Too many choices

Google brings up a tsunami of web sites. It can be overwhelming to select just the right internet source.

"SKS WebSelect is an online database of Internet resources providing access to quality Web sites on almost any subject. WebSelect is continually updated to include new sites and dynamically changing data. Summaries provide a concise overview of site content and authority. Keyword, Subject Heading, and Topic Browse searches can be performed. Topics are assigned based on site content and mission. WebSelect is dynamically updated and offers Internet resources from around the globe, including those of leading universities, government agencies and respected organizations. "

GALILEO
..Databases A-Z
...Jump to S
.....Select SKS Web Select

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Gold Rush season

Gold Rush days in Dahlonega are held the third weekend of October (Oct 21-22, 2006). Lots of lovely Autumn color. Spring is another gorgeous time to head for the hills.

Before you head out for an educational day trip check out the Digital Library of Georgia's "Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills": Gold and Gold Mining in Georgia, 1830s-1940s consists of selected legal, financial, and promotional documents as well as photographs and picture postcards that represent episodes of renewed interest in gold mining in Lumpkin County during Reconstruction, at the turn of the century, and during the Depression. Culled from three archival collections at the Lumpkin County Library of the Chestatee Regional Library System, the selected textual materials cover the late 1830s through the early 1940s, but focus primarily on the period between Reconstruction and the turn of the twentieth century. By contrast, the photographs and postcards depict mining methods employed from the 1900s through the 1940s along the Chestatee River, at the Findley Mill, and at the Lockhart Mine. Correspondence to Dahlonega attorney Weir Boyd documents the activities of the Rider Mine (1868-1883), the Yahoola and Cane Creek Hydraulic Mining Company (1868-1883), the Consolidated Mines (1879-1882), and the Phoenix Gold Mining company (1891-1892). In-depth descriptions of mining operations and techniques are found within the prospectuses of the Dahlonega Consolidated Gold Mining Company, the Dahlonega Gold Mining and Milling Company, and the Findley Gold Mining Company of Georgia. In addition, Memoranda of deposit from 1838 to 1905 document the Branch Mints in Dahlonega and Charlotte

GALILEO
.....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to T
............. Select Thar's Gold

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Current events- now!

Someone in the house must have a current event article - right now!

Monday morning and the Social Studies teacher said everyone had to bring in a current event article. The family is trying to get out the door - where does one get a current event article - right now?

"TOPICsearch is a current events database covering social, political, and economic issues, scientific discoveries, and other popular topics. The database contains full text for over 66,000 articles from more than 2,700 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information. From the Advanced Search screen, users can select preselected current events and popular topics from drop-down menus."

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to T
..........Select TOPICsearch

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Book Fair delight

The cases for the Scholastic Book Fair were delivered this morning!

Oh boy!

Monday we set up and start selling books from8:30AM to 6PM, Monday through Thursday.

The money we raise is for the Early Childhood Education program.
The books we earn supplement the Children's collection (used by all but selected for the Early Childhood Education Literature class).

I do not like them, Sam-I-am

What famous author penned that memorable line? (Answer at the bottom of this blog) His birthday is celebrated today in schools across the country as students read and listen to stories for Read Across America.

In GALILEO , you can find information about this author in:

• Book Index with Reviews (492 results)
• Encyclopedia Britannica (19 results)
• Literature Online (6 results) I was surprised he is in Literature Online!
• NoveList (50 results)

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Answer: Dr. Seuss, aka Theodore Seuss Geisel

Good ideas

Linus Pauling "was once asked by a high school student ,
"How can I have great ideas?"
Pauling's answer was, "The important thing is to have many ideas."

from The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation- a biography of Linus Pauling.
http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/ci/1992/Pauling.html

Spring Quarter Registration

Early registration for Spring Quarter is going on this week for current students.
Current students can register on-line after meeting with their advisor and getting their pin number.

Open registration with orientation and advisement for new students is this Thursday, March 2

Spring Quarter will begin on April 5.

Do you remember?

Remembering is a funny thing- pictures help us "see" what life was like.

"Community Art in Atlanta, 1977-1987: Jim Alexander's Photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center from the Auburn Avenue Research Library consists of fifty-five documentary photographs of the Neighborhood Arts Center (1975-1989) that capture significant African American-centered cultural and community events in and around the Atlanta-based organization, a brainchild of the late mayor Maynard Jackson. This body of images documents a visit to the Center from the legendary Romare Bearden, as well as Atlanta-area outreach projects, arts festivals, and social demonstrations that took place during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Taken by photographer, community activist, and Neighborhood Arts Center staff member Jim Alexander, these photographs demonstrate the Center's service commitment and its promotion of urban community arts."

GALILEO
....Jump to C
......Select Community Art in Atlanta

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

No more lines

The NMTC Bookstore has a web site for student and faculty convenience. Lines have been notorious on the first day of class as students try to purchase books before class. Now students can order their textbooks online and receive them at home! No more lines. Students will be able to have their books with them on the first day without standing in line at the bookstore.

Check out the NMTC Bookstore on-line at www.nmetrobookstore.com.

Payment for books purchased on-line will be by credit card only (no scholarship/grant money can be used on-line). The NMTC Bookstore accepts- Master Card, Visa, American Express, Discover.

The Spring 2006 books should be on the Web Site by March 1. (Early registration for Spring quarter is March 2 - so you could register on-line then purchase your books on-line.)

A picture is worth 1000 words

The collection is primarily what we would call snapshots of life. There are a few formal portraits. My favorite snapshot is the "woman with her hands on her hips" (page 2, right hand column).

"Robert E. Williams Photographic Collection: African-Americans in the Augusta, Ga. Vicinity (Richmond Co.) consists of 86 Glass plate negatives and positive prints of African-Americans in the Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia area. Robert E. Williams, an African-American photographer, operated a studio, R. Williams and Son, in Augusta, Georgia, from 1888 until around 1908. The photographs depict dwellings and domestic chores, rituals of baptism, harvesting and transporting cotton, vehicles and transportation, and children and family life. 84 of the images are presented online, as two of the negatives are copies. "

GALILEO
....Jump to R
.......Robert E. Williams

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Civil Rights

And you thought the Civil Rights movement blossomed in the 1960's. Read these letters from the 1860's to see how freed black people were striving to be a part of the political process.

"The Civil Unrest in Camilla, Georgia, 1868 collection, located at the DeSoto Trail Library and comprised of photostatic copies from the Freedman's Bureau records held by the National Archives, consists of letters, affidavits, reports and a newspaper clipping relating to a violent episode in Camilla, Georgia. The incident occurred on September 19, 1868 when freedmen, together with Republicans W.P. Pierce, John Murphy and F.F. Putney attempted to hold a political rally, and were met with opposition from the white townspeople of Camilla. The dates of the documents largely span from September 19 through October of 1868 and include correspondence between Caleb Chase Sibley, assistant commissioner for the Freedmen’s Bureau in the state of Georgia, the Commissioner, Oliver Otis Howard, the Secretary of War John M. Schofield, and George Gordon Meade, military commander of the Third Military District in Georgia, as well as lesser-known Bureau agents’ correspondence, reports and affidavits containing first hand accounts of the incident from freedmen and others. "

GALILEO
...Jump to C
.....Civil Unrest in Camilla

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

I'm bored

Some school districts are taking a winter break this week. What do you do with the children when they are home day after day?

Our Early Childhood Education program has a collection of resources for planning activities. One item is: The Complete Resource Book: An Early Childhood Curriculum by Pam Schiller (LB 1140.4 .S35 1998). The book offers "a complete plan for every day of every week of the year, this book can also be an excellent reference book for responding to children's specific interests."

When the child says, "I'm bored, there's nothing to do" - the resources in the LB section may offer you ideas for activities and projects to keep those idle hands busy.

Hail to the Chief!

Presidents Day is not another sales event. Really. Today we honor all presidents but especially we remember the two born in February - George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

In GALILEO you can read the 39th Presidents diary. "The Jimmy Carter Presidential Daily Diary Online presents an online version of the diary of Jimmy Carter, former Governor of Georgia from 1971-1975 and the Thirty-Ninth President of the United States from 1977-1981. The diary is the official log of the president's activities during his administration and is from the Carter Presidential Library and Museum."


GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to J
........Jimmy Carter

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Behind the scenes

Are you interested in the behind the scenes details of the entertainment world?

"The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s consists of selected correspondence, financial records, contracts, and advertising materials from the theater's records found in the Charles Henry Douglass, Jr. business records at the Middle Georgia Archives, which document the amusements available to Macon's African American population, and the business dealings of this African American entrepreneur from 1912 to the 1930s. The bulk of these selected records feature the period between 1920 and 1929, and describe the sporting events, vaudeville, and films brought to the theater, as well as the efforts to ensure its financial success. Handbills and booking correspondence document Georgia-based fighters such as Tiger Flowers and Texas Tanner who sought to fight at the venue in 1927. Douglass and Ben Stein, a white businessman who assumed ownership of the theater between 1927 and 1929, were affiliated with the Theatre Owners Booking Association (T.O.B.A.), a vaudeville circuit. This gave them access to bring prominent acts to Macon's African American community, such as well-known blues musicians Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith, comedians Butterbeans and Susie, as well as musicals, revues, and sacred theater. When not hosting live acts, the Douglass also exhibited a wide variety of sound and silent motion pictures. Selected records feature race films (movies made specifically for African American audiences) of producers such as the Norman Film Manufacturing Company and Oscar Micheaux. The selections highlight other Southern African American theaters, such as the Palace Theatre in Valdosta, Georgia, Liberty Theatre in Columbus, Georgia, and the Liberty Theatre in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

GALILEO
.....Jump to B
.......Select The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

What do I take now?

Early registration for Spring Quarter is March 2.

Advisement for current students is Feb 20-Feb 23

• Appointments for advisement are being made this week
• Make the appointment
• Keep the appointment
  
  An advisor can help one figure out the courses to take to complete the program!

Lunch and Learn

Please mark your calendars to join us on

• February 22
• from 11:30am to 1:00pm
• in the Auditorium (100 building)
• at North Metro Technical College (5198 Ross Road, Acworth, GA 30102)

for an exciting and informative presentation on “Strategies for Starting Your Own Small Business”. So, whether you have an idea for a new business or you’re an existing business that wants to grow or are just interested in exploring more about what it takes to launch a new business, this presentation is for you.

Free Chick-fil-A sandwiches and drinks will be served from 11:30am to 12:00pm with the presentation to follow from 12:00pm to 1:00pm.
Everyone is welcome and dress is ‘come as you are’.

Sponsored by

• Chick-fil-A Dwarf House of Woodstock
• Bartow County Bank
• and the Rotary Club of Cartersville.
  
  For more information, please contact Mr. Patrick Blessinger, Marketing Instructor at 770-975-4012

Sweet Auburn

"Concentrated along a short mile and a half of Auburn Avenue, the Sweet Auburn Historic District reflects the history, heritage and achievements of Atlanta's African Americans. The name Sweet Auburn was coined by John Wesley Dobbs, referring to the "richest Negro street in the world." http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/aub.htm"

In GALILEO the "Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding Aids database consists of guides to archival and manuscript collections held by the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African-American Culture and History, a special library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System. The library's primary source materials document the experiences of African-Americans in Atlanta, the Southeastern region, and throughout the nation."

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Hearts and Flowers

Cupid is rushing around today! Flowers, candy, cards, gifts are all being exchanged. Encyclopedia Britannica has two articles about Valentines Day- one in the Encyclopedia Britannica and one in the student edition of Encyclopedia Britannica.

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
......Jump to E
........Encyclopedia Britannica

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Prize Available

The Student Success Center is running a Black History Month Quiz. The 10 question quiz is on the bulletin board next to the Business Office (Room 105) in the 100 building.

• Fill in the quiz
• Submit the quiz to the Student Success Center (Room 120)
• The drawing will be held the end of February
• The grand prize will be a $25 gift card

(HINT: most of the answers - not all - are on the bulletin board)

And it said what?

Folks who do serious research want to look at the original document. They don't want to read bits and pieces in an article about the document. They want to read the original work. How do they find where the primary source might be?

"ArchivesUSA® is a current directory of 5,596 repositories and 154,678 collections of primary source material across the United States. Using ArchivesUSA®, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.
Repository records provide detailed information including phone and fax numbers, hours of service, materials solicited, email and home page URLs when available. Each collection record links to its corresponding repository record, simplifying the research process.
ArchivesUSA® integrates the following information into comprehensive collection records:
The entire collection of NUCMC from 1959 to the present. The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) includes information gathered and indexed by the Library of Congress, covering more than 103,000 collections. Only ArchivesUSA® makes all of NUCMC fully searchable in electronic form.
Names and detailed subject indexing of over 62,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in ProQuest UMI's microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
Collection descriptions submitted directly to us from repositories.
A growing number of more than 5,000 links to online finding aids.
Detailed indexing of collections allows powerful searching across eight combinable fields. Users can zero in on material relevant to their research. "


Go to GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Scroll down to Archives USA

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Death and taxes

Benjamin Franklin (who would have turned 300 this year) said "but in this world nothing can be certain, except death and taxes."
The full quote is in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 17th edition pg 321, v 3.

It is tax season. Banks, insurance companies, mortgage companies, employers and other financial institutions are providing the neccessary documents to fill out your tax form. Where can you get a paper tax form? Your public library has the forms for both federal and state taxes.

Bartow County Public Library in Cartersville http://www.bartowlibraryonline.org/
Cobb County Public Library has a branch in Acworth http://www.cobbcat.org
Sequoyah Regional Library System has a branch near Town Lake http://www.sequoyahregionallibrary.org

The forms, which can be printed out, are available at the Internal Revenue Service site <http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/>. At NMTC we have access to the internet so you can print out the IRS forms but we do not have the paper forms available.

Where did they come from?

Black History month inspires some people to look for their great grandparents and great-great grandparents. "The Ancestry Library Edition collection has approximately 4,000 databases including key collections such as U.S. federal census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes), Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes), The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630, Social Security Death Index, WWI Draft Registration Cards, Federal Slave Narratives, and a strong Civil War collection. All materials may be searched at once (using a basic or advanced search screen), or various databases and indexes may be searched individually. "

Start with what you know (yourself, your parents, your grandparents) and work your way back in time. Your grandparents are probably listed in the 1930 Federal census. They might still be living with their parents, which would give you one more generation back.

Ancestry.com is only available at school.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Welcome COC / SACS team!

We are having honored guests for the next few days!

North Metro Technical College is a Candidate for Accreditation with the Commission of the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Associate of Applied Technology degrees, 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097; 404-679-4501.

The team is arriving on campus this afternoon to begin our accreditation visit.

North Metro Technical College is accredited by the Council on Occupational Education, 41 Perimeter Center East, N.E., Suite 640, Atlanta, Georgia 30346; 770-396-3898.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

On February 5th the weather folks were predicting snow in North Georgia for Monday February 6th. In the middle of the night they changed their prediction.
Where do you go to get information about snow?
....For forecasts try http://www.weather.com, the Weather Channel.
....For facts about snow try Access Science @ McGraw Hill in GALILEO.
...........Go to Databases A-Z, select Access Science.

AccessScience provides the finest collection of science reference materials—online and fully searchable. We offer easy accessibility to the information you need to make research easy—with access to all the articles, fully illustrated, from the latest edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, Research Updates from the McGraw-Hill Yearbooks, thousands of illustrations, and the latest Science News® headlines, biographies, and more. This online encyclopedia is tailored to researchers and students looking for the most relevant, readable, and trusted sources of information available. We maintain content of the highest standards, and readers may be assured that our authors are the top experts in the field, including a number of Nobel Prize and Fields Medals winners.

Access Science defines snow as:
[ELECTRONICS] Small, random, white spots produced on a television or radar screen by inherent noise signals originating in the receiver.
[METEOROLOGY] The most common form of frozen precipitation, usually flakes of starlike crystals, matted ice needles, or combinations, and often rime-coated.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

The more things change!

As the saying goes...the more things change, the more they stay the same. This is the time of year for political leaders to give their "state-of-the-political-institution" address. You can read what the Mayor of Savannah had to say in his annual reports. "The annual reports of the Mayor of the city of Savannah Georgia for the years 1855-1917 include information on city activities and finances, commercial statistics, health, death, and illness statistics, and information on trade, public schools, weather, charitable institutions and city ordinances. The documents also include reports of the City Attorney, the Police Department (including crime statistics), the City Engineer, the Fire Department (including statistics on fires and property losses), and the Board of Trade, among others."

You won't be surprised to read how nothing has really changed. There is some comfort to the notion that things stay the same- of course, there is some distress to the notion, too!

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
...... Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Phil vs. Beau

Weather discussions are fun. Today is a superb weather forecasting day- Groundhog Day. In Pennsylvania, Punxsutawney Phil has seen his shadow. there will be six more weeks of winter. Yet in Georgia, General Beau Lee did not see his shadow so Spring is just around the corner!

History is for everyone

Annals of American History Online includes the full text of over 2000 primary documents in American history, including historical accounts, speeches, memoirs, poems, editorials, landmark court decisions, and cultural criticism. The resource also has multimedia files, including more than 500 pictures and hundreds of video and audio clips of famous speeches. This chronicle may be explored year by year using a timeline dating from 1493 to 2002, browsed by author or topic, or searched by keyword.

You can search by timeline, by author or by topic. The topic Discrimination & Diversity notes, "Equality has from the beginning been a promise of American life, though it is nowhere laid down as a governing principle. In the Declaration of Independence equality is defined as a “self-evident” truth, though this so-called natural truth has undergone several centuries of refinement. Relive the debates on freedom of religion, the abolition of slavery, immigration, the treatment of Native Americans, woman suffrage, fair wages, and other civil issues."

Read all about it in Annals of American History.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Who's on first?

The classic comedy sketch "Who's on first?" still brings laughs! But when you're looking for a book and can't figure out who has it...there is very little laughing going on....look in World Cat to find out what library has the title you are looking for. Your librarian can then request that title through InterLibrary Loan. The process takes about two weeks.

"The WorldCat database is the world's most comprehensive bibliography with bibliographic records representing information spanning 4,000 years of knowledge. It is the OCLC Online Union Catalog of information contributed by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries worldwide. "

NMTC has entered the books in our collection into WorldCat. WorldCat serves as another card catalog for our library. Our symbol is FQ9 if you'd like to limit your search in WorldCat to the materials we own.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to W
........select WorldCat

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

And what did they do?

You hear rumors and rumors of rumors from your friends but you'd like another source for business news.

ABI/INFORM Dateline "is a full-text database that focuses on local and regional business news coverage of large corporations, privately held companies, local start-ups, executive profiles, marketing, finance, and industry news. It provides information not typically found in the national press sources. Topics cover subjects such as agriculture, company profiles, corporate strategies, executive profiles, financial services, high technology, manufacturing, marketing, regional business environments, retailing, and service industries.

Direct access to specific company information via Hoover's Company Capsules and Profiles can be found within full-text articles in ABI Inform Complete and ABI Inform Dateline. Links are indicated with an information icon followed by a company name. "

GALILEO
.....ABI/Inform (it's part of the Proquest databases)

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Happy Birthday, Mozart!

Celebrate the 250th birthday of Mozart!
Read the current articles celebrating the legacy of a master.

GALILEO
....Arts and Humanities tab
.......Music and Performing Arts
.........MasterFile Premier (at EbscoHost)
...........search for Mozart

3664 articles show in the list. You can limit your search by publishing date to get only articles published in January 2006 and February of 2006. That limited search pulls up 28 articles.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Support for the programs

You can find the internet sites and databases that have been added to GALILEO just for NMTC by going to the Find a Database box on the home page of GALILEO.

Type in nmtc to pull up the list of 50 resources.
You can also type in your program name and find resources specific for your program!

These web sites have been recommended by the instructors in the various programs at NMTC.

The password to use GALILEO at home is available from your librarian.

When will it be out?

Is there an author you just love and you're desperate for their next book?
Check out Book Index with Reviews in GALILEO to find out when an authors material will be released!

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
......Jump to B
.........Select Book Index With Reviews
...........Select Advanced search
.............Type in your search term
.............Scroll down a bit to Limiters and click on the forthcoming box in the Publication status line
Then search! You'll get a list of what is coming out and when.

"Book Index with Reviews (BIR) helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. BIR is a cooperative effort between NoveList, EBSCO Publishing and Baker & Taylor."

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Day 5

This is Day 5 of the Tuesday/Thursday classes for this quarter. The Librarian shares how to use GALILEO to the Introduction to Computers classes (SCT 100) on Day 5.

We're using the demo of the updated GALILEO "at http://purl.galileo.usg.edu/demo. This implementation represents an effort to incorporate the WebFeat federated search box into the current GALILEO environment and to put in place the infrastructure that allows
launching a search from GALILEO into WebFeat." You will love how it searches multiple databases at once!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

A sailing we will go

Ships for Victory
J.A. Jones Construction Company and Liberty Ships in Brunswick, Georgia

"The online collection consists of eighty-four black-and-white photographs from the J.A. Jones Construction Company collection at the Brunswick-Glynn County Library that depict the company’s World War II cargo ship building activities in its Brunswick, Georgia shipyard from 1943 to 1945. The images document the life cycle of the Liberty and Knot ships built in Brunswick: from keel-laying and hull construction to christening and launch. Construction techniques are visible in many of the photographs, and several images feature the shipyard’s male and female laborers and management staff. In addition, the launch photographs feature ship sponsors and other dignitaries. Of particular note is a series of photographs depicting Christmas Day, 1944, when the shipyard workers volunteered to work through the holiday, donating their time-and-a-half pay as a Christmas gift to the nation. "

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to S
........Ships for Victory

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Say cheese.......

NMTC will be making student ID cards in the Admissions office next week.
(Mon-Fri, Jan 23-27)

The official NMTC student ID card allows a NMTC student to utilize both the Kennesaw State and Southern Poly libraries! This gives our students a much bigger resource pool to search in!.

Quoth the raven

Edgar Allan Poe was born this day in 1809.

Encyclopedia Britannica notes "American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre. His tale “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His “The Raven” (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature."

There is a museum dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond, Virginia http://www.poemuseum.org/.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

A. A. Milne

Today would be the 124th birthday of A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne- the creator of Winnie the Pooh and Christopher Robin.

Read more about A. A. Milne's work in LION (Literature On-line) "a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources. 164 new and revised biographies; new releases of the African Writers Series and Twentieth-Century Drama; enhancement to ABELL records; Firefox support; read more in What's New? "

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
........Jump to L
.............Select LION

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Staying home

On those days when you get to stay home and read a good book....how do you find that good book?

"NoveList is a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 125,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We’re Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction."

GALILEO
.....Databases A-Z
........Jump to N
...........Novelist

Password for home use of GALILEO is available from your Librarian!

MLK Day

"In honor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and upcoming Black History
month, a free newspaper archive of 50,000 newspaper pages about Dr. King has
been released on MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com...The website is a free
service of NewspaperARCHIVE.com and contains original stories about the
Montgomery bus boycott, the 'I Have A Dream' speech, details about King's
assassination on April 4, 1968, along with thousands of other headlines
detailing Martin Luther King Jr.'s life and work."

http://martinlutherkingjrarchive.com/

You might also look in GALILEO- check out LexisNexis Academic (#98 on the NMTC of GALILEO, Databases A-Z, list) for broadcast transcripts.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Triskaidekaphobia

The literal meaning for triskaidekaphobia is 'superstition about the number thirteen', but it is also used by extension to describe 'fear of Friday the 13th'.

• This definition is from the Urban Legends site http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/friday_the_13th.htm

You can read more about triskaidekaphobia in the Oxford English Dictionary (in GALILEO ).

Get the password for home use of GALILEO from your librarian!

Easy searching

There is a resource in GALILEO noted for Middle School and High School students called Student Research Center (by EbscoHost)- #162 in the NMTC list. The magazines that are indexed are not what I would limit to Middle School and High School (Economist, US News & World Report, New Republic, Newsweek to name a few).

This particular database is "prettier" than the straight EbscoHost and feels friendlier. If you're looking for current events and history this might be the database to use. Advanced search offers you several ways to focus your search-including by reading level.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Winter chills

It's warm, it's cold, it's sunny, it's cloudy...the weather is so peculiar. You're cooped up with all sorts of folks, can't open the windows to clear out the air. Germs, flu bugs, colds.....now you're sick. How do you feel better?

There are several medical resources on GALILEO.

Alt Health Watch (part of EbscoHost) "focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. This database provides full text for articles from more than 180 international and often peer-reviewed journals, reports and proceedings, as well as association and consumer newsletters. In addition, Alt HealthWatch includes hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts...The majority of the full text titles included in the database are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. "

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Do you remember?

Did you browse through old family pictures over the holiday? Sharing stories, laughing, crying, remembering what was? Remembering. Pictures help us remember.

Vanishing Georgia (#170 on the NMTC list in GALILEO) "comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes."

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

It begins!

Today is the first day of the Winter Quarter for NMTC. Students are buying books, looking for classrooms, and checking with friends!

The password for NMTC access to GALILEO has changed - check with the librarian (or your instructor) for the new password.

Over the break we added additional web sites and databases for programs. We have 48 specific links for NMTC programs. At the request of an instructor, I'll add another link today. The NMTC links are identified with our logo to the right of the title.


The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Geting ready

The quiet after the rush of registration.
Classes begin for Winter Quarter on Monday, January 9th.

Our library hours will change beginning Monday, January 9th:

• Monday 8 am - 9pm
• Tuesday through Thursday 8 am - 10 pm
• Friday 8am - 4 pm
• NEW we'll be open on Saturday 10 am- 2pm

We are excited about the added Saturday hours!

GALILEO password has changed for NMTC - you can get the new password at the Library.

New books!

Before Christmas we ordered books for the library! The boxes are arriving.

One new title "Born Losers: A History of Failure" tells the story of American failure. Our greatest fear is being a failure. This book tells the cultural history of American failures.

On the bright side, we purchased "The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness". This sequel to "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey takes the reader on the next step to success.

Come by the library and check out these new books!

Registration tomorrow!

Registration for the Winter Quarter is Thursday, January 5.

General student orientation will be in the Auditorium - Room 100 at 8:30, 1, and 4.
Online course orientation will be in Room 125 at 10:30, 2:30, and 5:30.

Happy New Year- 2006!

Yes, it's 2006!

We're open short hours (8-5 Mon-Thurs, 8-4 on Friday) this week.
The quarter begins on January 9th.
We'll resume our normal hours and add Saturday hours.

The password for GALILEO has changed for NMTC.
You can get the new password in the library!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Last day till 2006

The library closes today at 5. We'll reopen on January 3, 2006.

The librarian will take a break from the blog till January 3, too.

Merry Christmas (and happy Hannukah, Kwanzaa, etc!)

A winter present

We have just purchased, the recently well reviewed in Library Journal, Garden Literature Index for our Horticulture program. The database is available through GALILEO.

"Garden Literature Index, (GLI) is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. A highlight of the database is its focus on environmentally sustainable horticultural and design practices. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. Garden Literature Index covers a wide range of serial titles including general gardening titles of national, international, and regional interest, and titles devoted to specialty gardens and plant groups. It includes periodicals of the major learned societies in horticulture, botany, ecology, entomology, and plant pathology, and of many plant societies and trade associations. Publications of commercial horticulture, landscaping, and retailing are represented. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English. Coverage for many titles extends back further than a decade. Garden Literature Index is a unique resource that brings together articles about plants and gardens into a single source, and it includes titles that are not available in any other index. "

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

And the answer is

Did you use the thesaurus? Some of these are pretty obscure.

1. Colorless Yuletide ..................... White Christmas
2. Castanea Seed Vesicated in a Conflagration ..................Chestnuts Roasting on an open Fire
3. Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors ........All I Want forChristmas is my Two Front Teeth
4. Righteous Darkness ...........Oh Holy Night
5. Arrival Time: 24:00 Hours/Weather Conditions: Cloudless...............ItCame Upon a Midnight Clear
6. Loyal Followers Advance...................O Come All Ye Faithful
7. Far Off in a Feedbox..........Away In A Manger
8. Array the Corridors................Deck The Halls
9. Lilliputian Male Percussionist.............Little Drummer Boy
10. Monarchial Triad........We Three Kings 11. Nocturnal Noiselessness..............Silent Night
12. Jehovah Deactivate Blithe Chevaliers..............God Rest Ye MerryGentlemen
13. Red Man en Route to Borough..........Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
14. Frozen Precipitation Commence..............Let It Snow
15. Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle.............Go Tell It On TheMountain
16. Antlered Quadruped Valentino Namesake with the VermilionProboscis.....Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
17. Query, regarding the Identity of Juvenile...............What Child IsThis
18. Delight for this Planet............Joy To The World
19. Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings..........Hark TheHerald Angels Sing
20. The Gross Square Root Festive Twenty-four HourIntervals...............Twelve Days Of Christmas
21. Jocund Elderly Martyr Lacking Five Cent Pieces...........Jolly Old St.Nicholas
22. Expect My Arrival at My Domicile for Yuletide..........I'll Be Home ForChristmas
23. Tintinabulate Hollow, Cup-shaped Metal Instruments..........Jingle Bells
24. Perambulating in a Terrain of Stupefaction from 12/21 to3/19..........Walking In A Winter Wonderland
25. Oh Diminutive Hamlet of Israel South of Jerusalem...........Oh LittleTown Of Bethleham
26. Hallucinating About an Ivory Yuletide in the First PersonNarrative.........Dreaming Of A White Christmas
27. Metallic Element AG Cup-shaped musical Instruments...............SilverBells
28. Oh Yuletide Tall Woody plant.........Oh Christmas Tree
29. I Witnessed Maternal Parent Osculating Bewhiskered Male in a Carmine Ensemble..........I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
30. Female Ancestor Experienced Collision with Rangifer Tarandus....GrandmaGot Run Over By A Reindeer
31. Boreal Ice Crystal Homo Sapien.......Frosty The Snow Man
32. To This Place Advances the Personification of the Spirit of Christmas..........Here Comes Santa Claus

Merry Christmas!

Name that tune!

This is related to the library in that one could use a thesaurus to figure out these Christmas song titles.
Answers tomorrow!

1. Colorless Yuletide .....................
2. Castanea Seed Vesicated in a Conflagration ..........................
3. Singular Yearning for the Twin Anterior Incisors
4. Righteous Darkness
5. Arrival Time: 24:00 Hours/Weather Conditions: Cloudless...............
6. Loyal Followers Advance...................
7. Far Off in a Feedbox..........
8. Array the Corridors................
9. Lilliputian Male Percussionist.............
10. Monarchial Triad........
11. Nocturnal Noiselessness..............
12. Jehovah Deactivate Blithe Chevaliers
13. Red Man en Route to Borough..........
14. Frozen Precipitation Commence
15. Proceed and Enlighten on the Pinnacle
16. Antlered Quadruped Valentino Namesake with the Vermilion Proboscis.....
17. Query, regarding the Identity of Juvenile...............
18. Delight for this Planet............
19. Give Attention to the Melodious Celestial Beings
20. The Gross Square Root Festive Twenty-four Hour Intervals...............
21. Jocund Elderly Martyr Lacking Five Cent Pieces...........
22. Expect My Arrival at My Domicile for Yuletide..........
23. Tintinabulate Hollow, Cup-shaped Metal Instruments..........
24. Perambulating in a Terrain of Stupefaction from 12/21 to 3/19..........
25. Oh Diminutive Hamlet of Israel South of Jerusalem...........
26. Hallucinating About an Ivory Yuletide in the First PersonNarrative.........
27. Metallic Element AG Cup-shaped musical Instruments...............
28. Oh Yuletide Tall Woody plant.........
29. I Witnessed Maternal Parent Osculating Bewhiskered Male in aCarmine Ensemble..........
30. Female Ancestor Experienced Collision with Rangifer Tarandus
31. Boreal Ice Crystal Homo Sapien.......
32. To This Place Advances the Personification of the Spirit ofChristmas..........

Santa came early!

We are delighted to have received a gift from a fellow DTAE school of a print set of Contemporary Authors! The other school is purchasing the online database and needed the shelf space so we are the benificiaries!

Contemporary Authors published by Gale contains "biographical information on more than 120,000 modern novelists, poets, playwrights, nonfiction writers, journalists and scriptwriters in the award-winning Contemporary Authors® series.
Sketches typically include personal information, addresses, career history, writings, work in progress, biographical/critical sources and authors' comments and/or informative essays about their lives and work."

This is a superb addition to our reference collection!

Winding down

End of quarter is here.
Students are studying for finals.

The Library will be open from 8-5, Dec 19-22.
The Library will be closed from Dec 23-Jan 2.

We'll reopen on Jan 3, 2006!

Why do people do that?

Have you ever wondered why groups of people do what they do?

Sociology (according to Websters Dictionary in Encyclopedia Britannica in GALILEO ) is : "the science of society , social institutions, and social relationships; specifically : the systematic study of the development, structure, interaction, and collective behavior of organized groups of human beings."

Sociologists make their living studying human behavior. GALILEO has a subset of EbscoHost, "The Sociological Collection... with more than 475 full-text titles. It provides information on all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure. "

GALILEO
.... Database A-Z
....... Jump to S
.......... Sociological Collection

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Finding a business

One can always Google to find a business- type in the name of the company or the type of business. One always takes chances that way- similar named companies appear, thousands of sites show up. Who has the time to weed through the massive amount of information?

We've added The Thomas Register to GALILEO.

The Thomas Register is "the most comprehensive resource for industrial information, products, services, CAD drawings, and more." For our technical programs this is one site that helps students connect with companies in the students field of study.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Mapping your USA travels

It is getting close to holiday travel time. Some folks go "home", others take a vacation in an exotic locale.

This site is a fun way to way to map your US travels: "Go to http://www.world66.com/myworld66/visitedStates and you can click on the list of states which you have visited. Then the map will color in red the states you have visited. Makes a nice visual of your travels."

The atlas is a delightful way to armchair travel. There doesn't seem to be a specific atlas in GALILEO. The Encyclopedia and the Almanac have maps of countries!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Safe place to look

There are times when being a kid is the best! Folks explain things better to kids. They make it easier to understand. Yet, on the internet, one has to be so careful.

GALILEO has a link to KidsClick! Web Search for Kids by Librarians -Links to great sites for kids on all topics (current events, science & math, fine arts, sports & recreation and more). Searches can be limited by reading level (up to grade 2, grades 3 - 6, grades 7 and up). A privacy policy is posted on the site.

It's a safe place to find information for both children and adults- the sites aren't "kiddie sites". They are places with real information!

GALILEO
....Database A-Z
.......Jump to K
...........Select KidsClick

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Planning a party!

Oh boy! It's party time- all over the world folks are celebrating beginnings and endings. Some are building bonfires for the Winter Soltice, some are burning candles for Advent or Hannukah or Kwanzaa. Some are thinking ahead to New Years Eve! A time for sparkling something or other to imbibe (responsibly).

Where does one go to learn about the best wine for a celebration? Many turn to the venerable magazine Wine Spectator. You don't want to purchase the magazine at your local store (or maybe they don't have it on the shelf). What's a party planner to do?

GALILEO....Believe it or not Wine Spectator is in EbscoHost- not in Academic Search Premier on the front page but in Business Source Premier (#28 on NMTC list)! Wine making is a big business.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to B
.........Scroll down a bit to Business Source Premier #28
............Click on Publications
................Type in Wine, click on Browse
.....................Scroll down a bit and you'll see Wine Spectator with issues back to 1996!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

A date which will live in infamy

American familes were touched by the attack on Pearl Harbor. My mother very clearly remembers that Sunday afternoon, Dec 7 1941, her Dad was painting the dining room ceiling. When the news of the attack on Pearl Harbor came across the radio, he stopped painting and went immediately to the office. He worked for Western Electric. The line across the ceiling remained there through out the war. What story does your family have about Dec 7 ,1941?

Read more about Pearl Harbor in the Encyclopedia. We have moved a print set of Comptons Encyclopedia to the circulating collection. You may borrow a volume of the encyclopedia and take it home to read!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

To use or not to use

A play on Shakespeare's words. Yet the question is serious- to use or not to use GALILEO- how do I figure it out?
There are three ways to learn how to use GALILEO (well, four if you count asking the Librarian).

The three ways to get answers to your using the resources questions can be found on the front page to the middle right of the screen- there's a:
1. How do I...(drop down screen)
2. GALILEO Tutorial
3. Online Library Learning Center

Get the answers on how to use GALILEO by exploring the three ways on-screen or ask your Librarian!

Trees, stars, and candles, Oh my!

The shortest days of the year bring on a plethora of holiday rituals with Christmas, Hannakuh, Kwanzaa and the Winter Soltice being the better known.

To find out what is currently written about Religion and Philosophy there is a database in GALILEO specifically for Religion and Philosophy.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to R
.........Religion and Philosophy #140 (an Ebscohost Database)

The Religion & Philosophy Collection is a database with more than 243 full-text journals. It covers topics in spiritual, ethical, philosophical, cultural, and historical aspects of the world's major religions. NOTE: Most of the journals in the Religion & Philosophy Collection are also included in Academic Search Premier; however, some titles are unique to the Religion & Philosophy Collection.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

They welcomed strangers

We arrived as immigrants and many of the local folks welcomed us. The Digital Library of Georgia has a collection of Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, which contain approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville Library, the Frank H. McClung Museum, the Tennessee State Library and Archives, the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Read all about it

We have the ability to add web sites to GALILEO. This makes GALILEO a one stop research center for NMTC.

This site, U.S. News Archives on the Web, is a listing of local newspapers web sites. They are arranged in alphabetical order by state, then by city. There are notes on what it costs to get a print of an article. Find out what the headlines are in various parts of the country- it's interesting to read what editors think is the important news of the day.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Re-gifting

Lots of jokes about re-gifting (giving a gift you received to someone else as a gift). This is the time of year to share our bounty with those in different circumstances.

Did you buy a new cell phone or are you planning to buy a new cell phone for a gift? What do you do with the old cell phone?

The Georgia Phi Chapter (Rad Tech program) at North Metro Technical College is collecting old cell phones. They will give the old cell phones to "Cell Phones for Soldiers" who will then recycle the phones and use the cash to buy phone cards for our soldiers overseas.

There is a box in the library for old cell phones! This is a regifting with benefits.

Grandma, Grandpa and who?

Holidays frequently bring relatives together for a meal or two. Distant cousins are discussed. Family stories are traded. Memories are shared. Laughter and tears are the norm. Who was here? What did they do? Someone gets interested in finding more information about the family.

In GALILEO, while at the library, one can use Ancestry.com. The World War I Draft Registration cards are on-line - these tell a mans birthdate, birthplace, eye color, haircolor and if he was bald! The census from 1930 back to 1790 gives lots of interesting information- who lived in the house, who the neighbors were, jobs, ages, literacy.

Start gathering those family facts so you can participate at the next gathering with new stories about kin.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Mike's back!

The hot dog man, Mike, is back at his post providing fresh, hot, hot-dogs! He's stationed between the 100 and 200 building.

Finding a Deal

Biggest shopping day of the year. Yesterdays papers were crammed with sales flyers (well the papers have been crammed with sales flyers for a week.....).
Where can you go to find out about a particular product? The magazine, Consumer Reports, has built a reputation as a reliable authority for product testing but you haven't saved all those issues in a neat stack.
The library doesn't open till after the shopping malls.
Where can you find out if that particular widget is the best widget to buy?

Yes, GALILEO!
Select EbscoHost (Academic Search Premier (at EbscoHost)
.....Select the Publication button (sort of in the middle of the screen)
.........Search for Consumer Reports
............Click on Consumer Reports (it does have a three month delay so you need to keep the last three months of the print issues)
...............Then you can "Search within this publication" (the link is toward the right of center)

Voila! Information about the widget you desire. Notice that you can set a Journal Alert and EbscoHost will e-mail you the latest entry for your search!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

What did they say?

Cheers, laughter, marching bands, more cheers - did you miss what the commentator said about that float? What was that quip made during the newscast? LexisNexis carries transcripts of radio and television broadcasts. It takes about 4 hours for the transcript to appear.

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to L
...........LexisNexis
...............limit your search by timeframe, be as specific as you can for what you're looking for

Happy Thanksgiving! Be grateful for the wonderful resources available to the citizens of Georgia through GALILEO . And don't eat too much.......

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Silence

No classes on Wednesday.
Library is closed.
Very, very quiet.

Are you ready for the holiday?
Be thankful for GALILEO .

Feeling ones age

How old are you? Mentally, physically, spiritually, socially, chronologically? Regularly someone is quoted as saying "I only feel...." and of course it's many years younger than their chronological age.

Dr. Andrew Weil has written a book titled "Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Physical and Spiritual Well Being". Chapter 9, Body II: The Anti-Inflammatory Diet refers to the science of nutrition and notes articles in Medical Journals.

Yes, I'm going to send you to GALILEO to look for articles on nutrition. You know where to go- start with EbscoHost, then try ProQuest. You can look for medical publications in both databases and limit your searches to those publications!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Bring one, take one

The long weekend coming up might offer time to read for fun. We don't purchase popular fiction for our collection. We exist to support the programs at NMTC. Yet, some of our patrons do like to read for fun....we have set up a cart with paperbacks for trading. Bring one in and take one out. It's run on the honor system. It looks like we have more paperbacks than when we started! If you're looking to trade in some older paperbacks and take away something new to read...come on by Room 103.

Something new to me

Scrolling through GALILEO's Databases A-Z, I ran across a database that was new to me-
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG) "A searchable online catalog of thousands of Internet resources evaluated and selected by librarians." The service aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. It is part of the UK Resource Discovery Network.

It may have a more European slant but at least a person has looked at the site to evaluate it.

You know that the wild web is wild for a reason, no one is in charge- using SOSIG or SKS WebSelect gives you a fighting chance at weeding out the junk web sites.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to all citizens of Georgia from their librarian. Some resources noted on this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

What does that mean?

Literary criticism can be mystifying. What do they mean by "Middle English" or "situational irony"?

The answers are in our Reference section. The Longman Dictionary of Literary Terms " (REF PN 44.5) is a user friendly primer of critical terms, aimed at undergraduates getting their first taste of serious literary study."

This week I've pulled print resources to answer questions where the answer wasn't being found on the internet (not even in GALILEO). Not everything has been digitized (yet).

On-line classes

VCRs were first used to "time shift". You could save a television program and then watch it at your convenience. On-line classes offer that same opportunity. Sometimes the on campus class is offered at a time that is inconvenient for you (you're working, for example). The on-line class offers you the chance to take the class when it fits your schedule.

On-line classes aren't "easier", nor are they less time consuming - if a class takes two hours in the classroom plus homework....the on line class will take two hours in front of the computer plus homework...keep in mind that a 5 minute lecture is one page of printed text.

Orientation for online classes is held before registration. There will be an orientation today (Wednesday Nov 16) at 10:30 and again offered 3 times tomorrow (Thursday Nov 17) - 10:30, 2:30, and 5:30.

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Opinions wanted

GALILEO is doing a survey to find out the users' opinion. The survey icon is at the bottom of GALILEO's opening screen on the left.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Now is the time

Last week was advisement for current students.
This week is early registration!

Once you have been advised, you'll get the pin number to get on BANNER where you'll be able to register.

I gather there is a glitch with the pin numbers distributed last week during advisement....you may need to come to school to get the correct pin number. Admissions cannot give those numbers over the phone.

Sign up now for Winter Quarter

One who has served

Today we honor those who have served in the military. As someone else has noted,
we are the land of the free because of the brave.

From the OED ("The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium." The OED gives definitions, etymological analysis, and quotations to demonstrate the use of words in the English language over time. )

Veteran n. and a.
....1. a. One who has had long experience in military service; an old soldier.
.......b. Any ex-serviceman. Chiefly N. Amer. Not always distinguishable from sense 1a.
....2. One who has seen long service in any office or position; an experienced or aged person.

From the Encyclopedia Britannica: "World War I ended with the Allied and Central Powers signing an armistice on Nov. 11, 1918, and people around the world rejoiced at the cease-fire. In 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson marked the one-year anniversary of the event by proclaiming November 11 Armistice Day. The day became a federal legal holiday in 1938. After World War II, veterans groups and other organizations campaigned to have Armistice Day restructured into an occasion recognizing all veterans of service in the United States military. In 1954, after the Korean War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill officially changing the name to Veterans Day. "

Both of these resources can be found in GALILEO.

NMTC does have a print version of Encyclopedia Britannica in the Reference collection if you'd like to flip through the pages!

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

What do I want to be?

Do you remember adults asking you what you wanted to be when you grew up? Are you still asking yourself that question? This is advisement week for current students at NMTC. Get with your advisor to make sure you're on track to finish your program so you can be what you want to be.

If you're still not sure what you want to be.....check out the Career & Technical Education database in GALILEO. This is a ProQuest database which "contains over 400 titles, all in full text and many in full image, which contain the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphics originally published with the text. Subjects include automobile, electronic, and computer technology; the building trades; graphic arts; medicine, nursing, and pharmacy; child care; food service and hotel management; office skills; veterinary technology; retail work; public safety; and other practical studies."

North Metro offers programs in most (not all) of these areas.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

What is that growing there?

It would be nice to have a guide to crops grown near highways or big signs that declare this field has "xyz" planted. (Farmers might not think that was a good use of their resources.) I'm always asking "what do you think that crop is?" as we drive through Georgia on the interstate. Young plants look different than full grown plants (at least to this city person).

Our collection of horticulture books includes a large selection of electronic books. I searched our card catalog using the keyword "crops". An electronic book available through netLibrary , The new Oxford book of food plants (c1997) by J. G. Vaughan, was on the list. Interesting color illustrations for the food. Some illustrations show the plant at various stages.

Guess if I had a wireless computer I could check the book as we were driving along.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Reading by flashlight

Did you read by flashlight under the covers when you were a child? So excited to read, desperate to find out what happened next?

Now, there's no time to get to the library, no time to pick out a book to read for fun.
What is an old flashlight reader to do?

Yes, I'm going to send you to GALILEO and then to netLibrary! You can read an entire book on-line instead of surfing the web during a break (well at least a portion of the book - a little at a time- kind of like the old days).

GALILEO staff have worked with netLibrary to authenticate access through GALILEO. One password to GALILEO gets you in and then you have access to the netLibrary book for 15 minutes. You can create your "free" account in netLibrary and borrow the book for 4 hours.
NMTC has purchased additional sets of e-books. Our patrons have access to over 34,000 electronic books in netLibrary.

GALILEO
.....Databases A-Z
.........Jump to N
............select netLibrary


The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Advisement

Merriam Webster (in GALILEO through Encyclopedia Britannica) says:
Main Entry: ad·vise·ment
Pronunciation: ed-vz-mnt
Function: noun
Date: 14th century
1 : careful consideration : DELIBERATION
2 : the act or process of advising (as a college student)



This is the week for advisement for current students. Get with your advisor to make sure you're on track to finish your program in a timely fashion. Early registration is next week.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Extra! Extra! Read all about it!

Ah- the old time newsboy - shouting the availability of current news. In todays information glut you can read the news before it happens through internet sites of all shades and persuasions.

But if you like to read the news after someone has a chance to check facts and get the timeline straight...then newspapers are for you! Here is one source on GALILEO that is focused on newspaper articles:

Newspaper Source (EbscoHost database) provides current information from daily feeds from the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News and Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service Newspaper Source as well as cover to cover coverage of The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), and The Toronto Star. The database also contains selected full text from more than 180 regional (U.S.) newspapers, including The Macon Telegraph, Savannah Morning News, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, and The Miami Herald. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News.

It doesn't have every article from every paper. I did a spot check for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. It's only available at school.


The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Checking the facts

Folks used to believe if it was in print, it must be true. That belief in the authority of a published work has transferred to the internet - "isn't everything available on the internet?" , "isn't everything on the internet true?" (real questions from real people).

GALILEO offers SKS WebSelect- a database of Internet sites that have been selected by a person and looked at to make sure the site is authoritative.

For the people who are sure everything on the internet is true -here's a website that might be good to use to discuss the problems with accepting everything on the Internet at face value Dihydrogen Monoxide - DHMO Homepage.

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

That's where it was!

A few weeks ago I wrote about photographs of cities showing what was no longer around. Today let me share - maps that document what once was:

"The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability
of a new online resource: Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for Georgia Towns and Cities, 1884-1922.

The digital collection consists of 4,445 maps by the Sanborn Map Company
depicting commercial, industrial, and residential areas for 133
municipalities. Originally designed for fire insurance assessment, the
color-coded maps relate the location and use of buildings, as well as
the materials employed in their construction. The maps indicate which
city utilities--such as water and fire service--were available.
Fire insurance maps document the changing face of towns and cities,
providing highly detailed information for each neighborhood and block.
The Library of Congress web site refers to them as "probably the single
most important record of urban growth and development in the United
States during the past one hundred years."
The Sanborn Maps database is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia
as part of Georgia HomePLACE. The project is supported with federal LSTA
funds administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services
through the Georgia Public Library Service, a unit of the Board of
Regents of the University System of Georgia. The maps represented are
from the University of Georgia Libraries Map Collection.

"Sanborn," "Sanborn Map," "Sanborn Map Company," and "Sanborn Fire
Insurance Maps" are recognized trademarks of the Sanborn Map Company, a
subsidiary of Environmental Data Resources, Inc. (EDR). The presentation
of the historic maps on this site is in no way connected with either the
Sanborn Map Company or Environmental Data Resources, Inc."

GALILEO
......Digital Library of Georgia (center of the page next to GALILEO Planet, right above Quick Help)
.........Collections A-Z (scroll down on the left)
............Jump to S
................Scroll down past the Sam's to Sanborn

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

Leaf color

Driving around town one sees gorgeous reds and oranges and yellows. It's like being in a paint box! So what causes the leaves to change colors?

Look in Access Science @ McGraw Hill in GALILEO. I used the search term "Autumn leaf color" (in quotes). Photoperiodism seems to best explain the change in colors.

"AccessScience@McGraw-Hill: The Online Encyclopedia of Science & Technology is the web version of McGraw-Hill's authoritative, print multi-volume counterpart. Included in the online version are The McGraw Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, weekly science and technology news articles, research updates, comprehensive and current science biographies, study guides, recommended web sites. The major subjects areas covered in AccessScience are: Agriculture, Forestry & Soils; Anthropology & Archaelogy; Astronomy & Space Science; Biological & Biomedical Science; Chemistry; Computing & Information Technology; Data, Tables, and Tools; Earth Science; Engineering & Materials; Environmental Science; Food Science & Technology; General Science & Technology; Mathematics; Medicine; Military Science; Navigation; Paleontology; Physics; Psychiatry & Psychology; and Veterinary Medicine.
Database provider: A McGraw-Hill Database"

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.

All Hallows Eve

This is a holy day for some Christians- the Eve of All Saints Day. Encyclopedia Britannica has information about Halloween- its history and evolution into a more adult oriented holiday.

On This Day in Encyclopedia Britannica according to tradition, Martin Luther this day in 1517 posted on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, his Ninety-five Theses, a manifesto that turned a protest about an indulgence scandal into the Protestant Reformation.

I wonder what Martin Luther would think of Halloween in the United States?

The password for home use of GALILEO is available to the citizens of Georgia from your librarian. Some resources noted in this BLOG are only available to NMTC patrons.