Friday, September 15, 2006

Lace draperies

This morning the dew had settled on the spider webs and created a lacey effect on the bushes. The question popped up- how do the spider webs affect the bushes?

Garden Literature Index in GALILEO has articles about spider webs!

Garden Literature Index is an Ebsco Database that NMTC subscribes to for the Environmental Horticulture Department.

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.

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Feeding the Information Tiger

Do you want to know what is happening but really don't want to play with RSS feeds and aggregators?

You can "Set an Alert" in ABI/Inform (or any ProQuest Database) which will send you an e-mail when your topic is addressed. You get one e-mail a day for up to a year on your topic.

"ABI/INFORM Dateline is a full-text database that focuses on local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. It provides information not typically found in the national press sources. Topics cover subjects such as agriculture, company profiles, corporate strategies, executive profiles, financial services, high technology, manufacturing, marketing, regional business environments, retailing, and service industries.

Direct access to specific company information via Hoover's Company Capsules and Profiles can be found within full-text articles in ABI Inform Complete and ABI Inform Dateline. Links are indicated with an information icon followed by a company name. "

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

What did they do?

From an e-mail to the GALILEO users:

The Digital Library of Georgia and the Athens Regional Library are pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1912-1920.

The online collection consists of a minute book, covering the years 1912-1920, from the Athens Woman's Club collection housed in the Heritage Room of the Athens-Clarke County Library that documents the social, philanthropic and reform activities of the Athens Woman's Club during the height of the Progressive Era. The minutes also chronicle the relationships between the Athens Woman's Club and various other organizations of local, state and national significance such as the Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs and the General Federation of Women's Clubs. The materials help define the complexity of regional roles and events, with particular regards to the Club's delayed participation in the national suffrage movement. Chartered in 1899, the Athens Woman's Club, like many other women's clubs in Georgia and throughout the United States, was originally formed as a literary club dedicated to the educational and cultural development of its members.

Over the next two decades, the club gradually directed its efforts to serve the community beyond its membership by embarking upon social reform and civic improvement initiatives. The following set of minutes illuminates this critical transition and the notable work performed by members of the Athens Woman's Club, who fundraised, lobbied and organized to support relief efforts during World War I, to establish institutions such as the Ella F. White Memorial School and the Crawford Long Infirmary, and to persuade university trustees to admit women as students at the University of Georgia.

For Our Mutual Benefit is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Athens-Regional Library as part of Georgia HomePLACE. This project is supported with federal LSTA funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia.


For Our Mutual Benefit: The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1912-1920 has been added to the GALILEO demo system and is available for your review at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athenswomansclub.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

New books, old books

When we purchase a new reference edition, the old reference edition (unless its dangerously outdated information) becomes a circulating copy. This week the American Horticultural Society A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants revised edition 2004 joined our Reference collection.

The 1997 edition is available for check out.

Monday, September 11, 2006

Patriot Day

Fly the Flag
Remember
What were you doing on September 11, 2001?
How has your life changed?

Read news transcripts from September 11, 2001 by going to LexisNexis in GALILEO.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to L
.........LexisNexis
Guided search
..US News
..Pick a news source - NorthEast Regional News Sources - or Georgia..
..Subject: World Trade Center
..Limit Date: 11 Sept 2001 to 12 Sept 2001

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.