S&E Closed Friday March 30

For the university holiday of Cesar Chavez Day on March 30th, the S&E Library will be closed, along with the other libraries in the Geisel Library building. The Biomedical Library will be open that day from 10 am - 6 pm.

S&E will re-open on Saturday at 10 am. For all the UCSD Libraries hours, consult All Libraries Hours by Week.

Knovel’s University Challenge Continues

Knovel, a database of over 1000 engineering & chemistry online books & numeric scientific data is holding the Spring 2007 University Challenge. Answer the 5 questions correctly and you could win a $1500 Scholarship or one of eight iPod prizes!

Enter by (midnight) Thursday, April 5th.

The questions are chemistry-oriented this time and can be answered by searching Knovel.com, which UCSD licenses for use by students, faculty and staff.

Don’t know Knovel? You should, and we can help. Librarians are available to show your lab, your student club, or your class more about this amazing resource. Or you can try it out on your own when you have engineering and physical sciences questions and need some facts, background info and/or data.

S&E Open Till 2:00 a.m. During Finals

Study late at the Science & Engineering Library during finals week. We’re open until 2:00 am from March 17 through March 22.

Good luck!

Spring Break Reading!!

Looking for some good stuff to read over Spring Break? Here are some options:

• Circuit and the San Diego County Library [NEW]
  Did you know that Circuit, our joint UCSD/SDSU/USD/CSUSM catalog, now includes the San Diego County Library system? You can now see their titles in Circuit (and in many cases, multiple copies of titles), and if there’s a copy available you can request it and have it delivered to the UCSD circulation desk of your choice. More fiction, science fiction and fantasy, mysteries and thrillers, romances, popular nonfiction like crafts and cooking, and (yes) comic books and graphic novels.

• Science & Engineering Library Browsing Collection
  Now with 300+ popular science titles: from math puzzles, to science and pop culture, to the science behind wine and cooking, as well as other current and hot science topics. Here are some recent titles, with a more complete list here.

• Collections at CLICS and BML
  Looking for new fiction, mysteries and thrillers, science fiction or non-fiction? Check out the Popular Reading Collection at CLICS and the Biomedical Library.

UCLA Math Professor - NY Times

UCLA math professor (and Fields winner) Terence Tao is profiled in this week’s New York Times “Scientist At Work” section.

Journeys to the Distant Fields of Prime - free at NYT for 2 weeks (permalink for UCSD). The lecture mentioned in the article is also available as a webcast from UCLA.

Try Alloy Phase Diagram Center Online

We have trial access to ASM’s Alloy Phase Diagram Center Online UCSD Only for March 5 through March 14, 2007. Explore, search and view more than 11,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 2400 systems.

Test it out and tell us if you like it compared to phase diagrams found in Smithells Metals Reference Book on Knovel (www.knovel.com) and Volume 3, Alloy Phase Diagrams of the ASM/Metals Handbook. Contact Deborah Kegel or Teri Vogel or S&E Reference Desk staff if you have any questions.