Friday, November 16, 2012
House Librarians
All
eight undergraduate houses have their own librarian. We hope a more
personal connection between the library and the houses will lead
students to seek out its resources when they need them. Students can
contact their house librarian with any library-related questions, big or
small. Unable to find a journal article? Not sure where to look? Ask
your house librarian. Want to learn more about Web of Science?
Endnote? Just ask. Your house librarian will put you in touch with a
subject specialist, if need be. Click the house librarian tab at the top of the undergraduates library page.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Op-ed in LA Times by Caltech prof
J. Morgan Koussser, professor of history and social science here at Caltech, wrote an op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times on protecting the right to vote. Dr. Kousser recently testified in Washington, D.C. in the Texas voter ID lawsuit. He is teaching a freshmen humanities course this fall, in addition to his well-known course on the Supreme Court this winter.
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
WELCOME!
We hope you had a terrific summer and are ready to start a new school year.
A few items about the library that we want to make sure you know about:
A few items about the library that we want to make sure you know about:
- You can borrow iPads, Kindles, laptops, and nooks from the Sherman Fairchild Library.
- Do you know who your house librarian is?
- The library offers free, 1-hour workshops on a host of topics.
- This library webpage is just for undergraduates.
- Below are some of the latest additions to the Leisure Reading Collection, located on the 3rd floor of the Sherman Fairchild Library. New additions to the entire collection are here.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
LexisNexis will now offer Chinese news content
From the LexisNexis website:"...LexisNexis has reached an agreement with Wisers, the world’s leading Chinese
news information service provider, to offer exclusive access to both
Chinese and English language news content... Wisers offers the largest collection of native language news and company
content from mainland China and Hong Kong...
Users can search in Chinese or English."
Thursday, February 23, 2012
How to find new books through the Caltech Library
By George Porter, Engineering Librarian
The Caltech Library purchases more than a hundred new books each month. A listing of the new titles, grouped by subject, can be found under the ‘New books’ <http://library.caltech.edu/techservices/new/newmaterials.htm> link in the center of the library’s main web page <http://library.caltech.edu/>. The lists are generated monthly and are usually posted to the website by the middle of the following month. New chemistry, biology, physics and math books are on a booktruck by the Millikan Circulation desk for a week after receipt and the engineering new books are on shelves on the 3rd floor of Sherman Fairchild Library, also for a week. New books in the pertinent disciplines are also displayed for 4 weeks on the new book shelf in the Geology Library, a few weeks in the Astronomy Library in Cahill, and several weeks in Dabney.
Over the last couple of years there has been explosive growth in the availability of ebooks. See the ‘Ebooks <http://libguides.caltech.edu/ebooks> ’ link on the library’s homepage. The Library purchases access to both individual titles and large packages of ebooks from publishers. Some notable packages include a rotating 100 title collection of primarily O’Reilly computer books from Safari, the entire Springer math and statistics collection beginning with titles published in 2005, the complete book collections from both IEEE and SIAM, and almost 400 books from the Morgan and Claypool Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. All individual titles can be searched in the library’s catalog. Going through the catalog provides proxied access for easy off-campus use.
Beginning in January 2011, the Library began a trial program of offering Kindles for checkout to students and faculty. Upon checkout, an individual is permitted to acquire up to $25 worth of titles to the Kindle. The six Kindles are synced so that the content on each is the same. Each individual book title is indexed the library catalog with a location of eBook/Kindle in the Sherman Fairchild Library. In the last year, the program added over 330 titles to the Library’s collection through 600+ checkouts.
The library is happy to receive recommendations for book purchases. An email form is available on the library’s main page to make suggestions. The form allows one to specify whether print or ebook is the preferred format. Or, simply email library@caltech.edu.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Research tips from Dana Roth
Dana Roth, Caltech's esteemed chemistry librarian, has some words of wisdom to share:
In addition to textbooks and research monographs, the
library also has a variety of encyclopedic volumes that review various subject
areas. These volumes should give you a solid background before
beginning a new research project.
Encyclopedias
& Encyclopedic Databases:
Kirk-Othmer
Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology
Encyclopedia
of Polymer Science & Technology, v.1-17, 1985-1990 (Mil8
Ref TP1087 .E46 1985)
Encyclopedia
of Analytical Chemistry; Applications ... v.1-15, 2000 (Mil8
REF QD71.5 .E52)
Encyclopedia
of Chemical Physics and Physical Chemistry, v.1-3, 2001 (Mil-8 REF QD451 .E539)
Encyclopedia
of Computational Chemistry. v.1-5, 1998 (Mil-8 REF QD39.3.E46 E53)
Encyclopedia
of Inorganic Chemistry. I-v.1-8, 1994; II-v.1-10, 2006 (Mil-8 REF QD381
.C667)
Encyclopedia
of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. v.1-9, 1996-2003 (Mil-8 REF QC762 .E53)
Encyclopedia
of Reagents for Organic Chemistry (e-EROS)
MULTIVOLUME
COMPILATIONS:
Chemistry of
Functional Groups (Patai) - please check CLAS for individual volumes.
Comprehensive
Coordination Chemistry – I & II
v.1-7, 1987; v. 1-10, 2004 (Mil-8 REF QD474 .C65)
Comprehensive
Heterocyclic Chemistry – I & II & III
v.1-8, 1984; v.1-11, 1996; v.1-15, 2008 (Mil-8 REF
QD400 .C65)
Comprehensive
Natural Products Chemistry.
v.1-9, 1999 (Mil-8 REF QD415 .C63)
Comprehensive
Organic Functional Group Transformations - I, II
v.1-7,
1995; v.1-7, 2005 (Mil-8 REF QD262 .C534)
Comprehensive
Organic Synthesis; v.1-9, 1991 (Mil-8 REF QD245 .C65)
Comprehensive
Organometallic Chemistry - I, II, III;
v.1-9,
1982; v.1-14, 1995; v. 1-13, 2006 (Mil-8 REF QD411
.C652)
Comprehensive
Supramolecular Chemistry. v.1-11, 1996 (Mil-8 REF QD381 .C667)
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
LexisNexis and mtvU launch "Against Our Will Challenge"
The new "Against Our Will Challenge,"
featuring a $10,000 prize furnished by LexisNexis Legal & Professional,
calls on college students nationwide to imagine innovative digital tools that
raise awareness of modern-day slavery, while encouraging action to help stop
the human rights atrocity. The winning individual - or team of up to five people
- will be recognized with the $10,000 prize and have the chance to work with
mtvU and LexisNexis Legal & Professional to see the idea actualized as a
core element of the "mtvU Against Our Will Campaign." For more information, click here.
Monday, January 23, 2012
SURF Proposals
The SURF Proposal Writing Workshop is coming up on February 9th, 2012. Not sure about a literature review? Can't find a journal article? Looking for background on a potential mentor? Your house librarian can help. See the post on the database Web of Science, too.
Web of Science
Web of Science is one of over 200 databases the library subscribes to. It is extremely powerful, and a terrific source for journal articles. If you are curious to learn about the research a faculty member has done, this is a good place to start. Say you'd like to read up a bit on the work of Rudy A. Marcus, the Arthur Amos Noyes Professor of Chemistry and the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. On the Web of Science search page, enter his name in a search box, and select "author." Then enter 91125, Caltech's zipcode, in another search box, and select "address." You should come up with 255 hits; if you don't, see your house librarian.
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