Today is Friday the 13th. Except in Australia, which by the time I write this it is Saturday the 14th I should think.
Triskaidekaphobia is the term given to the fear of the number 13. This is a fear common in North America and Europe. This fear has morphed into a fear of the date Friday the 13th. Fear of Friday the 13th has given rise to a slasher film franchise, which subsequently created higher sales of ice hockey goalie masks (but that's another story).
A search for triskaidekaphobia in Galileo yields 4 results in Academic Search Complete and 4 results in Research Library. The results span all the way back to 1980, and most of the articles deal with the psychological aspects associated with the number 13 and its perceived lack of luck.
And in unrelated news, the people of Sweden voted to join the European Union on this day in 1994.
JWF
Friday, November 13, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Opening a business
I've heard pundits say real job growth is created by small businesses. How do you start your own business and grow it enough to hire a few folks who then help it grow even more?
Chattahoochee Technical College library subscribes to the ProQuest database Entrepreneurship.
The Basic (opening) page has Start-up tools links [right side toward the middle of the screen] to the tools mentioned in the description of Entrepreneurship.
The third tab [Data & Reports] offers options for searching for reports. I tried Pizza Delivery as my search term. I clicked on Articles (profiles/case studies). Over 61,000 articles were pulled up. I noticed the default Boolean term is OR. That makes the search huge. I went to advanced search. I entered pizza delivery as a general search AND Case studies as a subject term. That narrowed the field to 6 articles. I was intrigued that most of the articles are from the 1990's. Entrepreneurship suggests other search terms. One suggestion was case studies AND Pizza. This search turned up 19 articles - with three from 2006-2008.
Check Entrepreneurship out. See what ideas and lessons learned by others, you can gather to make the leap into being a small business owner who creates jobs.
The password to use Entrepreneurship at home is available through your CTC campus librarian.
-kls
Chattahoochee Technical College library subscribes to the ProQuest database Entrepreneurship.
Search worldwide publications and multi-media related to the topic of Entrepreneurship. Intended to bridge theory with practice, the Entrepreneurship database covers a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.
The Basic (opening) page has Start-up tools links [right side toward the middle of the screen] to the tools mentioned in the description of Entrepreneurship.
The third tab [Data & Reports] offers options for searching for reports. I tried Pizza Delivery as my search term. I clicked on Articles (profiles/case studies). Over 61,000 articles were pulled up. I noticed the default Boolean term is OR. That makes the search huge. I went to advanced search. I entered pizza delivery as a general search AND Case studies as a subject term. That narrowed the field to 6 articles. I was intrigued that most of the articles are from the 1990's. Entrepreneurship suggests other search terms. One suggestion was case studies AND Pizza. This search turned up 19 articles - with three from 2006-2008.
Check Entrepreneurship out. See what ideas and lessons learned by others, you can gather to make the leap into being a small business owner who creates jobs.
The password to use Entrepreneurship at home is available through your CTC campus librarian.
-kls
Long distance users
At the Sirsi users group, Steven Abram noted that our military can use their public library resources from overseas! That had not occurred to me.
This morning when I was at my local library, I noticed the down loadable audio books poster. I asked how one used them? The instructions are online- you do need to create an account with the library. The books are checked out for 7, 14 or 21 days. They can be downloaded to your computer, mp3 player or i-pod!
If my local library offers this - I'll bet many others offer this great way to listen to books. Remind your military friends and family they can use their public library card even while overseas. I'll bet you could get the GALILEO password for them too....
-kls
This morning when I was at my local library, I noticed the down loadable audio books poster. I asked how one used them? The instructions are online- you do need to create an account with the library. The books are checked out for 7, 14 or 21 days. They can be downloaded to your computer, mp3 player or i-pod!
If my local library offers this - I'll bet many others offer this great way to listen to books. Remind your military friends and family they can use their public library card even while overseas. I'll bet you could get the GALILEO password for them too....
-kls
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Bob Kalsu
Bob Kalsu was the only professional football player to be killed while serving in the US Military during the Vietnam War (although not the only player to serve). Kalsu had played one year for the Buffalo Bills, then in the American Football League, before being sent to Vietnam. Kalsu's story first gained large attention in the media through a piece produced by NFL Films in 1999.
Information on Bob Kalsu is available through Galileo. Once in Galileo, click on the yellow 'search' button. Type 'Bob Kalsu' as your search term and select the full-text option. You will then get four results, two from Academic Search Premier and two from Research Library. Perhaps the best result is the one for the 2001 article from Sports Illustrated.
JF
Information on Bob Kalsu is available through Galileo. Once in Galileo, click on the yellow 'search' button. Type 'Bob Kalsu' as your search term and select the full-text option. You will then get four results, two from Academic Search Premier and two from Research Library. Perhaps the best result is the one for the 2001 article from Sports Illustrated.
JF
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Finding aids
How easy is it to find information on a web site? The Chattahoochee Technical College Library site is going through an upgrade. Check out the left column with the hints and tips on using the resources available to CTC students!
If you're a visual learner the How Do I... videos will be most helpful. They are short and sweet. Just enough information to get you on your way to successfully using a resource.
We're doing our best to help our students succeed not only in school but as life long learners!
-kls
If you're a visual learner the How Do I... videos will be most helpful. They are short and sweet. Just enough information to get you on your way to successfully using a resource.
We're doing our best to help our students succeed not only in school but as life long learners!
-kls
What's new?
Yesterday I talked about the new books arriving at the North Metro campus. How would you find out what's new in the collection if I didn't tell you?
The catalog has a link just for NEW BOOKS [upper left corner]. When you click on NEW BOOKS a list of the campus libraries is revealed. You have a choice of a specific campus, all new books and new electronic books.The system is set to run the new books report each Friday evening at 9pm.
Now you know how you can find out what is new on the shelves of the Chattahoochee Technical College libraries.
-kls
The catalog has a link just for NEW BOOKS [upper left corner]. When you click on NEW BOOKS a list of the campus libraries is revealed. You have a choice of a specific campus, all new books and new electronic books.The system is set to run the new books report each Friday evening at 9pm.
Now you know how you can find out what is new on the shelves of the Chattahoochee Technical College libraries.
-kls
Monday, November 09, 2009
the Berlin Wall
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall separated communist controlled East Berlin from West Berlin, which was under democratic rule.
An oft remembered event related to the wall's end is the singing performance of American television actor David Hasselhoff.
Hasselhoff, quite the star in Germany and Austria, is best known in the States for his early 1980's work on the tv series Knight Rider and the 1990's lifeguard drama Baywatch. A few weeks after the wall's collapse, Hasselhoff was invited to perform near the wall, singing a collection of his musical tunes, songs that never really caught on in America, but were very popular in Europe. The singer's attire, a self-illuminating jacket, is remembered as much as is his performance. Some commentators have even suggested a reason the East Berliners poured into West Berlin in 1989 was to get their hands on copies of Hasselhoff's music.
JF
An oft remembered event related to the wall's end is the singing performance of American television actor David Hasselhoff.
Hasselhoff, quite the star in Germany and Austria, is best known in the States for his early 1980's work on the tv series Knight Rider and the 1990's lifeguard drama Baywatch. A few weeks after the wall's collapse, Hasselhoff was invited to perform near the wall, singing a collection of his musical tunes, songs that never really caught on in America, but were very popular in Europe. The singer's attire, a self-illuminating jacket, is remembered as much as is his performance. Some commentators have even suggested a reason the East Berliners poured into West Berlin in 1989 was to get their hands on copies of Hasselhoff's music.
JF
Potager
The new book orders are starting to arrive! It feels like Christmas to open the boxes and see what we've ordered.
Timber Press books have amazing photographs. The book that caught my eye was Design the New Kitchen Garden : an American Potager Handbook [SB 324.3 .B38 2006] by Jennifer R. Bartley. I admit to not knowing what 'potager' meant.
This seems to tie into the slow food movement - getting fresh food close to home. The potager brings the food right outside the kitchen door yet seems to provide the visual appeal of a formal garden. The gardens that inspired Ms. Bartley are Renaissance potager gardens (Chapter 2). They remind me of Williamsburg gardens, formal yet useful.
If you don't have the space or energy to create a formal potager, Ms. Bartley offers a section on container potager gardening (pg 186). Her suggestions for container gardening might meet the need for fresh food, right outside the kitchen door!
-kls
Timber Press books have amazing photographs. The book that caught my eye was Design the New Kitchen Garden : an American Potager Handbook [SB 324.3 .B38 2006] by Jennifer R. Bartley. I admit to not knowing what 'potager' meant.
A potager garden is the French counterpart to the English kitchen garden, but with an emphasis on growing vegetables.
This seems to tie into the slow food movement - getting fresh food close to home. The potager brings the food right outside the kitchen door yet seems to provide the visual appeal of a formal garden. The gardens that inspired Ms. Bartley are Renaissance potager gardens (Chapter 2). They remind me of Williamsburg gardens, formal yet useful.
If you don't have the space or energy to create a formal potager, Ms. Bartley offers a section on container potager gardening (pg 186). Her suggestions for container gardening might meet the need for fresh food, right outside the kitchen door!
-kls
What do you think?
The folks at GALILEO really want your opinion:
-kls
How useful have you found the GALILEO Toolbar? Would you like to search GALILEO from your mobile device? How would you improve GALILEO? Your answers and your students' and patrons' answers to these questions matter.
When you open the GALILEO website today, you will see an invitation to participate in a the annual user survey. Don't miss this chance to provide your feedback on your experience with GALILEO and to enter the drawing to win an iPod Nano. Be sure to encourage your users to complete the survey to be entered into the drawing. The survey will be conducted November 9-15, 2009. Just click on the GALILEOUser Survey link on the GALILEO home page to participate.
Thank you for taking the time to contribute your opinions and ideas and for encouraging others to participate.
-kls
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