November 2009 Archives

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Walter Library will have shortened hours this week including being closed on Thursday and Friday of this week (November 26 and 27).

The library will open again on Saturday. Reference services will start up on Monday.

Here's the full schedule for the weekend:
11/25 (W) 8:00 am- 6:00 pm
11/26 (Th) CLOSED
11/27 (F) CLOSED
11/29 (Sa) 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
11/30 (Su) 12:00 pm - 12:00 am

Enjoy the long weekend!

Here's a list of books that we purchased for the Physical Science and Engineering Library in October that may be of interest to Biomedical Engineering.

New Books From October

Modern Techniques for Circular Dichroism and Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: Volume 1 Advances in Biomedical Spectroscopy
By B.A. Wallace and R.W. Janes
QP519.9.C57 M63 2009
Check Availability.

Bioethics and the New Embryology: Springboards for Debate
By Scott Gilbert, Ann Tyler, and Emily Zackin
RG133.5 .G555 2005
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Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers Using Excel ® 2007
By Byron Gottfried
TA345 .G6832 2009
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The Science and Engineering of Cutting: The Mechanics and Processes of Separating, Scratching and Puncturing Biomaterials, Metals and Non-metals
By Tony Atkins
TA407 .A85 2009
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Fundamentals and Applications of Nanomaterials
By Zhen Guo and Li Tan
TA418.9.N35 G86 2009
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Optofluidics: Fundamentals, Devices, and Applications
By Yeshaiahu Fainman, Luke Lee, Demetri Psaltis, and Changhuei Yang
TJ853.4.O68 O684 2010
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If you've accessed Google Scholar in the past few days you may have noticed some changes.

For those of you new to Google Scholar--it's a Google search engine that allows you to search for scholarly material. And they've now added the ability to include patents in the search results in Google Scholar.

Google also has a search engine that searches only patents and patent applications at Google Patents.

To learn more about the changes you might want to read this blog post.

If you're interested in learning more about some of Google's uses for research check out the new online version of the Walter Library Workshop: Google for Researchers. (Note: The workshop is still in beta--if you have any feedback feel free to send me an email or leave a comment below.)

And don't forget when using Google Scholar to link it to the University of Minnesota's rich online journal collection.

The University Libraries will be hosting a Library Information Fair as part of International Education Week.

The event will be on Monday, November 16, from 11:00-1:00 in Walter Library 101.

Library staff will be available to introduce you to different tools and resources or answer any questions you have about conducting library research.

And there will be cookies (while supplies last).

All are welcome...feel free to stop by and ask a bunch of questions or just drop in and grab a cookie.

For more information you can visit our website.

See you on Monday!

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There are still a few spots open in Wednesday's Google for Researchers class that I'll be co-teaching at Walter Library. The class starts at 2:30.

We let the class decide what gets covered from a variety of topics including Google Scholar, Google Books, iGoogle, Google Docs, Google Patents, and more!

To register for this class visit our website.

Here are the full details:

Google For Researchers
Walter Library 310
Wednesday, November 11
2:30-3:30
Register here.

Here's a list of books that were added to the Physical Science and Engineering Library collection in September 2009. To see the complete list visit our New Books Website.

New Biomedical Engineering Books

1.) Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method: Theory and Applications in Engineering
By Yijun Liu
TA347.B69 L585 2009
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2.) Quantum-dot and Nanoparticle Bioconjugates - Tools for Sensing and Biomedical Imaging
TA401 .M37x v.1064
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3.) Essential Cell Biology
By Bruce Alberts, Dennis Bray, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, and Peter Walter
QH581.2 .E78 2010
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4.) Advances in Biomedical and Biomimetic Materials: Ceramic Transactions
Edited by Roger Narayan, P.N. Kumta, and W.R. Wagner
R857.M3 A38 2009
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5.) Proceedings of the 4th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference--2009: Cardiovascular, Orthopedics, Advanced Technology, Posters: Presented at the 4th Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference and Exhibition, June 6-8,
New York, N.Y.: ASME, c2009.
R857.M3 F67 2009
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