And then what?

Historical events seen through the eyes of the participants (especially the eyes of regular folks) give a slightly different take. Encourage the people you know to journal, to write a diary that can be read in 150 years.

The Cornelius C. Platter Civil War Diary of Lt. (later Capt.) Cornelius C. Platter, of the 81st Ohio Infantry Volunteers, covers November, 1864 April 27, 1865. Platter's diary details Sherman's march through Georgia from Rome to Savannah and the march north through the Carolinas. He gives dates, times, and lengths of marches and describes the weather, locale, scenery, and food as well as orders, rumors, positions, troop morale, and administrative duties. The diary also includes a description of the burning of Columbia, South Carolina, the news of the Confederate surrender, and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

You can read Mr. Platter's diary either through the Digital Library of Georgia or through GALILEO

NMTC password changes on June 24. 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.

Checking that list

Feels like Christmas Eve, waiting till the students come back- so quiet, not a creature is stirring...

Lists, of materials that are checked out, are being distributed to program areas. This is our annual lets-see-what-we-own-and-then-we-can-clean-up-the-catalog time.

The library catalog lets you know what the library owns! It's a wonderful resource and we do want to make sure it accurately reflects our holdings.

Social networking

Do you move from computer to computer and wish you had your internet Favorites list at each computer?

With sites like del.icio.us you can create your personal and portable list of links that you can access from any computer. del.icio.us is not new- it was created in December of 2003.

For more information about Social Bookmarking check out Social Bookmarking Tools (I) A General Review by Tony Hammond, Tino Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott Nature Publishing Group{t.hammond, t.hannay, b.lund, j.scott}@nature.com

Quick read

Google books is a super way to find print materials "but the aim of Google Book Search is to help you discover books and learn where to buy or borrow them, not read them from start to finish. "

But you want to read the entire book -

complete books (from start to finish) are available to you on-line through netLibrary.

NMTC has over 38,000 books available through netLibrary. Cookbooks, poetry, fiction, genealogy, science, business, jokes (yes, jokes) .....

You can access netLibrary (with full text books) several ways.

1. Through the NMTC catalog
2. Through GALILEO
3. Through the web by going directly to netLibrary

You do need to register as a netLibrary user either on campus or through GALILEO. If you need assistance - just ask the Librarian!

So quiet

First day of the three week break.
Most faculty have taken the day off.
Very quiet at North Metro Tech.

Graduation last Friday

On Friday, May 16, Graduation ceremonies were held at Woodland High School in Bartow County! Congratulations to the Class of 2006 who are prepared to enter the work force.

Missed Friday

Last Friday Southern Poly offered a day long workshop on Kick Starting Your Research! Inspirational speakers- their mantra was "read".