a thousand words but sometimes the translation leaves a bit to be desired.
Check out this Collection of Funny Signs from Around the World .
Then wander through Grove Art Online and think about what were those artists trying to say?
Grove is accessible through GALILEO. You get the password for home use from your Georgia librarian.
Saturday, June 09, 2007
How does your garden grow?
Summertime and fresh veggies are appearing at the Farmers Market. How do you get your garden to grow? If you're not sure - read all about it at the Garden Literature Index in GALILEO. If you'd like a hint or two about using the GLI - just watch:
Thursday, June 07, 2007
20 more efficient search tips
From Tips for Life :
"For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine.
But instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page after page of results, there are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient. ..."
Read all the tips here
"For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine.
But instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page after page of results, there are a number of ways to make your searches more efficient. ..."
Read all the tips here
Selling the program
What do you do to market yourself? First impressions do count. Fourth and Fifth impressions can make a difference, too.
We have a collection of Marketing books with grand ideas for "selling" your business. You do need to start with a plan - check out The Successful Marketing Plan : A disciplined and Comprehensive Approach (HF 5415.13 .H523 2003) by Roman G. Hiebing Jr and Scott W. Cooper.
"The purpose of this book is to provide you with a practical and proven, step-by-step guide for preparing your own marketing plan."
We have a collection of Marketing books with grand ideas for "selling" your business. You do need to start with a plan - check out The Successful Marketing Plan : A disciplined and Comprehensive Approach (HF 5415.13 .H523 2003) by Roman G. Hiebing Jr and Scott W. Cooper.
"The purpose of this book is to provide you with a practical and proven, step-by-step guide for preparing your own marketing plan."
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
How do you find it?
What search engine do you go to just because you've always used it and are you getting the results you really want?
"Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me (author of this piece, Greg Sterling)that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be. Without that effort it might lose hold on the roughly 5 percent search market share it currently has".....
Read the rest here
I've compiled a list of search engines on the NMTC web links. Try them all out. See which one really finds what you're looking for quickly.
"Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me (author of this piece, Greg Sterling)that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be. Without that effort it might lose hold on the roughly 5 percent search market share it currently has".....
Read the rest here
I've compiled a list of search engines on the NMTC web links. Try them all out. See which one really finds what you're looking for quickly.
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Cars and Trucks and Things that Go
Richard Scarry would be celebrating his 88th birthday today. The 1974 book Cars and Trucks and Things That Go was a favorite at our house - looking for Goldbug was a nightly activity.
NoveList gives Cars and Trucks and Things that Go 4 stars!
A simple story with lots of details - On the way to the beach for a picnic, the Pig family encounters almost every kind of transportation vehicle imaginable--and imaginary.
Find your favorite story in NoveList through GALILEO. You can get the password for home use of GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
NoveList gives Cars and Trucks and Things that Go 4 stars!
A simple story with lots of details - On the way to the beach for a picnic, the Pig family encounters almost every kind of transportation vehicle imaginable--and imaginary.
Find your favorite story in NoveList through GALILEO. You can get the password for home use of GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.
Aldo Leopold
If you were to take a survey of environmentalists, ecologists, or natural historians to ask which books most influenced their thinking on matters of wildlife and wildlands, three titles would appear again and again: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (available through NMTC in NetLibrary, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, and Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac.
Leopold’s book was published six decades ago, in 1949, and in the years since its first publication it has come to be regarded as a true classic of nature writing. It has affected the policies and methods of natural-resource management. It has been read and closely studied by countless students of conservation biology. And it has been quoted chapter and verse by environmental activists, who cite a few choice Leopoldisms, especially his land ethic, an elegantly simple declaration of rights for soil, water, wind, plants, and animals: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”....
Finish reading it here
If you'd like to know more about Aldo Leopold, we do have a biography in NetLibrary, Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience.
Leopold’s book was published six decades ago, in 1949, and in the years since its first publication it has come to be regarded as a true classic of nature writing. It has affected the policies and methods of natural-resource management. It has been read and closely studied by countless students of conservation biology. And it has been quoted chapter and verse by environmental activists, who cite a few choice Leopoldisms, especially his land ethic, an elegantly simple declaration of rights for soil, water, wind, plants, and animals: “A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”....
Finish reading it here
If you'd like to know more about Aldo Leopold, we do have a biography in NetLibrary, Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Monday morning
The tune from the Mama's and the Papa's drifts through my mind on Monday mornings. Yes, it shows my age.
Doing a Quick Search in GALILEO limited to Arts and Humanities for The Mamas and the Papas did bring up some childrens titles and 51 articles in Research Library. You have to scroll through the left hand column to go through each section of the first ten articles per database. Adding Monday Morning to the search didn't pull up anything.
Wandering over to Google searching for The Mamas and the Papas "Monday Morning" did bring up Lyrics007 with the words for Monday, Monday!
I'll be humming most of the day.
Doing a Quick Search in GALILEO limited to Arts and Humanities for The Mamas and the Papas did bring up some childrens titles and 51 articles in Research Library. You have to scroll through the left hand column to go through each section of the first ten articles per database. Adding Monday Morning to the search didn't pull up anything.
Wandering over to Google searching for The Mamas and the Papas "Monday Morning" did bring up Lyrics007 with the words for Monday, Monday!
I'll be humming most of the day.
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