More awards

tis the season to be receiving acclaim.

Georgia Mining Association has announced that Patrick Benham, Terrence Carter, Nikki Masters, and Celeste Patrick are recipients of The Georgia Mining Foundation’s 2007 Technical College Scholarship Program.

Spring flowers

Looking at the gorgeous display of daffodils, tulips, phlox, dogwood trees, cherry trees....the list goes on.

Would you like to know when to plant and how to get the amazing colors - perhaps year round?

We have an Ebsco database - Garden Literature Index that isn't just an index. It has full text articles about gardening. The articles are taken from professional horticulture magazines and periodicals.

There is a YouTube video with directions for finding articles in Garden Literature Index.

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
......Jump to G
.........Garden Literature 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.

Awards given

It's Spring and time for awards and honors.

Hooray for Scott Anderson one of the EMT instructors at NMTC. Captain Anderson was named Instructor of the Year by the Department of Human Resources northwest Georgia region.

Pigs in Heaven

Spring break is a wonderful time to select a fiction work and just read for fun. Try Barbara Kingsolver's book Pigs in Heaven (PS 3561 .I496 P54 2003).

Novelist (an Ebsco database available through GALILEO) notes four reviews, they provide a link to the authors web page and they have the first chapter of the book!

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to N
..........Select Novelist
..........Search by title

We do a have a little fiction in our collection - though we are heavy on program materials - of course, that's why we exist - to support the programs. Stroll through our PS's - you'll be surprised at what you'll find.

Soooooooo quiet........

Students and faculty are taking a day off. It's very quiet on campus.

Spring arrives!

In LION ( Literature Online found in GALILEO) are poems to daffodils - this one struck my fancy Daffodils Hokku [from Homespun of Oatmeal Gray (1970), Random House] by Paul Goodman.

Spring break hours

The Library remains open during the NMTC Spring break.

We will have shorter hours on Wednesday, March 21 and Thursday March 22 (8-5).
We will be "closed" on Friday March 24 (though we'll be in here working on library stuff)!

Our "normal" hours resume on Monday, March 26. We share the library with Georgia Highlands. Their Spring break will be over.

Editing tricks and tips

The NMTC Library Policies and Procedures wiki has been fine tuned. We've cleaned up the Front Page and added a Table of Contents page!

A first for DTAE

Read all about it -

Get up and Go Attitude

Congratulations to our Marketing instructor, Patrick Blessinger.

Exams

Last two days of the Winter quarter - exams are being given and taken - Spring break for NMTC starts on Wednesday.

Spring Quarter begins on April 4.

We do offer a paperback trade if you're looking for a "new-to-you" beach book.

G.O.A.L. winner

The North Metro Technical College G.O.A.L. winner is Femi Obanor.

Congratulations, Femi!

Pandora

Pandora: Yearbook of the University of Georgia from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library is now available in the GALILEO demo system.

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Wouldn't you like to know how the all male school selected Pandora (In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman on earth. Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, to create her and he did, using water and earth. The gods endowed her with many talents; Aphrodite gave her beauty, Apollo music, Hermes persuasion, and so forth. Hence her name: Pandora, "all-gifted" ) as the name of their yearbook?
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Since 1886, the Pandora has been the yearbook of the University of Georgia. Starting as a publication of the fraternities, the Pandora combined facts, photography, cartooning and humor (of varying quality) to provide an annual record of University activities. Its serious and satirical articles both provide interesting historical details about student life on campus and in Athens.

This initial offering provides scans of the first few years published, 1886-1899, volumes 1-12. Volumes were not published for 1889 and 1891.
Later volumes will be added over time.

The Pandora site is a partnership between the Digital Library of Georgia and the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

A tip of the hat

Savannah will be having their annual St. Patrick's Day parade this weekend. The core city hasn't changed much in its lifetime.

You can compare pictures from today (Google search images) with historic photos by George N. Barnard.

Barnard's Photographic Views of the Sherman Campaign, 1866 contains images of the 61 albumen prints found in early American photographer and member of the Matthew Brady studio, George N. Barnard's 1866 Photographic Views of Sherman's Campaign. Barnard was the official photographer for the United States Army, Chief Engineer's Office, Division of the Mississippi and accompanied Sherman's Army during the "March to the Sea" in November and December, 1864. Early in 1865 Barnard photographed Savannah, Georgia, and Columbia and Charleston, South Carolina. In 1866 he returned to the South to continue documenting the war and its effects. Subjects of the photographs include Sherman and his generals, Nashville, Chattanooga Valley, Atlanta, and Savannah. The images were digitized from an 1866 Wynkoop & Hallenbeck edition owned by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia.


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.

Kind words

The NMTC librarian has been noticed by the "big dogs" in the library world- thank you.

netLibrary Tutorial on YouTube

Kudos to the North Metro Technical College Library in Acworth, Georgia which has posted a 2:32 video on creating a free account for netLibrary. That's the one that caught the attention of people at OCLC this morning, but NMTC Library has eight DIY videos posted to YouTube. They are all about two and a half minutes long and follow the same pattern..."How do I find....?" and cover tools to create citations to how to find print materials.
This isn't the only innovative thing the library is doing...they have a wiki for policies and procedures, and a blog since May 2005......

Numbers tell the story

Eugenia Price wrote Historical Fiction (The Savannah Quartet) that brought two real families who lived in Savannah and Bartow County in the 19th century to life. These reports fill out the stories with facts and figures detailing that time in Savannah.

Annual Reports of the Mayor of Savannah, Georgia, 1855-1917
....(Majority of the reports are from 1881-1917)

"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."

The annual reports are from the collections of the University of Georgia Libraries and were microfilmed in 1995 as part of the SOLINET/ASERL Cooperative Microfilming Project (NEH PS-20317). The images presented here were scanned from microfilm. This site currently contains only the holdings available on microfilm, but additional dates may be added in the future.

Database provider: GALILEO and The Digital Library of Georgia

Spring forward

Your computer may not be ready to Spring Forward on Sunday morning. There are patches that can be downloaded to "fix" the program.

Get ready!

NMTC Bookstore News

The NMTC bookstore will be closed both Friday March 9th and Monday March 12th.

What do they think about that?

Have you wondered what someone else thinks about a book?

Library Journal and The New York Times Book Review offer you a place to read anothers opinion. But you're wondering about the book you have in your hand, not one on the best sellers list....you can go to...

Book Index with Reviews™ (BIR) - a comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print and books on tape.

Fiction and non-fiction titles are included in the database, in all genres.

The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews, including reviews from Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others.

You'll find Book Index with Reviews in
of GALILEO
.....Databases A-Z
........Jump to B (or scroll down a bit)
..........Book Index with Reviews

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 black, white and read?

The answer is - the newspaper! It's an auditory joke that brings a smile to the listener.

The Georgia Historic Newspaper Database is an outgrowth of the Georgia Newspaper Project managed by the University of Georgia Libraries.

Since the early 1950s the UGA Libraries have made a systematic effort to identify and obtain copies of every newspaper ever published in Georgia and to preserve these valuable historical resources on microfilm.

To date over 15 million pages of newsprint have been microfilmed, including at least one newspaper from every county in Georgia that published a newspaper. The Georgia Newspaper Project is part of the U.S. Newspaper Project and has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Microfilm remains the best format for preservation, and microfilming of Georgia newspapers will continue for the foreseeable future.

Digital technology, however, offers many advantages for access. In a digital environment newspapers can be viewed from remote locations by multiple users, and the newspaper texts can be searchable.

The goal of the Georgia Historic Newspaper Database is to convert every Georgia newspaper to digital format and to make this resource available free of charge as a searchable text database in GALILEO.

For further information on the Georgia Newspaper project and information on purchasing newspapers on microfilm, visit their web site at www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/aboutgnp.html (use your browser's BACK button to return to this screen).

Nothing new under the sun

Just before graduation, students are surveyed about their experiece at the institution of higher learning. Students speak the truth- sometimes in love, sometimes not so kindly.

At the turn of the twentieth century graduating seniors published the discussions - Don't look for honey in the pages of the Bumble Bee. In five issues, appearing from 1889 to 1902, graduating students at the University of Georgia departed with a few last stings of vicious satire aimed at UGA faculty and administration. Whether its pages are filled with base libel or grains of truth, it certainly lives up to the wordplay of its slogan, "We sting where we light. We light often."

You can find the newspapers in the Digital Library of Georgia - search for Bumble Bee.

Or go to GALILEO
......Databases A-Z
...........Jump to U
...............Select The University Bumble Bee

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.

Is it raining there?

The Weather Channel is unveiling interactive maps today that allow a user to pinpoint the exact street address and "see" the weather in that neighborhood.

Handy for folks going visiting but especially handy for landscape businesses!

He read what?

Mr. Dougherty, President of NMTC, reads aloud to students at elementary schools near the school. He reads with enthusiasm and expression!

Mr. D was one of the faculty and staff who went to read at McCall Elementary in Acworth on Thursday. Mr. D. read Sherman Crunchley (PZ 7 .N964 SH 2003) by Laura Numeroff.

Check it out from the NMTC Library - reading is fun!

Red and White Stripes, red bow tie

His fashion sense leaves a little to be desired but by the time one is fifty ....

Fifty Years of 'The Cat in the Hat'

And the wind blew

Must be getting close to Spring - lines of storms and tornadoes popping down here and there.

If you'd like to check current conditions, there are several weather sites posted at the NMTC_Librarian/horticulture del.icio.us site.

The sites are gathered specifically for Horticulture (they do need to know about the weather). Yet, weather impacts everyone.

How far away is the book?

The Librarian added the World Cat link to the side bar of the Blog. You can find which library has the item you're looking for (and see how far away that library is).

The NMTC Library Catalog link is also in the sidebar.

GOAL

The GOAL nominees for NMTC were presented on Wednesday.

Student, Program (nominating instructor)

Coleman Burrell, Marketing (Patrick Blessinger)
Jenny Cox, Early Childhood (Maria Abercrombie)
Michelle Duke, LPN (Alexander Giles)
Stephanie Houston, Marketing (Patrick Blessinger)
Melody Mulkey, Accounting (David Payne)
Sheri Newell, Horticulture (Shane Evans)
Femi Obanor, LPN (Helen Medlin)
Karen Stemper, BOT( Mindy Glander)
Billie Stewart, Managment (Larry Guichard)
Deborah Wyatt, Horticulture (John HJatfield)
Bonita Yeshurun, LPN (Kathy Wishon)

Jenny, Michell, Melody and Femi will go on to the next level of the competition!

Did you notice?

The Librarian learned how to edit the code to clean up the top of the blog page.....Looks empty up there.

Reading Across America

Faculty and staff are reading aloud today to students at McCall Primary school in Acworth!

Singing and Dancing

The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen,(part of the Digital Library of Georgia available through GALILEO ) 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.

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.

Fine Art by African Americans

Grove Art Online available through GALILEO

search for African American [Afro-American; Black American] art.

"Term used to describe art made by Americans of African descent. While the crafts of African Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries continued largely to reflect African artistic traditions (see Africa, §VIII ), the earliest fine art made by professional African American artists was in an academic western style (see fig.)."

There are pictures of the art objects and information about the artists!

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to G
..........Grove Art on line

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 sun did not shine.

It was too wet to play.

So begins the Dr. Seuss classic. Celebrate 50 years of The Cat in the Hat (PZ 8.3 .G276 CAT 1957)

"Your mother will not mind at all.........."

Registration for Spring Quarter begins!

Early registration for Spring Quarter begins for current NMTC students today!
You can access Banner from home with your login and pin.

New students begin to register tomorrow (Tuesday Feb 27)

Gold!

"The Georgia miners were a very diverse lot, coming from across the nation as well as from European countries. Not all miners came voluntarily, as some of the mines were worked by slaves (e.g., the mine owned by John C. Calhoun of South Carolina), however, there were also free African American miners (e.g., the "Free Jim" Boisclair mine). "
......"Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills" - Georgia Gold History

Joseph J. Singleton comes to Dahlonega in the 1830s. He helps a free African American named James Boisclair to buy a mine lot, which Boisclair works successfully. The mine becomes known as the "Free Jim Mine." With the proceeds, Boisclair establishes the largest general merchandise store in town and a bar room.
....."Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills" - Players and Places

The Digital Library of Georgia "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.


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.

Well, did you?

Did you get advised?

Monday begins early registration for current NMTC students for Spring quarter.
Tuesday is early registration for new students to NMTC.

The LION roars

Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 194 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

LION is available through GALILEO. One might think an English and American literary database would consist of one ethnicity but LION has a solid grasp of African American literature.

Callaloo: a journal of African-American and African arts and letters (Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville) (Baltimore, MD) is used extensively.

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 results are in!

Every year GALILEO invites users to participate in an online survey that includes questions about the content and functionality of the GALILEO site and asks for suggestions for improvement.

The 2006 survey was conducted November 7-13 and was completed by 1332 respondents.

The survey report is now available in the Assessment section of About GALILEO.

Keep an eye out for the 2007 survey. They really do want to know what you think of GALILEO

Augusta frozen in time

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.

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.

Over 9000

There are over 9000 references to African American in the NMTC netLibrary collection of over 40,000 titles.

You can get to the NMTC netLibrary electronic books three ways -

1. use the NMTC library catalog
2. GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
......Jump to N
,,,,,,,select netLibrary
3. directly go to netLibrary

You will need to create a free account (directions on how to create a free account) on campus or through NMTC GALILEO.

Hail to the Chief

The Presidential Timeline provides a single point of access to an ever-growing selection of digitized assets from the collections of the twelve Presidential Libraries of the National Archives. Among these assets you’ll find documents, photographs, audio recordings, and video relating to the events of the presidents’ lives. The goal of the project is to make these resources readily and freely available to students, educators, and adult learners throughout the world.

Listen, watch, and read.

Advisement week

In preparation for early registration on Tuesday, February 27, this week is designated for advisement

Talk to your program advisor to see what you need to do next to be successful in your program.

Not just for Native Americans

This database of primary sources is not just about the Native Americans.Do a search on African American. Letters to and from and about are included!

Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains 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, the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, and the LaFayette-Walker County Library. The documents are comprised of letters, legal proceedings, military orders, financial papers, and archaeological images relating to Native Americans in the Southeast.


GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to S
.........Southeastern Native American Documents

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.

Free at last

From Slave to Statesman: The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston (F 391 H79 P 73 1993) by Patricia Smith Prather and Jane Clements Monday tells the story of a black man who never forgot his roots in slavery as he helped bring up the black community.

Joshua Houston was taught to read by his owner.
Joshua Houston was trusted to make business decisions while his owner was away.
Joshua Houston was allowed to keep the money he earned.
Joshua Houston was freed by his master in 1862- the year Abraham Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclamation.
Joshua Houston valued his education and the trade he had been taught (blacksmithing).

Read about this remarkable man and the contributions he and his family made to the South. They valued education above all. An education and a trade would truly free a person from manual labor.

Hearts, flowers and true love

Sort of depressing to do a Quick Search in GALILEO using the term Valentines Day and the first results in LexisNexis are on infidelity:

Infidelity Experts 4th Annual Valentines Day Infidelity Awareness Campaign Yearbook of Experts (R) News Release Wire 2007-01-17 Description: Wednesday, 1086 words

Hope your true love is faithful.

GALILEO
...search in Quick 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.

Beginning the third millennia

Black History Month Spotlight

"Britannica's Guide to Black History presents a vast array of articles, hundreds of images, and a wide assortment of multimedia clips.

This guide traces two millennia of black history, and the browse features enable you to pinpoint the central people, places, topics, and events covered in Black History.

During February the Featured Spotlight: Guide to Black History Month
can be found in the lower right hand corner of the Encyclopedia Britannica Home Page

Access this Spotlight and others
by clicking on the Spotlight Archive
at the bottom right side of the Home Page


GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....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.

How do I find.....

Short (under 3 minutes) instructional videos are being created to help you find information. Check out the How Do I Find offerings!

Happy Birthday, Georgia!

Georgia Day celebrates the founding of the colony of Georgia in Savannah, 1733!

Where did they go?

Vanishing Georgia (found in GALILEO and TheDigital Library of Georgia) 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 wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs.

Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.

The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE

Do a search using the term African-American. 97 pictures are retrieved.

Some truths

too painful or too likely to provoke,
can be spoken only when the listener has been disarmed by laughter.

In GALILEO check the "Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: The Clifford H. Baldowski Collection at the Richard B. Russell Library contains 6,740 pen and ink drawings and 2,460 velox. The digital database opens with approximately 2,500 cartoons from the collection. Clifford H. Baldowski, known by the pen-name "Baldy," depicted the local, national, and international news of his day in the editorial pages of the Augusta Chronicle, Miami Herald, and Atlanta Constitution. His work is a rich source for those studying political reorganization in Georgia and the growth of Atlanta as well as the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnam conflict, Middle East tensions, and Watergate."

Doing a search using the terms black or civil rights will bring up cartoons that made folks think when they were first published. These cartoons will still make the reader think.

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.

Alonzo Herndon

Carole Merritt wrote the first biography of the Herndon family, The Herndons: An Atlanta Family (F294 .A853 H476 2002). Who were they? Why should a biography have been written about them?

Are you familiar with Atlanta Life Insurance? This company was founded by Alonzo Herndon in 1905, just 40 years after his emancipation from slavery. Obviously the company has prospered in the 102 years of its existence.

Be inspired by the Herndons, an Atlanta family.

Connecticut pictures?

This has nothing to do with Georgia but does tie nicely with yesterdays post about what to do with your pictures:


KILLINGLY [Connecticut]— The Killingly Historical and Genealogical Society, Inc. will publish a second pictorial history of the Town of Killingly. The book will cover the mills, schools, churches, cemeteries, buildings, businesses, and people at work and play.

The society needs photographs to use in the publication and would like to borrow your pictures. The pictures will be returned after copies are made for the book. The group will accept photos through Saturday, March 10.

The Killingly Historical Center at 196 Main St. in Danielson will open from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 13 to drop off photos:
The historical center will also be open during regular hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Contact Marilyn Labbe at 564-3657, Lynn LaBerge at 774-5364, or the Killingly Historical Center 779-7250 for more information.

From the February 6, 2007 edition of the Norwich Bulletin.

There are museums, libraries and genealogy societies who are searching for just the snapshot you have stashed away. It's almost time for Spring cleaning-

Mid-century life and times

Black History Society Photograph Collection Information

"The collection of photographs documents African American life in Gainesville and Hall County Georgia during the 20th century, with a focus on the 1940s and 1950s. The photographs depict community leaders, businesses, educational institutions, churches, and civic organizations that played a significant role in the Gainesville and Hall County African American community."


This collection of pictures can be found several ways -
1. in the Digital Library of Georgia
2. Hall County, Georgia Photograph and Genealogy Collections
3. GALILEO, Digital Library of Georgia

What story do your pictures tell? Do you have mid-century photos that reflect your culture and heritage? There might be a library or museum doing a collection of the time and place captured by your images.

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.

Over 100

An Advanced Search for African American and electronic books in our library catalog turned up over 100 items.

Limiting the search to African American and speech and electronic books found 6 items.

The one that intrigued me was Lift every voice[computer file] : African American oratory, 1787-1900 / edited by Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham. The speeches begin in 1787.

We have over 40,000 titles in NetLibrary.
There are three ways to get to netLibrary:
1. Through the NMTC catalog, limiting the advanced search to EBK
2. Through GALILEO , use the find a database box, typing in NetLibrary
3. Going to NetLibrary online

You must create a free account to use NetLibrary off campus. There are two ways to access the create a free account link-
1. On campus use the catalog, select an EBK, click on the URL to get to the book in NetLibrary- upper right hand corner (in teeny tiny print) select Create a Free Account.
2. Off campus go through GALILEO

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 afraid of a shadow?

Will winter last another six weeks?
Will spring arrive early?

Check with your favorite prognosticator - at Groundhog Central

Sweet Auburn

In GALILEO you'll find the Auburn Avenue Research Library Finding Aids database which 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.

Listening

There are reference podcasts from the government. Listen and learn.

Title IX

The Section 504/ADA Coordinator and the Title IX Coordinator is Ms. Cheri Mattox, Room 200-A, 770-975-4099

Did you ever wonder what Title IX was? Check out The U.S. Department of Labor: Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972 for the whole story.

Paperback swap

It's chilly outside. It's going to stay cold. It's a great time to wrap up in a blanket, snuggle on the sofa and read fun fiction! We don't purchase fun fiction for the library.

We do provide a swap cart- you bring your paperback and swap for someone elses paperback. This meets the need for fun fiction for our patrons. Stop by and swap out your fiction.

Get ready for a snow day.

Who's got the link?

Social bookmarking is a relatively new phenomenon.

The "social" part is we get to see how many others have marked that web link. In a del.icio.us account, if you click on the "saved by others" you can see who else saved the site. You click on their link to see what else they have saved. If I like A and you like A, maybe I'll like your Z!

It's a way to share information. Two technical colleges in Georgia have del.icio.us accounts. Check out North Metro Tech and Savannah Tech. We're collecting web links that will help our students succeed.

Number crunching

Reports, projects, and presentations all look "better" with graphs and charts.

World Data Analyst includes current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world. Highlights of the database include the following:

----Country Snapshots--maps and statistics
----Country Comparisons--create tables and graphs comparing countries using recent and historical statistics
----Ranked Statistics--compare economic or population measures or significant geographic features

Users can use tools in the database to create tables and charts and export the information to a spreadsheet for data crunching and deeper analysis.

World Data Analyst is an Encyclopedia Britannica product available through GALILEO.

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?

Students just beginning their program are encouraged to visit the
Georgia Careeer Information Center and take the interest survey and the skill survey. These free assessments tell the student where their interests and skills might best be used!

(GCIC needs to accept cookies. These are the steps to allow cookies.)
Internet Explorer
…Tools
…..Internet Options
…….Privacy
……..Move slider to “low”

There is a GCIC user ID and password that you can get from either the NMTC Counselor, Kim Duff , or the Librarian!

Can access the site through the NMTC Web site collection (Guidance, Careers)

and through GALILEO (need the GALILEO password for home use) (Databases A-Z, Jump to G)

I took the surveys last spring and was told I should be a librarian. It made me smile!

Day 5

I lurk in the hallway outside of Room 124 waiting to start my session in SCT 100 (Introduction to Computers). This is my opportunity to reveal the wonders of using GALILEO! I talk to all 10 sections. Whoo-eee.

Moving Pictures

Last week I wrote about pictures being worth a thousand words.

The NMTC marketing department uploaded these NMTC videos to YouTube… check us out!


TV Commercial


Recruiting Video

Beauty in Stone

Talked earlier about how a picture is worth a thousand words and how you can find videos in the NMTC catalog. Two movies in GALILEO (The Digital Library of Georgia) tell volumes about Georgia workers and the marble industry. Watching the short films is a lesson in the changes that have been made in video presentations!

"The online collection consists of two short industrial films made by the Georgia Marble Company in the 1950s-1960s that document the company's history, operations, skilled laborers and craftspeople, and the widespread use of their marble, limestone and serpentine products.

Georgia Marble Company's use of the industrial film medium served to promote its products by capturing in live action the skill and industry required to create "beauty in stone."

The first film, New Face on Capitol Hill, depicts Georgia Marble Company's role in the reconstruction of the east façade of the U.S. Capitol building prior to John F. Kennedy's inauguration, and includes footage of president John F. Kennedy at his 1961 inauguration, the former vice president Richard M. Nixon, and Architect of the Capitol J. George Stewart.

The second film, Producing America's Buried Treasures, focuses more closely on the company's overall history, its quarrying and finishing facilities in Georgia, Tennessee and Vermont, the breadth of applications for Georgia marble products and related limestone and serpentine industries in Alabama and Virginia. Unique to this film are its highlights of uses for processed marble in products that include roofing material, and turf marking for athletic fields.

Both Producing America's Buried Treasure and the New Face on Capitol Hill feature the company's marble quarrying and finishing operations in Pickens County, Georgia; both include pictorial examples of marble-quarrying and marble-shaping machinery, of stone cutters working in the quarry, and of craftsmen sculpting the marble.

Many beautiful high-quality products were produced by the Georgia Marble Company, and a number of well-known structures comprised of Georgia marble are interspersed throughout both films. Most notable are the statue Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial, and the façade of the U.S. Capitol Building, the centerpiece of New Face on Capitol Hill. "

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to B
......Beauty in Stone

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.

Calling cards

In the "olden days" ladies and gentlemen left calling cards to document that they had visited a home.

Today we pass out business cards to help others remember us after a networking opportunity. One can purchase kits at office supply stores to create a business card using the computer and printer.

What do you put on your business card? How do you make it positively memorable? We have several Best of Business Card Design (NE 965.2...) books to give you examples of the best!

Leave a positive impression for positive results- start with your business card.

What is a picture worth?

The saying goes - "a picture is worth a thousand words". Have you ever tried to describe an emotion or an action? You keep talking but if you could show a picture or better yet a video- you would have no trouble saying - "that's it!"

We have hundreds of videos to illustrate our programs.

You can find the videos we own by using the catalog .
1. Go to Advanced search (left hand side of the screen under Search)
2. Select Keywords
3. Type in the topic you're looking for
4. Scroll down to Material type
5. Select VHS or DVD from the drop down menu (we have more VHS)

Most videos are checked out to the program areas. We'll help you locate the video for use in the library or check out for home use if the instructor agrees.

See what they mean by watching the action.

Safe conversation

One can always discuss the weather. If you'd like to see what is happening across the country - look at the NOAA site National Weather Service Enhanced Radar Image Loop . Facinating to see the whole country.

Notice how the cursor turns to a hand over a state and the info box tells you the local radar location. Click and you see that area!

This site has been added to the web sites collected for NMTC programs for Horticulture. EHO students need to know the weather for their program. Check out the other weather site for EHO. Soil temperature!

Each program has their list of favorites.

Have to keep it

We've only had this database for a year. It isn't getting widespread use. I thought we might cancel it but I want to give it another year.

There is a monthly report sent with statistics on use of Garden Literature Index. The index is noted on the student survey at the end of each class (for every program not just horticulture). Folks are using the database - just not enough folks.

There are tons of articles in Garden Literature Index. They are helpful for every type of gardener not just the pros!

• It does have full text articles. You can limit your search by clicking on full text.
• It does not have a link to see what publications are used. You can figure that out by doing a search and scrolling through the articles pulled up.

GALILEO

....Databases A-Z

......Jump to G

........Garden Literature Index

The real thing

Researchers thrive on primary resources - the original document and not some interpretation or synopsis or.....but the real thing! Most of us can't get to the primary sources. GALILEO offers us a chance to read the original document.

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.

I will admit to some frustration with this database. I'm trying to find primary sources for Martin Luther King - for the celebration on Monday.

• He's not listed by author.
• I didn't find him under Civil Rights leaders.
• I searched under the time period 1961-1968: The Burdens of World power- limited to multimedia and scrolling way down the list found a video clip Civil Rights Leaders: Martin Luther King

It's not intuitive and the search boxes I'm using aren't pulling up what I'm sure must be in there..... if you have any tips on using this database- please share. It looks like it should be chock full of great information but getting it seems to be a problem.

Habla Espanol

There are resources available in GALILEO for those who read in Spanish or would like to practice their Spanish.

One resource is "Enciclopedia Universal en Español database includes more than 47,000 articles and 8,300 photographs and images. The resource also includes a Spanish-language dictionary with more than 65,000 entries. Most articles are brief or of moderate length and discuss people, places, institutions, things, or concepts. Longer articles are divided into separate sections for easier access and more accurate searching. Special features include an atlas that focuses on world countries, maps, and statistics; major world cities; and distribution of languages & religions and also a timelines that outline general history plus art and cultural history. "

When you type spanish in the Find a Database box - 6 specific sources will show up.

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.

Narrowing the field

GALILEO offers so much information. It seems hard to narrow down what you're looking for to a manageable level.

In ProQuest, there is a subset database "Career & Technical Education (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. "

In bold are program areas offered at NMTC.

GALILEO
...Find a Database box on the front page
....type in Career & Technical Education

What site?

• Faculty recommend a web site that will be helpful for a program.
• Faculty hand out lists of web sites that will be helpful.

Who remembers them?

You can find web sites for some NMTC programs by going to http://del.icio.us/NMTC_Librarian
The web sites are arranged by program area.

It's a growing resource for the programs at NMTC.

Beluga Whales

Gaspar, the beluga whale at the Georgia Aquarium, died this week. A Google search turns up information about Gaspar and beluga whales.

You can search the Encyclopedia of Animals by Ebsco in GALILEO for text information. They don't have pictures of beluga whales.

Sea World offers an interesting site of Beluga whales with a list of references and a list of books for young children.

Wikipedia has Beluga Whale information with pictures.

One source doesn't have everything you need. Research means looking again and again. Check the authority of the information.

If you know nothing about a topic using the Encyclopedia is one way to build your foundation of knowledge. Then when you skip through Google if you already know a little bit you won't get tripped up by scam web sites.

Where are we going?

Three times today we'll be orienting students to NMTC. Oxford English Dictionary (in GALILEO) notes for its second definition b. trans. By extension: to position or align (a structure, etc.) with, or in a particular way relative to, the points of the compass, or other specified points; (also occas.) to determine the bearings or relative position of. Also with to, toward, with.

We'll be pointing students in the way they should go to be successful in their program.

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.

Clearing space

Our storage space is limited. We keep two years of periodicals. We're discarding the 2004 issues to make space on the shelves. Faculty have been notified that the magazines are available. The magazines are on two tables in the library for folks (faculty, staff and students) to take away. The remainders will be recycled Friday morning.

Thousands of periodical articles are available through GALILEO.

Inventory continues

For a small library, inventory takes a long time. We're almost finished though.

Equipment has been checked.
Shelves are straightened.

We're getting ready for the new quarter.

There is a new password for GALILEO. Check with the librarian.

We are back

Happy New Years

Our holiday library hours continue-
Wednesday and Thursday from 8AM to 5PM
Friday from 8-4

Registration continues this week
New student orientation on Thursday

You'll be singing

11)Santa Claus is coming to town
12)Up on the house top
13)Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
14)Away in a manger
15)Go tell it on the mountain
16)O little town of Bethlehem
17)I saw three ships
18)Hark the Herald angels sing
19)Jingle Bells
20)As Shepherds watched their flocks by night

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

The Librarian will be on break till Jan 2.

Still thinking

Here are ten more Christmas song titles! Thank you to the members of LM_NET for sharing these.

11. The red-suited pa is due in this burg.
12. Stepping on the pad cover.
13. Uncouth dolt has his beezer in the booze and thinks he is a Dark Cloud's boyfriend.
14. Far back in a hay bin.
15. Leave and do an elevated broadcast.
16. That exiguous hamlet south of the holy city.
17. Behold! I envisioned a trio of nautical vessels.
18. Listen, the winged heavenly messengers are proclaiming tunefully.
19. A joyful song relative to hollow metallic vessels which vibrate and bring forth a ringing sound when struck.
20. As the guardians of little woolly animal's protected their charges =in the shadows of the earth.

The answers will be provided tomorrow.

The answers are....

Here are the answers. Don't groan too loudly.....

1)The Nutcracker Suite
2) Little Drummer boy
3)Deck the Halls
4)Silent Night
5)Noel (No L)
6)All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.
7)It came upon a midnight clear
8)Joy to the world
9)12 Days of Christmas
10)Do you hear what I hear

There are ten more that I'll post tomorrow. Get ready!

Holiday hours

The library will be open from 8 am to 5 pm
Mon, Dec 18
Tues Dec 19 (closed from 12-2 for a holiday party)
Wed Dec 20
Thurs Dec 21 (closed)
Fri Dec 22 (closed)

Closed while NMTC is closed Dec 25-Jan 1.

Tues, Jan 2, 8-5
Wed, Jan 3, 8-5
Thurs, Jan 4, 8-5
Fri, Jan 5, 8-4

Regular hours begin again January 8th

What does this mean?

On the library list serve, LM_NET, a librarian shared this list of Christmas songs retitled using a thesaurus and dictionary!

Put on your thinking caps to figure out the titles (answers on Tuesday):

1. The apartment of 2 psychiatrists.
2. The lad is a diminutive percussionist.
3. Decorate the entry-ways.
4. Sir Lancelot with laryngitis
5. A B C D E F G H I J K M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.
6. Present me naughty but dual incisors for this festive Yuletide.
7. The smog-less bewitching hour arrived.
8. Exuberation to this orb
9. 288 Yuletide hours.
10. Do you perceive the same longitudinal pressure which stimulates my auditory sense organs

Happy holidays!

Festivals of Light

The darkest time of the year and we celebrate with candles and fires. Search in the The Religion & Philosophy Collection (EbscoHost)- use these search terms to read about the ways humans celebrate life at its darkest:

• Light -- Religious aspects
• Candles & lights
• Fire -- Religious aspects

GALILEO

...Databases A-Z

.......Jump to R

.........The Religion & Philosophy Collection

(the password will change December 31 - if you think you might be using GALILEO over the break, check with the Librarian for the new password)

The end is nigh

Yes, the Fall quarter ends this Saturday. Exams are being given. Final papers are being turned in.

The library is humming with inventory. We are discovering old friends. Right now the Librarian is amidst the "PR's" (which is literature). Lovely to scan through the Victorian classics. Touched A Christmas Carol by Dickens and thought about the modern interpretations we see on the Big Screen.

Many things to be thankful for as we hear Tiny Tim bless us all.

Mozart for free

Starting on December 12, 2006 the ISM and the Packard Humanities Institute will make the complete musical texts of the NMA available to everyone for private, scholarly, and educational use as NMA Online.

Free access will be provided on the Internet at http://dme.mozarteum.at/

Why do I feel like this?

Check out your symptoms using the Web sites selected for NMTC programs. The Allied Health list has authoritative places to go for accurate and timely information.

What happened?

Reading diaries helps complete a historic event. There are several diaries as part of the Digital Library of Georgia - Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861 - 1862 Pages 98 - 103 covers December of 1861.

Page: (99 [View Image] importance. the clouds are banking up & the prospect for snow is good,
Tuesday Dec [December] 3rd, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
after a slight rain in the night and now the earth is frozen with a sheet of ice upon top, Wednesday Dec [December] 4th, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
We were visited by snow during the last night. to about shoe mouth deep and the weather is horribly cold this morning, the 45th Virginia regt [regiment] ordered to put up huts, great excitement among the officers & soldiers who agree in refusing to put up here..Thursday 5th. [View Civil War timeline for this date]
orders to Doublin [Dublin] Depot on the Virginia & Tenn [Tennessee] rail road [railroad] . Sunday evening 3, oclock [o'clock] [View Civil War timeline for this date]
now at dublin a beautiful valley between the blue ridge & alighanies [alleghenies], for four miles back the prettiest country seen since, around Richmond, after a travel of 25 miles from our camp near Peterstown, Friday night Dec [December] 13th.. 9 oclock [o'clock] . [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
the long desired news has come at last a telegraphic dispatch for the
Page: 100) [View Image] 13th Reg. Ga vol. [Regiment Georgia volunteers] to report themselves at Charleston S.C [South Carolina],, I happened to be at the depot to see a couple of friend [friends] of Philips. who were going home, when the dispatch came,, I could not believe it untill [until] I saw the copy that was drawn for "Colonel Ector",, I then made my way to camps as quick as convenient & told the good news, but others were as I had been, the news had come so often before, & turned out to be false, that nothing Short of a sight of the dispatch would satisfy them of its reality,, I told them that I had read it. they believed me but suspected a wrong somewhere, But in a short time, a most prodegious [prodigious] yell broke out about the Colonels tent which brought faith, and the yelling spread like fire in hay untill [until] the wood around us rang & the echo sounded for miles around, New life & vigor pervaded every system,, & every object unfurled new beauties, & the dead wood [deadwood]
Page: (101 [View Image] almost looked alive,

Comparing countries

Last week I noted the demo version of World Data Analyst will create charts and tables comparing countries.

The regular Encyclopedia Britannica will also create tables and charts and handouts comparing two countries (and provide images, web links, history, flags, maps...)

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to E
.........Encyclopedia Britannica
Left hand side under Research Tools
About the 5th one down - Compare Countries
Pick your countries
Keep scrolling - you'll get to a graphs section where Statistical Information can be displayed

This is entertaining. More information than you'll need in a trivia game - very interesting.

Something new!

New resources have been added to the GALILEO database menus in the
demo system .


World Data Analyst from Encyclopædia Britannica includes current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world. The resource includes tools for comparing and ranking data and creating tables that can be exported into spreadsheets.

It is fun- the database allows you to create tables and charts- with bar graphs! This will be super for country reports.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to W
.........World Data Analyst

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 day that will live.....

in infamy

Quick Search for "Pearl Harbor" in GALILEO pulled up these results:

--> -->
Hits...Database
1540...Academic Search Premier
125.....LexisNexis Academic
2168...MasterFILE Premier
1685...Research Library

Read and remember.


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.

Password will change

The password for GALILEO will change for North Metro on December 31! Happy New Year. If you think you'll be using GALILEO during the Holiday please ask the librarian for the new password.

The tallest, the shortest, the biggest

Where do you go to find lists of information for the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest? You go to the Almanac!

Browsing through the print edition can be a series of "ah ha" moments. We have several older copies of The World Almanac (AY 67 .N5 W7) available for borrowing.

There is a World Almanac available through GALILEO via First Search.
The more notes in GALILEO offer this information:

The World Almanacs, first published in 1868, is a reference database that covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes and much more.
The database is made up of:
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
The World Almanac for Kids
The World Almanac Knowledge Source

It's not colorful and image intensive. It's a database by First 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.

FYI Garden Literature Index

Garden Literature Index (Ebsco product) is a wonderful resource. However with advertising, encouraging, and teaching - it's not being used. We will not be renewing our subscription at the end of December.

Upgrading system

The library circulation system is "down" for the morning while we do some techy stuff to make it more efficient!

Voting in Georgia on Tuesday

Believe it or not, tomorrow is an election day in the state of Georgia. There is a statewide run-off.

Your single vote may just make a difference!

Numbers count

The monthly report with statistics, from what program areas use the computers to how many reference questions have been asked, is being compiled. These numbers help the librarians assess how to provide the best library services.

Conference

ACTE - The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers.

ACTE is meeting in Atlanta for their annual conference. A wonderful opportunity for Technical Educators from around the country to meet, greet, and learn!

What to say, how to say it

It's getting to the end of the quarter. Students are beginning to panic about writing that paper.

We have posted three guides for research papers on our "Web sites collected for NMTC Programs" (look under Research-English).

In NetLibrary, there are three titles that might prove helpful:

Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers Schaum's Quick Guide Series by Rozakis, Laurie.Publication: New York McGraw-Hill Professional, 1999.

How to Write a Paper
by Hall, George M.Publication: London BMJ Books, 2003.

Last Minute Term Papers
by Fry, Ronald W.Publication: Franklin Lakes, NJ The Career Press, 2002.

You need a login/password created through NMTC GALILEO or created on the NMTC campus to use NetLibrary. Check with the librarian if you need assistance.

Who has the manuscript?

Looking for unique information can be very difficult. Google will pull up popular, common information but what about that special manuscript or primary document, how do you find it?

From GALILEO notes -

ArchivesUSA is a unique database for scholars and researchers who use primary source materials. It provides location information for primary source materials. The database integrates three major information resources:

Resource 1: A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988.

Resource 2: Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s through the end of 1997, covering some 76,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection.

Resource 3: Names and detailed subject indexing of over 44,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

The NUCMC and NIDS information has been integrated to provide a single record for each collection, with detailed information drawn from both resources when available. The first installment of a growing body of collection records submitted directly to ArchivesUSA has also been included.

The full text manuscript is not in the database but the location of the information is noted. We can borrow materials through InterLibrary Loan. Most institutions will copy and fax articles up to a certain page length.

Ask your librarian!

GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Scroll to ArchivesUSA

Welcome Woodland High School

On Tuesday, Nov 28, 800 students from Woodland High School will be touring the NMTC campus. A great opportunity for them to see what NMTC offers for higher education!

Pro & Con

Some classes require a Pro & Con "hot" topic to be researched. The GALILEO description for SKS WebSelect notes - that SKS 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.

What is very helpful for researchers - on the right side of the SKS home page is "Your Top Ten Pro vs Con: Leading Issues". Click on the icon for the topic and voila- an overview, articles, links, resources!

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to S
........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.