Engineering Library Blog

Princeton University Libraries will begin lending iPads on Monday April 2, 2012. Firestone, Lewis, and the Engineering library each have three iPads available for a two week loan period.

Each iPad comes pre-loaded with tons of apps and over 100 kindle e-books selected by Princeton librarians. For more information about iPads at the library visit http://libguides.princeton.edu/iPad

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently received a grant from the Polonsky Foundation in the UK to improve the web portal to the online archive with a full catalog of the archive, cross referencing, and digitize the entire collection. 2000 documents are currently available online, with more to come.

Read the full article at the Guardian UK http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/mar/19/albert-einstein-archives-theory-of-relativity

Or visit the Einstein Archives Online at http://alberteinstein.info/

KnowItAll U Spectra database is giving a free webinar on the basics of using the AnyWhere database online and the KnowItAll desktop software.

KnowItAll, a subscription provided by Princeton University Libraries, is a searchable collection of over 1.3 million spectra, including structures and chemical property information.

Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 12:00 pm Eastern USA (9 PST, 10 MST, 11 CST)
Duration: 1 hour
Where: Online from your office or home
Registration Fee: Complimentary

Register at http://www.knowitall.com/eventcenter

To try the database out online before the webinar visit http://www.knowitallanyware.com/
To download Windows client version, PU users go to http://www.knowitallu.com/gettingstarted

Research Clinics at the Engineering Library begin today. Every Thursday during the semester, come in to room 105 in the Engineering Library for help with your library questions and research.

Time: Thursday from 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Where: Engineering Library room 105

Who: Anyone who needs help, no appointment is necessary!

Many major websites will be protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act or SOPA Bill  tomorrow January 18th. Wikipedia and many others will be protesting by holding a 24 hour blackout. For more information, you can visit.http://sopastrike.com/

Princeton University Library online resources are always available.

Try Princeton's Online Reference Shelf for a list of Encyclopedias and other Wikipedia type sources.

Or use Princeton's new Searchit Articles+ to search for journal and newspaper articles.

If you need any help, you can always Chat with a Librarian

Wikipedia English version and several other sites are going dark intentionally on Wednesday January 18, 2012 for 24 hours to protest the anti-piracy bills before Congress (see news item at http://www.npr.org/2012/01/16/145319211/in-protest-of-anti-piracy-bill-wikipedia-to-go-dark). The Engineering Library would like to remind everybody, that thanks to our significant subscriptions and acquisitions, you can still research and find the information you need. Our library resources that encompass numerous books, journals, databases, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, etc. are alive and well! At the library, the lights are always on!

MIT and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) have announced a new online toolkit for materials science research. The Materials Project, formerly called the Materials Genome project, currently contains information on 18,933 compounds and performs real time materials properties computations using LBNL's supercomputing clusters.

Users can freely perform a quick materials search or create a log in to use the toolkit's advanced features. Advanced features include:

• Materials Explorer - For advanced searching by chemistry, composition, or property.
• Phase Diagram App - To compute phase diagrams for systems with 2-4 components.
• Lithium Ion Battery Explorer - Explore Li-ion battery materials by various criteria.
• Reactions Calculator - Calculate the enthalpy of various reactions. Experimental results shown where available.
• Structure Predictor - Generates potential new compounds using experimental and mined data.

To learn more read the MIT News article at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/manufacturing-new-materials-1220.html or visit the Materials Project at http://materialsproject.org/

Starting October 13th, Writing in Science and Engineering Conferences will be held every Thursday at the Engineering Library in Friend Center, room 106. These are offered to students working on assignments or research projects in the sciences, the empirical social sciences, or engineering. Appointments for Writing Conferences at the Engineering Library can be made online at https://writing.princeton.edu/scheduler/appointments/18.

In coordination with the Writing Conferences, the Engineering Library offers Research Clinics every Thursday afternoon, from 3:30pm to 5:30pm in room 105 (Friend Center). If you have difficulties finding sources for your paper or project, librarians will be available to help you and to answer any questions that you may have about the library. No appointments are necessary for the Library Research Clinics, everybody is welcome!

Get library help with your research, thesis, finding papers, and more!!

When: Thursdays, 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Where: Engineering Library, Room 105
Who: Anyone! No appointment necessary.

Effective immediately, all registered library borrowers may renew eligible material online via the Library's "SearchIt@PUL" service.  To renew items, log in to the Library's "SearchIt" service, http://searchit.princeton.edu, sign in with your last name and barcode number, and select "My Account."

 

There are some limitations to the online renewals as follows:

• Items on academic year loans in any library may only be renewed once
• Items on trimester loan may be renewed twice
• Items on 8-week loan may be renewed six (6) times
• Borrow Direct items may only be renewed once
• Items on 4-week loan* may be renewed six (6) times
  • * Dixon Collection and In-Process items may only be renewed once

Once the renewal limit has been reached and an item is not renewable, it must be brought to a circulation desk to be returned or to be charged out again.

 

Items on loan for less than 4-weeks (including reserve material) may not be renewed online.

 

Questions about online renewals may be directed to the staff at Firestone Circulation