Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING)
JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 30 - 25/11/2002
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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 from 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. NEW BOOK ACQUISITIONS
2. OTHER NEWS
1. 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.'Sybase Dba Companion', Brian Hitchcock, Prentice Hall, 1997.
2.'Java Programming for Engineers', Julio Sanchez and Maria P. Canton,
CRC Press, 2002.
3.'The evolving sun and its influence on planetary environments - ASP
Conf. Series Vol. 269', Benjamin Montesinos, Alvaro Gimenez and
Edward F. Guinan (editors), ASP, 2002. Location: SLO Book Library (ASP
CONF 269).
4.'Tracing cosmic evolution with galaxy clusters - ASP Conf. Series
Vol. 268', Stefano Borgani, Marino Mezzetti and Riccardo Valdarnini
(editors), ASP, 2002. Location: SLO Book Library (ASP CONF 268).
5.'Astronomical instrumentation and the birth and growth of
astrophysics: a symposium held in honor of Robert G. Tull - ASP Conf.
Series Vol. 270', Frank N. Bash and Christopher Sneden (editors),
ASP, 2002. Location: SLO Book Library (ASP CONF 270).
6.'The future of solar system exploration, 2003-2013 - Community
contributions to the NRC solar system exploration decadal survey - ASP
Conf. Series Vol. 272', Mark V. Sykes (editor), ASP, 2002. Location:
SLO Book Library (ASP CONF 272).
7.'Astronomical site evaluation in the visible and radio range - IAU
Technical Workshop - ASP Conf. Series Vol. 266', J. Vernin,
Z. Benkhaldoun, and C. Munoz-Tunon (editors), ASP, 2002. Location:
SLO Book Library (ASP CONF 266).
8.'AMiBA 2001: High-z clusters, missing baryons, and CMB polarization
- ASP Conf. Series Vol. 257', L.-W. Chen, C.-P. Ma, K.-W. Ng, and
U.-L. Pen (editors), ASP, 2002. Location: SLO Book Library (ASP CONF
257).
9.'Cosmology and Particle Astrophysics - Wiley-Praxis series in
astronomy and astrophysics', L. Bergstrom and A. Goobar, Wiley, 1999.
10.'Formation of Structure in the Universe', A. Dekel and
J. P. Ostriker, Cambridge University Press, 1999.
11.'Fundamentals of Cosmology', J. Rich, Springer, 2001.
12.'Allens astrophysical quantities - 4th edition', Arthur N. Cox
(editor), Springer, Heidelberg, 2000. Location: SLO Book Library
(522.0212 ALL).
13.'Very Low-Mass Stars Brown Dwarfs - Cambridge contemporary
astrophysics', R. Rebolo and M. R. Zapatero-Osorio, Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
14.'The Origin and Evolution of Planetary Nebulae - Cambridge
astrophysics series: 31', Kwok, S., Cambridge University Press, 2000.
15.'New perspectives in astrophysical cosmology - Second edition',
Martin Rees, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
16.'VIII Canary Islands Winter School - Stellar astrophysics for the
local group - Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics', A. Aparicio,
A. Herrero and F. Sanchez (editors), Cambridge University Press, 1998.
17.'Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts - The greatest explosions since
the Big Bang - Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium Series:
13', M. Livio, N. Panagia and K. Sahu (editors), Cambridge University
Press, 2001.
18.'Agile Software Development', Alistair Cockburn, Addison Wesley,
2002.
19.'Project Manager's Toolkit - Practical checklists for systems
development', David M. Shailer, Butterworth- Heineman, 2001.
20.'Just Six Numbers: The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe',
Martin Rees, Basic Books (Perseus Group), 2000.
21.'The Cambridge Handbook of Physics Formulas', Graham Woan,
Cambridge University Press, 2000. Location: SLO Book Library
(522.0212 WOA).
22.'C# and the .NET platform', Andrew Troelsen, Apress, 2001.
23.'British Standards Institution (BSI) Catalogue 2002', British
Standards Institution, 2002. Location: SLO Book Library - CD-ROM
Cabinets.
24.'HIGHLIGHTS OF ASTRONOMY - IAU Highlights Vol. 12 - As presented
at the XXIVth General Assembly of the IAU 2000', H. Rickman (editor),
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2002. Location: SLO Book Library
(IAU HIGH 12).
25.'Illustrated Dictionary of Practical Astronomy', Chris Kitchin,
Springer, 2002.
26.'PostgreSQL Developers Handbook', Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Juergen
Schoening, 2002.
2. OTHER NEWS
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Now John Whelan Library provides access to Technical Indexes online
(Engineering and Electronics databases). The access is password
protected and it can be retrieved by searching the online library
catalogue for Technical Indexes or by just following the link in the
library home page at http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/.
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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 look at a book, you don't know where to put it
back just leave it in the RETURNED BOOKS trays 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 mailbox 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 trays at the SLO Book Library
instead.
7. NEVER take away the books in the RETURNED BOOKS trays.
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E-mail: jma@ing.iac.es Fax: +34 922 425401, 442
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