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JOHN WHELAN LIBRARY BULLETIN No. 50 - 20/08/2010
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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 the 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/.
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1. The old and rare book library.
2. Recent book acquisitions.
1. THE OLD AND RARE BOOK LIBRARY
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Our old and rare book library is already available, please contact
the librarian as the access is restricted. It's located on the second
floor of the INT building and it contains books in several languages
back to the late 18th century. More information can be found here:
http://www.ing.iac.es/Astronomy/library/old_library.html
2. RECENT BOOK ACQUISITIONS
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The following books have arrived recently and can be found on
the New Acquisitions shelf in the display at the social area
on the 6th floor of the Mayantigo building (aka 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: Nederlandse sterrenkunde
Author: van middelburg tot de melkweg
Publisher name: DAVO
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 520 MID
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The Constants of Nature : A Mystery of Physics
Author: Harald Fritzsch
Publisher name: World Scientific Publishing
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 530 FRI
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Formation and Evolution of Black Holes in the Galaxy
Author: H. A. Bethe et al.
Publisher name: World Scientific Publishing
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 523.887 BET
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Python Scripting for Computational Science
Author: Hans Petter Langtangen
Publisher name: Springer
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 005 LAN
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Sams Teach Yourself Mac OS X Leopard All in One
Author: Ness, Robyn
Publisher name: Sams ;,Pearson Education
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 005 NES
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Apple Training Series : Mac OS X Support Essentials
Author: Kevin M. White
Publisher name:
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 005 WHI
Shelfmark: Computing and Software (005)
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Apple Training Series : Mac OS X Support Essentials
Author: Kevin M. White
Publisher name:
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 005 WHI Copy2
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The Student's Guide to VHDL
Author: Peter J. Ashenden
Publisher name: Morgan Kaufman
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 005 ASH
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Second Hispano-Argentinian Meridian Catalogue 2008
CMASF on El Leoncito - Observations
of positions and magnitudes of stars Dec 1999 to May 2007
Author: Real Instituto y Observatorio de la Armada en San
Fernando y Observatorio
Astronomico Feliz Aguilar
Edition:
Place of publication:
Publisher name: ROA
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 523.8 REA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Astronomia Made in Spain : Un proyecto de la Sociedad
Española de Astronomia para conmemorar el Año Internacional
de la Astronomia 2009
Author: Benjamin Montesinos Comino y Emilio J. Alfaro Navarro
Publisher name: SEA
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 520 MON
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The structure of dark and luminous matter in early-type
galaxies
Author: Anne-Marie Weijmans
Publisher name:
Date of publication: 2009
Received date: 27/09/2009
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Aproximacion historica al desarrollo de la astronomia
en Espana
Author: Ivan Fernandez Perez
Publisher name: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 520 FER
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The interstellar medium
Author: Lequeux, James
Publisher name: Springer
Date of publication: 2005
Signature: 523.1135 LEQ
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Proteccion del PC y seguridad en Internet : Manual
practico
Author: Tony Bradley and Harlan Carvey
Publisher name: Anaya
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 004 BRA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Software testing : an ISEB intermediate certificate
Author: Hambling, Brian and Samaroo, Angelina
Publisher name: BCS
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 005 HAM
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Star Formation and the ISM : Interactions in the
Milky Way and Other Galaxies
Author: Edo Loenen
Publisher name:
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 523.1135 LOE
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Strong Gravitational Lensing in the Radio Domain
Author: Alicia Berciano Alba
Publisher name:
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 523.1 BER
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The principles of astronomical telescope design
Author: Cheng, J.
Publisher name: Springer
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 522.2 CHE
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Stellar candles for the extragalactic distance scale
Author: Alloin
Publisher name: Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 523.1 ALL
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The Isaac Newton Telescope at Herstmonceux and on
La Palma
Author: Anthony Wilson
Publisher name: Science Projects Publishing
Date of publication: 2010
Signature: 522.1 WIL
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Neumatica
Author: SMC
Publisher name: Paraninfo
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 62 SMC
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Handbook of Optomechanical Engineering
Author: Anees Ahmad
Publisher name: CRC-Press
Date of publication: 1996
Signature: 535 AHM
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Asteroseismology
Author: Aerts, C., Christensen-Dalsgaard, J., Kurtz, D.W.
Publisher name: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 523.844 AER
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Opto-Mechanical Systems Design
Author: Paul R. Yoder
Publisher name: CRC Press
Date of publication: 2005
Signature: 535 YOD
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The Design and Construction of Large Optical
Telescopes
Author: Pierre Bely (ed)
Publisher name: Springer
Date of publication: 2003
Signature: 522.2 BEL
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Integrated Optomechanical Analysis
Author: Keith B. Doyle
Publisher name: SPIE Publications
Date of publication: 2002
Signature: 535 DOY
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: La Razon Estrangulada
Author: Carlos Elias
Publisher name:
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 808 ELI
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: An Expanded View of the Universe : Science
with the European Extremely Large Telescope
Author: ESO
Publisher name: ESO
Date of publication: 2010
Signature: 522.1 ESO
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: The Evolution of Spiral Galaxies in Clusters
Author: Elif Kutdemir
Publisher name: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Date of publication: 2010
Signature: 523.112 KUT
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Electronic Imaging in Astronomy
Author: Ian Maclean
Publisher name: Springer
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 522 MCL Ed2
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: A ras de cielo
Author: Galadi, David
Publisher name: ALMUZARA
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 520 GAL
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Science with the 8-10m telescopes in the era
of ELTs and the JWST
Author: Francisco Sanchez Martinez, Jose Miguel
Rodriguez Espinosa, Rafael Rebolo
Lopez
Publisher name: Editorial Fundacion Ramon Areces
Date of publication: 2010
Signature: 522.1 SAN
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Introduction to astronomical photometry
Author: Budding, E.,
Publisher name: Cambridge University Press
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 522.62 BUD
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: How students learn science in the classroom
Author: edited by National Research Council ; M. Suzanne
Donovan and John D.
Bransford, editors.
Edition:
Place of publication: Washington
Publisher name: National Academy Press
Date of publication: 2005
Signature: 520 DON
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Ready, set, science!
Author: Sarah Michaels, Andrew W. Shouse, and Heidi A.
Schweingruber ; Board on
Science Education, Center fo
Publisher name: National Academy Press
Date of publication: 2008
Signature: 520 MIC
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Taking science to school : Learning and Teaching
Science in Grades K-8
Author: Committee on Science Learning, Kindergarten
Through Eighth Grade ; Richard
A. Duschl, Heidi A. Schwe
Publisher name: National Academy Press
Date of publication: 2007
Signature: 520
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Learning science in informal environments : People,
places and pursuits
Author: Committee on Learning Science in Informal
Environments ; Philip Bell ... [et
al.], editors.
Publisher name: National Academy Press
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 520 BEL
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: How people learn : Brain, mind, experience and school
Author: Bransford, John D.
Publisher name: National Academy Press
Date of publication: 2000
Signature: 520 BRA
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: La Galaxia en un Campo de Futbol
Author: Juan Fernandez Macarron
Publisher name: Equipo Sirius
Date of publication: 2009
Signature: 520 FER
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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Title: Plan de Comunicación para divulgar la astronomía
entre los niños y niñas de 8 a 12 años de
edad de la isla de La Palma
Author: Karla María Chinchilla López
Publisher name:
Date of publication: 2010
Signature: 520 CHI
Library: SLO Display (6th floor, social area)
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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 Location 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
E-mail: jma@ing.iac.es Fax: +34 922 425 442
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