Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Featured GALILEO Database


All About Birds is a website from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that includes information about watching birds, learning their nesting behaviors, attracting birds, indentifying them, recording observations, and getting involved in bird conservation. The site includes guides, images, maps, sounds, videos, and much more. There is also a link to the Macaulay Library, an archive of animal sounds and videos. 

To access this database, log in to GALILEO and select the Databases A-Z tab.  Choose the letter "A" from the alphabetical index or type in "All About Birds" in the search box. 

Sunday, January 20, 2013

Library closing

The library will be closed Monday, January 21, 2013 for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.  The library will open at 7:30 am on Tuesday, January 22nd.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Featured GALILEO Database



The eSkeletons Project contains digitized images and animations of human and primate skeletons for the study of comparative anatomy. Students can view regions of skeletons from any orientation as well as muscle and joint information. 
To access this database, log in to GALILEO (off campus--use your MyDaltonState user name and password). Select the Database A-Z tab, then type in the name of the database in the search box.