Civil Engineering Library News

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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 selection of new books of possible interest to Civil Engineers from October 2009.

New Books at Walter (October Edition):

Numerical Methods for Engineers (6th Edition)
By Steven Chapra and Raymond Canale
TA345 .C47 2010
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Spreadsheet Tools for Engineers Using Excel ® 2007
By Byron Gottfried
TA345 .G6832 2009
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A First Course in the Finite Element Method (4th Edition)
By Daryl L. Logan
TA347.F5 L64 2007
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Reliability Methods for Finite Element Models
By Mohammadreza Rajabalinejad
TA347.F5 R34 2009
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Sloshing
By Odd M. Faltinsen and Alexander N. Timokha
TA357.5.S57 F35 2009
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Stochastic Dynamics of Structures
By Jie Li and Jianbing Chen
TA654 .L487 2009
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Environmental Calculations: A Multimedia Approach
By Robert G. Kunz
TD192 .K86 2009
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The Dawn of Green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
By Harriet Ritvo
TD264.M3 R58 2009
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Water Resources: Efficient, Sustainable and Equitable Use
By Wolfram Mauser
TD345 .M2713 2007
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Texturing Concrete Pavement
By Jim W. Hall
TE7 .N25 634
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Construction and Maintenance Practices for Permeable Friction Courses
TE7 .N25 640
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Geology and Properties of Earth Materials, 2009
TE7 .H5 no.2101
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Geomaterials 2009
TE7 .H5 no.2104
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Cathodic Protection for Life Extension of Existing Reinforced Concrete Bridge Elements
By Ali Akbar Sohanghpurwala
TE153 .S96x 398
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Nanofluidics
By Patrick Abgrall and Nam-Trung Nguyen
TJ853.4.M53 A24 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!