New Mexico Tech Library

Newsletter No. 9

February/March 2001

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NEW LIBRARY WEB PAGE NOW UP!!!

Follow this link: www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/ to see Tech Library’s new and updated Web page. You will find the usual links to indexes, electronic journals and the like, with many additions.

Due to the constantly changing nature of information, the page is necessarily under construction much of the time. Please visit, and tell us what you think!

Government Documents News

Paper or Online? Tech Library has them both.

INCOME TAX FORMS, publications, and online filing from

State and Federal sites.

www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/subject/tax.html

Pick up paper tax forms and publications from Library, Main Floor near Circulation Desk.

State Legislature is in session.

Follow the bills using N.M. Bill Finder http://legis.state.nm.us/lis/default.asp

Keyword search, bill number, sponsor, house, senate, etc. Try it, you'll like it.

Preserving digital.

Clinton’s Whitehouse.gov web page - gone in a flash, replaced Inauguration Day by Bush’s version. The National archives now houses Clinton’s digitals at www.Clinton.nara.gov. Launched in 1994, "Welcome to the White House" provided email access, links to speeches, current and historical activities of the Clinton administration. The first of its kind, this presidential web site has passed into digital history. To find out more about government digital preservation see the National Records and Archives

Administration http://merrimack.nara.gov/ and the Library of Congress http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html

New WWW Links (chosen by library staff)

www.yourdictionary.com/

A great site formerly titled A Web of Dictionaries. Features the Top Ten Language Dictionaries + 230 more, a Thesaurus, the Word of the Day, a Language Library, a Language Translator and a word Fun and Games section.

www.lungusa.org/tobacco/quitting_smoke.html

This is the American Lung Association's site to that offers help and advice to people who are trying to give up smoking. It contains other useful links to assist in smoking cessation, including the Surgeon General's new Tobacco Cessation Guideline; (July 2000).

www.nmeaf.org/

The New Mexico Educational assistance Foundation (NMEAF) web site. The site contains a student loan form, an interactive loan calculator, and other contact information.

 

New Reference books of note

ASM Metals Reference Book

TA 459.A78 1993

Consumer Reports Buying Guide 2001

TX335.C62 2001

Dictionary of Natural Products

QK 99.H69 1997

Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Sourcebook

HV 6626.2.D66 2000

Encyclopedia of Native American Religions

E 98.R3 H73 2000

Hoover’s Handbook of American Business

HG 4057.A28617 2001

How to Prepare for the GRE Test

LB 2376.4.B76 2000

New Mexico Film Directory

PN 1993.5.N3 N4 2000

Woodall’s Campground Directory

GV 198.L3 W68 2001

 

 

February, 14

Valentine’s Day

 

www.bluemountain.com/eng/valentine/

www.bright.net/~magates/Valentine

March 17

St. Patrick’s Day

 

www.st-patricks-day.com/index.html

 

 

New Videos

We Were There

Seven survivors of the Holocaust, who are currently New Mexico residents, discuss their experiences during the Nazi terror.

A Room of One’s Own

One woman stage performance recreates Virginia Woolf’s talk to the ladies of Girton College. A call to women to declare their independence.

Wounded Genius

Tennessee Williams’ biography.

 

New Books of interest (see our New Books link on the Library Web Page for more)

Today’s Science on File

"Stories with background information and suggestions for further reading on topics including health, the environment, technology, life science, physical science, earth and space science. Extra features include: Recent Advances in the Sciences, Today’s Technology, Hot Topics, Key Websites, and a comprehensive cumulative index and glossary."

Only in New Mexico

An architectural history of the University of New Mexico.

The First Century 1889-1989

The Evolution of Galaxies on Cosmological Timescales

Invited papers delivered at a Euroconference.

 

New Magazines in the Reading Room

Take a look at the new titles in the Kuellmer Reading Room on the upper level.

Linux Journal February 2001 features an article on the Linux kernel and an interview with Tim O’Reilly.

Black Collegian: The Career and Self-Development Magazine for African-American Students has articles on job opportunities and career planning. This issues’s cover story is on Nelson Mandela.

VIBE covers popular music and entertainment.