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.