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.