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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Library Workshop: Who's Citing Whom?

Please join us at the library for our Spring, 2007 Library Workshop.

Learn how to:

  • Find the number of times a book or article has been cited using Web of Science and other citation indexes;
  • Discover who is citing your publications;
  • Locate impact factors for journals using Journal Citation Reports.
Where?: Hesburgh Library, Room 222

When?: Wednesday, March 21, 1:30-3:00 PM
OR Wednesday, March 28, 10:00-11:30 AM

Who?: Faculty and Graduate students interested in knowing the impact of their (or anyone's) publications.

How?:
Register at
https://www.library.nd.edu/instruction/forms/workshop/index.cgi
by March 15, 2007.

Refreshments will be provided.

Sponsored by Library Instructional Services.

Contact Cheri Smith at csmith@nd.edu or 631-4271 for additional information.

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

New Books List for February 19, 2007 is now available on the Engineering Library Homepage

http://engineering.library.nd.edu/newbooks/


INFORMATION ABOUT NEW BOOKS

The New Books List includes all items added to the new book shelf during
the previous two weeks. They will also be kept on the shelf for the
following two weeks after the list is published. New books (except
reference items) may be borrowed from the library for their regular loan
period.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Electronic Course Reserves

Electronic Reserves, or E-Reserves, is a password protected on-line system that allows students enrolled in a course to access their instructor's course readings from any computer with an Internet connection.

Do you have a single chapter of a book or a journal article you want your students to read? Bring the material to the Engineering Library and we will get it on-line for you within 24 hours in compliance with copyright law. (Saturdays & Sundays excluded)

You may also submit your request(s) to the Hesburgh Reserve Book room, at the Hesburgh Library. All the faculty and TA’s from the other schools do. Please bring an original or copy of the material you wish to put on E-Reserve to us with as much lead time as possible.

For full information of E-Reserve material guidelines and copyright visit:
http://www.library.nd.edu/reserves/EReserve_Guidelines.shtml

A new Engineering Library Approval list is available on our library home page

We welcome your input on books you would like the library to buy.
Please submit your recommendations by Tuesday, March 6th, 2007.

https://www.library.nd.edu/approval/engineering/

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE APPROVAL LIST:

Approval books are put on display in Room 120 of Hesburgh Library every
two weeks. The librarians review the books and select items to purchase.
Books that are not selected are returned to the distributors. This list
was created to make it easy for Engineering Library patrons to suggest
books.

Although the librarians review all of the books that are available, your
input is welcome. If you would like the library to buy an item on the
list, simply check it and submit the form. You can also choose to be
notified when the book has been received.

Friday, February 16, 2007

News about the Journal of Fluid Mechanics Digital Archive

Did you know that the back volumes of JFM are checked out of the Notre Dame Libraries more frequently than any other journal?

The Engineering Library is happy to announce the purchase of "perpetual access" to the digital archive.

The Journal of Fluid Mechanics Digital Archive is a repository of every single article published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics between 1956 and 1996.
http://journals.cambridge.org.lib-proxy.nd.edu/action/displayMoreInfo?jid=JFM&type=bbv&bVolume=y

We provide on-line access to 1997 to date on a subscription basis.
http://journals.cambridge.org.lib-proxy.nd.edu/action/displayJournal?jid=FLM&bVolume=y

The New Books List for February 5, 2007

INFORMATION ABOUT NEW BOOKS

The New Books List includes all items added to the new book shelf during the previous two weeks. They will also be kept on the shelf for the following two weeks after the list is published. New books (except reference items) may be borrowed from the library for their regular loan period.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Construction on new engineering building to begin in November on Notre Dame Avenue

By: Dennis Brown
Date: February 6, 2007

At its winter meeting on campus Feb. 2, the Board of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame approved the construction of a $69.4 million building for the College of Engineering.

new College of Engineering building

To be located on the current site of the University Club on Notre Dame Avenue, the 142,000-square-foot facility will house a nano technology research center, the University’s new Energy Center, an 11,800-square-foot semiconductor processing and device fabrication clean room, and an undergraduate interdisciplinary learning center.

The new building will be called Stinson-Remick Hall in honor of principal benefactors Kenneth and Ann Stinson and Jack and Mary Ann Remick. Stinson is a 1964 Notre Dame graduate and a member of the Board of Trustees. Jack Remick, a 1959 graduate, is a member of the University’s advisory council for the College of Engineering, and a recent gift from Mary Ann Remick created an endowment for visiting fellows in Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture.

The learning center will be named in honor of major benefactors Ted and Tracy McCourtney. A 1960 Notre Dame graduate, Ted McCourtney is a member of the Board of Trustees.

The new building, which is similar in size to the nearby DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts, has been fully funded by the three major benefactors and 45 additional donors. Construction is expected to begin in November and completed by late 2009 or early 2010.

“This wonderful new facility will address multiple needs in our College of Engineering – providing much needed space for our emerging research in nano technology and energy, and enhancing the interdisciplinary experiences of our undergraduates,” said Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., president of Notre Dame. “We are grateful to the Stinsons, Remicks and McCourtneys for their extraordinary generosity, as well as to all of the other benefactors who have made this project a reality.”

Researchers in Notre Dame’s Center for Nano Science and Technology explore new device concepts and associated architectures that are enabled by novel phenomena on the nanometer scale. Established in 1999, the center is under the direction of Wolfgang Porod, Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering.

The Notre Dame Energy Center was created in 2005 under the direction of Joan Brennecke, Keating-Crawford Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Faculty members associated with the center are united in developing new energy technology to meet a compelling national and international challenge.

The interdisciplinary learning center will be nearly four times the size of the current center established in Cushing Hall. The center provides undergraduate students with a blend of computer work stations, library resources and laboratory space.

The semiconductor processing and device fabrication clean room will be the first such facility at Notre Dame.

The University Club was founded in 1958 and offers food and beverage service to members. University officials informed the club’s board in 2004 of the need to vacate the current site to prepare room for a new engineering facility.

“The University Club is an important part of campus life at Notre Dame,” said John Affleck-Graves, executive vice president. “The administration of the University has been in discussions with the club’s board to seek another location, and we will continue to work on a solution."

Among the options proposed by University officials is relocating the club in what currently is Greenfield’s International CafĂ© in the Hesburgh Center on Notre Dame Avenue.

New Engineering Library Approval list is available

A new Engineering Library Approval list is available on our library home page:

https://www.library.nd.edu/approval/engineering/

We welcome your input on books you would like the library to buy. Please submit your recommendations by Tuesday, February 20th, 2007.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE APPROVAL LIST:

Approval books are put on display in Room 120 of Hesburgh Library every two weeks. The librarians review the books and select items to purchase. Books that are not selected are returned to the distributors. This list was created to make it easy for Engineering Library patrons to suggest books.

Although the librarians review all of the books that are available, your input is welcome. If you would like the library to buy an item on the list, simply check it and submit the form. You can also choose to be notified when the book has been received.

Friday, February 9, 2007

Online Engineering Encyclopedias

The Engineering Library is seeking new ways to get good quality reference materials into the hands of faculty and students. We feel it is important to offer scholarly and reliable alternatives to web sources such as "Wikipedia" via the campus network.

Thus we have purchased on-line access to a number of encyclopedias and want to draw your attention to them: (you can link them separately)

  • Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering,
  • Encyclopedia of Cell Technology,
  • Encyclopedia of Energy,
  • Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology,
  • Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences,
  • Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation, and
  • Encyclopedia of Smart Materials.

We have added a link from the Engineering Library web page to the encyclopedias:
http://www.library.nd.edu/ddw/public/resource_list.cgi?term_id_1=17589&term_id_2=18984&list_type=combo_term

We hope you will use them and let your students know about them; incorporate them into class assignments, etc. If you would like us to find others that cover subjects we do not have, please let us know.

Your feedback is always welcome!

Tuesday, February 6, 2007

1,500 books damaged in flood at Hesburgh Library

By: Don Wycliff & Dennis Brown
Date: February 5, 2007

About 1,500 books were damaged and some 8,500 books were removed from shelves Monday (Feb. 5) when a frozen pipe ruptured and sent water cascading through parts of the third, second and first floors and the basement of the Hesburgh Library at the University of Notre Dame.

The library was closed at approximately 9 a.m., when water from the third-floor pipe was discovered on the second floor. None of the books are thought be seriously damaged, and the most of the library reopened at 3:30 p.m.

Library officials believe that an air handler on the third floor failed to bring hot air to the water pipe, causing it to freeze and burst when temperatures in the region dropped below zero.

After the flooding was discovered, library staff members draped heavy plastic sheeting over the shelves, keeping water off of most of the books. The flooding damaged parts of the economics and music collections on the second floor and reached the rare books and special collections areas in the basement, but caused minimal damage to those collections. Wet books were opened and placed next to table and floor fans. The cost estimate of the damaged is not yet available.

As a result of similar incident three years ago, officials said, the library stocked up on supplies of sheeting and other equipment needed in the event of a flood.

Employees from the library, fire department, security police department, facilities maintenance, and risk management and safety assisted with clean-up efforts.