Festivals of Light

The darkest time of the year and we celebrate with candles and fires. Search in the The Religion & Philosophy Collection (EbscoHost)- use these search terms to read about the ways humans celebrate life at its darkest:

• Light -- Religious aspects
• Candles & lights
• Fire -- Religious aspects

GALILEO

...Databases A-Z

.......Jump to R

.........The Religion & Philosophy Collection

(the password will change December 31 - if you think you might be using GALILEO over the break, check with the Librarian for the new password)

The end is nigh

Yes, the Fall quarter ends this Saturday. Exams are being given. Final papers are being turned in.

The library is humming with inventory. We are discovering old friends. Right now the Librarian is amidst the "PR's" (which is literature). Lovely to scan through the Victorian classics. Touched A Christmas Carol by Dickens and thought about the modern interpretations we see on the Big Screen.

Many things to be thankful for as we hear Tiny Tim bless us all.

Mozart for free

Starting on December 12, 2006 the ISM and the Packard Humanities Institute will make the complete musical texts of the NMA available to everyone for private, scholarly, and educational use as NMA Online.

Free access will be provided on the Internet at http://dme.mozarteum.at/

Why do I feel like this?

Check out your symptoms using the Web sites selected for NMTC programs. The Allied Health list has authoritative places to go for accurate and timely information.

What happened?

Reading diaries helps complete a historic event. There are several diaries as part of the Digital Library of Georgia - Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861 - 1862 Pages 98 - 103 covers December of 1861.

Page: (99 [View Image] importance. the clouds are banking up & the prospect for snow is good,
Tuesday Dec [December] 3rd, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
after a slight rain in the night and now the earth is frozen with a sheet of ice upon top, Wednesday Dec [December] 4th, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
We were visited by snow during the last night. to about shoe mouth deep and the weather is horribly cold this morning, the 45th Virginia regt [regiment] ordered to put up huts, great excitement among the officers & soldiers who agree in refusing to put up here..Thursday 5th. [View Civil War timeline for this date]
orders to Doublin [Dublin] Depot on the Virginia & Tenn [Tennessee] rail road [railroad] . Sunday evening 3, oclock [o'clock] [View Civil War timeline for this date]
now at dublin a beautiful valley between the blue ridge & alighanies [alleghenies], for four miles back the prettiest country seen since, around Richmond, after a travel of 25 miles from our camp near Peterstown, Friday night Dec [December] 13th.. 9 oclock [o'clock] . [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
the long desired news has come at last a telegraphic dispatch for the
Page: 100) [View Image] 13th Reg. Ga vol. [Regiment Georgia volunteers] to report themselves at Charleston S.C [South Carolina],, I happened to be at the depot to see a couple of friend [friends] of Philips. who were going home, when the dispatch came,, I could not believe it untill [until] I saw the copy that was drawn for "Colonel Ector",, I then made my way to camps as quick as convenient & told the good news, but others were as I had been, the news had come so often before, & turned out to be false, that nothing Short of a sight of the dispatch would satisfy them of its reality,, I told them that I had read it. they believed me but suspected a wrong somewhere, But in a short time, a most prodegious [prodigious] yell broke out about the Colonels tent which brought faith, and the yelling spread like fire in hay untill [until] the wood around us rang & the echo sounded for miles around, New life & vigor pervaded every system,, & every object unfurled new beauties, & the dead wood [deadwood]
Page: (101 [View Image] almost looked alive,

Comparing countries

Last week I noted the demo version of World Data Analyst will create charts and tables comparing countries.

The regular Encyclopedia Britannica will also create tables and charts and handouts comparing two countries (and provide images, web links, history, flags, maps...)

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to E
.........Encyclopedia Britannica
Left hand side under Research Tools
About the 5th one down - Compare Countries
Pick your countries
Keep scrolling - you'll get to a graphs section where Statistical Information can be displayed

This is entertaining. More information than you'll need in a trivia game - very interesting.