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Newsletter May 2001 
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Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Netscape and Explorer web browsers. Using Bookmarklets will make adding links to MyLibrary easier and faster.
Add2MyLib Bookmarklet: Placing this link on your Web browser’s personal bar allows you to link web sites directly in your MyLibrary folders. When you find a website you like, click on the Add2MyLib Bookmarklet. A MyLibrary login window will appear. Login as usual. You will be asked where you want to place this link in MyLibrary. Type in the name you want for this link. Click on "Add" to add item; click on "Cancel" to cancel. To set up your MyLibrary bookmarklets, sign on to your MyLibrary account and choose the Advanced Feature button. This will bring up several features, including Bookmarklet. There you will find the "MyLib" or the "Add2MyLib" Bookmarklets Simply click on the bookmarklet and drag it to the toolbar. Unix users need to follow these steps: Put your mouse on top of the link, press down with the right mouse button and select "Add Bookmark for Link" from the available options, select "Edit Bookmarks" from the Bookmarks menu, drag and drop the newly added bookmark into your Personal Toolbar folder, and rename the bookmark. More information about BookMarkLets can be found at BookMarkLets.com.
Books are listed by broad subject area, with call number, author, title, publisher and publication date. If you prefer to browse by author or by title, the list can be sorted by author or by title by using the links in the left column. If you see a book you would like to borrow, click the box at the left of the entry and click "Request marked books" at the bottom of the page. The book will be checked out to you if it is on the shelf. If it is not on the shelf, a hold will be placed: that is, your name will be placed on a waiting list, and the book will be sent to you when it becomes available. You can request that the item be mailed to you at your mail stop or held in the library for pick-up, with notification by e-mail or phone. If you don't provide special instructions it will be mailed. The new books list covers circulating books and videos. Reference books are also listed, for information only -- they do not circulate. Electronic books and streaming videos are also included and no request is needed. To access, simply click on the linked URL. Weekly lists are available for a year from the New Books List page. The e-mail version of the new books list continues to be available; see
the subscription instructions.
Noteworthy sources of electronic books in the mathematical disciplines are recently available: The Cornell University Math Collection consists of 571 books that were scanned from originals held by the Cornell University Library. All books were disbound and all pages scanned. For primary sources, this web site is very useful. One can browse by title and author. Printing is not a current feature. The Electronic Library of Mathematics makes electronic versions available of proceedings, monographs, and certain classical works. This project is offered by the European Mathematical Society (EMS) in cooperation with FIZ Karlsruhe / Zentralblatt MATH. A clearinghouse web site on electronic books - The On-Line Books Page is provided by University of Pennsylvania. Their Mathematics and Computer Science page displays books on the web in the mathematical field.
Among the features of this search interface are:
Click on the Table of Contents to drill down through the subvolumes
to full-text in PDF format. The library currently subscribes to the printed
volumes of Landolt-Bornstein (REF QC61 .L33x...).
The Research Library has received numerous complaints regarding remote access to library products (such as SciSearch, ejournals, etc.) either while researchers were on change of station, on travel, or coming in from home. To help us understand the scope of the problem, if you have experienced
difficulties, please send us an e-mail explaining the problem, to library@lanl.gov.
Under the auspices of the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) and the Universities Space Research Association, the Consolidated Lunar Atlas was digitized in 2000, making the 226 images available for all to see. Similarly, the Lunar Orbiter Photographic Atlas of the Moon has been digitized and its 675 images made available by the LPI and Universities Space Research Association. Its interface allows for searching by feature or coordinate range.
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library
collection and are available from your desktop: Biology
Vivisimo is the name of a new technology product that at first glance appears to be a search engine, a web crawler or a meta search engine; but is none of those. It uses a technique called document clustering to automatically organize documents into meaningful groups. To do this it queries one or more search engines, then parses the results pages to extract documents which are then grouped and displayed in a hierarchical order. The test site (at www.vivisimo.com) has the simple look of Google, a single search box in an empty field with options for advanced searching and help. A search produces a divided screen with named folders on the left side and the first, and broadest document cluster displayed on the right. The results on the right-hand side look very much like Google results. As you click on the named folders in the left frame you instantly see the contents of each folder displayed in the larger right hand frame. This ability to quickly drop into document groups with meaningful relationships is a good way to improve browsing in a fast search environment. Developed at Carnegie-Mellon University, this is a site worth investigating. 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
Editor, Kathy Varjabedian. |
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Current
Index to Statistics has a new Web interface using SQL queries. Try out
this interface by choosing the "Complex Queries Using SQL Engine"
link on the main query site page, 
Landolt-Bornstein,
the seminal data source in physics and chemistry, is available online
at 
The
printed Consolidated Lunar Atlas (CLA; 1967), the 3rd and 4th supplement
to the Photographic Lunar Atlas (1960), was as scarcely distributed as
the main volume was widely disseminated. The consolidated atlas was a
collection of very high quality, loose-leaf photographic prints of all
of the best images taken from Earth-based telescopes. Since it was made
up of photographs, and not printed, this atlas was reproduced in limited
quantities and distributed to members of the space community to support
the upcoming Apollo missions to the Moon. Few intact copies of the CLA
have survived; it has become one of the scarcest of all lunar publications,
with used copies found in some rare-book shops going for thousands of
dollars.