May is National Bike Month. Whether you’re interested in getting fit, saving some gas money, just having some fun, or all of the above, cycling can be the way to go.
To learn about bicycles and cycling, look in MasterFILE Premier in GALILEO. Just search for bicycle or cycling to see articles as well as reviews of cycling equipment. You can also find several magazines, such as Bicycling, Mountain Bike, Ride BMX, or BMX Plus in MasterFILE Premier.
If you’re interested in a little history, check out the Bicycle article in Encyclopædia Britannica to learn about the development of bikes from treadle-powered velocipedes to boneshakers to the ordinary to the modern bicycle.
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The winner of the 2012 Townsend Prize for Fiction, an award for the Georgia writer judged to have produced the best work of fiction or short stories in the previous two years, was recently announced.
You can find book reviews for the winner and nominees in NoveList in GALILEO.
Winner The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers by Thomas Mullen
2012 Nominees
Remain in Light by Collin Kelley
A Marriage of Convenience by Andrew Plattner
For more about the Townsend Prize, see the New Georgia Encyclopedia article.
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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, GALILEO offers access to the full text of several popular sports and fitness magazines, such as Sports Illustrated, Men’s Fitness, Running and FitNews, and Shape, and it also includes some publications for those more serious about exercise, such as American Fitness, Bicycling, DIRTSports, Joe Weidner’s Muscle and Fitness, Swimming World, and Runner’s World. Just go to Magazines A-Z to search for these or magazines that you like. If you want to know when a new issue is added, you can set up a journal alert.
In addition to the magazines, you can find many more articles, fact sheets, and more in several databases, such as MasterFILE Premier, Consumer Health Complete, or Research Library. Just search physical fitness, sports, or exercise in these or other databases listed in the Exercise subject area of GALILEO. If you have a particular topic that you like, you can set up a search alert so that you will receive emails when an article about your topic is added.
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HeritageQuest Online now includes over 7,000 titles from the American Antiquarian Society bringing the total number of genealogy and local history books to over 28,000.
To see digitized images of these books, go to HeritageQuest Online and click on Search Books to find genealogies and local histories.
National Train Day is coming up on May 12th. We thought this would be an excellent excuse to show off all things train-related in GALILEO.
The railroad was an influential part of Georgia’s history. For a review of the expansion and decline of the railroad in Georgia, take a look at the Railroads article in the New Georgia Encyclopedia. You can even find out how the origin of Atlanta is connected to the railroad. For a lot of wonderful historical images, take a look at all the trains in Digital Library of Georgia.
History Reference Center offers articles, images, and videos on the history of the railroad, including how the development of railroads impacted the West and how they took the “Wild” out of it. Annals of American History offers a first-hand perspective of the railroads in America with letters, government documents, and other primary sources, including this letter describing the birth and explosive growth of the railroad towns that would spring up around the rail lines.
For a deeper look at train cars, rails, and the operation of them, take a look at the Railroad article in Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Image from the Vanishing Georgia collection in the Digital Library of Georgia
HeritageQuest Online now includes a Learning Center with over sixty genealogy training videos and slide presentations for users. Beginner researchers will find videos to help them get started in genealogy research, and intermediate and advanced users will find information on many topics, such as conducting courthouse research, finding military records, using church records for genealogy, searching newspapers, and much more.
To access these training videos and presentations, go to HeritageQuest Online and choose any of the sections (e.g., Search Census, Search Books, etc.). Look for the Learning Center link at the top of the screen.
Although summer is just around the corner, there are still plenty of spring vegetables to be savored. If you’re looking for fresh ideas to make the most of them, GALILEO resources have plenty of appetizing recipes for a delicious meal.
Just go to MasterFILE Premier or Research Library and search for recipes and the veggie of your choice. You can find recipes for delectable in-season veggies, such as tasty artichokes, yummy asparagus, earthy beets, zesty radishes, crispy lettuce, and sweet, snappy peas.
Image from Encyclopædia Britannica
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Vidalia onions are in season now. Ever wondered what makes an onion a Vidalia onion? Find out in the New Georgia Encyclopedia.
Image from the New Georgia Encyclopedia
NASA Images, a collection of images from Earth, the solar system, and more, is now available through GALILEO. More information is included below.
Express Link: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=nasa
NASA Images was created through a partnership between NASA and the Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, to bring public access to NASA’s image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource. The site includes classic photos, educational programming, high-definition video, and more. New and archived media from all of NASA’s centers are continually being added.
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.
If you’re looking for a poem for Poem in Your Pocket Day on Thursday, April 26, 2012 (that’s tomorrow!), here’s a quick tip for finding poems. In Literary Reference Center, go to Advanced Search and type “poem” in the search field (or a topic that you like) and then limit your search to Poem in the Document Types section. Click the Search button, and you have thousands of poems at your fingertips.
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