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Library News & Notes
July 9, 2004
Notes
Recently, I gave each person a list of books checked out of the library.
Please return these to me, confirming what is on the list or pointing
out any discrepancies, and thanks to those who have already done so.
Garrett
Internet Sites of the Week
Academic Web Logs
No scientists, here, alas, but a wide range of academic blogs are
profiled, including some on literature, life in and out of academia,
Epicureanism, grad student unions and others.
(Source: ResourceShelf)
The Best Free Software
Tools and games for the PC enthusiast.
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Busting the Biggest PC Myths
PC World looks beyond the hype of about a dozen computer legends
(“magents zap your data” and so forth.)
(Source: The Virtual Chase)
A Conversation with Brewster Kahle: Creating a Library of Alexandria for
the Digital Age
ACM interviews the librarian behind the Internet Archive. (Along with
billions of pages of websites, the IA has compiled an impressive roster
of audio files, particularly of concerts.)
(Source: ResourceShelf)
Glossary of Meteorology
Nobody does anything about the weather except attempt to define it,
perhaps. The American Meteorological Society's hyperlinked glossary of
atmospheric phenomena contains nearly 8000 entries.
(Source: Physics Today, July 2004)
House Refuses to Curb PATRIOT Act
(Source: beSpacific)
NEW BOOKS/VIDEOS
Received July 3-9, 2004
| Title |
Author/Editor |
(Publisher, Year) |
To be Shelved at: |
Requested by |
| Modern Control Systems, 10th ed. |
Dorf, Richard C. and Robert H. Bishop |
(Prentice Hall, 2004) |
TJ 216 .D67 2004 |
Requested by W. Hill |
| Nonlinear Physics of DNA, 2nd ed. |
Yakushevich, L.V. |
(Wiley, 2004) |
QP 624.5 .S78 I25 2004 |
Requested by A. Meller |
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