Thursday, April 24, 2008

Different hours

Just added "Different Hours" [PS 3554 .U49 D54 2002] by Stephen Dunn to the catalog. I was skimming the Pulitzer Prize winning book of poems and stopped at The Hours -

Worst was to live by somebody else's time,
the hours scheduled for him, smudged
with clarity and motives not his own.......

Struck me as a powerful truth- living by someone else's schedule is never fulfilling. The ability to have flexibility in life and work is so pleasing. It allows one to "feel" in charge of the effort being made.

LION Literature Online in GALILEO has over 200 poems written by Stephen Dunn. LION provides an easy way to get a poetry break during the workday when your hours are set by somebody else's time....

The password to use GALILEO off campus (at home or work) is available from your Georgia librarian.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

It sounds like Spring

The sounds of Spring sports - the crack of the baseball, the pounding of the hoofbeats, the whoosh of the golf ball - all bring a smile to the lips after a long winter. If you want to bone up on your sports trivia as you share the joy of Spring sports - The The LibrarianInBlack refers to the Sports Illustrated archive (vault) where one may search for sporting information!

I did a search for Arnold Palmer (I like golf - not to play but to watch) and found 518 articles, 18 photos, 13 covers and 161 videos.

Yes, there is an advanced search feature (as noted by Gary Price at the Resource Shelf), you need to do a simple search first, then the "refine your search" boxes are available to limit your search by decade or date.

This wouldn't be the View from the Library without a reference to GALILEO....you can read Sports Illustrated articles (back to 1992) through EBSCOHost Academic Search Complete, ProQuest and LexisNexis.

I found this information by using the new Journals A-Z tab, typing in Sports Illustrated, then clicking on the title. I was taken to a search box where I could click on the link to the three resources (there was a search box that took me right into Lexis Nexis when I typed in Arnold Palmer).

Both ProQuest and EBSCO allow you to create an "alert" that will send you an e-mail when the new issue is added to the database.

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