Yesterday

Yesterday JWF mentioned how you can set Google to display in Klingon. He mentioned that the Bible and Shakespeare had been translated into Klingon but he didn't provide links. Well, it made me curious.

I began to wonder are those Urban Legends or do those translations really exist?

Using Google (in English) I found the Bible in Klingon. I found the Klingon Institute has translated Hamlet. I found Sonnet #18 and other references to Shakespeare but not the whole body of work translated into Klingon.

Well, that's Google but what about GALILEO?

Using the basic search tab - I did a search for Klingon AND Shakespeare limiting the results to peer reviewed- no junk here...and I chose 9 databases: Book Collection:Non-Fiction, NoveList, Literary Reference Center, Science and Technology Collection, Literature Online, Academic Search Complete, Book Index with Reviews and Research Library.

You do know how to search through multiple databases in GALILEO, don't you? If not stop by and we'll show you this incredibly useful tool.

On with the search-
Are you a betting person?
Which resources had something about Klingon AND Shakespeare?
Were there any hits at all for Klingon AND Shakespeare in GALILEO??

Surprisingly - yes.

Academic Search Complete - 1
Book Index with Reviews - 4
Research Library - 2

So go ahead- dive into GALILEO and read all about it! You may get the current password to use GALILEO at home from your Georgia librarian.



-kls

Klingonese

The search engine Google has a tool that allows you to display the homepage and interface in a different language. One of these languages is Klingon. The Klingons are a fictional species of aliens from the Star Trek franchise of television shows and films. The Klingons have a number of fans, the more dedicated of whom dress up like actual Klingons and have translated Shakespeare and the Bible into Klingon.

You can translate web pages into or display Google in a variety of languages. Doing so is as simple as going by clicking on the 'languages' link from the Google main page.

How many ways to say....

The English language is a wonderfully frustrating way to communicate. We can use one word for X, yet use the same sounding word for Y. There are tools to help us understand what a word means and it's origin in the vocabulary. This morning I read, Gregory McNamee's thoughts about Oxford English Dictionary and the English language!

Mr. McNamee included the Monty Python Sketch:

Here's a link to the script in case you can't quite understand the accents.

We do have access to the complete onlineOxford English Dictionary through GALILEO - at least for now. We purchased the print 2nd edition [PE 1625 . 08] if you'd like to rustle through the pages. There is a free Oxford English Dictionary. It isn't as complete - well, it is free - but it's better than nothing!

Find out what those words really mean and where they came from!

-kls

Get the password to access GALILEO at home from your Georgia librarian.

Pulitzer Prize

Hello.

Those fine folks at the Pulitzer Prize recently announced their most recent crop of winners.

The library has the winning book in the Biography or Autobiography category, as well as a finalist in this category. The winner was the book American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meachem. This book deals with the years of the Presidency of Andrew Jackson during the 1820's and 1830's.



The book that was not selected but was a finalist was the Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, written by Steve Coll. This book looks at Osama Bin Laden, along with other prominent members of his extended family.

If you are interested in either of these books, please drop by the library and check them out. You can also find a review of the two books in the Galileo database Book Index with Reviews, which contains reviews of non-fiction books. This should be a good tool to help you learn more about these two books.

(Note with regard to licensing of the Bin Laden image:Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.)

JWF