Today is the day to remember the character who inspires us to use the euphoniously descriptive phrase "tilting at windmills".
Thanks to Gregory McNamee at Britannica blog for noting Don Quixote's 'birthday'.
After reading the blog by Mr. McNamee, I wanted to know a bit more about Cervantes and Don Quixote. I went to GALILEO and selected the subject 'Literature, Language and Literary Criticism', then Literature and Literary Criticism. GALILEO staffers have pre-selected 5 databases to search through. I used 'Don Quixote" as my search phrase. I didn't narrow the search by Full Text or Peer Reviewed or year. I just let GALILEO rip through those 5 databases.
I skimmed through the offerings (in date order, most recent first) I noticed an article titled G.K. Chesterton from the Salem Press series Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Revised Edition . What could he have to do with Don Quixote? I selected the article- started skimming- felt bogged down so I did an 'Edit/Find on this page' for Quixote. Isn't 'Find on this page' a delightful tool? In 1926, G.K. Chesterton wrote The Return of Don Quixote.
Explore GALILEO - you'll never feel like you're tilting at windmills with articles you find! Get the password from your Georgia librarian.
-kls
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Earth Day
Greetings,
Today, April 22nd is Earth Day. Earth Day is one of those official unofficial holidays where everyone is supposed to think about the world we live in and how to take better care of it.
One very small thing that we do here at the library is to reuse all of the interlibrary loan envelopes. Interlibrary Loan, or ILL, is a service that we provide to students that allows us to borrow books for them that we do not own. We borrow this books from libraries all over the United States that own them and are willing to loan them. The library also loans books via this process. (You can find out what books we own, or who owns books we don't have, using a Galileo database called Worldcat. If you find a book we don't have in Worldcat, you can place a request for it. That request will be sent to us and we will attempt to get the book for you. Remember to log in to Galileo via the current Galileo password for this quarter.)
ILL books tend to come in large manilla package envelopes. We try to reuse the ones we receive as much as possible. This is a bit of recycling, and it also saves the college/state a bit of money.
Interested in more about Earth Day? CQPolitics has a nice Earth Day page as part of their website. It includes interactives, articles, and quizzes.
JWF
Today, April 22nd is Earth Day. Earth Day is one of those official unofficial holidays where everyone is supposed to think about the world we live in and how to take better care of it.
One very small thing that we do here at the library is to reuse all of the interlibrary loan envelopes. Interlibrary Loan, or ILL, is a service that we provide to students that allows us to borrow books for them that we do not own. We borrow this books from libraries all over the United States that own them and are willing to loan them. The library also loans books via this process. (You can find out what books we own, or who owns books we don't have, using a Galileo database called Worldcat. If you find a book we don't have in Worldcat, you can place a request for it. That request will be sent to us and we will attempt to get the book for you. Remember to log in to Galileo via the current Galileo password for this quarter.)
ILL books tend to come in large manilla package envelopes. We try to reuse the ones we receive as much as possible. This is a bit of recycling, and it also saves the college/state a bit of money.
Interested in more about Earth Day? CQPolitics has a nice Earth Day page as part of their website. It includes interactives, articles, and quizzes.
JWF
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