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Posted June 12, 2013
NoveList Adds Tools for Finding Visual Appeal
Readers have a new tool for helping to discover books they love — a new category of appeal terms called illustration appeals. These new appeal terms are now available in NoveList and NoveList K-8.
Illustration appeals describe the visual impact of book illustrations. Are the drawings colorful and bold? Photographic? Or maybe dark and nightmarish? Having access to this information helps readers identify books with their favorite style of imagery. Readers who love highly visual genres such as graphic novels or picture books will now be able to pinpoint books that appeal to them visually.
Search NoveList or NoveList K-8 to see these.
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Posted June 5, 2013
Need Summer Reading Ideas for the Kids?
If you’re looking for books to keep children and teens reading this summer, NoveList provides several book lists for younger and older children and for teens that go along with the summer reading program at your Georgia public library.
- Summer Reading: Dig into Reading! (Younger Kids)
- Summer Reading: Can You Dig it? (Older Kids)
- Summer Reading: Beneath the Surface (Teens)
- Summer Reading: Underground (Teens)
For even more summer reading lists, just search for summer reading in NoveList and click on the Lists and Articles tab.
You can also check out the Recommended Reads List in a variety of genres in NoveList K-8.
Find these books and more at your local public library.
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Posted May 29, 2013
Go Get Fit!
May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month, so here’s your excuse to get out and enjoy the great weather!
If you need ideas or tips to get you started in the right direction, just search Discover GALILEO for physical fitness, sports, exercise, or your favorite activity, such as walking, running, hiking, skating, biking, swimming, or whatever you enjoy, to find articles, fact sheets, and more. If you have a particular topic that you like, you can click Alert/Save/Share at the top of your search results to set up an email alert, which will send you emails when an article about your topic is added.
GALILEO offers access to the full text of several popular sports and fitness magazines, such as American Fitness, Bicycling, DIRTSports, Men’s Health, Shape, Sports Illustrated, Swimming World, and Runner’s World. If you want to know when a new issue is added, you can you can click the Alert/Save/Share in the publication information to set up a journal alert that sends emails as new issues appear.
Finally, check out the Exercise subject area of GALILEO for more resources.
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Posted May 24, 2013
Changes to HBR Article Access for Business Source Customers
There will be some changes to the access to Harvard Business Review in Business Source Complete coming in August 2013.
Please see the following announcement from EBSCO.
As of August 2013, some changes will be made to Harvard Business Review (HBR) article access for Business Source customers. This change will not affect institutions that have already purchased the expanded rights from Harvard Business Publishing. Further, customers buying a site license will not be impacted.
As you are likely aware, full-text licensing agreements with publishers are subject to change in all databases, and EBSCO is committed to providing our customers with as much advance notice as possible on full-text content changes as often as we possibly can. With that said, we would like to inform you that as of August 1, 2013, all databases containing HBR will experience a change for 500 of the articles. These articles will become read-only, and will be clearly marked as such.
For example, in Business Source Complete, there are currently 12,824 full-text articles from HBR, and 12,324 will continue to have the existing access functionality. If libraries wish to prevent the read-only limitation on these 500 articles, and expand usage rights to all 12,824 HBR articles to include course use, they should contact Harvard Business Publishing for expanded rights. For an upgrade fee, Harvard Business Publishing offers full course use rights for all articles. For pricing information please contact us at permissions@harvardbusiness.org.
We thank you for your understanding, and please don’t hesitate to contact us at information@ebscohost.com if you have any questions.
If you have any questions or need more information, please use the GALILEO Contact Us form or contact the ITS Help Desk at helpdesk@usg.edu or 1-888-875-3697.
Posted May 24, 2013
This Day in Georgia History: May 24, 1850
On this day in 1850, Henry W. Grady was born in Athens, GA. He was known as the “Spokesman of the New South” and was the managing editor for the Atlanta Constitution in the 1880s.
Before working at the Atlanta Constitution, Grady shared ownership in the Atlanta Daily Herald (which can be found in the Athens Historic Newspapers Archive). In 1874, he wrote an editorial in which he first used the term “New South” and advocated for industrial development to solve the economic and social problems facing the South at that time. You can read this editorial on page 3 of the March 14, 1874 issue of the Atlanta Daily Herald.
To read more about him, see the Henry W. Grady (1850-1889) article in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. For historical photos and more, search for Henry Grady in the Digital Library of Georgia.
Image from the New Georgia Encyclopedia