Members' Corner
Molly White
Judy Matthews is now the Head of the Biomedical & Physical Sciences Library at Michigan State University. In that position she is now the bibliographer for the Physics & Astronomy and Chemistry collections and liaison to those two departments.
Pat Viele, Physics & Astronomy Librarian at Cornell has given a presentation Mining the Internet at the joint NY State Sections of APS and AAPT fall meeting. She will also present at two other NY State regional meetings. Her presentation is based on a tutorial by the same name.
Susan Fingerman was appointed Editor of the SciTech News at the June annual SLA conference, effective with the February 2005 issue. The News is sponsored by the Science-Technology, Chemistry, Engineering, Transportation, Materials
Research and Manufacturing Divisions and the Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division.
Shaun Hardy gave the opening historical address at the Centennial Symposium the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism (DTM) on October 8th, see http://www.ciw.edu/DTMWebSite//index.php?option=com_static&staticfile=cent_symp.html. His talk (taken from a 1903 quotation about the future of geomagnetic research) was titled To Penetrate the Mantle of Darkness: DTM's Path Through the Twentieth Century.
Virginia Smith reports, "I've traded the stars for an academic librarian
position in my hometown of Louisville, KY. I'm no
longer a PAM member, but still enjoy the listserv and
miss my astro colleagues, especially my mentors Liz
Bryson & Ruth Kneale." New contact information for Virginia:
Publishing News
Guide to information sources in mathematics and statistics, Martha A. Tucker and Nancy D. Anderson has just been published. (Greenwood; ISBN: 1563087014 hbk $65.00) Part I is a historical survey of the past 15 years tracking the transition in scholarly communications in mathematics. Part II is a bibliography of resources recommended to support the disciplines of mathematics and statistics.
Using the Mathematics Literature, edited by Kris Fowler, was published this summer (0-8247-5035-7, Marcel Dekker). It provides annotated recommendations of resources in the various areas of mathematics at the graduate level, and also includes chapters on mathematics culture and general reference tools (written by Kris) and searching the research literature (written by Molly White).
mwhite@mail.utexas.edu
Virginia M. Smith
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