Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes (ING) 


                 JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 34 - 21/02/2004
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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


1. SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PERIODICALS
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'RB Elektronica' changed to 'RB Elektronica & Allesweter' after 31  
Dec 2003.


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 : Principles of Stellar Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
Author : Clayton,Donald D  
Publisher name : University of Chicago
Press  
Date of publication : 1983  
Signature : 523.8 CLA
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Title : Practical Statistics for Astronomers  
Author : Wall,J. V;Jenkins,C. R
Publisher name : Cambridge University Press  
Date of publication : 2003  
Signature : 519 WAL
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Title : Connecting quarks with the cosmos: eleven science questions 
for the new century  
Author : Committee on the Phsics of the Universe, National 
Research Council of the National Academies  
Publisher name : National Academies Press  
Date of publication : 2003  
Signature : 523.1 NRC  
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Title : Statistics: A Guide to the Use of Statistical Methods in
the Physical Sciences
Author : R. J. Barlow  
Publisher name : Chichester: John Wiley and Sons  
Date of publication : 1989  
Signature : 519 BAR
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Title : Visions of the cosmos  
Author : Petersen,Carolyn Collins;Brandt,John C
Publisher name : Cambridge University Press  
Date of publication : 2003  
Signature : 520 PET
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Title : Handbook of CCD Astronomy  
Author : Steve B. Howell  
Publisher name : Cambridge University Press  
Date of publication : 2000  
Signature : 522 HOW  
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Title : Handbook of Infrared Astronomy  
Author : I. S. Glass
Publisher name : Cambridge University Press  
Date of publication : 1999  
Signature : 522.681 GLA
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Title : Principles of adaptive optics  
Author : Tyson,Robert K.  
Publisher name : Academic Press  
Date of publication : 1998  
Signature : 522 TYS  
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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: 
Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes       Apartado de correos 321 
Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory     E-38700 Santa Cruz de La Palma 
E-mail: library@ing.iac.es             Canary Islands, SPAIN 
URL: http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/  

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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