I don't think we're in Kansas anymore

Read about Google and their homage du Wizard of Oz on the 71st year of its existence!

A search in GALILEO using wizard of oz as the search phrase turned up over a thousand articles. However, the first batch had nothing to do with the movie. I added garland as a second search term and that narrowed the results to just articles about the movie.

Sometimes you think a search phrase will be specific enough until you see the results and realize- oops, need to narrow that down.


-kls

Sherpas

My understanding of a sherpa is a person who guides the traveler through uncharted territory. We have created Library Guides for the instructors that have requested Library Instruction. We have created guides for specific courses as well as general programs. These guides serve as 'sherpas' for students - leading them to resources that might be considered inaccessible!

Happy exploring!

-kls

Library Catalog: One Stop Shop for Resources

Students, you can now access the library catalog from home! After you log in, you can review your library account, renew materials, update your address, and find passwords that are necessary for accessing library resources from off campus, including GALILEO.

Stop by any campus library, create an account, and get started!

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July 21 - One small step

Here is a YouTube video of an amazing day. If you want to read all about it - try some of the resources in GALILEO.

I did a search using the History search screen.
select Browse by Subject (main screen)
...select History
.....select History

I used one small step and moon as my search terms. A variety of articles pulled up to refresh my memory of that unbelievable day!

You get the password to access GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.

-kls

Who us?

Could we become popular? NPR seems to think so.

-kls

Vive la France

Today being Bastille Day offers an opportunity to showcase our newest resource, Global Road Warrior.

Global Road Warrior is a massive database of constantly updated proprietary editorial and graphics for 175 countries of the world. It provides deep content coverage in major topic areas of society and culture, travel, communications, business, trade, marketing, and security. Currently, the database has7,000,000+ words of editorial, 1,750+ country maps and 12,000+ photographs This product and others create a product line that distinguishes World Trade Press in the field of electronic data publication.

It's easy to use. The opening page offers three options for searches. The screen is open and easy to navigate. I looked for a specific country (France) and a specific topic in the country (Bastille Day). Two articles were displayed. I selected the government one because of this paragraph:

Fete de la Federation, 14 July (1790); note - although often incorrectly referred to as Bastille Day, the celebration actually commemorates the holiday held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille (on 14 July 1789) and the establishment of a constitutional monarchy; other names for the holiday are Fete Nationale (National Holiday) and quatorze juillet (14th of July)

Play inside Global Road Warrior, see what interesting tidbits you can find. I'd love to hear about your experience within our newest resource.

-kls

Bastille Day

Today is Bastille Day, the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in Paris. This was one of the key early events of the French Revolution. Today, France is a republic similar to the United States. However, the economic crisis heralds great changes for the French. There is particular concern in France, as well as other European states, regarding the survival of the famous welfare system. Known for its low retirement age, modest work weeks, and generous vacation times, the French system is in danger due to budget shortfalls.

A story regarding this matter is part of a recent NPR series on the European Union and its member states.

-JWF

Westlaw

GALILEO is now providing Campus Research (Westlaw) instead of Lexis Nexis for our Business Law and Paralegal programs.

I tried finding Westlaw in Databases A-Z under W. It wasn't there on July 1st or 2nd or 3rd. I finally put Westlaw in the Find A Database search box on the Databases A-Z page and voila Campus Research (Westlaw) in the C's came up!

You will need to scroll through the access agreement and click on "I agree" to get to the Campus Research (Westlaw) database.

It is different from Lexis Nexis. Our Business Law students will need to click on the Law tab (News & Business is the default screen). A search in Campus Research (Westlaw) is more forgiving than Lexis Nexis. One can use upper or lower case in the Find a Document by citation: (e.g., 98 S.CT 2733) search. For our Business Law students the left column with Find a Document by citation: (e.g., 98 S.CT 2733) will make searching very easy!

I'll be playing with the Campus Research (Westlaw) with the Business Law instructor. As we discover helpful hints and tricks, I'll let you know what we discover!

-kls

Get the current GALILEO password from your Georgia librarian.

To Kill a Mockingbird

This Sunday July 11th will be the 50th anniversary of the publication of Harper Lee’s novel: To Kill A Mockingbird. There is an excellent article about the book and its anniversary on the USA Today website. 'To Kill a Mockingbird': Endearing, enduring at 50 years - USATODAY.com.

The Marietta and Paulding campuses have print copies [PS3562 .E353 T6]. The Cliffs notes are available through NetLibrary. You do need to create your free account to use NetLibrary from an on campus computer.


-kls

Pillars of the Earth

from our Woodstock campus Librarian, Lauren Barnes :

"Looking forward to the new TV movie THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH on Starz (July 23)?

Read the book 1st! The CTC Libraries have 3 copies.This is a powerful story of medieval life written by the renowned author Ken Follett. Love, hate, murder, intrigue & mystery, suspense & action all revolving around the building of a medieval cathedral. Enjoy!"
LB

The local call number for Pillars of the Earth is PR6056. O45 P55 1989. Marietta, North Metro and Woodstock campus libraries have a copy. For more information about the novel try NoveList in GALILEO. NoveList has a discussion guide for Pillars of the Earth that will help you explore the deeper meaning to the story!


kls

You may get the current password for GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.

Lazy days of summer

Slowly but surely, the warm days build. What can one do when it gets too hot to play outside? NPR published a list of summer reading suggestions for 2010. They include a link to Nancy Pearl's list from 2009. I admit, I missed the list from 2009. I'm grateful for the North Metro campus Library assistants efforts at keeping all of us informed!

I'm going to do Inter Library Loan (ILL) requests for the novels that intrigue me on Nancy's 2009 list! I'm thankful libraries are willing to share their resources.

I'll go to GALILEO
...select Databases A-Z
.....select W
........go to WorldCat
-type the title
-click search
-then select "Borrow this item from another library"
-fill in the form and our Inter Library Loan department will follow through!
It takes about ten days to get a book through ILL. Well, worth the time.

Get the password for GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.


-kls
The Nancy Pearl Action figure is prominently on display in my office!

Bayeux Tapestry

Clever bit of art and animated history! For more information about The Bayeux Tapestry-
go to GALILEO
..select Browse by Subject
...select History
....select History again
......type in Bayeux Tapestry, select full text

and then begin reading about this famous piece of needlework.

Of course, you get the password to use GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.

-kls

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

As you sit here reading this blog, oil is gushing from an underwater pipe in the Gulf of Mexico. This not only affects the wildlife and the animals in the Gulf’s ecosystem, not only the tourist and tourism industries, not only the food and restaurant industries; this disaster affects you too.

An entire region of America is changing every second and will never be the same again. Are you interested in learning more details about the destruction to the ecosystem? Are you interested in learning about the federal government and BP’s efforts to stop the oil spill? You can find answers to these questions and more from your library WEBSITE.

To find information about oil debates and past spills, click on the FIND BOOKS link on the library’s main website. This will take you to the library catalogue, searching all campus libraries and ebooks (NETLIBRARY and EBRARY). Typing “OIL SPILLS” into the search tab brings up sixteen titles. Such titles include: Should drilling be permitted in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? and Before and after an oil spill [electronic resource] : the Arthur Kill. Remember, if logging in from home, you will need to have created a free account for NETLIBRARY. If the book is located in EBRARY, you may access it with your 900#.

If you are more interested in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, click on the NEWSBANK link on the library’s main website. Located on the left is a “SPECIAL EVENTS” sidebar with WORLD ENVIRONMENT – GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL listed as number two. Click on the heading and it will direct you to news articles about the spill, starting from April 23, 2010. Remember, if logging into NEWSBANK from home, you must go through GALILEO first. Obtain the password from your college librarian!

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something more

CTC Library subscribes to the online edition of Encyclopedia Britannica. Many folks are quick to use Wikipedia because it's just easy to get to online.

Encyclopedia Britannica is easy to access through GALILEO. Encyclopedia Britannica has vetted resources - check out what they offer:

The foundation of Britannica Online is the Encyclopedia Britannica, the largest, most authoritative encyclopedia in the world. You'll be happy to find the below features within Britannica Online Academic Edition :

• Encyclopedia Britannica – All of the articles in the print set plus thousands more, as well as maps, photos, illustrations, videos, multimedia clips, and Yearbooks dating back to 1993 !
• eBook / Primary Sources – Since Fall 2008, Britannica has been adding an extensive collection of eBook resources through a partnership with Project Gutenberg. Users are able to link from biographies and history articles to related full-text primary source documents. Britannica expects the collection to eventually have over 500,000 primary source documents. Some sample articles to check out include: Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Abraham Lincoln, JFK, Herman Melville, and Thomas Jefferson. There will be no charge for this added service.
• World Data Analyst – Britannica’s exclusive database of current and past statistics on the countries of the world
• Gateway to the Classics – An extensive collection of significant works in literature, philosophy, history, and science
• Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus – Completely integrated into the site and easily accessible
• Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Quotations – A lively collection of more than 4,000 quotations, both contemporary and classic
• Full-text Journal and Magazine articles from EBSCO – more than 700 titles, hand-selected for college needs
• BBC & New York Times daily headlines – top stories from two trusted sources
• The Web’s Best – a collection of Web sites carefully selected by Britannica’s editorial department
• World Atlas – Access Britannica maps through this interactive resource
• Advanced search capabilities and Britannica’s exclusive “Workspace”, a research organizer.
• Extensive video collection – over 3,000 videos and video clips that cover a variety of subjects, including History, Science, the Arts, and Social Studies. Video topics include Toulouse-Lautrec, Botticelli, Lewis & Clark, Asia, Ancient Cultures, World Wars, Economics, Native Americans, Insects, the Chaos Theory, and the expanding Universe, among others. Short video clips are 1-5 minutes long and full length extended play videos are between 15 to 45 minutes long. All videos can be played online or downloaded and used in Power Point Presentations.
• Britannica Blog – stimulating dialogue covering a wide range of topics
• Britannica’s Core Databases support Web 2.0 – Use the Share this Article and Widget features to publish selected articles and interactive topic widgets to your blog or Web site. Interact with Britannica Blog, our award-winning (2008 CODiE) moderated forum and blog. Store, organize and share your research with the Workspace tool. Interact with the Internet by clicking on Britannica’s Web’s Best Sites.

Get the password to access GALILEO from your Georgia librarian!

-kls

Conversations with directors

Do you ever wonder why directors of films do what they do? Is it really art or is it money that drives their efforts?

New on our shelf- Conversations with Directors : an anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly [PN 1998.2 .C615 2008]

From Amazon - Founded in 1973, the journal Literature/Film Quarterly has featured interviews with some of the most prominent and influential filmmakers from around the world. In Conversations with Directors, the journal's coeditors have assembled an exciting collection of interviews spanning 35 years. Interviewees include directors like Robert Wise, Billy Wilder, Frank Capra, Federico Fellini, William Friedkin, and Robert Altman. Organized chronologically, each interview is preceded by a short introduction that establishes a contemporary context, along with providing the reader with a clear sense of the interview's primary concerns, usefully illuminating the many fascinating, and sometimes surprising, points of connection and difference between the directors.

The journal Literature/Film Quarterly is available through GALILEO.
...Go to the tab Journals A-Z
.....Type in Literature
.......Select the radio button "Starts with"
Scroll down a bit till you find Literature/Film Quarterly (full text)
It's available from Ebsco (1973), Gale(2005), and Proquest (1973)

Catch up on all the people interviewed to get an indepth picture of the link between literature and film!

-kls

- and of course, get the password to use GALILEO from your Georgia librarian.

and the band plays on

Over the weekend, several of my friends posted You Tube videos of current and past musicians. It inspired me to rummage through our LP collection and play a few discs.

While wandering down memory lane, I wondered what info I could find in GALILEO. I was pretty sure there was a music database. Imagine my surprise when I did a database search and discovered - nope, no music database for the tech college. Hmm...I scrolled through the databases we do have, wondering which might give me information about musicians - Encyclopædia Britannica seemed like a good bet but I thought surely there's something more. And yes, we subscribe to Credo Reference. Our subscription is to the complete Credo with 487 reference works and over 3 million full text entries!

Under the subject, Music, Credo offers these 7 reference works (with a see also):

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Locations

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Media, Industry and Society

Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and Production

The Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music

The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music

The Harvard Dictionary of Music

The New Penguin Dictionary of Music

and a see also for A Biographical Dictionary of Artists, Andromeda

We do have a resource in GALILEO that can help you find more information (citable information) about a musician!


-kls

The current password to use GALILEO is available from your Georgia librarian. Credo is a database that CTC library subscribes to and is available through our portion of GALILEO.

NoveList

E-mail announcement from NoveList. I use this database for Early Childhood resources. They offer teacher resource ideas for extending the story! The Readers Advisory portion is so helpful at letting you know who else writes stories like the one you just read!

Check NoveList out in GALILEO. Your Georgia librarian can give you the password to access GALILEO at home!

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We know it can sometimes be challenging to adapt to a new version of a trusted resource after a major user interface change. To help, we've taken several measures to ensure that you're ready to transition by the time the new version of NoveList is released this summer. There are three ways to explore the new version before the official release:

1. Play in the Beta version. In the center of the homepage of your version of NoveList, you'll find a link to the Beta version of our forthcoming release. By clicking on the preview link, you'll have access to all of the exciting new features coming this summer, along with the entireNoveList database to try. While you can practice using appeal factors in your Readers' Advisory work and using NoveList to find title, series, and author recommendations, you won't be able to use yourNoveList folders, set your personalization, or use your catalog link in the Beta.
2. Check out the NoveList Support Center (http://support.ebsco.com/novelist). Here, you will find everything you need to know about the new version and its release, including a timeline, screenshots, and information on reading recommendations and the addition of appeal factors like writing style and pace. We'll be adding training and promotional materials along with additional information up until the release date.
3. Sign up for a webinar. We will begin offering webinars on the new version of NoveList to walk you through the new interface and demonstrate the new features. We've designed these sessions to make sure you don't miss anything. We'll begin offering two 45-minute sessions each week beginning Tuesday, May 4th at 10:00 am EDT (GMT - 4:00). To view the complete list of dates and times, visit the EBSCO Training Site and sign up today!


-kls

Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

The Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) is the world’s most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art. On April 1, 2010, the Getty Research Institute announced it would be providing free access to the BHA via its website.

GALILEO has now added this free resource to GALILEO menus.
..Databases A-Z
.....following subject categories (depending on your user view):
.....Art, Art History, and Architecture.

The direct GALILEO Express Link that can be used on library and media center websites is: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=gett.

BHA includes articles from over 1,200 journals. This link leads to a list of names and ISSNs of each of those journals. Journals Included in BHA (PDF, 308 K) . BHA includes all articles within the subject scope of BHA regardless of the subject focus of a particular journal. Thus, many of the journals on this list are covered partially, as only some of their articles are within BHA’s scope.

BHA on the Getty Web site offers both basic and advanced search modules, and can be searched easily by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other elements. Note that the database search includes both BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009. The Répertoire de la litterature de l’art (RILA), one of the predecessors of BHA, with records that cover 1975-1989, will be online by May 1.

The Getty Research Institute has no plans to continue the databases into the future. It is a static resource. There are not any plans for the RAA data currently because that data is owned by the French INIST, not by the Getty.


From GALILEO News

-kls

You may get the current GALILEO password for home use from your Georgia librarian

ProQuest celebrates National Library Week

ProQuest celebrates National Library Week

Communities thrive @ your library

ProQuest is proud to celebrate National Library Week with you.

From April 12-18, 2010, ProQuest is offering free, open access to some of our most popular online resources at www.proquest.com/go/celebrate.

 CultureGrams™ explore the world's cultures with local experts that document the history, customs, government, and daily life in multimedia reports on over 200 countries. [Try it out!]

 eLibrary® this easy to use resource brings together content about in-demand subjects from millions of multimedia-rich, global resources. [Try it out!]

 ProQuest® African American Heritage brings together records critical to African American family history research and connects users to a community of research experts. [Try it out!]

 ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ - Black Newspapers experience history firsthand via continuous runs of the following full-image titles: The Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, and New York Amsterdam News [Try it out!]

 And more!

Visit http://www.proquest.com/go/celebrate to access these resources and more, during National Library Week. No username or password needed!

-kls

Gotcha

My brother-in-law posted : "Before the Gregorian calendar was adopted, new years was on April 1st. Makes more sense being in the spring anyway. Those who continued to celebrate new years on April 1st were called fools. Happy New Year to everyone!" Where can I corroborate his statement?

I went to GALILEO and searched in several places at once by using the Search tab and adding more databases. Encyclopedia Britannica had just what I was looking for on April Fools' Day.

Use reliable sources to verify information posted on the internet.

For fun, check out what Google posted about their name change! Note the date and time stamp. Someone was up late/early!


-kls