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Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) 



                 JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 14 - 31/05/99
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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: The INT Library is the library on the first floor of the Isaac Newton
Telescope building and the SLO Library is on the sixth floor of Mayantigo
building, the observatory's sea-level base.


Contents
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1. LIBRARY EXPANSION AT SEA-LEVEL: WHAT'S NEXT
2. ASTRONOMY PREPRINTS
3. NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS
4. DONATIONS
5. NEW ACQUISITIONS
6. OTHER NEWS


1. LIBRARY EXPANSION AT SEA-LEVEL: WHAT'S NEXT
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We have already moved the librarian's office into the terminals room on the
same floor and set up a joint office there for the librarian, the astronomy 
administrative support person and the scheduler. Shortly we will split the 
social area into two, leaving the balcony side for the new book library. The 
old library space will be dedicated to store the journals. Once the shelving 
arrives we will move the journals first and then the books from La Grama to
the sixth floor. Please accept our apologises for the inconveniences.


2. ASTRONOMY PREPRINTS
----------------------

As you know most of the astronomy preprints have gone online. Nevertheless 
we continue to receive many printed preprints. These can be found now in the 
SLO library, by the journals display. This is the current list of displayed 
preprints:

Cavendish Laboratory
Center for Astrophysical Sciences (USA)
Centro Astronomico Hispano-Aleman Almeria
Cosmic Radiation Laboratory (Japan)
European Southern Observatory
European Space Agency
Gemini 8-M Telescopes
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics preprints and abstracts
Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
Jodrell Bank
Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica (Argentina)
Laboratory for High-Energy Astrophysics (NASA)
Liverpool John Moores University
Max Planck Institut fur Astronomie
Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy
Nobeyama Radio Observatory (Japan)
Observatoire de Haute-Provence
Onsala Space Observatory (Sweden)
Orbital Sciences Corporation (USA)
Space Telescope Science Institute
Sterrenkundig Institut Utrecht
Sterrewacht Leiden
Stockholm Observatory
Universitat de Barcelona
University of Bristol
University of Hertfordshire
Universite de Laussane
University of Manchester
University of Maryland College Park
University of New South Wales
University of Oxford
University of Washington


3. NEW SUBSCRIPTIONS
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- 'Journal of the British Astronomical Association'. Displayed at SLO.
Donation of the BAA.


4. DONATIONS
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- Mr Di Serego (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) donated several 
Astrophysical Journal volumes.

Thanks!


5. NEW ACQUISITIONS
-------------------

The following books have arrived recently. If location isn't specified,
they are on the New Acquisitions shelf in the SLO library. If the book is
part of the TNG contribution towards the library, then it's indicated. All
of them can be borrowed as usual unless they are placed in a non-borrowing
section.

1. 'Observational Astrophysics - 2nd edition', P. Lena et al, Springer,
   1998. TNG Loan.
2. 'The Annotated C++ Reference Manual', M. A. Ellis and B. Stroustrup,
   Addison Wesley, 1990.
3. 'Software project cost and Schedule Estimating', W. H. Roetzheim and R. A.
   Beasley, Prentice Hall, 1998.
4. 'UML Distilled - Applying the standard object modeling language', M.
   Fowler, Addison Wesley, 1997.
5. 'Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment', W. R. Stevens,
   Addison-Wesley, 1993.
6. 'Highly Redshifted Radio Lines - ASP Conf Series Vol. 156', C. L. Carilli
   et al., ASP, 1999.
7. 'Learning the bash shell', C. Newham and B. Rosenblatt, O'Reilly, 1995.
8. 'Effective C++ - 50 specific ways to improve your programs and designs',
   S. Meyers, Addison Wesley, 1998.
9. 'The Stellar Initial Mass Function. 38th Herstmonceux Conference - ASP
   Conf Series Vol. 142', G Gilmore and D Howell (eds), ASP, 1998.
10.'The scientific impact of the Goddard high resolution spectrograph - ASP
   Conf Series Vol. 143', J C Brandt, T B Ake II, and C C Petersen (eds), ASP,
   1998.
11.'Radio emission from galactic and extragalactic compact sources. IAU
   Colloquium - ASP Conf Series VOl 144', J A Zensus, G B Taylor, and J M
   Wrobel (eds), ASP, 1998.
12.'Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems VII - ASP Conf Series 
   Vol. 145', R Albrecht, R N Hook, and H A Bushouse (eds), ASP, 1998.
13.'The Young Universe: Galaxy Formation and Evolution at Intermediate and
   high redshift - ASP Conf Series Vol. 146', S O'dorico, A Fontana, and E
   Giallongo (eds), ASP, 1998.
14.'Abundance profiles: diagnostic tools for galaxy history - ASP Conf Series
   Vol. 147', D Friedli, M Edmunds, C Robert, and L drissen (eds), ASP, 1998.
15.'Origins - ASP Conf Series Vol. 148', Charles E. Woodward, J. Micheal 
   Shull, and Harley A. Thronson, Jr. (eds), ASP, 1998.
16.'Solar System Formation and Evolutioned - ASP Conf Series Vol 149', S. D. 
   Lazzaro, R. Vieira Martins, S. Ferraz-Mello, J. Fernandez, and C. Beauge
   (eds), ASP, 1998.
17.'New Perspectives on Solar Prominences. IAU Colloquium 167 - ASP Conf
   Series Vol. 150', Sed. David F. Webb, David M. Rust, and Brigitte Schmieder
   (eds), ASP, 1998.
18.'Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure of the Universe',
   ed. Yong-Ik Byun and Kin-Wang Ng (eds), ASP, 1998.
19.'Fiber Optics in Astronomy III', S. Arribas, E. Mediavilla, and F.
   Watson (eds), ASP, 1998.
20.'Library and Information Services in Astronomy III (LISA III)', Uta
   Grothkopf, Heinz Andernach, Sarah Stevens-Rayburn, and Monique Gomez (eds),
   ASP, 1998.
21.'Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, 10th Cambridge Workshop', 
   Robert A. Donahue and Jay A. Bookbinder (eds), ASP, 1998.
22.'Second Advances in Solar Physics Euroconference: Three-Dimensional
   Structure of Solar Active Regions', Costas E. Alissandrakis and Brigitte
   Schmieder (eds), ASP, 1998.
23.'Highly Redshifted Radio Lines', C. L. Carilli, S. J. E. Radford, K. M.
   Menten, and G. I. Langston (eds), ASP, 1999.
24.'The Annapolis Workshop on Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables', C. Hellier
   and K. Mukai (eds), ASP, 1999.
25.'Solar And Stellar Activity: Similarities and Differences', C. J. Butler
   and J. C. Doyle (eds), ASP, 1999.
26.'JAVA Network Security', R Macgregor et al, Prentice Hall, 1998.
27.'Infrared Studies of Hot Stars with Dust [PhD Thesis]', R H M Voors, 1999.
28.'Ultraviolet-Optical Space Astronomy beyond HST - ASP Conf Series Vol.
   164', J A Morse, J M Shull, and A L Kinney (eds), ASP, 1999.
29.'Astrophysical Discs. An EC Summer School - ASP Conf Series Vol. 160', J
   A Sellwood, and J Goodman (eds), ASP, 1999.
30.'BL LAC Phenomenon - ASP Conf Series Vol. 159', L O Takalo, A Sillanpaa
   (eds), ASP, 1999.


5. OTHER NEWS
-------------

MNRAS AND NATURE ARE NOW ON-LINE

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (both papers and letters) 
and Nature are now on-line. To access them point your browser to the links
web page at http://www.ing.iac.es/library/links.html and follow the links. 
Remember that all the library passwords are kept in the file passwords.txt 
at ~library/pub on lpss1 (moving to the Solaris cluster soon). TNG and NOT
users have an account on this cluster and should contact S Benetti or H
Schwarz to get the password.

ON-LINE DOCUMENTATION

In the library web pages you will find some links which summarise our
on-line documentation. This can be split into three groups: astronomy, 
engineering, and ING external publications.

CONSTRUCTION AND CIVIL ENGINEERING INDEX HAS CEASED PUBLICATION

SOME NEWS FROM THE ADS

1) ADS is pleased to announce the availability starting 1 June 1999 of the
Astrophysical Journal (ApJ) scans back to  Volume 1 (1895). In conjunction
with the upcoming AAS meeting in Chicago, we will provide electronic
access to all  AAS journals for their entire lifetimes (ApJ, ApJL, ApJS,
AJ, and AASPB). We thank the AAS for their enthusiastic cooperation in
granting us the permission required to make this possible.

2) We have been putting more effort into obtaining conference
proceeding listings and have recently added to the system
complete entries for all ASP Conference Series, IAU Symposia Series,
and IAU Colloquia Series. We have also added table of contents from
approximately 150 other conference proceedings.



Javier Mendez  
31/05/99

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