The news

Started today with an e-mail request from a staff member for an article from yesterday's Wall Street Journal that mentioned our school. None of our 8 campuses subscribe to the print edition. This request gave me the opportunity to share the news resources we do have access to.

I went to GALILEO, selected the tab Journals A-Z to see which database carried the WSJ. Turns out both NewsBank and Abi/Inform Complete carry the full text of the WSJ.

We subscribe to NewsBank for the Georgia papers. I checked to see if our subscription included the Wall Street Journal. It didn't come up under national papers or New York papers. I wandered around for awhile and decided it just wasn't worth the time to keep digging.

Abi/Inform Complete is a ProQuest product. ProQuest databases feel easy and clear to use. I selected the Publications link, clicked on W, scrolled to Wall Street Journal, selected WSJ.

In the search box I typed 'Chattahoochee'. 71 articles were retrieved. A sort by date revealed yesterdays article - Long-Term Unemployment Ripples Through One Town. I was able to e-mail the article to the staff member. Even though we don't subscribe to the print editon, we are able to supply the request in a timely fashion.

Your Georgia librarian can give you the current password to access GALILEO password.
Select Databases A-Z
...Select A
....Scroll to ABI/Inform Complete (not archive)


-kss