Oh Happy Day!!!!

Oh Happy Day! Oh Happy Day!

This e-mail just arrived:

GALILEO is happy to announce that eBooks can now be checked out and downloaded onto many different devices from eBooks on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary.) This functionality is available to all GALILEO institutions who have purchased Solinet/Lyrasis Shared Collections via GALILEO:

• University System of Georgia
• Technical College System of Georgia [This is us!]
• AMPALS
• GPALS
• Public Libraries

Users will now see the option "Download (Offline)" appearing within the record for each eBook. When a user selects this option, they will be prompted to sign into their My EBSCOhost account. If the user does not have a My EBSCOhost account, they will be asked to create one. Once the user logs in, a screen will appear where the user can select the "Check out Period" and then download the eBook.

In order to view the eBook on their device, the user will need to download Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.1 or higher. This is necessary to manage the checkout process.

The following GALILEO FAQ provides access to a word document that outlines this download process, provides a link to Adobe Digital Editions, and also provides a list of all supported devices.
http://help.galileo.usg.edu/faqs/how_can_i_view_ebooks_in_ebooks_at_ebscohost/

If you have any questions regarding this new functionality, please submit a comment to GALILEO Support Services via our Contact Us form.

Oh happy day!

-kss

The Road Less Traveled

Wanderlust hits as the heat of summer is pushed away by the chill of autumn. Where to go, what to see, can I even get away for a weekend? The Atlas of North America has joined the Atlas Stand by the door, with our collection of dream makers.

From Amazon, the School Library Journal Starred Review: This exhaustive, authoritative resource presents a dynamic view of Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. Well organized, with an appropriate balance of written and visual material, the book opens with two pages of statistics that provide information on the population, capital, and area of states, provinces, and largest cities; records pertaining to temperatures, rainfall, and volcanic eruptions; and largest rivers and lakes, etc. [...more]

Begin the journey by exploring the pages of this atlas!

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Program or Course

The majority of our 67 Library Guides are for individual courses. We have thirteen general program guides.

The Early Childhood Care and Education guide offers an overview of resources that will help a student succeed in the program.


Get a jump on what resources are available, including the Jobs page.


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A light shines

The Statue of Liberty is on my mind today. I searched in our catalog, by subject, for statue of liberty. Four titles are in our collection, two are electronic books.

The childrens book The Statue of Liberty by Gina Strazzabosco-Hayn is available through EBSCO. Click on the link in the catalog and you're at the EBSCO page. There's the cover image to the right but to open the book, you do not click on the cover. For me, that's a failing of the database. You need to look to the left and click on the link e-book full text.

I'm not sure children's books in this database are useful for the children. I can see how having Children's literature available 24/7 would be very helpful for our Early Childhood Education students. I need to tell them about this!

Ask your campus librarian for the userid and password to access the EBSCO e-book collection off campus.

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One more look

Advanced Placement Source

is designed to meet the needs of high school students enrolled in various AP courses. It contains more than 5700 full-text journals and over 300,000 photos, maps and flags. Subject areas include mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, human geography, psychology, economics & statistics; government & politics; environmental science; U.S., European and world history; the arts and music.

I might have skipped over this resource just because it says it's designed to "meet the needs of high school students". Skipping it would have been a mistake!

It's an EBSCO product, the search is fairly straightforward. The opening screen allows me to limit my search in 'image quick view' to B&W, color, map, diagram, illustration, graph, and chart (or all).

I searched for Statue of Liberty, limiting the search to a Quick image in B&W, Color, and illustration. The option to e-mail the article/photo with the appropriate citation (MLA, APA, AMA, Chicago Turabian, Harvard) makes this a very handy resource for accurate citing of image sources.

This is the MLA Works cited for this photo:
"STATUE OF LIBERTY: The Statue of Liberty as seen from the Hudson River in New York on September 11, 2006. (UPI Photo/Laura Cavanaugh)." (2006): Image Collection. EBSCO. Web. 28 Sept. 2011.

Most EBSCO resources have the Cite link in the toolbar on the right. For this database you will need to e-mail yourself the citation. I suggest emailing articles and citations to oneself just to make sure you get all the details. I admit to leaving off some pertinent point when I'm writing the citation. The email version gives me everything I'll need for a complete citation, incuding punctuation.

To access this database, you do need the current password to GALILEO available from your Georgia librarian. Go to Databases A-Z, select A, scroll to Advanced Placement Source


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From Huck Finn to Harry Potter: Banned Book Week

Each year at the end of September, Banned Book Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to read and emphasizes the importance of free and open-access to information. The books that make the list have been subjected to possible banning within the United States. However, due to librarians, teachers, and book sellers, in most cases these titles have not been banned.

In this day and age even if a book is removed from the shelves in a school library, there is a high chance you would be able to find this material in a bookstore or public library. Perhaps over the years there has been a hype made around Banned Book Week, which overshadows how challenging books decades ago, may have impacted availability of the title. For example, the Online Books Page notes that Ulysses by James Joyce was banned from the United States as obscene for fifteen years until 1933. The book was seized by U.S Postal Authorities during that time. However, perhaps this hype around BBW helps prevent banning and censorship by allowing people to acknowledge that books are still challenged today.

The top ten challenged books in the United States for 2010 were:

1) And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
2) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
3) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
4) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
5) The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins;
6) Lush, by Natasha Friend
7) What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
8) Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
9) Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie
10) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

For more information about Banned Book Week and why these and other titles continue to be challenged, please visit the ALA website.
For other general information on banned books visit The Online Books Page at the University of Pennsylvania.


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Archive vs Complete

ABI/INFORM Archive (at ProQuest)

contains a complete run of key business and management journals, providing a unique historical perspective on hundreds of topics, including corporate strategies, management techniques, marketing, product development and industry conditions worldwide, available in cover-to-cover full images, complete with illustrations and advertisements.

I clicked on ABI/INFORM Archive (at ProQuest) by mistake. I was really trying to get to ABI/INFORM Complete (at ProQuest). As long as I had both open, I thought I'd see what the difference is between them. Very intriguing. The Archive has limited runs of publications i.e. 1986-1990 for American Business Law Journal , while Complete has three sections of American Business Law Journal, 1971- present, 1963-1985, 1986-1990.

What's up with that, as the colloquial saying goes. I did a compare and contrast on the Winter 1986, vol. 23(4) issue. The Archive has 20 pdf files which include the cover, the individual advertisements, the table of contents and the articles. Complete just lists the 7 articles.

If you want to 'see' the publication, going to the Archive would be the best bet. Using the Archive might be helpful for advertising, marketing, and visual communication students.

You may access these databases in GALILEO.
..Select Databases A-Z
....Select A
......ABI/Inform Archive is first, ABI/Inform Complete is second

You may get the current GALILEO password from your Georgia librarian.


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What do I say?

Writing a formal business letter makes me nervous. How picky will the recipient be if I put a comma in the wrong place? Will they notice my run on sentence? Should I put their address above the salutation? What do I say in the salutation? How about the closing? Is it Yours, Sincerely, Always, or just my name? That just the technical part, what about the content, the meaning, the tone of my words?

Preparing for an ENGL 1010 class where the assignment is to write a persuasive Business Letter, I ran across "The AMA handbook of business documents [electronic resource] : guidelines and sample documents that make business writing easy" by K.(Kevin)Wilson, K. [HF5726 ONLINE RESOURCE 2011]. It's an electronic book in our EBSCO (formerly NetLibrary) collection.

The AMA Handbook of Business Documents takes the guesswork out of preparing firstclass written pieces of every type. Packed with dozens of sample documents and practical tips, this handy guide is everything you need to create:
Proposals • Memos • E-mails • Press releases • Collection letters • Speeches • Technical, research and lab reports • Sales letters • Policies and procedures • Warning letters • Announcements • And much more
Suited equally to executives, entrepreneurs, managers, and administrative staff—anyone charged with putting a business’s intentions into words—The AMA Handbook of Business Documents is a versatile, powerful, and indispensable toolbox. [more]

Don't be afraid, there is help! You do need a login and password to use this title off campus. That information is available from your campus librarian.


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Try me

Thanks to Lauren Barnes, Woodstock campus librarian, for creating the QR code!

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E-book survey

One of our electronic book vendors has requested that we ask students to participate in a survey of electronic book use. This vendor did a survey in 2008. They'd like to compare the results from then till now. A presentation is planned for a November conference.

If you're a student and would like to tell a vendor what you think about electronic books - here's the link to the e-reader 2011 survey. It will remain open till October 7.


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How do I fix that dish?

Finding a recipe online is so simple. A search with Google pulls up innumerable recipe sites. A plethora of resources! One can even type 'recipe : ingredient' and find more information about using that single ingredient than you can imagine!

But what if, what if you were in a waiting area, perusing a magazine and you read the perfect recipe for a meal you were planning. Do you rip out the page? I hope not. Do you ask the office staff if they would copy the page for you or let you borrow the magazine? This is a viable option (and gracious towards others who use the waiting area). Yet, there's another option!

ProQuest has a search limiter for recipes.
Go to GALILEO
Get the current password from your Georgia librarian.
...Select databases A-Z
....Select P
......Select ProQuest
.........Select Advanced Search (link just above the right side of the search box)
....Change the drop down to Publication
....Type in the magazine title. If you aren't sure if ProQuest has the title you're looking for- go to the Publications link and search for the title. Click on the title and you can search within it! I found Southern Living, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and Gourmet. There are thousands of other magazines.
....For the next search box, leave it Full text
....Type in the recipe title or ingredients
.....Scroll down to Document type- select recipe
...Search

All the recipes in that magazine with the specific ingredient or title are retrieved.
You can limit your search by year or issue, as well.

Happy hunting and cooking and enjoying.

-kss

Black Forest Cuicine

What do you immediately think of when you hear Black Forest cuisine? I thought of the cake.

Black forest cuisine : the classic blending of European flavors [TX721.S73 2006X ]by Walter Staib is available at the Mountain View campus.

From Publishers Weekly - For the uninitiated, this collection of recipes makes an apt introduction to the cuisine of southwest Germany. Inflected with French, Swiss and Italian traditions, Black Forest cookery goes beyond the sauerkrauts, wursts and späetzles we associate with German food—though there's plenty of that here, too. In his introduction, the chef/owner of Philadelphia's historic City Tavern reveals that there are many similarities between the postwar eating habits of his native Black Forest and the 18th-century American dishes he now serves on a nightly basis ....[more]

Now I know what to borrow for the weekend so I can create my own Oktoberfest at home!

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An app for that

Temperature changes create an opportunity for a seasonal illness. When the symptoms appear and someone suggests you try a certain over the counter drug, can you research that drug while out and about?

Now you can - Micromedex 2.0 has mobile access to the complete database for iPhone/iPad, Blackberry, and Android Devices! Check with your campus librarian for the app directions. Don't let a little sniffle get you down.

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Ooom pa pa

It is the first Monday of Autumn. This past weekend, the mountain town of Helen, Georgia held their Oktoberfest. I missed the event. Could I create the dishes of Oktoberfest at home?

Chattahoochee Tech has a Culinary program based at the Mountain View campus. The Library Guide for Culinary Arts is in the Program and Special Topics area.

The wonderful thing about the Library Guides is their versatility. Each tab for our guides designates one type of resource, Books, Articles, and the Internet. Jeff Fisher, the author of the Culinary Arts Library Guide has created drop down pages for various countries. This creates an 'at a glance' venue which includes books available through CTC and specific databases with information on the country.

Yes, there's a page for Germany noting various cookbooks of German food. I think I can do this!


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