Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING)
JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 33 - 23/12/2003
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Also at http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/bulletins.html
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. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PERIODICALS
2. NEW BOOK ACQUISITIONS
3. OTHER NEWS
1. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PERIODICALS
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- 'Software Testing and Quality Engineering Magazine (STQE)' will
continue as 'Better Software' after 31 Dec 2003.
- 'Electro Optics'. New. Displayed at the INT Library.
- 'Building Services & Environmental Engineer'. New. Displayed at the
INT Library.
- 'Embedded Systems Europe'. New. Displayed at the INT Library.
- 'Communications in Asteroseismology'. 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.
Title: Linux Firewalls
Author: Robert Ziegler, Carl Constaintine
Publisher name: OReilly
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 005 LIN ZIE
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Title: Solaris 9 Operating Environment Reference
Author: Janice Winsor
Publisher name: Sun Microsystems Press
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 005 WIN
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Title: Software for your head : Core Protocols for Creating and
Maintaining Shared Vision
Author: Jim & Michelle McCarthy
Publisher name: Addison-Wesley
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 005 MCC
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Title: Cisco IOS Access Lists : Help for Network Administrators
Author: Jeff Sedayao
Publisher name: OReilly
Date of publication: 2001
Signature: 004 SED
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Title: Building Linux Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Author: Oleg Kolesnikov, Brian Hatch
Publisher name: New Riders Publishing
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 005 LIN KOL
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Title: LDAP System Administration : Putting Directories to Work
Author: Gerald Carter
Publisher name: OReilly & Associates, Inc.
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 004 CAR
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Title: Sendmail : Building, Installing, and Administering Sendmail
Author: Bryan Costales, Eric Allman
Publisher name: OReilly & Associates, Inc.
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 004 COS Ed3
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Title: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming - 3rd edition
Author: Timothy Budd
Publisher name: Addison Wesley
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 005 BUD
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Title: Measuring the Universe: the cosmological distance ladder
Author: Stephen Webb
Publisher name: Springer-Praxis
Date of publication: 1999
Signature: 523.1 WEB
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Title: The Extravagant Universe : Exploding stars, dark energy and the
accelerating cosmos
Publisher name: Princeton University Press
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 523.1 KIR
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Title: Cisco IOS in a Nutshell : A Desktop Quick Reference for IOS on IP
Networks
Author: James Boney
Publisher name: OReilly & Associates, Inc.
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 004 BON
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Title: Managing IMAP : Help for Email Administrators
Author: Dianna Mullet, Kevin Mullet
Publisher name: OReilly & Associates, Inc.
Date of publication: 2000
Signature: 004 MUL
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Title: Software Craftsmanship - The new imperative
Author: Pete McBreen
Publisher name: New Jersey, USA
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 005 MCB
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Title: Programming Pearls
Author: Jon Bentley
Publisher name: ACM Press
Date of publication: 2000
Signature: 005 C BEN
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Title: Mathematical Techniques for Engineers and Scientists
Author: Larry C. Andrews and Ronald L. Phillips
Publisher name: SPIE
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 519 AND
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Title: Effective Requirements Practices
Author: Ralph R Young
Publisher name: Addison Wesley
Date of publication: 2001
Signature: 005 YOU
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Title: X-ray evolving-universe spectroscopy - The XEUS instruments
Author: ESA publications division
Publisher name: ESA
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 522.1 ESA
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Title: From Zero to Infinity
Author: J A Nicholls and B A Pailthorpe
Publisher name: The Tandem Group Limited
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 520 NIC
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Title: Organizations and strategies in astronomy Volume 4
Author: Andre Heck (editor)
Publisher name: Kluwer Academic
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 522.1 HEC
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Title: Sterrengids 2004
Author: Mat Drummen en Jean Meeus
Publisher name: Stichting De Koepel
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 528 DRU
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3. OTHER NEWS
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- The collection of duplicates of the John Whelan Library was donated
to Biblioteca "Jose Perez Vidal" of the Excmo. Cabildo Insular de La
Palma. More information can be found at this web page:
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/grama.html
- The SPIE Digital Library includes approximately 70,000 full-text
papers from SPIE Journals and Proceedings published since 1998. It
also includes citations and abstracts for most SPIE papers published
since 1995. Plans are underway to expand the Digital Library back to
1990 by the end of 2004, an archive of nearly 200,000 papers.
Approximately 15,000 new papers will be added each year. John Whelan
Library has subscribed to 1-year access (50 papers) to SPIE Digital
Library (see
http://www.ing.iac.es/ds/library/showentry.php?&entryflag=periodical&id=685
for access information). The SPIE Digital Library includes:
- Proceedings of SPIE: starting at Volume 3245 (1998)
- Optical Engineering: starting at Volume 37 (1998)
- Journal of Electronic Imaging: starting at Volume 7 (1998)
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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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JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY Postal Address:
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Current librarian:
Javier Mendez Alvarez Phone: +34 922 425464, 405500
E-mail: jma@ing.iac.es Fax: +34 922 425401, 442
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