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Newsletter April 2001 
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MyLibrary @ LANL is a personalized webpage service. It is a collection of personal links to electronic journals, databases, and other web resources. It can be customized to reflect specific disciplines and research needs. You can select from a subset of the 3500+ electronic journals, 200+ electronic databases, and 400+ subject-based web links from the Research Library's website. You also have the option of adding your own preferred weblinks easily by clicking a bookmarklet on the personal toolbar of your browser. Version 1.0 rolled out March 28, 2001. Please try this new and exciting Research Library product, and send your comments to stbrl-mylib@lanl.gov. We have begun the process to determine new features for the next versions and your input is invaluable.
You can help shape the library of the future. We have been interviewing many Laboratory personnel to discover what the Research Library can do to facilitate their research projects. We have sifted through the resulting answers and boiled it down to 12 areas--new resources, new ways of searching, personalization of information tools. Now we need your input to rank these areas in current satisfaction and future importance. Please take a few minutes to fill out the library electronic product development survey.
There are links to the PDF images of IOP journals through the Research Library databases. These journals are part of Science Server® at LANL and are also searchable through FlashPoint, the Research Library's multi-database search tool. Send comments or questions to: eteam@lanl.gov
The American Mathematical Society is experimenting with electronic books. The site AMS Books online currently has six titles listed. These include publications from the 1920s to 1997. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has completed the third
phase of its ACM Digital Library
project. This means that all volumes from the very first volume and issue
for all of its journals are available online. Journal of the ACM
is available from 1954 to the present. ACM computing surveys is
now available from 1969 to the present. Also check out ACM's new title
ACM transactions
on computational logic.
April 1-7 is National Library Week. First celebrated in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries school, public, academic and special participate. The LANL Research Library works hard to provide quality products and services to our customers but recognizes that without the support of library customers through use, involvement and acknowledgement we couldn't do our job half as well. To honor our customers, we are having a drawing this week for prizes for the first 20 customers who respond (lpray@lanl.gov) to this article. We will also have a random drawing for our walk-in customers. Thank you for another great year!
Searching the institution field, especially in conjunction with a topic, is an excellent source of information about what is going on and where -- both for collaborative and competitive intelligence. The way an institution is listed, however, varies considerably, so creativity in formulating a search is essential. For example, in SciSearch®
at LANL the following variety of institutional names
applies to our community: Use this list to limit your searches to LANL publications.
You may have noticed the Ask A Librarian button on many of our web pages recently. In an effort to make reaching a person easier in this increasingly electronic world, we've tried to add access points to our library staff at key points during your virtual library visits. Please feel free to email us with questions or requests during your travels through the library web pages.
MIR's triumphant flight NEAR video available
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop: Engineering General Mathematics Physics
With the success of Google other search engines are offering added services to draw customers to their sites. One of the most interesting is the translation engine being supplied by AltaVista. Babel Fish is a free, automatic translation service; it translates about 800 words at a time and can very useful for quick and dirty translations of abstracts, e-mails, bulletin board messages and web sites. Newspaper articles translate well because they are written concisely, using standard grammar and language. Babel Fish translates Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, to and from English. It also translates these language pairs: French to German, German to French and Russian to English. Most importantly you can cut and past the URL of a page to be translated; be sure to include the "http://" portion on the URL, otherwise Babel Fish has a problem with the address. Want a reminder? Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna Berg, Helen Boorman, Jack Carter, Lou Pray, and Kathy Varjabedian. The name and e-mail address of the Library member who contributed
an article appears at the end of the article. If you have comments or
further questions, please contact that person. If you have general questions
or comments about the Newsletter itself, please contact the Newsletter
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