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JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 45 - 16/12/2007
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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 situated on the first floor of the
Isaac Newton Telescope building and the SLO Library is placed on the
sixth floor of Mayantigo building. The SLO Library is split into a
Book Library, a Periodical Library and a Display, all located on the
same floor. Online information can be found at:
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/
Contents
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1. Moving some print and online subscriptions to only online.
2. Display of periodicals at the WHT.
3. Recent book acquisitions.
4. Other news.
1. MOVING SOME PRINT AND ONLINE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO ONLY ONLINE
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As a result of the increase in the subscription costs to print
editions, the increasing availability, reliability and faster
access to online-only subscriptions, and the collaboration
started with IAC to share the costs of some electronic
subscriptions, some library's journal subscriptions have
migrated to only-online, or soon they will. Below I list the
subscriptions which are going through this process:
Astronomy and Astrophysics : A European journal.
Print subscription stopped at the end of 2006, and we share an
electronic subscription with IAC since then. Online access from
vol.1 (1969) to vol.365 (2000) is offered by Springer, and from
2001 onwards by EDP Sciences. More information on the online
subscription can be found here.
EAS Publication Series.
Print subscription stopped at the end of 2006, and we share an
electronic subscription with IAC since then. It allows us to have
access to the online edition from 2001 onwards. More information
on the online subscription can be found
here.
Nature.
We share an electronic subscription with IAC since 2006, giving us
access to all issues published 2000 and onwards. Our previous online
subscription also allows online access to all issues back to 1997,
and our repository of printed copies goes from 1970 to present.
The print subscription is continued. More information on the online
subscription can be found here.
ASP conference series.
Our standing order for print copies will cease at the end of 2007,
and we will share an online-only subscription with IAC from 2008
onwards. The online archive goes back to 2003 and our current
repository of hardcopies goes back to vol.1 (1988). More information
on the online subscription can be found here.
Astrophysical Journal, Letters and Supplement, and Astronomical
Journal.
Our print subscription will cease some time in 2008, and it will
continue as an online-only subscription, that can be shared with
IAC. Library's print repositories go back to 1895 (ApJ), 1967
(ApJ Letters), 1954 (ApJ Suppl), and 1849 (AJ), while at present
the online archives available to subscribers go back to 1996 (ApJ),
1995 (ApJ Letters), 1996 (ApJ Suppl), and 1998 (AJ).
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Our print subscription will cease some time in 2008, and it will
continue as an online-only subscription, that can be shared with
IAC. The library's print repository goes back to vol. 1 (1827),
while at present the online archive available to subscribers
starts in 1998, including Letters and online-only Letters
(from 2005).
2. DISPLAY OF PERIODICALS AT THE WHT
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At present most of the periodicals are displayed at sea-level
and just a few titles are displayed at the WHT kitchen. Both are
kept at sea-level and at the INT library respectively. In order
to reach all users efficiently, I will display a number of titles
first at the WHT kitchen and then I will move them to the SLO
display so sea-level users will have access to all periodicals,
while users on the mountain will be able to have access to more
titles as more space will be available at the WHT kitchen.
I would like to ask mountain users about the following:
A. What titles would you like to see displayed at the WHT kitchen
which are currently displayed at sea-level?
The titles displayed at sea-level can be seen at
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/inventory.html and then
SLO Display --> Display of Periodicals, or following this link
B. What titles do you think we can withdraw from displaying
at the WHT kitchen?
The titles currently displayed at the WHT kitchen can be seen at
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/inventory.html and then
INT Library --> Display of periodicals (WHT kitchen), or
following this link.
3. RECENT BOOK ACQUISITIONS
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The following books have arrived recently and can be found on
the New Acquisitons shelf in the display at the social area
on the 6th floor of Mayantigo building (SLO Display). All of
them can be borrowed as usual unless they are marked as books
not to be taken away.
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Title: Designing Embedded Systems with PIC Microcontrollers :
Principles and Applications
Author: Tim Wilmshurst
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 621.38 WIL
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Human Resource Management in an International context
Author: Rosemary Lucas et al
Date of publication: 2006
Signature: 808 LUC
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Building Telephony Systems with Asterisk
Author: Gomillion, David
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 005 GOM
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: High-Operating-Temperature Infrared Photodetectors
Author: Piotrowski, J. and Rogalski, A.
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 522 PIO
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Working effectively with legacy code
Author: Feathers,Michael C.;Martin,Robert C.
Date of publication: 2004
Signature: 005 FEA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Photoshop Astronomy : Includes Full Res Tutorial
Images on DVD
Author: Scott Ireland R.
Date of publication: 2005
Signature: 522 IRE
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux bible
Author: Negus, Chris
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 005 LIN NEG
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The Quintessential PIC Microcontroller : Computer
Communications
and Networks
Author: Sid Katzen
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 621.38 KAT
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Linux Iptables Pocket Reference
Author: Purdy, Gregor N
Date of publication: 2004
Signature: 005 LIN PUR
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: VHDL for Logic Synthesis
Author: Andrew Rushton
Date of publication: 1998
Signature: 005 RUS
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Decision making and problem solving
Author: John Adair
Date of publication: 1997
Signature: 808 ADA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Writing job descriptions
Author: Alan Fowler
Date of publication: 2000
Signature: 808 FOW
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Statistics for Nuclear and Particle Physicists
Author: Lyons, L.R.
Date of publication: 1989
Signature: 519 LYO
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Construyendo Sistemas Telefonicos Con Asterisk
Author: Gomillion, David
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 005 GOM
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Managing the testing process : practical tools and
techniques for managing hardware and software testing
Author: Black, Rex
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 005 BLA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Cross-cultural management in work organisations
Author: Ray French
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 808 FRE
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Cisco IOS cookbook : field-tested solutions to Cisco
router problems
Author: Dooley, Kevin
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 004 DOO
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: GWT in Action : Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit
Author: Hanson, Robert
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 005 HAN
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Embedded C Programming and the Microchip PIC
Author: Richard H. Barnett, Sarah Cox, Larry OCull
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 621.38 BAR
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: PIC Microcontroller : An Introduction to Software
& Hardware Interfacing
Author: Han-Way Huang
Date of publication: 2004
Signature: 621.38 HUA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Microcontroller Programming: The Microchip PIC
Author: Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton
Date of publication: 2006
Signature: 621.38 SAN
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Astronomy for the developing world : Proceedings of the
International Astronomical Union Special Session no. 5, 21-22
August 2006, Prague, Czech Republic
Author: John Hearnshaw, Peter Martinez (eds.)
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: IAU SYM SS5
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies : IAU
Symposium No. 241 : Proceedings of the 241th Symposium of the
International Astronomical Union Held in La Palma, Tenerife,
Spain December 10-
16 2006
Author: Alexandre Vazdekis and Reynier Peletier (eds)
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: IAU SYM 241
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Asterisk The Future of Telephony : join the Open Source
PBX Revolution
Author: Meggelen, Jim Van et al.
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 005 MEG
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Introducing Chandra & the X-Ray Universe
Author: NASA
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 522.1 CHA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Linux firewalls : attack detection and response
with iptables, psad, and fwsnort
Author: Rash, Michael
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 005 LIN RAS
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Development of Superconducting Tunnel Junction Arrays for
Astronomical Observations
Author: D.D.E. Martin
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 522 MAR
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Programming & Customizing PICmicro Microcontrollers
Author: Myke Predko
Date of publication: c2008
Signature: 621.38 PRE 3ed
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Comunicar la ciencia : La clonación como debate periodistico
Author: Miguel Alcibar
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 808 ALC
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Claroscuro del Universo
Author: Mariano Moles (coord.)
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 520 MOL
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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4. OTHER NEWS
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- The following journals are new and have been added to the
display of periodicals at sea-level (6th floor social area): CAWSES
(Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System) news, Horizons
(STFC magazine) and Communicating Astronomy with the Public (CAP)
journal.
- Mercury, the journal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific,
will cease printed edition. It will continue as an online-only
subscription. If any of you think that we should start an online
subscription to Mercury please email me with your justification.
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GOLD RULES FOR LIBRARY USERS
1. NONE of the items at the INT Library, the SLO Periodical Library
or the SLO Display can be borrowed, except those withdrawn from
the library and marked as so.
2. ALL items at the SLO Book Library can be borrowed except 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, please 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 mailbox at the SLO Book Library instead. Books
must be returned within one year.
6. After borrowing, 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.
7. NEVER take away the books placed in the RETURNED BOOKS tray.
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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: +34 922 425 442
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