Astronomy News
The Astronomy Roundtable for SLA 2008 will be held the morning of Wednesday, June 18th from 8-10am. Mark your calendars! (Please note that the official SLA schedule has the session ending at 9:30am; we will be continuing until 10, into the no-conflict time.)
Liz Bryson is compiling a list of children's astronomy books (ages 3-18). If you have any suggestions for her, in either the fiction or nonfiction areas, please drop her a line!
Michael Chesnes shared a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) press release regarding the first HDTV images of the moon taken by the orbiting lunar explorer Kaguya (Selene). The images are pretty amazing; check them out at http://tinyurl.com/35rxqs .
The digital backfile of the Astronomical Journal, containing all the articles that have been produced digitally since 1998, is now available at IOP: http://www.iop.org/EJ/journal/aj .
Springer has released the two-volume set "The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers"; it's available online for SpringerLink subscribers at http://www.springerlink.com/content/r067g4/
Looking for a chuckle about on-site observing at altitude? Check out "Hotel Mauna Kea", a video created by astronomers taking an instrument up the mountain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPdTlHK1h_0
The 2008 edition of the AIP's Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme (PACS) has been released. To download your free copy of the 2008 edition of PACS, please visit http://www.aip.org/pacs.
Hindawi has started a new journal for astronomy called Advances in Astronomy, a "peer-reviewed open access journal that publishes state-of-the-art reviews and original research papers in all areas of astronomy and astrophysics." More information is at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aa/
Jessica Moy found the "Declaration Concerning the Evolving Role of Libraries in Research Centres" (Correspondence to the Editors of 'The Observatory' - p.401). It was drafted by several PAMnetters (Marsha Bishop, Brenda Corbin, Donna Coletti--among others), and the intro says it will ultimately be presented to the IAU for consideration as official IAU Policy.
The 8.4-meter Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST, http://www.lsst.org/) received $30 million in funding from Charles Simyoni and Bill Gates. Big news in the telescope construction project world!
Debra Kolah and the Fondren Library archives are starting a project to digitize their rare astronomy book holdings. If you have information on other similar projects, please drop her a line. (http://tinyurl.com/ywe7c9)
In addition to the above tidbits, many new and changed astronomy subject headings were announced, and PAM folks once again scored high points for providing missing resources to colleagues!
If you'd like to catch up on all the archives, visit the PAMnet Archives at: http://listserv.nd.edu/archives/pamnet.html
