More, more, more

MARC records for over 6700 electronic books have been loaded into our catalog. The electronic books are noted as EBK, available Online. Click on the title link, scroll down a bit to see the URL which will take you to NetLibrary.

Our electronic book collection passed the 45,000 mark with this addition.

The electronic titles available through NetLibrary give our users 24/7 access to information they want and need to succeed at their program of study.

Looking for the truth

The assignment directs a student to find "an unreliable source from the Internet, the Library or GALILEO." The word or is the key.

Most librarians have vetted the materials in their collections

GALILEO offers access to resources that are vetted in a variety of ways

That leaves the internet. How do you find an unreliable source?

A search through Google using "unreliable website" pulled up over 900,000 links. The top few had to do with Health sites. That seems to be the first place to show a lack of authority.

I've pulled together a few links at Web Sites Collected for NMTC. My favorite is A brief essay on the life and work of Jacopo di Poggibonsi. It really, really looks authoritative- with a timeline, resources, etc.

Checking out the reliability of Internet sites can prove to be daunting. Start with resources that you know are authoritative before you go out to the wild web.

Boo who?

A few days ago I mentioned the Britannica Blog that referred to Haunted Libraries. Today George Eberhart posted The Complete List! So appropriate for this Eve of All Hallows.

A chill in the air

The description in GALILEO for Environment Complete notes the database " offers coverage in the areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. This database contains more than 1,590,000 records from more than 1,500 domestic and international titles going back to the 1950s (including 959 active core titles) as well as more than 100 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 400 journals, including many of the most used journals in the discipline. Environment Complete includes over 170 journal titles and almost 100 book titles that are not included in Academic Search or Business Source"

So is the chill in the air a precursor of winter or a result of global warming? Will the drought continue for months or years? This database might have an article or two with thoughts on these questions.

You may access GALILEO at home with the current password. Your Georgia librarian can give you that password.

What to wear?

Probably too late to consider making a costume for Halloween but if you've procrastinated and are now desperate for a quick idea to use this Wednesday.....I searched using the Beta version of GALILEO Scholar. I limited my search to the suggested top three and added Grove Art Online.

I was looking for costume making directions or ideas. That's not what I pulled up. Research Library at ProQuestdid have an article noting companies that provide costumes! If I plan ahead for next year- I could use one of these companies!

A Google search for costumes offered me the choice for Costumes for Halloween. Lots of companies are selling costumes but I really did want to do one of those- "raid my closet and see what I could be" costumes!

I changed my search term to "homemade costumes" and voila Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas !

So I'll go scrounging around in my closet and see what I can come up with.