August/Sept 2001

A warm welcome to all new and returning students from the staff of New Mexico Tech Library! We look forward to seeing you, please stop by during orientation.

There are many new resources and materials that we hope will be helpful, as well as

some additions and changes to the Library Web page: http://www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/

This is your library, and Library Staff and Student Employees hope to see you soon!

Are You a New Student? Take our self-guided tour.

Learning the basics of what the library has to offer you can be painless and quick. All new students, freshmen, transfers and graduate students are invited to take the library’s self guided tour. If you came to campus in June for your orientation, you are still eligible to participate and earn a free copy card.

Anytime the library is open from Saturday, Aug. 18 through Sunday, Aug. 26, you can take our self-guided tour and earn a free copy card with 15 copies already loaded. The tour, which takes 20 – 30 minutes, gives you a quick introduction to our online catalog, LIBROS, to several sources of journal articles ready to be printed or downloaded, and to some of the building’s features, such as rooms for group study and the snack room.

To begin the self-guided tour, go to the reference/information desk near the front entrance and ask the librarian to give you the tour guide. During evenings this week and over the weekend, go to the circulation desk to obtain your tour guide. After you have completed the tour by following the numbers posted on all 3 floors and reading the explanations in your guide, return to the circulation desk to sign in as a library user and receive your free copy card.

Give yourself some time to learn about library resources and our helpful staff before you are snowed under with assignments. We are here to help you so don’t hesitate to ask questions.

Welcome Students!

Greetings from the Library Director

Hello to returning students, we’re pleased to see you again. Let us know what you’d like the library to do for you.

New students, we look forward to meeting you and learning your interests. We encourage you to learn about our basic services and resources by taking the self-guided tour anytime from Aug. 18 through 26. (See details on page 1 of this Newsletter.)

We want to hear from you. Write up your ideas and drop them in the suggestion box or send them to our Web page (http://www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib). Or send me email.

-Kay Krehbiel, Library Director kkrehbie@admin.nmt.edu

Tech library has seen many changes in staff in the last few months.

Our new Circulation Supervisor, Kathryn Albrecht joined us this summer. Kathy comes to us from Taos Public library where she spent many years.

Moving to Government Documents is Lucinda Whitehorse, who was Night Supervisor in the library.

Joining us this month as new Night Supervisor is Gretchen Stahlman, who could be seen behind the Circulation Desk as a student worker some semesters ago.

Interlibrary Loan announces the imminent arrival of DirectRequest through the OCLC FirstSearch databases. DirectRequest will enable patrons to place requests directly to lending libraries from their campus networked PCs 24 hrs a day. Although ILL will continue to accept the old request formats, ILL Staff believe that most patrons will appreciate the ease with which an order can be placed after locating the citation in the FirstSearch databases. An active ILL icon will appear in the FirstSearch screen about September 1st.

Stop by and speak with Sandy Licata, ILL Library Assistant, or Tom Irion, ILL clerk, for more information about this exciting new development.

Anyone who's ever tried and failed to find a circulating copy of an important dissertation

may find it a bit easier this semester. NMT Interlibrary Loan is now a participant in the

ProQuest Information and Learning program. Call Sandy at X 5173 for more information.

New resources

Better access to information on petroleum engineering and related disciplines

Tech Library can now offer searching in Petroleum Abstracts on the Web. Click on Quick Links in our main page or go to http://www.dialogatsite.com/webCD/CGI.EXE.

Until recently to search in Petroleum Abstracts you were compelled to come to the library reference area and search on compact disk. Now you can search in this database anytime and anywhere as long you log in through your Tech account.

Petroleum Abstracts contains citations with abstracts to worldwide literature and patents on exploration, development and production of petroleum resources. Our subscription covers citations from 1999 to through June 2001 at the moment. Every quarter more citations are added to the database. You can search by words from a list, by subjects, by words in the title or by author and if you choose can limit your search to patent records only.

Once you have a list of citations, you must search in LIBROS to find out if the material is in Tech Library. To find journals search by journal title in LIBROS or in the blue Tech Library Periodicals list. If your citation comes from the AAPG Bulletin, AAPG Special Publications or the Journal of Sedimentary Research (JSP/JSR) you can view the article in full text through the AAPG (Petroleum) which you can reach through Quick Links on our main page.

The library subscription to Petroleum Abstracts is based on one simultaneous user; i.e. only one person at a time from Tech can be logged in. Please remember to logout when you finish your search. If you stop sending searches or do not logout, the system will eventually log you out.

LIBRARY HOURS

Regular Semester hours are:

Monday-Thursday 8am - 12am

Friday 8am - 8pm

Saturday 9am - 10pm

Sunday 9am - 12am

The Library Acquisitions department acquires new and pre-owned books for the Library collection. New titles of interest include:

Introduction to Oncogenes and Molecular Cancer Medicine . - Dennis Ross

Strategic Warfare in Cyberspace. - Greg Rattray

Electrical Engineering:

Basics of Interferometry. - P. Hariharan

Race Car Engineering and Mechanics. - Paul ValValkenburgh

Magic in Ithtar. - Andre Norton & Robert Adams

Art and Faith in New Mexico. - E. Zarur & Charles Lowell

Cases in Competitive Strategy. - Michael Porter

Trading in the Global Currency Markets. - Cornelius Luca

Simulation for the Social Scientist. - Neil Gilbert

Thin Films: Stresses and Mechanical Properties. V.3. - Richard Vinci

Chance in Biology. - Mark Denny

Modern Physics: An Introductory Text. - Jeremy Pfeffer and Shlomo Nir

Manual of Diagnosis and Professional Practice in Mental Retardation - John Jacobson

www.nmt.edu/~nmtlib/ACQUISITIONS/report.html

Tech faculty members request the new books we purchase. If you would like to see books that are more current in your major, let a faculty member in your department know. If you are a new faculty member here at Tech, contact me at joy@nmt.edu. We can meet to discuss the book ordering process.

Congressional Quarterly’s Federal Staff Directory

REF JK723.E9 F44 2001

Encyclopedia of American Political History

REF E183.E48 2001

Hoover’s Handbook of Private Companies

REF HG4057.A28616 2001

International Encylopedia of the Stock Market

REF HG4551.I529 1999

Organizing Black America

REF E185.5.O74 2001

Today’s Science on File

REF Q253.T62

Departments Staff Email Phone #

Library Director Kay Krehbiel kkrehbie@admin.nmt.edu 835-5615

Librarian for Technical

and Public Services Brigitte Schimek PMartinez@admin.nmt.edu 835-5766

Acquisitions Joy Thompson joy@nmt.edu 835-5454

Cataloging Sharon Telles sscott@admin.nmt.edu 835-5740

Circulation Kathy Albrecht KAlbrecht@admin.nmt.edu 835-5201

Evening Circulation Gretchen Stahlman gstahlman@nmt.edu 835-5614

Circulation Helen Zerling hzerling@nmt.edu 835-5614

(Weekend)

Government Louise Dano ldano@nmt.edu 835-5740

Documents

Documents Assistant Lucinda Whitehorse 835-5740

Interlibrary Loan Sandra Licata slicata@admin.nmt.edu 845-5173

ILL Clerk Tom Irion tirion@admin.nmt.edu 835-5173

Periodicals Tony Telles ttelles@admin.nmt.edu 835-5283

Special Projects Tom McCord gumby@nmt.edu 835-5614

Reference Desk 835-5891