Where to go?

Lifelong learning is the buzzword. Where do you go to find out who offers the course you want? In GALILEO there is College Source Online.

The description in GALILEO notes that College Source Online "features over 20,000 college catalogs in complete cover-to-cover, original page format representing 2-year, 4-year, graduate and professional schools along with institutional profiles for all accredited colleges in the United States. The database may be searched by college name, major, enrollment, tuition, degrees, state, or affiliation. There are links to college home pages, career information, and financial aid information. CollegeSource includes information on both U.S and non-U.S. schools. "

Of course the State of Georgia offers Georgia 411 which is "freely available on the Web designed to help Georgia high school students and others who are interested in attending college explore careers, prepare for college and learn about financial aid opportunities. Resources include tools for matching students to careers; detailed information on specific careers; SAT, ACT, and GRE test preparation; tools for comparing Georgia colleges and universities; online forms for loan applications, FAFSA, and Hope Scholarship/Tuition Equalization Grant; and tools for financial planning. Users can create a personal account that allows them to manage all their college and career information and can share their information with school counselors. "

Look about- see where you can go to continue learning- just for fun!

Leaving out shoes

It's St. Nicholas Day! Some children in Europe awoke to discover treats left by St. Nicholas. A few fortunate children have started the month of gift getting- St. Nicholas on December 6, Santa Claus on Dec 24, and ending with Baboushka and the Three Wise Men on January 6th. Multi-culturalism at its finest.

A GALILEO Quick Search limited to Arts and Humanities using Saint Nicholas turned up hits in Ancestry.com (only available on campus). After looking just a bit into the results, I realized- Nicholas was the word pulling up hits.

A second GALILEO Quick Search limited to Arts and Humanities using "Saint Nicholas" (the quotes do make a difference) turned up a variety of articles in 17 different databases. It is interesting to select the databases (along the right hand side) and see what articles they have. Yes, Ancestry.com still shows up with "Saint Nicholas. "

Encyclopedia Britannica produced an article on Saint Nicholas and Saint Nicholas Day .

That's the information I really wanted. The Encyclopedia has the facts!

The GALILEO notes for World History Collection indicate that " World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for more than 130 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964. These hand-selected information sources cover a wide range of historical topics including anthropology, art, culture, economics, government, heritage, military, politics, regional issues, and more. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection."

World History Collection is an Ebsco product.
If you can use one Ebsco product you can use them all!

The World History Collection may help genealogists flesh out the people in their family tree.

I did a search for a moderately well know Confederate General and three articles were pulled.

I did a search for a family member (not a well known historic figure) and nothing came up.

During the holiday season gather family stories then search through the World History Collection for corroborating information.

You get the current password to use GALILEO at home from ....your Georgia librarian.

What is that process?

You know what happens when you buy a car- you see the same car everywhere.

I wrote about bloglines and RSS this morning. I went to my Bloglines account and found The Distant Librarians discussion on EZProxy and RSS feeds :

" The other day a colleague bugged me about the fact that the RSS feeds weren't being accepted by Bloglines (or any other web-based aggregator), ".

Paul offers a solution if you use EZProxy.

My experience with creating alerts or RSS through GALILEO , Ebsco and Bloglines has been seamless so far.......

No time to search

Yesterday I shared the Hospitality database from Ebsco. I realized the time crunch seems worse around the holidays. There is so much to acccomplish- or it feels that way. How do I make time to keep up with current events, my favorite topic, or the latest journal article?

Most Ebsco databases will send a journal alert through e-mail. Many dread skimming the e-mails to try to find what really matters. There are tips and tricks to having e-mails sent to a folder that you check when you have time but still....

A tool that I've grown very fond of is RSS. Ebsco will create an RSS for a search topic in a database. That makes it possible for one to keep up without feeling overwhelmed.

Ebsco does RSS for journals, too.

I use Bloglines. It is "portable" (I can access it from any computer). I haven't explored other feed readers - for me this works. With i-bloglines - you may accesse bloglines through your i-phone. I'm not there yet.

Keeping informed doesn't mean searching for a topic every day - use the tools made available from the vendors.

You get the current password to use GALILEO at home from your Georgia librarian. Once you set the alert- you don't need to get back into GALILEO- the information comes to you direct!

Where to go?

Are you thinking of warm venues or adventurous locales or fun family vacation destinations as the holiday break looms closer?

There is a database in GALILEO the Hospitality & Tourism Index Complete which covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. Hospitality & Tourism Index Complete contains full text for more than 200 journals, including over fifty that are not included in Business Source Complete.

It's time to daydream of far away places!

You may get the current password to use GALILEO at home from your Georgia Librarian.

Feasting and Fasting

The season for setting a bountiful table has begun! What does one prepare that is healthy, satisfyiong, gorgeous and doesn't take too long to prepare? Useful hints can be found in an assortment of cookbooks or on the Food Channel.

Inventory has gotten to the R's. The cookbooks in this section relate to health. Traditional cookbooks can be found in the TX section.

On the shelf is (RC662 .R79 2000) Diabetes cookbook for dummies
by Alan L. Rubin, with Fran Stach and Denise C. Sharf.

In NetLibrary you will find (RC662.D537 2004eb) The diabetic gourmet cookbook
[electronic resource] : more than 200 healthy recipes from homestyle favorites to restaurant classics / editors of the Diabetic Gourmet Magazine.

The holidays are a time for festive (and healthy) eating!