Improve your ARTstor skills!

Need some brushing up on using ARTstor?

New instructional videos have been added to ARTstor's YouTube channel, and they are all now close-captioned in the language of your choice!



Current titles available are: "Registering," "Faceted Search," "Export to PowerPoint," "Folders and image groups," and "How to unlock a password-protected folder."

More topics will be added in the coming weeks.

You can find these videos at YouTube.com/artstor and on ARTstor's Help Wiki.

The ARTstor Digital Library provides more than one million images with tools for teaching and research. Its collections comprise contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world. The collections encompass a wide variety of subject areas, including art, architecture, music, religion, anthropology, literature, world history, American Studies, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, and more.

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ProQuest Databases Down for Maintenance

ProQuest will be performing infrastructure maintenance on July 30, 2011.

A fourteen-hour maintenance window will be required for this from Saturday, July 30, 2011, at 10:00 p.m. to Sunday, July 31, 2011, at 12:00 p.m.

If you have any questions or need more information, please Ask a Librarian or contact CSU Libraries at: 706-562-1492.

Hot Off the Press on NewsBank: August Special Reports

This just in!

The August Special Reports are now available by Newsbank!

NewsBank’s Special Reports are news articles, images and other useful content grouped for convenience under specific topics and themes. Easily accessible within NewsBank resources, they enable you to quickly locate information on a specific subject while helping you to gain better insight into current issues and events on a global scale. Each Report features current and retrospective coverage, and new articles are added daily.

All Special Reports are accessed from the left side bar on the America's Newspapers menu page in GALILEO.

The following is a listing of some of the Special Reports that may be of particular interest to you at this time.

August Featured Reports

Conflict & Terrorism
Natural Disasters
World Environment
World Economics
World Health
Science and Health in the News
Issues in the News
World Politics and Government
World Travel
U.S. Presidential Campaign – 2012

Coming Soon

Special Report: 9/11 – 10th Anniversary

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Georgia 2010 Census Data Released

On Thursday July 21, the Census Bureau made the first major release of Georgia data from the 2010 census. The Summary 1 File is a collection of tables, "including cross-tabulations of age, sex, households, families, relationship to householder, housing units, detailed race and Hispanic or Latino origin groups, and group quarters. The statistics are available for a variety of geographic areas, with most tables available down to the block or census tract level." (Census.gov)

The new data tables can be access by searching American FactFinder. More news on details of the release can be found at Census.gov.

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NetLibrary eBooks are Now on EBSCOhost!

CSU Libraries are happy to announce that our NetLibrary eBooks are now searchable via the EBSCOHost platform!

eBooks (at EBSCOhost), formerly known as NetLibrary, provides access to electronic books (eBooks), including reference books, scholarly monographs, publications of many university presses, and consumer books that have been converted into digital format. It is possible to perform full-text searches of a single eBook, search thousands of volumes simultaneously, browse topic categories, or read eBooks directly online.

One of the great benefits of this change is that now you can search across eBooks and other EBSCOhost content for integrated results. Other changes include the ability to browse by subject, genre, and language; use of an enhanced viewer for examining documents;

and the ability to view table of contents from the Result List and Detail Record.

You can access CSU's eBooks (at EBSCOhost) directly from GALILEO or in your results list using GIL, CSU's online catalog.

For more information about CSU's eBooks, please see our Electronic Resource Guides or Ask a Librarian.

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Database of the Month: Naxos Music Library

Are you in the mood for listening to some music? Well, this month's Database of the Month, the Naxos Music Library, has a lot to offer you!

The Naxos Music Library (NML) is the world's largest online classical music library.

Currently, it offers:

• Streaming access to more than 43,500 CDs with more than 600,000 tracks;
• Catalogs of more than 50 classical, jazz and world music labels;
• Synopses of over 700 operas;
• A pronunciation guide for composer and artist names;
• Glossary of musical terms
• Playing times of individual works or movements
• Detailed music notes and opera libretti.
• Ability to create personalized playlists.

The NML can be searched by composer, work and label; by keyword search and by a sophisticated advanced search engine with up to 10 combined search criteria.

NML can be accessed from GALILEO, anywhere, anytime. And with the new iPhone / iPod Touch App / Android App you can also access the NML on the go.

For more information and links to streaming video tutorials, please check out CSU Libraries' Electronic Resource Guides and Ask a Librarian.

For searching tips, daily commentaries about the Naxos Music Library collection and much more, please see the Naxos Music Library blog.

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New to KCDLonline

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KCDLonline just announced that the 30th edition of the Kraus Curriculum Development Library is complete and available online. With this new edition, KCDLonline now contains nearly 8,500 curricula, frameworks, and standards from 1983 through mid-2011.

The following is a representative selection of new resources that have been recently added to the database. These materials are searchable by keywords, title, grade, and state agencies.

* Ba Futuru / For the Future (Timor-Leste)
* Center for Collaborative Education (MA)
* Children & Nature Network (NM)
* Jazz at Lincoln Center (NY)
* Media Education Foundation (MA)
* TakingITGlobal (CANADA)
* The Ewing Public Schools (NJ)
* U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (CA)
* Willie Ross School for the Deaf, Inc. (MA)
* Women in Mining Education Foundation (CO)

You can access KCDLOnline through GALILEO or directly at: www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=kcdl-col.

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