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• Library News Bites
• New Books
• Web Sites of Interest

Library News Bites

EndNote Training

Having trouble keeping track of your citations when doing literature searches?  If so, please join me for a session on EndNote, a freely downloadable reference manager software, available from the eWeber page.  This session will cover the basics of getting EndNote, creating an EndNote library, and entering data into an EndNote Library.  Sign up through Training Tracker.

Three sessions will be offered:

• Wednesday, January 23 2 pm-3pm (Lampros Hall 203)
• Thursday, January 24 at 1 pm-2 pm (Lampros Hall 203)
• Wednesday, February 6 2 pm-3pm (Davis-226)

Library Resources

Just need a review of the resources the library offers?  Stop by for "5 in 55" with Fran Zedney who will give you a whirlwind tour of the most important resources available through the library's web site.  Sign up through Training Tracker.

Two sessions will be offered:

• Monday, February 4 from 1-1:55 pm (Library 138)
• Tuesday, March 11 from 11-11:55 (Library 138)

Holiday Hours

The library will be open from 12-5 pm on Martin Luther King's Day (January 21) and President's Day (February 18).  Live Assistance (online chat) will also be available during that time.

Selected New Books

Title	Author	Call Number
Diesel-engine management	Bosh, Robert	TJ795.D54 1999
The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself	Turner, J. Scott	QH375.T87 2007
A Scientist's Guide to Talking with the Media : Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists	Hayes, Richard et al	Q225.H39 2006

Web Sites of Interest

EcoCar:  The Next Challenge

http://www.challengex.org/pdfs/ecocar_rfp.pdf

Collegiate engineering contest designed to address the need for "greener" transportation options.  The  contest "... seeks to build and test advanced vehicles with a wide range of potentially feasible production technologies that can be used in future cars." 

Top 25 Science Stories of 2007

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=top-25-science-stories-of&page=1

Compiled by Lisa Stein the article reports Scientific American's "25 science and health news picks of 2007."  The list covers everything from Steroids in Baseball to the Tuberculosis Air Scare to the Disappearance of Honey Bees.   

 

Comments or suggestions for the newsletter are welcome and appreciated.
Please reply to:

JaNae Kinikin, Science Librarian
Stewart Library                  
(801) 626-6093
jkinikin@weber.edu