Edited Library Page!

Check out the edited NMTC Library page!

Thanks to the efforts of the NMTC IT department, the library site is a bit "cleaner" and easier to navigate.

Wish you were here

Postcards tell our friends what we're doing on vacation- maybe not in what we write but in the picture on the postcard.

GALILEO notes tell us that the database "Picturing Augusta: Historic Postcards from the Collection of the East Central Georgia Regional Library System consists of forty turn-of-the-twentieth century Augusta-related picture postcards selected from the collection Augusta and Environs: Picture Post Cards in Color held at the East Central Georgia Regional Library in Augusta, Georgia. The postcards in this collection depict the commercial development, economic prosperity, and social customs of Augusta and its inhabitants during the opening years of the twentieth century. Furthermore, the picture postcards document the interplay between Augusta, Georgia, North Augusta, South Carolina, and Summerville, Georgia before and immediately following Summerville's incorporation into the city of Augusta in 1912. The postcards, as collected by Augusta resident Ella C. Mayo Belz at the turn of the twentieth century through 1914, include images of notable Augusta landmarks such as the Augusta Canal, Augusta Country Club, Bon Air Hotel, Lake Olmstead, Meadow Garden (home of the youngest signer of the Declaration of Independence, George Walton), Medical College of Georgia, and the Partridge Inn. Several postcards in the online collection relate specifically to Augusta's position as the second largest inland cotton market in the United States. These postcards show cotton fields, harvested bales, mills, and other scenes of production associated with the cotton industry in Augusta. There are also many scenic postcards that depict views along the Savannah River and the commercial and residential streetscapes along both Broad and Greene Streets. "

Registration & Orientation

8:30, 1 & 4 - the times for orientation for new students. Hear and see what students need to do to succeed in their program!

Get ready for Winter Quarter.

Rainy day

Weather junkies love to read about weather happenings. Horticulture students are frequently weather junkies.

We've added 28 web sites for Horticulture to our "Web sites collected for NMTC programs" link in GALILEO.

Among those 28 sites is:

The Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network which "was established in 1991 by the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of the University of Georgia. The objective of the AEMN is to collect reliable weather information for agricultural and environmental applications. Each station monitors air temperature, relative humidity, rainfall, solar radiation, wind speed, wind direction, soil temperature at 2, 4, and 8 inch depths, atmospheric pressure, and soil moisture every 1 second. Data are summarized at 15 minute intervals and at midnight a daily summary is calculated. A microcomputer at the Georgia Experiment Station initiates telephone calls to each station periodically and downloads the recorded data. The data are processed immediately and disseminated via the world wide web ( www.Georgiaweather.net)"

What a treat for weather junkies. Graphs, charts, soil temperature, soil moisture - yesterdays conditions, today's conditions, 31 day summary. A treasure trove of information. You type in your zip code and there is all this data to peruse. A great rainy day place to surf.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....at the top of the list is the Web sites collected link
.......Horticulture
.......horticulture - scroll down a bit to find the link

OR go to the del.icio.us site for NMTC http://del.icio.us/NMTC_Librarian

Planning to travel?

Will you be driving to see friends and family over Thanksgiving?
Do you need to check up on your car?

Try using the Auto Repair Reference Center in GALILEO. It provides repair information on most major manufacturers of domestic and imported vehicles. You can print out the information to have a hard copy while you're working on your vehicle.

Best to be safe before you start out on a road trip!

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.

Holiday jobs

It may be too late to acquire the perfect Holday job. The link to these job sites has been added to GALILEO so you don't have to remember how to find them.

The Atlanta Job Bank was created to serve the needs of the Atlanta job seeker, employer, and recruiter and is offered as a completely FREE service by D&B Services, Inc.

Career Depot: CareerDepot.org was developed to provide universal access by our customers to information about resources in our region in the areas of employment, education and training, supportive services, etc.

Survey for GALILEO

Dear GALILEO users,

Take the 2006 GALILEO Annual User Survey and be entered to win a 30 GB video iPod or other great prize!

The annual GALILEO User Surveys, conducted since 1997, have provided valuable firsthand feedback from users about what they think about the GALILEO web site, as well as experiential feedback from library staff on how their patrons are (or are not) navigating the menus and databases.

To help encourage participation this year, particularly by patrons, students, and other end users, a 30 GB Apple iPod will be awarded to a lucky survey respondent.

Be sure to encourage your users to complete the survey to be entered into the drawing. The survey will be conducted November 7-13, 2006. Just click on the survey link on the GALILEO home page to participate.

Thank you in advance taking the time to contribute your opinions and ideas.


Regards, Karen


Karen Minton, Virtual Services Librarian,
GALILEO Library Services Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia
2500 Daniells Bridge Road ,
Building 300
Athens, GA 30606-3539

Phone: 888-875-3697
Fax: (706) 583-2294
karen.minton@usg.edu

http://www.galileo.usg.edu/

More than a sales weekend

Veterans Day is more than the first sale of the holiday season. In our collection we have 51 titles when I searched for "veterans". Most of the titles can be read on-line in netLibrary.

One special book can be found in our Early Childhood collection at PZ 7. B91527 WAL 1990 written by Eve Bunting,The wall, illustrated by Ronald Himler. A boy and his father come from far away to visit the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington and find the name of the boy's grandfather, who was killed in the conflict.

Remember those who fought and gave their all.
Remember those who served and came home.
Remember each service person.

Native American Month

November is the month set aside to honor Native Americans. The Pilgrims wouldn't have made it without the help of the locals.

In GALILEO there is a database titled Native American Documents.

"This database 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 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. "

News Transcripts

Did you fall asleep before the results were in? Would you like to read what various commentators had to say about the election?

You can pull up transcripts to news shows on LexisNexis Academic in GALILEO.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....Jump to L
.......Lexis Nexis

Select Guided News Search (second tab)
Step 1. Select News Transcripts
Step 2. Select the news organization- you have quite a choice
Step 3. Enter your search term
Step 4. Narrow your search to a specific date range
Step 5. Search publication titles


GALILEO notes "LexisNexis Academic contains approximately 5,000 publications, virtually all include full text. Many types of publications are included: newspapers (in English, other languages, and translations of international papers), legal news, general interest magazines, medical journals, trade publications, company financial information, transcripts, wire service reports, government publications (such as the federal case law, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Testimony, etc.), law reviews, and reference works (such as the Forbes Annual Directory, the Official Guide/American Marketplace and the US Global Trade Outlook). "

Advising

• Yesterday was the Fall Festival. Wonderful food (BBQ), music and games (even in the rain)
• This week is Advisement (meet with your Program Advisor)
• Next week is early Registration

Election Day

Please vote. Each vote does count. It is your civic duty to cast your vote for the candidate you think will best represent you.

Civic Duty

Today the Librarian begins Jury Duty in Cherokee County.

Read about the law in Georgia by going to the Georgia Code. The GALILEO Notes tell us that the Georgia Code is the compilation of the laws of the state of Georgia that are currently in force. The database is searchable by keyword and by code number.

GALILEO
....Social Sciences tab
.......Georgia Code

A rose by any other name

Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet reminds us that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

The name of the link to the NMTC_Librarian del.icio.us site has been changed in GALILEO to Web sites collected for NMTC Programs - simple, clear, and to the point.

We remember

Many Christians celebrate All Saints Day on November 1 and All Souls Day on November 2. They are days to remember those who have gone ahead.

Using the Religion and Philosophy Database (EbscoHost) in GALILEO, searching for "All Souls Day" brings up 16 articles. Most of the articles reflect on what the day means to the author.

The GALILEO more notes tell us that "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."

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.......Jump to R
..........Religion & Philosophy

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 uses it?

Librarians regularly gather statistics to note how many patrons use what resource.

You can see the numbers for GALILEO usage by going to the right hand side of the GALILEO home page

Under GALILEO information
....About GALILEO
.......At the bottom of the left hand blue column - Usage Statistics
..........Usage Statistics Reporting Tool
...........You have lots of options- week, month, day
...........The Institution
...........The database

Numbers are fun to play with- see who uses what and how much!



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.

Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Bones

It's Halloween and skeletons are a must have decoration. What are those bones called?

Try the E-Skeleton Project.

"The eSkeletons Project website is devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy. It offers a unique set of digitized versions of skeletons in 2-D and 3-D in full color, animations, and much supplemental information. The user can navigate through the various regions of the skeleton and view all orientations of each element along with muscle and joint information. eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur."

We did add eSkeleton to GALILEO for NMTC.

All Hallows Eve

How many treats do you have stockpiled to give to treaters who arrive at your door? Snopes Urban legends notes that Halloween is not the second most expensive holiday (read Halloween Loot, 29 Oct). We may be more public in our participation but we aren't spending more money- because the treats we hand out are not the expensive gifts of the other holidays!

Flu season begins

The ads are running- time to get your flu shot.

What if you'd like to try a non chemical remedy for the flu? Where would you go to get information?

"Alt HealthWatch focuses on multiple perspectives of complementary, holistic, and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. Full-text content comes from more than 160 international peer-reviewed and professional journals, magazines, reports, proceedings, and association and consumer newsletters, plus hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research, and book excerpts. " GALILEO description

Alt Health Watch is an Ebsco product.

There is a link called Find It which will show you the libraries in Georgia that own the periodical. You can search in the Georgia Libraries Journals List (GOLD) to discover the library that has the periodical. Your librarian can borrow the article through InterLibrary Loan.

GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
.....scroll to Alt Health Watch

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.

Where to go

and what to do when I get there....

Travel guides can be a great way to arm-chair travel. Travel guides can give you an idea of what to do when you get to your location.

NetLibrary has a collection of 31, Hunter Travel Guides. The guides range in date from 1998 to 2005.

GALILEO
....Find a a database by name
........Jump to n
...........netLibrary
..............Limit your search to title
..............Hunter Travel Guides

Happy traveling!