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             New Mexico Tech Library

Congratulations to new NMT students Ye Shi and Nick Tarasenko, winners of Tech Library’s Bookstore Gift Certificate Raffle. Eighty six students entered the raffle, which was held to encourage new students to take the library’s self guided tour during orientation. Ye won a $50.00 gift certificate, and Nick won a $25.00 prize. Both students were pleased to be winners.

Tech Library would like to welcome our newest staff member, Tom Irion.

As the interlibrary loan clerk, Tom will be assisting Sandra Licata speed the processing of book and journal article requests for Tech students and faculty. Tom is a long-time resident of Socorro, and is enjoying getting to know the library.

It is hard for an academic library to stay current with new fiction, especially when a large part of the budget is targeted to science and technology. This summer, the library staff spent over $400.00 to beef up Tech Library’s fiction collection. We have added over 150 books, including science fiction favorites by authors such as Anthony Piers, Terry Brooks, and David Eddings. So, stop by and see if we have your favorite author. Remember, reading can be a pleasurable experience, as long as you’re not trying to read the six series set of Physics texts.

Serpent and Storm, Marella Sands PS3569.A51966 S45 1999

Your Blues Ain't Like Mine, Bebe Moore Campbell PS3553.A4395 Y68 1995

Man-Kzin Wars V, Larry Niven PS3564.I9 M36 1992

How Stella Got her Groove Back, Terry McMillan PS3563.C3868 H68 1998

Rain: Native Expressions from the Am. Southwest, Ann Marshall E78.S7 M31 2000

The Ringworld Throne, Larry Niven PS3564.I9 R56 1997

Don’t Stand Too Close to a Naked Man, Tim Allen PN6231.M45 A37 1994

Weight Training for Life, James Hesson GV546.H48 2000

Brain Sex: Brain Architecture and the Sexes (3 videos)

The Great Depression (4 videos)

Food Alert! The Ultimate Sourcebook for Food Safety, Morton Satin.

Physics in the 20^th Century, Curt Suplee.

A History of Invention, Trevor I. Williams.

Guide to World Screw Threads, P.A. Sidders

Want to check books out at UNM or NMSU? The Passport Program is your ticket. This program allows you to get a library card, good for the current semester, at UNM or NMSU. Just ask at the circulation desk for a passport, and remember to bring your Tech ID. You will receive a certificate that you can take to the library of your choice. To get a passport, you must be a Tech student, faculty or staff in good standing with NMT Library.

Of course, you are welcome to read materials in UNM and NMSU libraries without a passport. Passports simply allow you to check books out. In the UNM Law Library and Health Center Library, most books are reference materials and cannot be checked out. For more information, ask at the Reference Desk.

The Interlibrary Loan Department obtains books and journal articles from other libraries for NMT students, staff and faculty. For information on using ILL, contact Sandra Licatta at –5173 or email illdept@nmt.edu

Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone, J.K. Rowling

The first in a series of books about a young wizard-in-training, The Sorcerer's Stone is a delightfully magical story for children and adults alike. This series has won numerous awards but the greatest reward is that it is well loved by readers of all ages.

Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors, Ray Manzarek

When I started this book, I was looking for more information on Jim Morrison, not realizing that the book was the autobiography of Ray Manzarek, the Doors keyboard player. Manzarek dedicates the first chapter to the death of Jim Morrison, which to this day remains a mystery. Manzarek suggests a "nobody-actually-saw-the-body-buried conspiracy theory". The life and decadence of Morrison, however, remains unaddressed until the last 1/4 of the book, and that consists of things you have already read if your are a Doors fan. -Joy Thompson

The Onion Field, Joseph Wambaugh

Joseph Wambaugh served ten years with the Los Angeles Police Department. Here he presents a true story of two young police officers whose destinies fatally cross one night in a deserted Los Angeles onion field. There in the field, a bizarre execution takes place, which results in the longest, most intriguing court case in California history. It becomes a tragic parody of Crime and Punishment. The Onion Field is a very powerful book

The Forest People, Colin M. Turnbull

This is Colin Turnbull's best-selling work. It describes his experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies. He conveys their lives and feelings beautifully, describing daily life, customs, and their intense relationship with the rainforest world, which provides for their every need. The BaMbuti have something more than a life just lived, but one that with all its hardships, problems and tragedies, is a wonderful thing of happiness and joy.

Never in Anger: Portrait of an Eskimo Family, Jean L. Briggs

Anthropologist Jean Briggs spent seventeen months living on a remote Arctic shore as the "adopted daughter" of an Eskimo family. Briggs relates a perceptive view of the behavioral patterns of the Utku, their way of raising children and the way they socialize them. Fascinating reading.

The Prostitution Papers: A Candid Dialogue, Kate Millet

Feminist activist and author Kate Millet relates the feminist "movement" and its relevance for prostitutes. She interviews two former prostitutes who relate how they got in and out of prostitution and what life on the street was like. She ends with an informed, negative opinion of the way our criminal justice system deals with prostitutes.

The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice, Kate Millet

The tragic story of a young girl, Sylvia Likens, who was found dead in a basement in 1965. She was starved, mutilated, and covered with cigarette burns. Sylvia had been imprisoned and tortured to death by a gang of teenagers led by a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski. The story is haunting and beyond tragic. The author and the reader are left wondering how man can be so inhumane to man. A very difficult book to read, but a story that has to be told.

Robosapiens, Peter Menzel

Peter Menzel, in collaboration with Faith D’Aluisio, has produced a brilliant photogallery of more than 100 robots along with extensive interviews of robotics pioneers. The new millenium is getting ready for the new race of machines-Robosapiens. Our whole way of living as we know it is about to change with the introduction of human-like robots that will perform all the tedious and time-consuming tasks around the house hitherto done by women. In the scientific community, there is a global race in progress. Its mission is to build an autonomous robot. It will be interesting to see who will be the first to succeed and what kind of an impact this new race of Robosapiens will have on Earth. Will our quality of life really improve? Only time will tell. To learn more about Robosapiens, go to this web site: http://robosapiens.mit.edu/bios.htm

http://www.nbcolympics.com

http://www.sydney2000.com

Follow the Olympic games in Sydney, Australia.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com

Modern Healthcare is a medical journal. At this web site, you can read the current issue or select "archives" in order to search for an article in the older issues. Major areas of coverage are finance, managed care, integrated delivery systems, physician issues, marketing, information systems, technology, politics, plus developments in Washington, state legislatures, regulatory agencies and the courts that affect healthcare providers. The web site also offers "news today" for daily news.

www.sciencewise.com/swscholar/membersrch.htm - Sciencewise.com Scholarships

Running low on money for school? This is an easy way to search for scholarships specifically for science and engineering students. You can search by state, field of study or both through a customized search. You have to be a member to actually look at the scholarship info, but it's free and quick to become a member of Sciencewise. Well worth the effort, especially since it's free, you never know what you might be eligible for.

www.discovery.com - The Discovery Channel

If you like any of these networks: the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Health, and the Travel Channel, you'll love this website. It contains information about all the programming on these channels, plus additional information and links relating to the programming. It also has fun links to the Discovery Channel Store where you can purchase fun science stuff that is great for kids and adults.

www.imdb.com - Internet Movie Database

Although this site has a lot of ads, it also has tons of great information about every movie imaginable. You can get show times for movies at theatres as well as times and channels for movies on TV. It also offers movie reviews, downloadable trailers, links to places to buy movies, and reviews of independent films.

work.panagram.com/OXR/index.html - Oxford Review

Its database of interviews may be small, but the Oxford Review's site has some really neat features. You can download audio files of interviews with authors of recent and famous books. The audio files can be listened to on Realplayer (downloadable from the site). The most recent interviews are listed first but there are archives to access old interviews. Well worth a look!

www.msichicago.org - Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois

This is a really fun site showcasing a really fun museum! You can take virtual tours of the museum's most popular exhibits (including the way cool U-505 Submarine exhibit--if you saw the movie or like submarines, you need to see this exhibit), get info and see photos of all of the museum's over thirty exhibits as well as buy tickets for an actual visit. Even if you've never been to the Museum of Science and Industry, this site will make you want to go.

from "Quotations for Librarians' E-mail Signature Files"

"The more I read, the more questions I have. Every time I pass a library I get an anxiety attack." --SeaQuest DSV episode.

"My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid."

--Joan Bauer (Rules of the Road. Putnam, 1997, p. 142)

"What can I say? Librarians rule."

--Regis Philbin (Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? 17 February 2000)

"Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else."

--Donald Knuth (Quoted in Wired, Nov. 1999, pp. 28-31)

"If you didn't want them to think, you shouldn't have given them library cards."

--Robert Kaufman (Getting Straight, 1970. Line spoken by Elliott Gould as Harry Bailey)

"We must not confuse the thrill of acquiring or distributing information quickly with the more daunting task of converting it into knowledge and wisdom."

--Principles of Technorealism -- Principle 4 (http://www.technorealism.org/)

"In fact a few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000."

--Will Manley (The Truth About Reference Librarians. McFarland, 1996, p. 30)

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly."

--Roger Ebert (Yahoo! Internet Life column, Sept. 1998, p. 66)

Source- The Laughing Librarian

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