Georgia Tech Library News

The Jewish Student Union, along with Students for Israel at Georgia Tech, is hosting a traveling exhibition honoring former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.  The exhibit features several photos of Rabin throughout his life and highlights his role as a peace-maker in Middle East political conflicts.

The exhibit is on display in the Library’s Neely Gallery [view map].  Exhibit hours are 10am to 5pm Mon-Sat, 12pm – 5pm Sun.

Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff now have access to over four million books held by the 34 libraries of the University System of Georgia (USG) and the Gwinnett University Center.

The new program, called GIL Express, offers the options of either online or in-person requests for circulating items contained in these collections. GIL Express online requests can be made from the Universal Catalog which can be accessed from the Georgia Tech Library catalog by clicking on “GIL Universal Catalog.”
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Pick up a voter registration form at the Library’s Information Services Desk anytime the Library is open.  Use the Library’s copy machines or scanners to make a required copy of your Buzzcard or Driver’s Licence to mail with your registration form. Students who are residents from outside the state of Georgia can request an Absentee Ballot from their state at www.nased.org (click Membership and Roster of States) Deadline for registration is October 4th.

Our state-of-the-art Presentation Rehearsal Studio can now be reserved online via Buzzport. For step-by-step booking instructions, and details on both the technology available and the
use policies, visit the Presentation Rehearsal Studio page. Check out this ideal space to practice and put the finishing touches on your classroom presentations!

The Library is very pleased to announce that the Georgia Tech Community now has access to these important databases.  Access from the Library’s web page using the following path: Search & Locate > Search the Databases > A > America: History and Life or H > Historical Abstracts.

The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and The Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology are now available online.  Access from the Library’s web page using the following path: Search & Locate > Search the Databases > K > Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology or E > Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology.

The Library is very pleased to announce that we have been able to expand our access to the Web of Science suite of databases back to their beginning.  Dates of availability are as follows – Science Citation Index 1945-2004, Social Science Citation Index 1956-2004, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975-2004.  Purchase of the back years of ISI Web of Science has been one of our most frequent purchase requests.

Electronic access to Nature including the archives is now available to the GT community from the Library’s E-journals list. Access Nature from the Library’s web page using the following path:
Search & Locate > Journals > Browse the electronic journals >
Browse by journal title > N > Nature

The Library currently has a trial subscription to the Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt (TVNA). The trial will run through May 31, 2004.

The presentation rehearsal studio is an ideal space on campus to practice and put the finishing touches on classroom presentations. The technology in the Studio is identical to technology available in Tech classrooms. The studio was built as a result of student and faculty feedback about the critical need for presentation rehearsal space on campus. Two hour reservations are available any hours that the Library is open.