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