Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING)
JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 12 - 05/01/99
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Also at: http://www.ing.iac.es/library/welcome.html
John Whelan Library (JWL) Bulletin is issued at irregular intervals, whenever
there is important news at the library. Suggestions and comments on this
bulletin are welcome.
Note: INT Library is the library on the first floor of the Isaac Newton
Telescope building and SLO Library is on the sixth floor of Mayantigo
building, the observatory sea-level base.
Contents
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1. PLANNING THE RGO INDEFINITE LOAN AVAILABILITY
2. NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CANCELLATIONS
3. DONATIONS
4. NEW ACQUISITIONS
5. OTHER NEWS
1. PLANNING THE RGO INDEFINITE LOAN AVAILABILITY
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Books and journals on indefinite loan from the Mike Penston library,
the former RGO library, arrived in La Palma in mid-November. A total of
530 boxes were received and placed in the new La Grama store. Most of these
items will be moved to the sixth floor of Mayatingo building, for which we
are planning to make use of the space occupied now by the social area, and
move this to the current library space. These plans are now under discussion
and we will take the definite decision begining with the next financial year.
Sample lists of the received items can be found at
http://www.ing.iac.es/~library/RGOloan/. Please cofigure your browser to
read pdf files. There you will find the list of journals and two lists
(out of 11) of books.
2. NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS AND CANCELLATIONS
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- 'Electronics Manufacturing'. Displayed at the INT library.
- 'Astronomy Reports'. Displayed at the SLO Library.
- 'Baltic Astronomy'. Displayed at the SLO Library.
- 'CPN - Europe'. The leading European Source for Computer & Networking
Products. Displayed at the INT Library.
- 'The Economist'. Cancelled in December 1998.
- In order to save money we have killed the very expensive duplicate
subscriptions displayed at the INT library: ApJ, ApJ Letters, ApJ
Suppl. Series, A&A, A&A Suppl. Series, A&A Review, PASP, MNRAS and Nature.
The latest issues of these journals are now fully available on Internet and
the library provides access to them through the virtual library at
http://www.ing.iac.es/library/links.html. MNRAS papers and Nature aren't
still on the web but both editors have announced the launch of the
electronic versions for next January.
3. DONATIONS
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- Jacqueline Mitton, RAS Press Officer, donated the latest edition of her
splendid 'Dictionary of Astronomy', on 8 Oct.
- Rene Rutten donated the book 'Physics is fun', on 20 Oct.
- Jose Luis Medina (TNG) donated some Netware books on 25 Oct.
- Yale University Library donated some PASP volumes on 24 Nov.
THANKS TO ALL OF THEM!
4. NEW ACQUISITIONS
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The following books arrived recently. If location isn't specified, they are
on the New Acquisition shelf in the SLO library. If the book is part of the
TNG contribution towards the library, then we indicate it by writing 'TNG
loan'. All of them can be borrowed as usual unless they are placed in a
non-borrowing section.
1. 'Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics Handbook', G. W. F. Drake. AIP
Press, 1996.
2. 'IDL Manuals: Basics, Using IDL, Building IDL Applications, Reference
Guide, etc.', Research Systems, 1996.
3. 'Dictionary of Astronomy', J. Mitton, Penguin, 1998. Donated by J. Mitton.
4. 'Wide Field Spectroscopy - ASSL 212', E. Kontizas, M. Kontizas, D. H.
Morgan (eds.), Kluwer, 1998.
5. 'Observational Cosmology - ASSL Vol. 216', M. N. Bremer, N. Jackson, I.
Perez-Fournon (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
6. 'Generation of Cosmological Large-Scale Structure - NATO ASI Series Vol.
503', D. N. Schramm and P. Galeotti (eds.), Kluwer, 1998.
7. 'Current Topics in Astrofundamental Physics: Primordial Cosmology - NATO
ASI Vol. 511', N. Sanchez and A. Zichichi (eds.), Kluwer, 1998.
8. 'The Cosmic Microwave Background - NATO ASI Vol. 502', C. H. Lineweaver
et al. (eds.), Kluwer, 1998.
9. 'High Angular Resolution in Astrophysics - NATO ASI Vol. 501', A.-M.
Lagrange et al. (eds.), Kluwer, 1998.
10.'Diccionario Avanzado de Italiano: Italiano-Espanol', VOX, 1997. TNG Loan.
Location: Dictionary section of the SLO library.
11.'The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues - Celestia 2000 [CD-ROM]', ESA, 1998.
Location: SLO Library CD-Rom Cabinet.
12.'Netscape Communicator 4 - Biblioteca PCPlus', G. Grimes and S. Kinkoph,
Prentice, 1998.
13.'Excel 97 - Biblioteca PCPlus', J. Fulton, Prentice, 1998.
14.'Physics is fun - Gezien door het oog van de cartoonist', J. J. van Loef,
1998. Rene Rutten's donation.
5. OTHER NEWS
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THE E-JOURNALS WE RECEIVE BY EMAIL ARE NOW ONLINE
Some publications, mainly astronomy newsletters, don't have a printed
version and are delivered by email or published on the web. To access these
latter publications please follow the links at our virtual library. The
publications received by email are printed and displayed in the SLO, but now
they are also available at: http://www.ing.iac.es/~library/
THE KAPTEYN INSTITUTE HAS DECIDED TO DISCONTINUE THE CIRCULATION OF
PREPRINTS BY MAIL
In future, if you wish to read their preprints you can
access them via http://www.astro.rug.nl/Preprints/preprints.html
MNRAS ON THE WEB
The Royal Astronomical Society Monthly Notices will be going
electronic in January. Try it at:
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/mnr/
MNRAS letters have been available at Blackwells web pages so far. Visit the
John Whelan Virtual library and follow the links.
BYTE MAGAZINE HAS STOPPED PUBLICATION
We have been advised by the publisher that publication of
this journal has been cancelled. We have replaced this subscription by
'Windows Magazine', as the publishers suggested.
Javier Mendez
05/01/99
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approximate price, publisher, year of publication (or edition) and
number of copies (if more than one, please, justify). Also specify which
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table. All the books can be borrowed except those at the INT library.
Put the loan card into one of the red plastic bags, which are also on the
library's table, and replace the book by the red bag. After reading,
return the book to the 'Returned Books' tray. Don't try to put it on the
shelves. You can borrow the book as long as you need it.
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