Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) 


                 JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 27 - 24/04/2002
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Also at: http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/

John Whelan Library 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 located on the sixth floor of 
Mayantigo building, the observatory's sea-level base in Santa Cruz de La Palma. 
The SLO Library is split into a Book Library and a Periodical Library both 
located on the same floor.


Contents
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1. SUBSCRIPTIONS
2. NEW BOOK ACQUISITIONS
3. OTHER NEWS


1. SUBSCRIPTIONS
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'Financial Times Expatriate'. New. Displayed at the SLO Periodical Library. 


2. NEW BOOK ACQUISITIONS
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The following books have arrived recently. If location isn't specified, they 
can be found on the New Acquisitions shelf in the SLO Periodical Library. All 
of them can be borrowed as usual unless they are marked as books not to be 
taken away.

1. 'Lees Essentials of Wireless Communication', William C. Y. Lee,
Mcgraw-Hill, 2001.

2. 'Control of Induction Motors', Andrzej M. Trzynadlowski, Academic Press,
2001.

3. 'Science with the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - ASP Conf.
Series Vol. 235', Alwyn Wootten (editor), ASP, 2001. Location: SLO Book
Library.

4. 'Spectroscopic Challenges of Photoionized Plasma - ASP Conf. Series Vol.
247', Gary Ferland and Daniel Wolf Savin (editors), ASP, 2001. Location: SLO 
Book Library.

5. 'X-Ray Astronomy 2000 - ASP Conf. Series Vol. 234', R. Giacconi, S. Serio
and L. Stella (editors), ASP, 2001. Location: SLO Book Library.

6. 'From Darkness to Light - Origin and Evolution of Young Stellar Clusters
- ASP Conf. Series Vol. 243', Thierry Montmerle and Philippe Andre
(editors), ASP, 2001. Location: SLO Book Library.

7. 'Transactions of the International Astronomical Union - Vol. 24B,
Proceedings of the twenty-fourth general assembly, Manchester 2000', Hans
Rickman (editor), ASP, 2001. Location: SLO Book Library.

8. 'Microlensing 2000 - A new era of microlensing astrophysics - ASP Conf.
Series Vol. 239', John Menzies and Penny D. Sackett (editors), ASP, 2001.
Location: SLO Book Library.

9. 'New century of X-ray astronomy - ASP Conf. Series Vol. 251', H. Inoue
and H. Kunieda (editors), ASP, 2001. Location: SLO Book Library.

10.'Historical development of modern cosmology - ASP Conf. Series Vol. 252',
Vicent J. Martinez, Virginia Trimble, and Maria Jesus Pons-Bordería
(editors), ASP, 2001. Location: SLO Book Library.

11.'Guide to the constellations', Neil Bone, Mark McLellan and Nik Szymanek,
Astronomy Now, 2002. 

12.'Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF) - CRAF Handbook for
frequency management', Titus Spoelstra (editor), ESF, 2002. 


3. OTHER NEWS
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- 'Electronic Engineering' magazine continues as 'Electronic Engineering
Design' after 31 Dec 2001.

- FYI. Below you can find the print science serials price increases in 2002 
as provided by our subscriptions agency, Swets-Blackwell:

USA, UK, Netherlands: 6.90% (5,752 titles)
Worldwide: 6.80% (6,557 titles)

If you wish to see the whole serials report please contact me.

- 'Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts' ceased publication. 


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GOLD RULES FOR LIBRARY USERS

1. NONE of the items at the INT Library or the SLO Periodical Library can be
borrowed.

2. ALL items at the SLO Book Library can be borrowed expect those labeled as
'NOT TO BE TAKEN AWAY' or 'FOR REFERENCE'.

3. If, after having a quick look at a book, you don't know where to put it back 
just leave it in the 'RETURNED BOOKS' tray at the SLO Book Library.

4. NEVER take away a book without filling in a LOAN CARD.

5. NEVER place a filled loan card on the shelves. Leave it in the 'FILLED LOAN 
CARDS' tray at the SLO Book Library instead. Books must be returned within one 
year.

6. NEVER return a book to the shelves, even if you know the right place.
Leave it in the 'RETURNED BOOKS' tray at the SLO Book Library instead.

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Current librarian: 
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e-mail: jma@ing.iac.es         Fax: +34-922-425401       
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