Words mean something

“Babymoon,” “gription,” and “gustnado” – just a sampling of the creative new words and expressions submitted by the public to Merriam-Webster’s Open Dictionary this week.

Read on for their definitions…at Britannica Blog posted by Peter Sokolowski on Language.

Shameless plug

Now that you know what RSS is (scroll down two posts to the embedded video) and how to create an RSS feed from Academic Search Premier (see previous post) ....this blog has an RSS feed link .

On the right hand side of the screen, under links :

Syndicate the View (create RSS feed using this URL)

Copy and then paste the URL into your RSS reader

When a new post is created...in about 2-3 hours it will show up in your reader!

Now that you know RSS

(see earlier post) - EBSCO has a feature which allows you to create a feed from your search!

(Thanks to David Free for sharing this hint at the Gil Users Group Meeting).

Select one of the EBSCO Databases- I'm using Academic Search Premier

-Select Advanced Search
-Do a search
-Select Search History/Alerts
-Select Save Search/Alert
-Give your search a name and description

Continue filling in the form....

When you get to the end - see the radio buttons?
No E-mail, RSS only!

Save your alert- here's where you get the URL to copy and then paste into your reader....At the bottom of the form is the Syndicated Feed URL!

Which you then copy and paste into your RSS reader.

Wonderful and almost as easy as getting an e-mail alert.

To access Academic Search Premier you'll need the current password for GALILEO that you can get from your Georgia Librarian.

RSS in Plain English

And RSS means what? And it will help me how?

Turtles, again

Earlier I talked about turtles from the NPR morning show. I posted the blog about 10:30. I'd heard the show before 8:30. Before blogging I looked on LexisNexis to get the news story but it hadn't been posted yet.

The transcript is there now!

It's great to be able to read what you heard on the radio. You can get all the details.

In Lexis Nexis, select Guided News Search
Step One: select News Transcripts
Step Two: Select National Public Radio
Step Three : type in "turtle" as a keyword
Step Four : Limit your search to "Today"

Voila! Two Morning Edition stories posted at 11.

What fun! You'll need the GALILEO password, available from your Georgia librarian.

Pets

This morning on NPR there was a discussion about those little turtles that Baby Boomers all had as pets. The turtles as pets were outlawed in the mid 70's. Now there is a law wandering through Congress to let those little turtles be pets again.

What sort of pet would be best for your household? Check out our materials on pets!

Summer is coming

Bathing suit ads have started populating the newspaper.
Lose weight before summer articles are appearing in the popular magazines.

How do you decide what diet will work for you or even if dieting will work?

Check out our health collection for a variety of resources!

Using the simple search and typing in diet brought up over 100 items- some not at all related to health and weight loss (or gain).

Using the simple search and typing diet weight brought up 21 items (many in our e-book collection).

Summer officially starts in less than two weeks - what can you do?

My Friends are Your Friends

The NMTC Library MySpace has links to online resources for students.

Some of our friends have the most fascinating friends. Check out Brooklyn College Library's set of museum friends! They are celebrating International Museum Day.

How to learn

Learning just doesn't "happen".
Learning takes effort to concentrate on the subject and think about the topic. We're getting toward the middle of the quarter.

If you think you need help with study skills- check our collection!

Typing in study skills as a search phrase in the NMTC Library catalog pulled up 99 titles. Many titles are available through NetLibrary.

There is an instructional video to remind you how to create a free NetLibrary account.