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.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
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.
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.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
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!
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!
Monday, December 18, 2006
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
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!
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!
Friday, December 15, 2006
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)
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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.
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.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Mozart for free
Starting on December 12, 2006 the ISM and the Packard Humanities Institute will make the complete musical texts of the NMA available to everyone for private, scholarly, and educational use as NMA Online.
Free access will be provided on the Internet at http://dme.mozarteum.at/
Free access will be provided on the Internet at http://dme.mozarteum.at/
Why do I feel like this?
Check out your symptoms using the Web sites selected for NMTC programs. The Allied Health list has authoritative places to go for accurate and timely information.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
What happened?
Reading diaries helps complete a historic event. There are several diaries as part of the Digital Library of Georgia - Cyrus F. Jenkins Civil War Diary, 1861 - 1862 Pages 98 - 103 covers December of 1861.
Page: (99 [View Image] importance. the clouds are banking up & the prospect for snow is good,
Tuesday Dec [December] 3rd, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
after a slight rain in the night and now the earth is frozen with a sheet of ice upon top, Wednesday Dec [December] 4th, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
We were visited by snow during the last night. to about shoe mouth deep and the weather is horribly cold this morning, the 45th Virginia regt [regiment] ordered to put up huts, great excitement among the officers & soldiers who agree in refusing to put up here..Thursday 5th. [View Civil War timeline for this date]
orders to Doublin [Dublin] Depot on the Virginia & Tenn [Tennessee] rail road [railroad] . Sunday evening 3, oclock [o'clock] [View Civil War timeline for this date]
now at dublin a beautiful valley between the blue ridge & alighanies [alleghenies], for four miles back the prettiest country seen since, around Richmond, after a travel of 25 miles from our camp near Peterstown, Friday night Dec [December] 13th.. 9 oclock [o'clock] . [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
the long desired news has come at last a telegraphic dispatch for the
Page: 100) [View Image] 13th Reg. Ga vol. [Regiment Georgia volunteers] to report themselves at Charleston S.C [South Carolina],, I happened to be at the depot to see a couple of friend [friends] of Philips. who were going home, when the dispatch came,, I could not believe it untill [until] I saw the copy that was drawn for "Colonel Ector",, I then made my way to camps as quick as convenient & told the good news, but others were as I had been, the news had come so often before, & turned out to be false, that nothing Short of a sight of the dispatch would satisfy them of its reality,, I told them that I had read it. they believed me but suspected a wrong somewhere, But in a short time, a most prodegious [prodigious] yell broke out about the Colonels tent which brought faith, and the yelling spread like fire in hay untill [until] the wood around us rang & the echo sounded for miles around, New life & vigor pervaded every system,, & every object unfurled new beauties, & the dead wood [deadwood]
Page: (101 [View Image] almost looked alive,
Page: (99 [View Image] importance. the clouds are banking up & the prospect for snow is good,
Tuesday Dec [December] 3rd, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
after a slight rain in the night and now the earth is frozen with a sheet of ice upon top, Wednesday Dec [December] 4th, [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
We were visited by snow during the last night. to about shoe mouth deep and the weather is horribly cold this morning, the 45th Virginia regt [regiment] ordered to put up huts, great excitement among the officers & soldiers who agree in refusing to put up here..Thursday 5th. [View Civil War timeline for this date]
orders to Doublin [Dublin] Depot on the Virginia & Tenn [Tennessee] rail road [railroad] . Sunday evening 3, oclock [o'clock] [View Civil War timeline for this date]
now at dublin a beautiful valley between the blue ridge & alighanies [alleghenies], for four miles back the prettiest country seen since, around Richmond, after a travel of 25 miles from our camp near Peterstown, Friday night Dec [December] 13th.. 9 oclock [o'clock] . [View Civil War timeline for this date View Jenkins Chronology]
the long desired news has come at last a telegraphic dispatch for the
Page: 100) [View Image] 13th Reg. Ga vol. [Regiment Georgia volunteers] to report themselves at Charleston S.C [South Carolina],, I happened to be at the depot to see a couple of friend [friends] of Philips. who were going home, when the dispatch came,, I could not believe it untill [until] I saw the copy that was drawn for "Colonel Ector",, I then made my way to camps as quick as convenient & told the good news, but others were as I had been, the news had come so often before, & turned out to be false, that nothing Short of a sight of the dispatch would satisfy them of its reality,, I told them that I had read it. they believed me but suspected a wrong somewhere, But in a short time, a most prodegious [prodigious] yell broke out about the Colonels tent which brought faith, and the yelling spread like fire in hay untill [until] the wood around us rang & the echo sounded for miles around, New life & vigor pervaded every system,, & every object unfurled new beauties, & the dead wood [deadwood]
Page: (101 [View Image] almost looked alive,
Monday, December 11, 2006
Comparing countries
Last week I noted the demo version of World Data Analyst will create charts and tables comparing countries.
The regular Encyclopedia Britannica will also create tables and charts and handouts comparing two countries (and provide images, web links, history, flags, maps...)
GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to E
.........Encyclopedia Britannica
Left hand side under Research Tools
About the 5th one down - Compare Countries
Pick your countries
Keep scrolling - you'll get to a graphs section where Statistical Information can be displayed
This is entertaining. More information than you'll need in a trivia game - very interesting.
The regular Encyclopedia Britannica will also create tables and charts and handouts comparing two countries (and provide images, web links, history, flags, maps...)
GALILEO
....Databases A-Z
.......Jump to E
.........Encyclopedia Britannica
Left hand side under Research Tools
About the 5th one down - Compare Countries
Pick your countries
Keep scrolling - you'll get to a graphs section where Statistical Information can be displayed
This is entertaining. More information than you'll need in a trivia game - very interesting.
Friday, December 08, 2006
Something new!
New resources have been added to the GALILEO database menus in the
demo system .
World Data Analyst from Encyclopædia Britannica includes current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world. The resource includes tools for comparing and ranking data and creating tables that can be exported into spreadsheets.
It is fun- the database allows you to create tables and charts- with bar graphs! This will be super for country reports.
GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to W
.........World Data Analyst
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.
demo system .
World Data Analyst from Encyclopædia Britannica includes current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world. The resource includes tools for comparing and ranking data and creating tables that can be exported into spreadsheets.
It is fun- the database allows you to create tables and charts- with bar graphs! This will be super for country reports.
GALILEO
...Databases A-Z
......Jump to W
.........World Data Analyst
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.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
A day that will live.....
in infamy
Quick Search for "Pearl Harbor" in GALILEO pulled up these results:
--> -->
Hits...Database
1540...Academic Search Premier
125.....LexisNexis Academic
2168...MasterFILE Premier
1685...Research Library
Read and remember.
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.
Quick Search for "Pearl Harbor" in GALILEO pulled up these results:
--> -->
Hits...Database
1540...Academic Search Premier
125.....LexisNexis Academic
2168...MasterFILE Premier
1685...Research Library
Read and remember.
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.
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Password will change
The tallest, the shortest, the biggest
Where do you go to find lists of information for the tallest, the shortest, the biggest, the smallest? You go to the Almanac!
Browsing through the print edition can be a series of "ah ha" moments. We have several older copies of The World Almanac (AY 67 .N5 W7) available for borrowing.
There is a World Almanac available through GALILEO via First Search.
The more notes in GALILEO offer this information:
The World Almanacs, first published in 1868, is a reference database that covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes and much more.
The database is made up of:
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
The World Almanac for Kids
The World Almanac Knowledge Source
It's not colorful and image intensive. It's a database by First 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.
Browsing through the print edition can be a series of "ah ha" moments. We have several older copies of The World Almanac (AY 67 .N5 W7) available for borrowing.
There is a World Almanac available through GALILEO via First Search.
The more notes in GALILEO offer this information:
The World Almanacs, first published in 1868, is a reference database that covers arts and entertainment, U.S. cities and states, people in the news, the nations of the world, sports, the environment, vital statistics, science and technology, computers, taxes and much more.
The database is made up of:
The World Almanac and Book of Facts
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
The World Almanac of U.S. Politics
The World Almanac for Kids
The World Almanac Knowledge Source
It's not colorful and image intensive. It's a database by First 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.
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
FYI Garden Literature Index
Garden Literature Index (Ebsco product) is a wonderful resource. However with advertising, encouraging, and teaching - it's not being used. We will not be renewing our subscription at the end of December.
Upgrading system
The library circulation system is "down" for the morning while we do some techy stuff to make it more efficient!
Monday, December 04, 2006
Voting in Georgia on Tuesday
Believe it or not, tomorrow is an election day in the state of Georgia. There is a statewide run-off.
Your single vote may just make a difference!
Your single vote may just make a difference!
Numbers count
The monthly report with statistics, from what program areas use the computers to how many reference questions have been asked, is being compiled. These numbers help the librarians assess how to provide the best library services.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Conference
ACTE - The Association for Career and Technical Education is the largest national education association dedicated to the advancement of education that prepares youth and adults for careers.
ACTE is meeting in Atlanta for their annual conference. A wonderful opportunity for Technical Educators from around the country to meet, greet, and learn!
ACTE is meeting in Atlanta for their annual conference. A wonderful opportunity for Technical Educators from around the country to meet, greet, and learn!
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