Pictures, colors, options, oh my

You've read my moaning about the plain look of Ebsco. They have announced they are changing their interface (must be the season). Here's a Flash demo of the new look.

To use Ebsco products at home through GALILEO you will need the current password, which you may get from your Georgia librarian.

Late wife

English is such a delightful language with nuances and opposing meanings for a word that make it hard to pin down exactly what someone means. With "Late wife" [PS 3551 .N4155 L38 2005], Claudia Emerson has written one of those nuanced titles - is the wife not on time, is she deceased, is she the past wife....which late is she?

Amazon.com notes

Winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In Late Wife, a woman explores her disappearance from one life and reappearance in another as she addresses her former husband, herself, and her new husband in a series of epistolary poems. Though not satisfied in her first marriage, she laments vanishing from the life she and her husband shared for years. She then describes the unexpected joys of solitude during her recovery and emotional convalescence. Finally, in a sequence of sonnets, she speaks to her new husband, whose first wife died from lung cancer. The poems highlight how the speaker's rebeginning in this relationship has come about in part because of two couples' respective losses.

Ms. Emerson's poems are clear, poignant, revealing - the late wife begins anew - April is poetry month- look at life from a different perspective - the perspective of a poet.

Open Vault

WGBH Boston has opened the vault on their collection of television shows! Open Vault "provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools.".

Their Top Picks include Lucille Clifton reading the poem Turning as part of the show Poetry Breaks.

"Poetry Breaks," conceived by Leita Hagemann Luchetti and co-produced by Luchetti and WGBH New Television Workshop, is an ongoing series of over 100 thirty-second to four-minute spots presenting internationally known poets reading their work on location. These have aired individually on WGBH and public television stations across the country. The Workshop collaborated with Luchetti until its closing in 1993, at which point the works became co-productions of Luchetti and the larger WGBH Foundation.

Thanks to Sybil Finemel, Library Director MLIS.CIO., Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
24/7 OCLC Reference Librarian for noting the Open Vault on LM_Net.

Nothing stays the same

It is the beginning of the quarter. I'm enjoying showing students the new GALILEO. It is easier to find articles with the search tab and steps 1-3.

The Business Law class uses Lexis Nexis Academic which is not included in the search list. As I prepare to meet a second time with Business Law, to show some tips and tricks of Lexis Nexis - I realized there is a little box at the bottom right, noting Lexis Nexis will change its interface on 26th April 2008.

LexisNexis Academic is getting a new look on April 26, 2008. The improved design is part of an ongoing global effort to improve ease of use for all LexisNexis users.

It feels like they just changed their format (and I'm struggling with finding information in the latest incarnation - though I keep taking the workshops)

It's a test to see if I can keep learning!

Remember you get the password to use GALILEO at home from your Georgia librarian.