Quick Search in GALILEO to find current articles on the topic.

Numbers- fascinating - not just for math!

GALILEO
......Databases A-Z
..........Jump to E
..............Encyclopedia Britannica

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.

Remembering the heroes

The History Channel had a show recently about D-Day (June 6, 1944) when our troops landed on the Beaches of Normandy. A Google search turned up the The National D-Day Memorial Foundation .

There are two titles in netLibrary that might interest a history buff: The Comanche Code Talkers of World War II and Normandy to the Bulge : An American Infantry GI in Europe During World War II .

You can access the NMTC books in netLibrary through its link or through GALILEO or through the NMTC card catalog !

To use netLibrary off campus you must create a free account on campus (so netLibrary will recognize you as a NMTC user).