Here comes the Judge!

Today, the Librarian will be at the Georgia Public Broadcasting System participating in the 30th Georgia Student Media Festival. The purpose of the Georgia Student Media Festival is to stimulate student interest and involvement in all types of media production. This is accomplished by providing an opportunity for students to show their work to an interested audience, to have the work critiqued by a panel of expert judges, and to be stimulated by the work of other students.

How many databases can you search?

Have you tried the Quick Search function on GALILEO? This new feature was activated, after several months of trials, at the end of March. Enter your subject and notice that Quick Search will look through 5 databases in a General search. If you limit your search to one of the Subject areas - it will search through the databases that are listed under the tabs across the top!

You can do an Advanced Search and pick and choose the databases you want the search to utilize.

Happy searching!

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

Happy Anniversary!

One year ago, this blogger began sharing the View From the Library with the announcement that the new glass doors had been installed!

Happy first anniversary- may more information be shared.

Lunch n' Learn

Please join us for a Lunch & Learn on Wed, May 3 from 11:50am to 12:30pm in the Auditorium. Free Chick-fil-A sandwiches, brownies, and drinks will be served after the talk. Catherine Balance of the Advocates for Children will be speaking on “Benefits of Giving Back to Your Community” and will be accompanied by QUACKY THE DUCK to kick off the Duck Derby Drive. And come see the HONDA ELEMENT that you could win if you sponsor a duck.

Spring

Wonderful days, sunny, not too cold, not too hot, just right Spring days. Perfect for sitting under a tree and losing oneself in a novel. We have a paperback trade rack by the front door. You bring in a paperback and then take away a paperback! Our book budget is geared to purchasing materials that support the programs at NMTC- no money to purchase fiction for fun. We are providing an opportunity for our patrons to have a selection of fun reading!

May Day, May Day

May Day can be a signal that assistance is needed immediately.
May Day is also a holiday through much of the world celebrating a number of things - Spring, work, the Revolution.

Read more about May Day by using GALILEO.

A Quick Search pulled up various articles from ProQuest talking about the party season that begins with May 1st to articles in LexisNexis reporting the events happening around the world this very day!

And of course The Oxford English Dictionary gives this definition:
1. The first day of May, traditionally an occasion for springtime festivities, and later also designated a holiday in honour of working people in many countries (also known outside North America as Labour Day: see LABOUR n. 8). Also: any other day near the start of May designated a public holiday (in the United Kingdom the first Monday in May).

The Spider and the Fly

this cautionary tale by Mary Howitt has been illustrated by Tony DiTerlizzi (EASY collection PR 4809 .H2 S64 2002)

"Will you walk into my parlour?"
said the Spider to the Fly,

and the story continues until.....

He dragged her up his winding stair,
into his dismal den,
Within his little parlour -
but she ne-er came out again!

...and so ends our celebration of April as Poetry month. Did you find a poem or poet that dragged you in?

Do You Like Green Eggs and Ham?

"I do not like them Sam-I-Am!"

Poetry is used to create a rhythm in a story. Green Eggs and Ham (PZ8.3 .G276 GR) by Dr. Seuss rolics along with rhyming verse that closes with "Thank you! Thank you, Sam-I-Am."

Our childrens literature section has several authors who have written their stories in rhyming verse. It does help a child remember the story.

Why?

Have you ever wondered why people write poetry?

The Columbia History of British Poetry by Carl Woodring (PR 502 C62 1994) might help you understand.

"Literature in the shapeless galaxy of Indo-European languages has no brighter constellation than that of British poetry." There are 26 chapters each written by a different expert "...they remind us that poetry is a social record of the kinds of events ordinarily excluded from the histories written of various nations and peoples." (from the Introduction)

Mother Goose Matters

How many Mother Goose rhymes do you remember? Children should be able to recite 5 Mother Goose rhymes before they enter Kindergarten. Saying Mother Goose rhymes builds the brain, enhances vocabulary, enables your child to get a 2400 on the SAT (well, that may not be true).

Let's see what you remember....
Hickory Dickory Dock......
Little Miss Muffett sat on a tuffett....
Little Jack Horner, sat in a corner......
Jack and Jill went up the hill.........
Hey Diddle, diddle, thecat and the fiddle......

If you'd like to see the full texts (and more) check out this site ISLMC Poetry for Children

Lyrics

April is poetry month.

Songs are poetry set to music!
Look up your favorite songs at:
Lyrics.com
A-Z Lyrics Universe

The Complete Poems

of Emily Dickinson
edited by Thomas H. Johnson (PS 1541 .A1 1960 c.1)

#563 (pg 274)

I could not prove the Years had feet -
Yet confident they run
Am I, from symptoms that are past
And series that are done -

I find my feet have further Goals -
I smile upon the Aims
That felt so ample - Yesterday -
Today's - have vaster claims -

I do not dount the self I was
Was competent to me -
But something awkward in the fit -
Proves that - outgrown - I see

Selected Poems

by Rita Dove, 1993 Poet Laureate of the United States (PS 3554 O884 A6 1993B)

Geometry (pg 17)

I prove a theorem and the house expands:
the windows jerk free to hover near the ceiling,
the ceiling floats away with a sigh.

As the walls clear themselves of everything
but transparency, the scent of carnations
leaves with them. I am out in the open

and above the windows have hinged into butterflies,
sunlight glinting where they've intersected.
They are going to some point true and unproven.

The Old Dog Barks Backwards

by Ogden Nash (PS 3527 .A637 O4 1972)

The Bird Lover (pg 16)

Keep your cat inside your house,
And I'll stroke his fur and give him a mouse,
But let him loose on my feeding birds
And I'll beat out of him whey and curds.
If into an ornithophile you probe
You'll rouse the sleeping aelurophobe.


If you need to use the dictionary to look up ornithophile or aelurophobe- try GALILEO.
Select Databases A-Z
......Jump to E to find the Encyclopedia Britannica
......or Jump to O to find the Oxford English Dictionary.

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.

From Totems to Hip-Hop

:a Multicultural Anthology of Poetry Across the Americas, 1900-2002
edited by Ishmael Reed (PS 613 .F76 2003)

#8 from The Past

8

long ago black bears
sang around our lodge fires
tonight they dance
alive through our dreams

by William Oandasan, pg 43

SMILE!

Picture ID's are being made this week in Admissions. Your current picture ID allows you to borrow materials from any other DTAE school library (Chattahoochee Tech & Coosa Valley, for example), Kennesaw State library and Southern Poly library.

The Psalms

For many Christians, today is a solemn fast day. There is book in NetLibrary that might help you understand the Psalms as poetry. You can access this title through the NMTC card catalog or through GALILEO.

Gillingham, S. E. (Susan E.)The poems and psalms of the Hebrew Bible[computer file] / S.E. Gillingham. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.xiii, 311 p. ; 21 cm.

"Poetry was a key art-form for the ancient Jews, the most distinctive way in which they tried to depict the relationship between God and his people. The Poems and Psalms of the Hebrew Bible introduces the reader to the full range of the poetry of the Old Testament, both outside the Psalter and within it. After considering the essential elements of Hebrew verse, it looks at the most familiar poems--the Psalms, the Songs of Solomon, and the poetry of Job and Proverbs--as well as at less familiar examples of poems which by contrast are embedded in narrative, such as war poetry, harvest hymns, elegies, prayers of protest, and thanksgiving songs. The book is addressed to both specialists and non-specialists; no knowledge of Hebrew is presumed, and a bibliography following each chapter offers suggestions for further 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.

Because

i wrote a poem
for you because
you are
my little boy

i wrote a poem
for you because
you are
my darling daughter

and in this poem
i sang a song
that says
as time goes on
i am you
and you are me
and that's how life
goes on

from The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, pg 253
PS 3557 .I55 A17 2003


You can learn about Nikki Giovanni at her web site.

The Owl and the Pussycat

Edward Lear wrote The Owl and the Pussycat in 1871.

When searching World Cat (accessed through GALILEO ) for The Owl and the Pussycat by Lear, up came 65 different books, 17 visual, 12 sound, and 4 scores available at libraries that have contributed their catalog to OCLC.

We have the The Owl and the Pussycat illustrated by Anne Wilson in our Early Childhood collection.

Poetry is for all ages!

Find your favorite poet through World Cat - see what library owns a copy!
Go to GALILEO
...Select Databases A-Z
.....Jump to W
........Select World Cat

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.

Poetry on your desktop

We have over 35,000 electronic books in our netLibrary collection! Among them are various books of poetry.
Go to the NMTC card catalog
...select Advanced search
....use poem or poetry as the keyword
......scroll down and select Material type - EBK-Electronic book

Click on the title, then scroll to the URL and click.
You will be taken to netLibrary where you may View This Book!

You may also access netLibrary through GALILEO.
GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
....Jump to N
......select netLibrary

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