Friday, August 04, 2006

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!

Thursday, August 03, 2006

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

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

How hot is it?

What are they saying about the heat?

Check out LexisNexis in GALILEO for current articles from across the country about the heat!

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to L
.......LexisNexis

I typed in heat and limited the search to today. Over 125 articles came up in Quick Search News (the limit for Quick Search is 125).
Guided News brought up 177 articles- looked for heat, today's news, today's selected news sources, limited to today.

We really are talking about the weather.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Pixels into pictures

The Digital Library of Georgia is a gateway to Georgia's history and culture found in digitized books, manuscripts, photographs, government documents, newspapers, maps, audio, video, and other resources.

The Digital Library of Georgia connects users to 500,000 images and pages of text in 90 collections from 55 institutions and 80 government agencies. Though this represents only a fraction of Georgia's cultural treasures, the Digital Library of Georgia continues to grow through its partnerships with libraries, archives, museums, government agencies, and allied organizations across the state.

The Digital Library of Georgia is a stand alone site. It may also be accessed through GALILEO

Monday, July 31, 2006

A new look

NetLibrary 4.0, an upgrade to the interface and search and navigation functionality of NetLibrary, was implemented today.

Key Features and Benefits

* New Site Architecture. A sleek new look and feel combined with simple intuitive navigation makes it easier to search across multiple formats.
* Automatic Summarization. Enables users to find the materials they are looking for quickly by providing a brief summary of eContent.
* Spell Checking. Automatically checks the spelling of a query term, recognizes commonly misspelled words and offers alternative spellings.
* Search within Search. Users can narrow search results by entering an additional search term or terms to drill down to relevant content.
* Concept Recommendations. Recognizes ambiguous search terms and provides recommendations for refining queries.
* Improved Query Performance. Query response will match performance indicators of leading Web search engines, typically offering response times of two seconds or less.