Beluga Whales

Gaspar, the beluga whale at the Georgia Aquarium, died this week. A Google search turns up information about Gaspar and beluga whales.

You can search the Encyclopedia of Animals by Ebsco in GALILEO for text information. They don't have pictures of beluga whales.

Sea World offers an interesting site of Beluga whales with a list of references and a list of books for young children.

Wikipedia has Beluga Whale information with pictures.

One source doesn't have everything you need. Research means looking again and again. Check the authority of the information.

If you know nothing about a topic using the Encyclopedia is one way to build your foundation of knowledge. Then when you skip through Google if you already know a little bit you won't get tripped up by scam web sites.

Where are we going?

Three times today we'll be orienting students to NMTC. Oxford English Dictionary (in GALILEO) notes for its second definition b. trans. By extension: to position or align (a structure, etc.) with, or in a particular way relative to, the points of the compass, or other specified points; (also occas.) to determine the bearings or relative position of. Also with to, toward, with.

We'll be pointing students in the way they should go to be successful in their program.

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.

Clearing space

Our storage space is limited. We keep two years of periodicals. We're discarding the 2004 issues to make space on the shelves. Faculty have been notified that the magazines are available. The magazines are on two tables in the library for folks (faculty, staff and students) to take away. The remainders will be recycled Friday morning.

Thousands of periodical articles are available through GALILEO.

Inventory continues

For a small library, inventory takes a long time. We're almost finished though.

Equipment has been checked.
Shelves are straightened.

We're getting ready for the new quarter.

There is a new password for GALILEO. Check with the librarian.

We are back

Happy New Years

Our holiday library hours continue-
Wednesday and Thursday from 8AM to 5PM
Friday from 8-4

Registration continues this week
New student orientation on Thursday