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Library hours for Spring 2000.
M-Th 8am-12midnight Sat 9am-10pm
Fri 8am-8pm Sun 9am-12midnight
Student Employment Opportunities - fill out an application at Circulation Desk.
WHAT’S NEW:
Weekend Reference Service is now a fact. Helen Zerling will be on duty Friday evening 4-8:00pm, Saturday 9:00am-10:00pm, and Sunday 9:00am-midnight.
Tax forms (paper) are available at the Tech Library. Links to Federal and State tax forms have been placed on the Library’s homepage or bookmark them from here:
Federal Tax Forms and Publications:
http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/prod/forms_pubs/
New Mexico Tax Forms and Publications:
http://www.state.nm.us/tax/trd_form.htm
The NMT Library staff paid a visit to NM Bureau of Mines in order to become familiar with the Bureau's Geologic Information Center (GIC) which is open to the public and a resource for our students, staff, and faculty. Maureen Wilks, bibliographer for the Bureau, acted as tour guide. Along with the GIC, the staff visited the Bureau publication office, Well Log Library, Mineral Museum and Geologic Mapping Program. Link to NM Bureau site is:
http://geoinfo.nmt.edu/Library student worker Analucia Reis was selected to work as interpreter for an NMT Earth & Environmental Science Dept project trip to Brazil during December, '99. Analucia’s duties required translating Portuguese, Spanish and English.
Library Snack room opened Dec 2. There are two vending machines, pleasant surroundings, a place to eat and study. Some testimonials are:
*The snack room is very nice, has a pleasant atmosphere for sitting and having a cold drink. I was very thirsty the other day and went in and shared a cold drink and a candy bar with my sweetie. There are a variety of drinks and snacks, and the room has a café type ambience.
*Gardetto’s cookies, keep them!
*Perfectly OK!!
January is National Book Month. Visit the site:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/NBF/docs/bookmonth.html
Oprah Winfrey was awarded the National Book Foundation’s 50th Anniverary Gold Medal Award for for her outstanding contribution to books and reading. Read article on the awards:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/articles/19991117_82873.asp
NM State Legislature begins Tuesday, January 18, 2000.
Legislature site:
http://legis.state.nm.us/The Bill Finder for the Legislature:
http://www.legis.state.nm.us/scripts/FirstBillFinderForm.asp
Of special interest to the Tech Library is New Mexico Library Association Legislative Day on February 3rd.
New Mexico State Legislature begins its 2000 session on Jan. 18.
Two proposal developed by NM library organizations will seek funding to support more online information for students and faculty.
The first proposal is continued funding for electronic databases, such as ProQuest, through NM State Library. ProQuest indexes 2200 general interest journals with full text for 1400 journal titles available 24 hours a day /7 days per week. If you haven't searched in ProQuest, you can access it from the Library's homepage.
The second proposal would fund online databases, such as SciSearch and INSPEC at LANL(r) and electronic journal packages.
According to David Myers, Acting Dean of NMSU Libraries, "New Mexico has a unique opportunity to establish its leadership in the scientific and technological communities. This initiative will build on the Alliance for Science and Technology Information. This consortium of New Mexico research university
libraries and federal laboratory libraries has cooperated closely to share resources, build responsive networks, and collaborate to purchase major scientific, technological and engineering resources to support research. As a result, New Mexico researchers and students in our universities and in our federal laboratories have access to a wealth of information.
But, the Alliance and its members, especially the New Mexico research universities, only have access to a small part of the available resources. By providing 2.5 million dollars annually, the state of New Mexico can ensure the continued development of this state's major research enterprise. This new money will fund New Mexico institutions of all sizes major research universities, comprehensive and two-year schools. It will provide much greater access to the ever more important world of scientific, technological, engineering and allied and health science information so desperately needed by our researchers, teaching faculty, and students."
The appropriation for NM Tech would be $200,000.
To learn more about these initiatives, contact Wayne Davidson (wdavidso@nmt.edu), Kay Krehbiel (kkrehbie@nmt.edu)
SPOTLIGHT ON RESOURCES
Launch your research from the Library’s Homepage:
Time Saving Sites
.Essential, Searchable Databases have been assembled for you.
Cut/Paste links to your own homepage !
LIBROS, on line catalog shared with UNM
ProQuest, journal index, much of it full text
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdwebFirstSearch. 62 databases, includes WorldCat, GeoRef/S, Medline, NewsAbs (25 newspapers), Proceedings Index, many more…
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP
SciSearch® from NMT IP address. Science Citation online.
http://scisearch2.lanl.gov/nmt/sci.html
INSPEC from NMT IP address. Science/technology database, includes IEEE publications.
http://inspec.lanl.gov/nmt/
Also:
Too good to miss but licensed for one site only,
Come into Tech Library to use specialized indexes on CD/ROM:
Petroleum Abstracts
Environmental Abstracts
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
National Trade Database (NTDB)
O’Net 98
College Source (College Catalogs)
NM Geochronological Database
OSHA 99
Subject Specific Databases accessible through the Library’s "Subject" page. Search Engines corralled for you – pick the one you like from this site too.
http://www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/subject/subject.html
Library’s
Millennium Memories
OCLC, Online Computer Library Center, best known for its FirstSeach databases, passed Y2K with flying colors. Better known to libraries for managing the worldwide network of 34,600 libraries Interlibrary Loan services and database building capabilities; preparation for this critical event began in 1995. Starting with consultants, defining software interrelationships, and dividing the work into work group subprojects paid off. The September issue of OCLC Newsletter was devoted to news of software and OCLC systems that had been tested, replaced, scanned, checked, modified, and retested for Y2K readiness. It all paid off with business as usual.
LIBROS, the online catalog, was shut down at 1:00pm, Dec 31 and fired up again Jan 2. Primary concern was electrical power. All data was backed up and servers were unplugged as a precaution. UNM’s Daily Lobo student newspaper reported nothing happened and the dozen University employees at the Y2K emergency center prepared to handle hospital, police station, etc computer problems had no big surprises.
Joy Thompson, Tech Library’s Systems/Acquisitions credits ISD's Bob Tacker and his staff with library "business as usual".
TV coverage of New Years celebrations brought the realization that the Tech Library as an entity is the same age as the Eiffel Tower – 110 yr.
NOTEWORTHY WEB SITES
FROM NMT LIBRARY STAFF
Tech Library’s New Books site:
http://www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/ACQUISITIONS/report.html
web page is maintained by the Acquisitions Dept.
*SIAM Journals, online and full text:
http://epubs.siam.org/ link provided by Periodicals Dept.
The Oxford Atlas of the World (1999) is on a display stand in the Reference Area.
Times Atlas of the world, 10th Comprehensive Ed. Is located in the Map Room
Some new titles in Government Documents:
Status and trends of the nation’s biological resources. Interior Dept publication.
#I 19.202:ST 1(v.1 &2)
The Biological and chemical warfare threat. CIA publication.
#PREX 3.2: B 52/2
The Founding Fathers of American intelligence. CIA publication.
#PREX 3.2: F82
United States Government Manual. The official handbook of the Federal Government; provides comprehensive information. #AE 2.108/2:99/2000