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News from the Science-Technology Division

Science-Technology Division Nevenka Zdravkovska, Chair The objectives of the Science-Technology Division shall be to draw together those members of the Special Libraries Association having an interest in the role of library and information science as applied to the recording, retrieval and dissemination of knowledge and information in all areas of science and technology, and to promote and improve the communication, dissemination and use of such knowledge for the benefit of libraries and their users.’

Colleagues: I hope everyone’s summer is recognition of their outstanding going well, and those who made it to Van- work in digitizing older STN is- couver are implementing what they learned, sues and making them available online; and communicating with new acquaintances/ Helen Josephine, Vendors Relations Chair, colleagues, and cherishing the wonderful in recognition of her dedication to securing memories of beautiful Vancouver. I am very sponsors for our programs. Congratulations pleased to have seen many of you. Our pro- to all awards recipients!!!! grams were very well attended and we received very positive feedback. The Executive This year the SciTech Division Tour again Board reviewed the feedback at its meeting had a very successful sold out tour. Our co- on July 8th, and used the feedback to shape ordinator, Benice Koh did an incredible job the SciTech Division program for 2015. De- organizing the visits of TRIUMF (Canada’s tails on the programs and the online feed- national laboratory for particle and nuclear back we received are below. physics), UBC, Museum of Anthropology, and the Irving K Barber Learning Centre, New this year was the Reception and Awards on Wednesday, June 11, 8:30am-4:30pm. Ceremony. Many of you came to celebrate the IEEE sponsored the bus. Feedback was posi- 90th anniversary of our Division, enjoyed the tive: one person liked diversity of locations tasty finger-foods and drinks of your choice, visited, and time with colleagues; another met colleagues, made new friends, and last said: “way cool; I raved about everything but not least, congratulated our award win- I saw to my colleagues when I got back.” ners at Mahony & Sons restaurant at Burrard One person noted that they would have liked Landing, overlooking the bay. The slide show more time in the digitization lab. projected on the large monitor contributed to the festivities. Many of you suggested that Also new this year, the SciTech Division this should become our new tradition, and conducted its first online Business meeting 2015 planners took note of that. on May 15th at 12:00 pm (noon) EST via GoToWebinar. Many of you registered and at- At the event, we handed the S. Kirk Cabeen tended this meeting. We experienced some Student Travel Stipend Award to Alesia technical difficulties, but overall we were Rudnitskaya, the Bonnie Hilditch Interna- able to cover many topics. Minutes of the tional Librarian Award to Niamh Tumelty, meeting are posted to the SciTech Division the Diane K. Foster International Student website, under Important Documents, at the Travel Award to Beth Wishart, and the Ann following link: http://scitech.sla.org/about- Koopman Sci-Tech Division Achievement the-division/important-documents/. Award to Mary Frances Lembo and James Manasco. I also recognized the Advisory The Professional Development Committee Board members with Certificates of Appre- had a very successful presentation: “From ciation, as well as recognition of longtime Literature Searching to Literature Analysis: members with Longevity Certificates and ac- How to Create Insight with Search Results,” knowledgment of retired members. Last but presented by Deborah Keller. Kudos to the not least, I awarded four Impossible Awards; chair Mary Frances Lembo for the successful recipients included: Roger Beckman, Jer- organization. About 200 people attended the emy Cusker and Christine Malinowski in April 29th webinar. Slides of the presenta-

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tion are posted on the division website. At dian Scientists Contributing in the Open the Business meeting in May there was some Access arena of Bio Medical & Allied Sci- discussion about having a more advanced ences program in the future. • Ye Li; Leena Lalwani, University of Mich- igan: Resources for Chemical Substance ****** Data : “Small” Data and Big Data Congratulations to SciTech Division mem- • Diane M. Leblond; William D. T. Griffin, bers who presented at the contributed pa- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, pers sessions: National Center for Environmental As- • Dr. P K Jain (Institute of Economic sessment, Research Triangle Park, NC: Growth, Delhi, India): Leaders in Librari- How to be a HERO: The Need for Biblio- anship: Role of Special Libraries Associa- graphic Control tion in Asia (Sunday, 8 June 2014) • William Jacobs, University of Miami: • Jennifer L. Clark (Graduate School of Driving Library Use and Consultations Library and Information Science, Uni- Through Class Syllibi versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, • Christine Malinowski, Lewis & Clark Champaign, IL), and Andrea L. Ogier, College: Science in the News: The Role of Center for Digital Research and Scholar- the Science Librarian in Introducing Me- ship, University Libraries, Virginia Tech, dia Literacy Concepts to Undergraduate Blacksburg, VA: Catching up to Corpo- Students rate: Creating a Data Science Culture in • Louise Deis, Princeton University: Visu- Academia (Tuesday, 10 June 2014) alizations of astrophysical data • Jeffra Bussmann, California State Uni- ***** versity-East Bay and Jeff Bond, Texas Congratulations to the SciTech Members for Christian University: Are the Information presenting at the contributed All Sciences Literacy Needs of Math Undergraduates Poster session. Note: All posters from the Being Met? 2014 All Sciences Poster session will be avail- • Stephen B. Alayon (Southeast Asian able at the SciTech Division website: http:// Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC), scitech.sla.org/all-sciences-2014-posters/ Aquaculture Dept.) Elvi S. Nemiz, Daryl L. Superio, Jesserylle G. de la Peña: Map- • Dr. Susmita Chakraborty, University of ping the Distribution, Use and Visibility of Calcutta; Dr. P K Jain, Institute of Eco- Publications and Library Services: Library nomic Growth: Beyond the Border: In- Initiatives Beyond Boarders

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Science-Technology Division New Members Submitted by Anna Ren, Membership Committee Chair, Science-Technology Division

The Science-Technology Division welcomes its new members:

John Conover Joshua Horowitz Chauvin, LA New York, NY USA USA

Jane DeHaven Greg Krewski Flemington, NJ Burnaby, BC USA Canada

Rachel Desormes Amani Magid Golden, CO Doha USA Qatar

Stuart Gagnon Martina Rising Takoma Park, MD Hudson, WI USA USA

Mira Geffner Mountain View, CA USA

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SciTech Division 2014 Vancouver Programs and Feedback Shared by Nevenka Zdravkovska, Chair, SciTech Division

Session: When powerhouses merge: Librarians and vendor perspectives Tuesday, June 10, 11-12:00pm

When a large publisher acquires a smaller one, who benefits? Libraries? Users? Publishers? We will hear from interested parties – vendors and librarians

Speakers: Ella Balagula, Knovel, SVP, Engineering & Technology; Jennifer Chang, Global Director, CDI & Mendeley, Elsevier; Helen Josephine, Stanford University

Attendance: 30-40

Survey Responses Overview:

Rating Average

I will be able to apply what I learned to my own work 4.25

The topic was appropriate for a Sci-Tech audience 4.75

The program was focused on a timely topic 4.50

The slides and or audio/visual aids were of high quality 4.63

The session description was accurate 4.50

The information content of the session was excellent 4.38

The presenter(s) of the session was (were) extremely knowledgeable about the topic 4.63

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Number of Respondents

N/A Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree Rating = 0 Rating = 1 Rating = 2 Rating = 3 Rating = 4 Rating = 5

Survey Respondent Comments:

What I liked the most about this program: speakers on the maybe not as rosy as de- • extremely relevant to my work picted future for these products in terms • Balance of perspectives with vendors of how they will be priced in the future, speaking and then a librarian highlighting how they will be served, etc her experiences in a constructively criti- • Through no fault of the organizers, I cal way think, the session just wasn’t that inter- • open discussion esting. Mendeley in particular felt like a sales pitch. The program could have been better if: • needed a “respondent” to grill the vendor

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Session: Computer Science Roundtable (co-host, DIT Lead) Monday, 9 June, 12:00 to 1:30 pm

Join your colleagues to share best practices and learn about new technologies and resources impacting computer science professionals, faculty, and collections. Bring your ideas and questions to this interactive session.

Survey Responses Overview: Rating Average

I will be able to apply what I learned to my own work 4.45

The topic was appropriate for a Sci-Tech audience 4.60

The program was focused on a timely topic 4.36

The slides and or audio/visual aids were of high 4.00 quality

The session description was accurate 4.27

The information content of the session was excellent 4.30

The presenter(s) of the session was (were) extremely knowledgeable about the topic 4.38

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Number of Respondents

N/A Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree Rating = 0 Rating = 1 Rating = 2 Rating = 3 Rating = 4 Rating = 5

Survey Respondent Comments:

What I liked the most about this program: • learning and troubleshooting common issues • It provided a good opportunity to network with a diverse set of colleagues. with colleagues and meet other information professionals professionals The program could have been better if: • I liked the unconference-style approach to • Topics were assigned in advance of the pro- topic selection. I also liked that a number of gram to be reviewed so participants could audience members and presenters participat- contribute more thoroughly ed, which helped us avoid the pitfall of having • I’m on the fence about whether the session a few voices dominate the discussion. could have benefited from the inclusion of • it’s an unconference type session where par- breakout sessions. ticipants came up with the topics. it allowed • there was lunch since it took place at noon. for a range of topic to be covered in one set- • there was more discussion and time for ques- ting. tions. • It was great to have a dedicated session for • They brought some possible topics ahead of computer science, without taking away from time and asked if we wanted to discuss any the other PAM roundtables. of those in addition to the ones we brain- • Discussion of collection development and out- stormed. We brainstormed ideas which is reach and instruction issues good, but sometimes you don’t think of every • Open discussion topic you are interested in at the moment. • The comp sci roundtable is always a crap- • need a different topic in 2015 shoot. Sometimes its about outreach to comp • There’s always a portion of this session that sci faculty, sometimes its about coding. This bores me senseless. It would be good to for- year it leaned in the direction of my interest mally separate the two parts so I can wander which was good. off during that bit.

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Session: Science and Engineering 101 Sunday, June 8, 3:30-5:00pm

In 2014 in 101 join Mary Frances and James as they celebrate their 10th anniversary with retrospective survey of past sessions including their favorite sources, with updates, and their favorite memories, including the infamous patent session

Presenters: Mary Frances Lembo and James Manasco Sponsors: SPIE, CRCNetBase Attendance: 50-60

Rating Survey Responses Overview: Average

I will be able to apply what I learned to my own 4.64 work

The topic was appropriate for a Sci-Tech audience 5.00

The program was focused on a timely topic 4.82

The slides and or audio/visual aids were of high 4.64 quality

The session description was accurate 4.82

The information content of the session was 4.91 excellent

The presenter(s) of the session was (were) 5.00 extremely knowledgeable about the topic

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Number of Respondents

N/A Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree Rating = 0 Rating = 1 Rating = 2 Rating = 3 Rating = 4 Rating = 5 Survey Respondent Comments:

What I liked the most about this program: tably, so maybe I missed if they mentioned • Presenters were great MathSciNet, the major math database. • The format used for presenting the material and the conversations between the present- The program could have been better if: ers made the information even more interest- • Room was too large ing and memorable • N/A • Lovely presentation styles and a bit of fun • Not really a comment on the session, which while also giving a gentle introduction to Sci- was great: I was nearly put off by the de- ence/Engineering resources for newbies like scription, expecting something more nostal- myself gic and less useful to a first-timer. I’m very • Always great! glad I went along anyway! • update of new sources • handout of new sources. I will need to find • anecdotes about each conference. the slides online. • Humorous presenters, lots of new, unfamiliar • over drinks the anecdotes would have been resources to me, a math librarian. fantastic! • The presenters were humorous, and since • I didn’t have to fill this out twice, but may- I’m a librarian at a math institute, and not be you got my first submission? And if I had in the other sciences, I learned a lot of knew arrived earlier - my fault - maybe you men- resources, and gained a greater appreciation tioned MathSciNet, Zentralblatt, and some for electronic databases resources. The talk math sites, but I was late. was funny and cool. I came in late, regret- • It was great, no way to make it better.

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Session: Staying in the game – New roles for libraries in research support (co- host, FAN lead) Sunday, June 8, 3:30-5:00 pm

Join us for an engaging, multi-perspective panel discussion on new directions in scholarly communications, measuring research impact and the library’s role in research support. Some questions that will be addressed are: How are libraries supporting faculty in traditional measures of citation metrics? What tools are available to help libraries and faculty measure impacts beyond the scholarly citation? How do altmetrics impact the landscape of scholarly communication? How are faculty using social media to communicate their research effectively and broadly? Our three panelists will bring their own unique perspectives to the discussion, moderated by Luti Salisbury, chemistry librarian at University of Arkansas).

Hosting Units: Food, Agriculture and Nutrition Division (Lead), SciTech Division, Military Libraries Division, Social Science Division Speakers: Mike Buschman (Plum Analytics), Elaine Lasda Bergman (SUNY-Albany), and Steven Roberts (professor of aquatic science at University of Washington) Sponsors: McGraw Hill, ACS

Rating Survey Responses Overview: Average

I will be able to apply what I learned to my own work 3.60

The topic was appropriate for a Sci-Tech audience 4.30

The program was focused on a timely topic 4.30

The slides and or audio/visual aids were of high 4.00 quality

The session description was accurate 3.20

The information content of the session was excellent 3.60

The presenter(s) of the session was (were) 4.20 extremely knowledgeable about the topic

0 2 4 6 8 10 Number of Respondents

N/A Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree Rating = 0 Rating = 1 Rating = 2 Rating = 3 Rating = 4 Rating = 5 Survey Respondent Comments:

What I liked the most about this program: None of it was directly tied to librarians’ • The faculty presenter. It is very important daily lives. to have faculty perspectives in addition to • anyone actually talked about how librar- library and vendor/publisher perspectives ians could “stay in the game.” • The professional researcher’s prospective • There had been more focus on the puta- and his tools. tive topic of librarian invovlement in sup- • The timeliness and inherent interest of porting research. Libraries didn’t come up the topic and the quality of the speakers. at all which was awfully frustrating. Leav- ing some time for the librarians there to The program could have been better if: discuss this, not just ask questions of the • I thought the title was very misleading. panel, would have been welcome.

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Session: The Science & Politics of Sustainable Seafood (co-host, DBIO lead) Sunday, June 8, 1:30-3:00

Fish and shellfish provide a vital source of protein and essential fatty acids for the human diet around the world. They are wild caught or aquacultured at the rate of 150 million tons annually by industrial fleets and farm operations nominally regulated by national govern- ments which have often have drastically diverging interests from those of other nations with whom they must share the seas. Many species are endangered, some aquaculture practices have been found hazardous to the environment, and the livelihood of small-scale, subsis- tence fishermen everywhere is imperiled. Corrective multinational seafood conservation treaties require massive data compilation & the development of an international scientific & political consensus on best practices. But informed consumers making wise choices in the market may well be the most influential factor in making seafood a sustainable resource. Information professionals have an important role to play at every step of the process.

Lead Unit: DBIO Sponsor: Annual Reviews

Survey Responses Overview:

Rating Average

I will be able to apply what I learned to my own 3.33 work

The topic was appropriate for a Sci-Tech audience 4.67

The program was focused on a timely topic 4.67

The slides and or audio/visual aids were of high 4.00 quality

The session description was accurate 4.67

The information content of the session was 4.67 excellent

The presenter(s) of the session was (were) 4.50 extremely knowledgeable about the topic

0 1 2 3 Number of Respondents

N/A Strongly Disagree Disagree Neutral Agree Strongly Agree Rating = 0 Rating = 1 Rating = 2 Rating = 3 Rating = 4 Rating = 5

Survey Respondent Comments:

What I liked the most about this program: need to have more of these, or have a • Topic was timely and speakers were ap- component of it in every presentation. propriate for the audience and had an excellent grasp of the topic The program could have been better if: • good topic on timely subject even if not • few more speakers to offer other view- directly related to my work points • Environmental/Sustainability topic- we

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Session: Academic Libraries: Supporting innovation and entrepreneurship SPOT- LIGHT SESSION, Tuesday, June 10, 8:00 -9:30am

Academic institutions are increasingly focusing on fostering innovation and entrepreneurship. In reference to their recent White Paper, Entrepreneurship Education Comes of Age on Campus, the Kauffman Foundation notes, “Entrepreneurship, one of the fastest-growing subjects in today’s undergraduate curricula, has moved from the margins of higher education to the mainstream.” Libraries are well placed to support the incubation of ideas and creativity, both of which are integral to innovation and start-up culture, by opening up their spaces and expanding their services, and in fact, many already are. The speakers will discuss the shift in pedagogy taking place on campuses and the librarians on the panel will share how their libraries partnered with other stakeholder groups as well as, in some cases, outside corporate partners to support academic and community entrepreneurs. Examples include the University of Maryland’s Innovation Office Hours at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Library and library-led business start-up incubators.

Speakers: Gary White, Associate Dean for Public Services, University of Maryland Libraries; Donovan Woollard, Head of ventures for RADIUS; Aleha McCauley, BA, MLIS, Community Engagement Librarian (Business Services), University of British Columbia Library, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Co-host: Academic Division Sponsor: Wiley Attendance: 120-140

Survey Responses Overview: Rating Average

I will be able to apply what I learned to my own work 4.13

The topic was appropriate for a Sci-Tech audience 4.50

The program was focused on a timely topic 4.63

The slides and or audio/visual aids were of high 4.50 quality

The session description was accurate 4.63

The information content of the session was excellent 4.50

The presenter(s) of the session was (were) extremely knowledgeable about the topic 4.63

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Survey Respondent Comments:

What I liked the most about this program: The program could have been better if: • interesting topic • I would have liked a “devil’s advocate” to • The different directions/support that aca- question the speakers on the cons of the demic libraries are employing in support ideas they are proposing/implementing of this concept. • Not at 8 am. More time for Q&A • three different view points.

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Session: Reproducible Research: a path for boosting science in the 21st century, Monday, June 9, 10-11:30am

What does it really mean for research to be Reproducible? How realistic is it? Is it of sufficient importance to overcome the difficult nature of it? To what extent might researchers need to alter their work practices? What are the incentives for the scientists? Get the an- swers to these questions.

Presenters: Ian Mitchell, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of British Columbia; Jennifer Bryan, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and the Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia Co-host: PAM Sponsors: ACS, Elsevier, Morgan & Claypool, WorldScientific Attendance: 70-80

Survey Responses Overview: Rating Average I will be able to apply what I learned to my own work 4.43

The topic was appropriate for a Sci-Tech audience 4.73

The program was focused on a timely topic 4.64

The slides and or audio/visual aids were of high quality 4.57

The session description was accurate 4.33

The information content of the session was excellent 4.60

The presenter(s) of the session was (were) extremely knowledgeable about the topic 4.73

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What I liked the most about this program: a statistician see it. • Mitchell and Bryan raised a very funda- • good topic mental question: what is reproducible • The presentations were interesting and research? They gave a new kind of an- the topic was very relevant swer, based on a notion of practical re- • This program was AMAZING. Best I’ve producibility of data analysis and statisti- seen in a long time. The presenters’ info cal analysis. This extends the traditional was timely and gave great insights from concept of experimental or observational an “in the field” perspective. reproducibility. The problem of data and • Just what I needed for my job. statistical reproducibility will set the goal • the information is very timely and rele- for much of the future work by librarians, vant. the presenters are current research- and it is very useful to get a sketch of ers and can give a different perspective the problem as a computer scientist and for librarians trying to understand anoth-

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er point of view. tire conference devoted to this topic. • it was timely, as more grants and insti- • more practical examples given tutions are requiring data be open and • N/A available. • From the description, I didn’t realize that • Real scientists. the session would be focused primarily • Need more about problems with research on computational research. This was a data, analyzing big data. The analytical big plus, and I wouldn’t have waffled as tools being used today are new and un- much about whether or not to go if I’d tested so headines are questionable. known. • Software Carpentry • Na • It was a very engaging talk covering two • the slides were made widely available af- different perspectives on a quite interest- terwards. ing topic. Plus there was the takeaway • it had been at a more advanced level; of the software carpentry seminar that I it was too introductory without asking might bring to my campus. questions about the methods and solu- • Interesting topic! I learned alot! The only tions being worked on to reproduce re- un-reproducible research I had heard search and data. about before this talk was in psychology • More time. experiments. • A little more time for Q&A • I liked it as it was. The program could have been better if: • presenters stated at the beginning wheth- • Anything that is informative at all can be er their slides were (going to be) online. more informative. There could be an en-

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News from the Chemistry Division

Chemistry Division Valerie Tucci, Chair

The Chemistry Division is concerned with chemistry and chemical technology, and the economics, educational advances, and information handling of developments in the field of chemistry and related subjects.

Marion E. Sparks Award Recipient SLA 2014 Report by Tina Qin

Thanks to the Chemistry Division’s Marion E. mend them enough. Sparks Award, I was able to attend the SLA 2014 annual conference in beautiful Vancou- There were so many great workshop ses- ver. I graduated with my MLS degree and sions to choose from. I opted to take the have been working as a science librarian at most relevant to my job position as a chem- Michigan State University Libraries since last istry librarian. Therefore, the workshops fall. I feel grateful and for the opportunity to were tightly planned in my calendar. “Analy- attend this international conference. sis of Patent and Other Large Bibliograph- ic Data Sets” presented by Caitlin Kortuem The open general session presentation by from St. Catherine University, Jean-Baptise John Wilbanks was inspiring and entertain- Porier from Intellixir LLC and Claire Stokes ing. I was also amazed by the accomplish- from 3M introduced visualization techniques ments the award receivers had achieved. and information retrieval in bibliographic, While I was discovering chemistry informa- patent and information-rich web content. tion and also meeting with professionals in This workshop offered me a chance to un- this field, I joined the Chemistry Division and derstand the role of a librarian in promoting Materials Research & Manufacturing Section. data virtualization and analysis in the tech- There were plenty of opportunities for first- nical space. Having been shown the value of timers like me. We started with the newcom- patent information, I would like to introduce ers welcome dinner, where I met more than patent resources and search strategies into fifty academic and corporate librarians from the library I am currently working at. US and Canada. On the DCHE/DENG Break- fast and Corporate/ Academic Roundtable “My View – Scientific Open Access” was a on Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN), I panel session hosted by Matthew Von Hendy learned that ELN is an effective and conve- from Green Heron information Services and nient tool to use in traditional laboratory, at several speakers from publishers and ven- the same time, the new model of lab note- dors. There are continuing debates and dis- book raises challenges and more questions. I cussions of scientific open access. Through felt the presentations and discussions among this session, I gained an understanding of the experienced colleagues are invaluable to the status of open access and the challeng- me as a new librarian and I cannot recom- es both the library and publisher sides face.

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Some major science publishers have created on the harbor. Just a few minutes’ walk, we their own OA journals. could reach Gastown, a national historic site in Vancouver, where I enjoyed a wonderful In the All Sciences Poster session, I pre- dinner at the Water Street Café and met with sented a poster ”a Case Study of Data man- Chemistry Division members for the first agement for Librarians” that drew attention time. I am grateful to the Chemistry Division from people from many types of library infor giving me this opportunity to learn from stitutions. It was also a great opportunity and connect others in my field. I specially to network and share ideas with individuals thank to the colleagues who organized and conducting research in a similar field. presented plentiful invaluable information. I am looking forward to the SLA conference The conference venue could not be more next year, and meeting them again in Bos- beautiful and the convention center is right ton.

Materials Research & Manufacturing Section New Members Submitted by Bette Finn, Materials Research & Manufacturing Section

The Materials Research & Manufacturing Section of the Chemistry Division Welcomes Its New Member:

Stephanie Handy 3909 Wakefield Lane Bowie, MD 20715

Rachel Sharrow Librarian, Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems 7323 Aviation Blvd Baltimore, MD 21240

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News from the Engineering Division

Engineering Division Andrew Shimp, Chair

The objectives of the Engineering Division are to provide an association for those having an interest in library and information science as they apply to engineering and the physical sciences and to promote the use of materials and knowledge for the benefit of libraries and other educational organizations.

The beautiful Pacific Northwest city of Van- Finally I would like to ex- couver served as an excellent venue for the press my sincere gratitude 2014 conference. The spectacular harbor to the Engineering Division views from the Vancouver Convention Cen- sponsors. Their support al- tre created a perfect setting for the Engi- lows us to recognize outstanding Division neering Division’s programs. I would like to members and provide travel stipends to the thank our section chairs, session moderators Annual Conference. With their generosity, and speakers. A special thank you goes to we fund conference sessions and offer free our 2014 Program Planner, Beth Thomsett- or reduced cost Conference events. Scott. Several division members volunteered to summarize the sessions and their reports The list of our sponsors and the award or will follow. Please note that slides and other program they supported this year is provided presentation materials when available can be below. Sponsors are selective when choosing found on the Online Planner at http://www. programs to fund and we are honored that sla.org/2014-online-planner/ under the indi- they chose Engineering Division events. vidual session.

Sponsor Award or Program Sponsored Sponsorship Level ASME Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon Terabyte • Crossing Boundaries Association of Computing • Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon Terabyte Machinery • Science & Engineering 101 • Crossing Boundaries • Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon IEEE • Science & Engineering 101 Terabyte • Standards Update • Continuing Education Stipend • Aerospace Section Breakfast • Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon IHS Terabyte • Standards Update • Engineering Librarian of the Year Award McGraw-Hill Education Engineering Café Terabyte SAE International Engaging Users with Technology Terabyte American Institute of Aero- • Aerospace Section Breakfast Gigabyte nautics and Astronautics • Crossing Boundaries Momentum Press SLA Annual Conference Grant Gigabyte • Aerospace Section Breakfast Sage Publications Gigabyte • Crossing Boundaries Thomas Reuters -- • Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon Gigabyte Techstreet • Standards Update Access Copyright Standards Update Megabyte ASCE Standards Update Megabyte

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Sponsor Award or Program Sponsored Sponsorship Level ASTM International Standards Update Megabyte ICE Publishing Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon Megabyte SPIE Library Student Travel Stipend Megabyte Taylor & Francis/CRC Press Crossing Boundaries Megabyte Basch Subscriptions, Inc. Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon Kilobyte Elsevier Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon Kilobyte IOP Publishing Luncheon Raffle prizes Kilobyte Morgan & Claypool Engineering Business Meeting & Luncheon Kilobyte Architecture, Building Engineering, ProQuest Dialog Kilobyte Construction and Design Section Launch

2014 Annual Conference Session Standards Technology Group: Reports Dave Walsh http://www.stgnet.net/

Standards Update New company, both an aggregator and an (Sunday, June 8, 1:30-3:00pm) online software solution for SDOs wishing Reported by Peter Moon and Sabina Tannen- to outsource access and delivery of content baum with a cost-effective business model. Many small to moderately sized SDOs have large About 45 people attended this fast-paced economic hurdles to address in moving to session which has been part of the SLA An- web-based (digital) environments. STG can nual Conference for the past 26 years. Here help facilitate that change using “plug and is a summary of presentations. Any errors play” options for the smaller SDOs. are our own. CSA Group (Canadian Standards Asso- ASCE (American Society of Civil Engi- ciation): neers): Patti Ensor http://www.csagroup.org/us/ Bill Nara http://ascelibrary.org/ en/home

ASCE publishes 70 voluntary standards, CSA Group now has over 3,000 standards many of which were picked up by state build- available. The CSA Group started in Cana- ing codes. Of note: da in 1919. Last year, CSA launched their • ASCE-7 2010, Minimum design loads for Communities of Interest (COI), an interac- buildings and other structures, now in its tive, online community that started out in third printing, with supplemental infor- four areas of interest. After a year of col- mation and commentary available free laborating between members, industry ex- online. Standard development cycles are perts, various stakeholders and CSA Group six years, so the next year of issue will staff, Patti reported the participation level be 2016. is now at 21,000 in eight different commu- • The new ASCE-41 2013, Seismic evalu- nities: Electrical; Fuel Burning; Healthcare ation and retrofit of existing buildings, Safety & Accessibility; Occupational Health which incorporates ASCE 31, Seismic & Safety; Oil & Gas; Nuclear; Sustainabil- evaluation of existing buildings. ASCE ity; and Construction & Engineering). CSA works with EBSCOstore, E-brary, Tech- hopes that people will go online to Connect, street, IHS, ANSI, MadCad, and SAI Share and Collaborate! https://community. Global to bring critical standards closer to csagroup.org the public for their use. These standards are also DRM-free (digital rights management).

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IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Elec- Manufacturers Association), BOMA, GANA tronics Engineers): (Glass Association of North America), and Angela Trilli http://www.ieee.org/publica- other SDOs in print and PDF, with multi-user tions_standards/index.html PDF licensing options. Techstreet has added about 130 customers each year for the last 5000 active, archived, and draft IEEE stan- few years. dards are available to IEEEXplore and IEL subscribers and also through TechStreet and ASTM (American Society for Testing and IHS. IEEE Color Book series is being reorga- Materials): nized into a new set of standards in the 3000 John Pace http://www.astm.org/Standard/ series, “disassembled” so that specific rec- standards-and-publications.html ommendations and standards can advance more quickly than if the series remained in ASTM is hip in the eyes of heavy metal music book form. Recent new standards include aficionados, with the publishing of the new 3001.5 on power distribution apparatus, metal song by Carcass known as “Noncom- 1584.1 on arc-flash hazard calculation, and pliance to ASTM F 899-12 Standard.” ASTM 802.15.4 on local and metropolitan area net- has begun converting standards to XML for- works. IEEE recently announced the 100th mat for improved flexibility. New portal in- anniversary of the NESC; preprint of 2017 troduced this year, ASTM Compass. Every- NESC will become available in September thing is available on one platform – books, for commentary. The new IEEE “Smart Grid manuals, e-learning, standards. There is a Research Program” focuses on five technical “view-only” capability (similar to NFPA), can areas: power, computing, control systems, search in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and vehicular technology, and communications. Chinese, redlined standards are offered, enhanced redline coming. Notes, annotations, ASME (American Society of Mechanical and e-mail capabilities available through Engineers): the portal. 200 videos available as training Michael Rovins https://www.asme.org/ tools and custom videos can be developed shop?cm_re=Home-_-GlobalHeader-_- for training purposes. ASTM International Shop%20ASME Directory of Testing Laboratories is being re-launched as a free, online searchable di- ASME BPVC (Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code) rectory. ASTM has developed test methods book sets are now issued every other year with ACI and coordinated programs with with next edition due in 2015. Growth for Gazprom and ISO. There will be more joint ASME is in the academic community, espe- development with other organizations in the cially in South America and China. ASME future. Updating look, feel, and functionality has published a new book titled: Primer on of Web site. Relaxing policy regarding stan- Technical Standards, by Maan Jawad & Owen dards available free on the internet when R. Greulich, ISBN: 9780791860342, $49 list incorporated by reference (IBR) in federal price ($39 for ASME members). regulations. Speaker commented that IBR is a threat to all SDOs, especially to those Techstreet: relying on the sale of standards for income. Mike Bozzano http://www.techstreet.com/?t ASTM as copyright owner still controls the abName=default&sid=goog&gclid=CKP5hKn distribution. 60% of ASTM’s business comes TiL8CFQMNaQodwQwAgA from direct sales.

Techstreet, a Thomson-Reuters company, SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) began offering ASME BPVC redline versions International: last year. ISO-equivalent documents are Erin Moore http://store.sae.org/ identified in the search result. SAE redline versions are available. Provides document SAE International caters to the automotive delivery for IEEE, NEMA (National Electrical and aerospace industries, issuing about 140

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standards a year which can be viewed at the make available applied engineering refer- SAE digital library. Recently added features of ence books and manuals, including books digital library include Shibboleth single sign- from ASME Press, Wiley, Springer, McGraw- in, updated search engine, previewing, and Hill, and Maney; patents; and reports and additional tools for administrators. Discovery papers containing engineering know-how by service and link resolvers are forthcoming. discipline. IHS Goldfire is the software plat- If you register at the SAE Web site, you can form and also allows the user to add inter- save your searches for later reference. SAE nal documents. The online standards store acquired Tech America, with about 50 stan- at www.ihs.com was upgraded in February dards, and ARINC (Aeronautical Radio, Inc.), with new tab navigation and streamlined with about 62 standards. Beginning conver- check-out to a single click for those without sion to XML this year. Looking into adding a subscription. IHS usage stats is in beta. Of video and 3-D to standards. DRM has been the standards content itself, thousands more eliminated; utilizing water-marks instead. are offered in redline with easier formatting Exploring how to reach students. and the addition of document previews. For the aerospace market, there are 650,000 SAI Global: 3-D models of NAS components from AIA. Stuart Bowyer http://www.saiglobal.com/ ASME BPVC and standards from other SDOs are available in redline with Standards Ex- Born of Standards Australia, standards ag- pert providing an easy way to compare ac- gregator SAI Global is 11 years into a 15- tive and historical versions. Also available, year agreement with Standards Australia SAE Composite Materials Handbook, ASTM (S.A.) to publish, distribute, market, and standards, and those of many other SDOs. sell S.A.’s standards. SAI Global has three Standards Expert results layout has been divisions, information services (standards improved. New interface to maneuver 3-D and technical information), assurance (au- displays. “Pay as you go” or “pre-pay” op- dit, certify, and register), and compliance tions offered. There are new usage tools and (build organizational integrity), and has seen quicker metrics. Capability of linking internal growth in each division through business ac- standard with external standard with Gold- quisitions and acquiring permissions to dis- fire technology. tribute publications from additional SDOs. SAI Global’s new i2i platform iteration con- Document Center: tains features for managing content based Claudia Bach https://www.document-cen- on projects. There are two new i2i products, ter.com/ (1) i2i Participate, in which clients can create their own standards and policies from one Started in 1982; Claudia became president central work space, and (2) i2i Analysis, a in 1985. With each standard, you can go to tool that allows users to redline their inter- its revision history and Document Center will nal standards based on the new version of a clearly delineate the succession history from published standard. the beginning. You can view your order history and be notified of updates. Online sub- IHS: scription services offered. Building new por- Steve Noth tal over next two years. Document Center is http://global.ihs.com/?RID=Z06&MID=5280 actively expanding contracts, particularly for European standards. The Document Center’s IHS is a full service standards supplier of- Standards Blog helps you identify new stan- fering individual purchases and subscrip- dards that apply to your business. Standards tions, hard copy and electronic, online and related to medical devices and other differ- offline platforms from a selection of 1.7 mil- ent types of health care equipment are also lion standards. IHS Knowledge Collections available through Document Center.

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BSI: her academic position. It is a given that she John Tomlinson http://shop.bsigroup.com/ is customer service oriented and in addition Tasha is very comfortable with “cold calling” Representative was present and identified Faculty, Chairs and Deans of academic de- himself, even though he was not on roster to partments. She also has no difficulty in han- speak for British Standards Institution. dling “hecklers” during presentations and can “think on her feet.” Perhaps Tasha could NIST (National Institute of Standards design a training session – especially for and Technology): new librarians in developing these important Karen Reczek skills? http://www.nist.gov/standardsgov/ Christie Wiley spent five years as librarian Cited NIST’s www.standards.gov Web site on at the Miami NOAA Regional Library which is the use of standards in government. Stan- more like a corporate library than an academ- dards.gov addresses standards incorporated ic library. She took up her current position by reference (IBR) in federal regulations. as Engineering Research and Data Services Librarian (about a year ago) at the Grainger Engineering Library at the University of Il- Crossing Boundaries: Corporate and Ac- linois at Urbana-Champaign going from a ademic Librarians small, specialized but very important library (Sunday, June 8, 3:30-5:00pm) to the “largest public university research li- Reported by Hema Ramachandran brary in the United States” http://www.library.illinois.edu/administration/librarian/ At A panel of five librarians, who had moved from NOAA she had to learn everything given the corporate to academic libraries discussed the small number of staff but at Grainger she similarities and differences between the two is specializing. However, at UIUC there are and shared tips on how to cope when moving expanded opportunities for collaboration. Li- from one to the other. The session was well brarians seek tenure at UIUC and Christie’s attended and there were many interesting research agenda is centered on user search questions at the end of the presentations. behavior.

Chris Ewing (STEM Librarian, Eastern Wash- Valerie Tucci’s presentation entitled “My ington University) was not able to present Journey: From Industrial Research to Aca- in person but his PowerPoint is available on deme” is a record of Valerie’s distinguished the SLA conference website (details below). career as a corporate librarian at such pres- Chris’ presentation entitled “Lingo, Terms tigious companies as Koppers Research Cen- and Jargon” offers us a glossary of terms. ter, Colgate Palmolive and the NEC Research For instance in Academe we talk about pa- Institute and finally she was hired as the trons, holdings and gate count and the cor- Physical Sciences and Engineering Librarian responding terms in Corporate libraries are at the College of New Jersey in 2008. Valerie clients, products and ROI (return on invest- joined all the appropriate academic library ment). According to his LinkedIn profile, associations (in addition to SLA I assume) Chris was a Senior Web Developer at Convio, such as ALA and the New Jersey Library As- before he took up his present position. sociation. Some of her “rookie” mistakes included not adding publications in her resume Tasha Maddison demonstrated how skills and listing too many accomplishments from are readily transferable from one sector to her corporate life. However, I think these are another. Tasha was previously employed by minor errors when one considers the wealth Proquest and is presently the Science Liaison of experience that the faculty and students Librarian at the University of Saskatchewan. got in hiring Valerie. She had to adjust to She demonstrated how she parlayed many a flat structure, shared governance, and an of the skills she developed at Proquest into organization that is slow to adapt to chang-

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es. Once she had adjusted, Valerie sailed The session on the topic ‘Engaging Users through tenure with promotion to Associate with Technology’ was trying to focus on fac- Professor within 4 years, with an impressive tors of decision making while purchasing a publishing record and as Chair of the Chem- product that costs much money and time. istry Division at SLA. It wanted to explore whether the decision is driven by the functionality of the technology Jim Van Loon’s innovative presentation or depends largely on how the interaction offers us five “lessons” illustrated with the enhances our experience. sayings of Yogi Berra. Before becoming the science librarian at Wayne State University, The moderator of the session was Andy Jim was an engineer in large product de- Shimp from Yale University. The panelists velopment/manufacturing organizations. I were Damara Jacobs from J3 Consulting found the observations very insightful and Group, Heather O’Brien from UBC iSchool they gave me a window into the world of and Donna Wrublewski from California Tech- corporate librarianship. I offer a couple of nology Institute. The session was sponsored examples here for brevity and the rest can by SAE International. It was organised by be found in Jim’s powerpoint. In the corpo- Engineering Division and User Experience rate world workflow and responsibilities are Caucus. The speakers explored models to often well-defined and well-documented but measure user engagement along with teach- in the academic world they are often loosely- ing and learning applications. structured, undocumented, and changeable (true!). The remedy is to do some informal “process mapping” to determine how things get done and get the help of colleagues and mentors. With regards to professional development, this happens as a natural outcome of good job performance in the corporate world; whereas in the academic arena each librarian’s career path is unique to them since they can proactively pick from a broad range of opportunities (so true!). And it should be added that the career paths of academic librarians depends also on their subject expertise and whether they are required to seek tenure. Engaging Users with Technology Panel Each of the presenters offered their unique perspectives on moving from the Corporate Heather O’Brien from UBC iSchool pre- to the Academic world. Although a challenge, sented the findings of her study on ‘Mobile we should seek out librarians who made the search engagement’. She pointed out some reverse move to compare and contrast. important features of the relative disadvantages of engaging users with mobile device. Four of the presenters have posted their pre- Websites are not very well accommodated in sentations to the SLA website: http://schd. small screens, attention span of users are ws/hosted_files/sla2014/d2/CrossingBound- less, etc. She has also talked about ‘Multi- aries_Presentations.zip media Presentation Environment’. To facilitate the user experience, multimedia content is to be hedonic, content/context complexity Engaging Users with Technology should be layered, and novelty factor is to be (Monday, June 9, 10:00-11:30am) introduced. User expertise is to be assessed Reported by Dr. Susmita Chakraborty and design and content aspects are to be built upon on that basis.

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Donna Wrublewski from California Tech- ‘yet to tell’. Against a question of ‘people nology Institute presented ‘Engaging users involvement’, Donna talked at length about with technology gaming at the University of the study population. Answering a question, Florida Libraries’. It is a unique experiment Heather explained about the difficulties of on the users of the Marston Science Library her experiment, especially the cross-cultural that she is currently working on. The mission aspects and talked about the usability study is to teach through gaming (1) Library re- to be taken. The speakers also talked about sources awareness, and (2) the relationship the necessity of taking the promotional av- of ethics and higher education. In her lec- enues through bookmarks, postcards, Face- ture, she talked about a gaming experiment book, email, blog, and librarian-user direct with three games that she has introduced liaison. for her students. The three games are: (1) Cheats and Geeks, (2) Frenetic Filing and Engineering Division Business Meeting (3) Murky Misconduct. Purpose of this gam- and Luncheon ing application is to prevent the tendency of (Monday, June 9, 12:00-1:30pm) plagiarism among the students. This gaming application has several layers of complexity Draft minutes to be posted at http://engi- and several ways of awareness building re- neering.sla.org/about-the-division/meeting- garding ‘fair use’ and ‘information sources’. minutes/. See below for information about The novelty and design factors are also im- awards presented at the meeting. portant to catch (and sustain) the interest of the students. Certification is also given at All-Sciences Poster Session the end of the gaming experience. She com- (Monday, June 9, 5:30-7:00pm) mented that to a certain degree this applica- Reported by Jeremy Cusker tion is open for use by the external persons (non-UF) also. Included here are selections from the All- Science Poster Session, which was too large Damara Jacobs from J3 Consulting Group and too well-attended to permit all the par- described her experience of working on the ticipants to be profiled: ‘Voices of the Canoe Website’ of the Univer- sity of British Columbia. The subject domain 1.) “Impact of a Library Instructional Ses- here is History Education Network emphasiz- sion on Bibliographies of Organic Chemistry ing on indigenous knowledge. Closely work- Students” ing as a liaison between the University and John Kroner, Miami University of Ohio the community, the project emphasizes on • Goal of session was for students to learn the thinking and consciousness level of the ACS format for citation and writing. user. Contents of the website include three • No citation manager software was used- sections for the users: for the students, for -students made their bibliographies ‘by the educators and for the teacher advisory hand’ and from scratch. group. The website contains resources on • Upshot was that instructional sessions (1) oral history and oral culture, (2) lesson were highly successful given their con- plans and activities, (3) awareness building centration on the details of citation and features to promote the use of the museum. paper-writing to a specific format. It also contains a feedback mechanism by contacting a teacher-librarian. 2.) “Science in the News: The Role of the Science Librarian in Introducing Media Lit- Question-Answer Session: eracy Concepts to Undergraduates” Christine Malinowski, Lewis & Clark College Susmita Chakraborty asked whether the • In two undergraduate classes, students gaming program was successful to curb the were taught about the way in which sci- tendency of plagiarism. The answer was ence is covered by the media.

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• Taught to think critically about this meth- as the impact of that research. odology use in science reporting. • Authors caution that it can be somewhat • Results of the related assignments were reductive but nevertheless a helpful aid mixed: Many students did not seem to in visualizing a researcher’s career and fully appreciate the distinction between work. scholarly and news reporting of scientif- • Compares (and finds very significant dif- ic findings, articulate what exactly their ferences in) the citation numbers if they own research strategy was, etc. are drawn from Scopus vs. Google Schol- ar, with Google Scholar yielding consis- 3.) “What to Do About Data” tently and significantly higher citation Sara Young, Cornell University figures. • Poster detailed the considerations regarding the purchase, by the library, of Roundtable on Electronic Laboratory commercial data sets. Notebooks • Included a survey of the criteria used by (Tuesday, June 10, 7:30-9:30am) several other universities to inform their Reported by Niamh Tumelty purchases of such data sets. A significant part of my role involves research 4.) “Characteristics of Patents Granted to support, but so far I have not been involved University of Arkansas, 1976-2011” with lab notebooks, electronic or otherwise. Lutishoor Salisbury, University of Arkansas I registered for this session mainly out of cu- • Ms. Salisbury researched over 35 years riosity, hoping to find out more about what of UA patent history and was able to pro- products others are using, how they’re find- vide a breakdown by college, department ing them and whether or not they would be and interdepartmental collaboration. of interest to my Department. • Project took 4 years, was done by the library, not by any technology transfer of- Simon Coles set the scene with an overview fice. of the development of electronic lab note- • Depth and findings of research genuinely books (ELNs) to date and frank assessment seemed to surprise Dean and led to invi- of their value in different contexts. Simon tations to present to various leadership has been working on developing ELNs since groups within the university. 1996 and has been with for Amphora for 11 years. Amphora identified three problems to 5.) “Research Guides: Getting Past the Home solve: capturing information from busy sci- Page” entists, preserving data in complex contexts Marta Roseberry, Virginia Commonwealth and being able to provide evidence in court, University Libraries for example to prove the origin of an idea. • Research on number of views of front They work with a wide range of customers pages of Library Guides versus the num- with some of the largest and smallest imple- ber of views of ‘deeper’ pages (tabs). mentations of electronic lab notebooks. • Finding was that the views of back pages was precipitously lower than for front There is no single definition of ELN so we pages and that content might be better- look carefully at what we need. We need to surfaced by putting it all on the front be wary of what exactly was meant by other page. case studies, since what they implemented may not be relevant or comparable at all. 6.) “Faculty Publication Timelines” Researchers naturally expect that lab note- Robert Noel & Uruashi Batra, Indiana Uni- books would be tailored to their research versity workflows, and since there are very different • Data visualization showing both the re- workflows in different areas of science it is search output of selected faculty as well unlikely that one solution will be appropriate

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for an entire organisation. • ability to control access at an individual level; Another key point is that an ELN doesn’t • recording of provenance (all needs to be have to be a complex purchased product. documented in case there is any future MS Word and Wordpress have been success- question of who did the work) and this fully used and there is a real danger of find- information needs to be included in data ing yourself in ‘consulting heaven’ with some exports; of the commercial products, with costly on- • Both cloud and client-based with syncing going support turning out to be essential. If • Compatible with any platform introducing an ELN we need to consider a • No chemistry stuff as standard features, number of questions: instead templates available for all sub- • Do we want it to be about record-keeping ject areas - let researcher select tools for and collaboration or is it about doing bits their research! of science? • Education pricing for classroom use • Does it need to enforce certain process- • Assistance with addressing complex re- es? search protocols • Is it something specific to a group of sci- • Integration of mouse colony manage- entists or generic (bearing in mind that ment system even the same scientist’s needs will • Connectors - get data from any equip- change over time)? ment used to flow easily into the ELN and • How large and diverse is your user base? out of it into the institutional repository • Messaging system to allow quick commu- Daureen Nesdill is Data Curation Librar- nication between collaborators ian at the University of Utah and has been • Reminders for PIs to check work of team involved with the USTAR project. They con- • Integrated domain-specific metadata ducted a study on campus to see what was already happening in terms of ELNs and Denise Callihan from PPG Industries pro- found that they were already being used in vided the corporate perspective. Her com- some areas (including in the Humanities) pany has looked at options for ELNs every and one person already had a standalone five years since the 1980s because their re- implementation of CambridgeSoft. Daureen searchers were finding paper lab notebooks set up a Libguide on ELNs to share informa- were time-consuming and inconvenient. tion about them: http://campusguides.lib. They needed to be able to provide research utah.edu/ELNs. support for patent purposes to make sure researchers were following the procedures A working group was set up to look more required. closely at the options but they haven’t implemented a solution campus-wide because A committee was formed to identify the re- no one tool will work for the whole campus. quirements of three disparate groups: IT Other barriers include the expense of acquir- and records management, legal and IP, and ing an ELN (purchasing software, local host- researchers. A pilot started in 2005 with ing and support or cloud hosting), the ques- ten research scientists using Amphora Pat- tion of who pays for this and the amount of entSafe, some in favour the introduction of time it takes to roll out (a few months for a ELNs and some against. PPG Industries were lab of 50 people!) There are also concerns early adopters of Amphora PatentSafe so the about security, import-export loss and if us- vendor was very responsive to issues that ing a cloud solution, awareness of where were arising. The roll-out was managed by your data is being stored. researchers, department by department, with the library providing support and ad- Daureen outlined a number of requirements ministration. Adoption was initially volun- for an ELN in a University: tary, then encouraged and is now mandatory

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for all researchers. The Architecture, Building Engineering, Con- struction and Design (ABCD) became a sec- The implementation has been successful and tion of the Engineering Division in Spring researchers have found that the ELN is easy 2014. Our launch meeting in Vancouver was to use and works with their existing work- a great success. We had over 20 attendees flows. Amphora PatentSafe uses a virtual and wonderful sponsor support. Everyone printer driver to create searchable notebook was given a goodie bag full of sponsor swag pages – anything that can be printed can be and enjoyed drinks and snacks. imported into the ELN. Email alerting helps them keep track of when they need to sign During the business meeting, we discussed or witness documents, speeding up this part future plans for the section. All of the attend- of the process. The ELN simplifies informa- ees agreed that networking was the top goal. tion sharing and collaboration and eliminates size constraints on documents. It is set up for long-term storage and reduces risks associated with researchers managing this in- dividually. Data visualisation and reporting are built in so it’s easy to see how research is progressing and to check document submission rates when necessary.

PPG Industries found that researchers need to be looking for an ELN solution rather than feeling that one is being imposed on them. Strong support was required from leadership, along with a clear understanding of what drives the need for the ELN. The product they’ve selected focuses on providing an electronic version of the print notebook, but the raw data still needs to be kept separately for future use. ABCD Section Launch Overall I found this session extremely useful and I now feel much better informed about We will continue to have in-person meetings electronic lab notebooks. I really appreci- at the annual conference to encourage mem- ated the fact that this session, like others at bers get to know each other. SLA, presented a balanced view of the issues To wrap things up we held a raffle with some around electronic lab notebooks, with speak- great prizes and then had some time for ers representing vendors, corporate librar- networking and comparing historic building ians and academic librarians. I now plan to code and product literature collections. investigate some of the ELN options further so that I am in a position to support possible future implementations of ELNs, but I Engineering Division Awards will wait until the researchers express their Compiled by Taya Cagle need for one rather than suggesting that the Department considers rolling on out across The Engineering Division was pleased to the board. present the following awards during the Engineering Division Luncheon & Business Architecture, Building Engineering, Con- Meeting held on Monday, June 9, 2014 in struction and Design Section Launch Vancouver. (Tuesday, June 10, 9:45-10:45 am) Reported by Joan Cunningham

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SLA Engineering Librarian of the Year, award in 2004. In 2008, she received the sponsored by I H S SLA Illinois Library Champion award and was named a Mover and Shaker by Library Jour- Penny S. Sympson graduated with a Bach- nal. In 2010, she was selected to participate elor of Business and a Master of Arts in Eco- in the Illinois Library Leadership Initiative. nomics from Western Illinois University. She In 2011, the Illinois library systems were spent nearly ten years working for the fed- merged and Penny was appointed a member eral govern- of the “Staff, Operations, Facilities” Design ment as an Team Subcommittee and acted as Subcom- economist for mittee secretary. the Commodi- ties Futures Her article, “How I Made a Library Indispens- Trading Com- able and Saved It from Outsourcing,” was mission and published in the March 2005 issue of Infor- as a paralegal mation Outlook. for the De- partment of SPIE Digital Library Student Travel Justice Anti- Stipend Award trust Division. At the Depart- Jack Dale is a graduate student in the Library Penny Sympson ment of Jus- and Information Science (LIS) Department tice, Penny at The Catholic University of America (CUA) was asked to maintain the Library when the in Washington, DC. He began his LIS studies lead paralegal went on maternity leave. She in 2012. Previously, he completed a graduate found that she liked helping people with the program in Applied Geography at the Univer- library more than the paralegal duties and sity of North Carolina – Greensboro in 2005. decided to get her MLIS degree at night. Af- ter graduating from Dominican University He is currently employed as a Spanish Lin- with her MLIS, she spent three years as a guist for Leidos reference librarian at the Des Plaines Public (formerly SAIC) Library. in Northern Vir- ginia, where he Since 2001, Penny has managed the re- is also able to sources at Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates practice his on- (WJE). She supervises the library’s adminis- line searching trative staff, manages the library’s Intranet and information page, and performs research for more than retrieval skills. 250 professional engineers, architects, and Jack’s first as- materials scientists. signment with Leidos involved Penny currently serves as the Engineering researching Jack Dale Division Past-Chair and has stepped forward geographic to serve as 2015 Division Program Planner names (or toponyms), using his training and for the SLA Annual Conference in Boston. experience in Geographic Information Sys- Since 2010, she has served as the List Ad- tems, Cartography, Imagery Analysis, Cul- ministrator for the SLA Knowledge Manage- tural Geography, and languages. ment Division. In 2012, she assisted the Il- linois Chapter with program planning. In addition to attending the 2014 Special Libraries Association conference in Vancou- Penny received the North Suburban Library ver, Canada, Jack will also participate in this System Special Library Member of the Year year’s annual conference of the American Li-

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brary Association in Las Vegas, Nevada, as Chakraborty is part of the Student to Staff (S2S) program. teaching ‘Digital Earlier this year he attended the annual CUA- Content Man- LIS Symposium in Washington, DC. At this agement’, ‘Man- event Jack submitted a poster presentation agement of titled ‘Asking the Question: Applying the Ref- Manuscripts and erence Interview Process to the Intelligence Archives’ and Cycle.’ ‘Technical Writ- ing’ to MLIS stu- When not at work or school, Jack enjoys dents. Previous- working outdoors, reading anything not re- ly, she was an lated to work or school, and spending time Assistant Librar- with his wife Janet and a passive-aggressive ian in Bengal En- Cockatiel named Walter. gineering & Sci- ence University. IEEE Continuing Education Travel Stipend Susmita is a Gold Medalist (M. Lib. Patricia Aspinwall has been a librarian for Sc.) of Calcutta over six years and has an undergraduate University and a Susmita Chakraborty degree in civil engineering. Throughout her First Class Second (MLIS in digital Library career, she has Management) of Jadavpur University. She expanded and has also done Masters in English Literature grown her tech- (Calcutta University) and Associateship in nical research Information Science (AIS) from Indian Na- skills while pro- tional Scientific Documentation Centre (IN- viding informa- SDOC), a premier Institute under Govern- tion to others so ment of India. She did her PhD in Medical they can achieve Informatics. their goals. With the IEEE Con- She is actively involved in LIS global lead- tinuing Education ership. She is a Standing Committee Mem- Stipend, she was ber of the Section on Education & Training of able to attend the International Federation of Library Associa- Patricia Aspinwall “Presenting Infor- tions & Institutions (IFLA-SET), Netherlands. mation in Visual Formats: Tools for Adding She is also current secretary and past direc- Insights and Value to Your Deliverable” con- tor of the Asian Chapter of Special Libraries tinuing education course. Patricia hopes this Association. She was a Member of Section course will help her expand from an informa- on Knowledge Management Standing Com- tion professional into an information analyst. mittee (2009-2013) of IFLA & a member of IFLA-KM Program Committee in 2013. Patricia is the Fundraising Chair for the SLA Engineering Division and the Programming Susmita is the Editor of IFLA SET Bulle- Director for SLA Toronto Chapter. tin and a Member of the Editorial Commit- tee of the Newsletter of the Asian Chapter Momentum Press SLA Annual of Special Libraries Association. She is also Conference Grant the International Advisory Editor of the East- ern Librarian journal, the oldest and peer- An Assistant Professor in the University of reviewed LIS journal from Bangladesh, pub- Calcutta (www.caluniv.ac.in), Dr. Susmita lished since 1965.

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Susmita has presented invited papers in many national and some international events. She has contributed papers in national and international journals as well as in national and international conferences. She has edited two books, three annual literary collections and contributed a few book chapters. She has just completed editing a book as first editor with authors from about 13 countries (‘Collaborations in International & Comparative Librarianship’, IGI Global, USA, 2014).

She has travelled widely across the globe Andy Shimp presenting certificate to as an academic or as a tourist. Apart from Niamh Tumelty other honors and grants, her latest professional achievement is receiving the presti- Bonnie Hilditch International Librarian gious Bonnie Hilditch International Librarian Award Award in San Diego, CA, USA in June 2013. Niamh Tumelty manages the Library and In- Beside study, teaching and collaborative re- formation Service at the Department of Engi- search; her other areas of interests include neering at the University of Cambridge. She working for the interest of the mentally dis- is particularly interested in user education turbed persons, reading novels and spending and staff development and has published and quality time with her psychiatrist husband presented in both of these areas. She initi- Jyotirmoy and two adorable daughters Disha ated and coordinated the online ‘23 Things and Dyuti. for Professional Development’, which attract- ed more than 1,000 participants worldwide, People interested in learning more about her and was involved in bringing the ‘TeachMeet’ may contact at her email id: sclis.India@ model of peer learning and sharing to the gmail.com or at her Facebook site: www. library sector. facebook.com/Susmita.India.

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News from the Aerospace Section

Aerospace Section Edna Paulson, Chair

The Aerospace Section of the Engineering Division encourages communication and cooperation among information professionals concerned with aerospace, aeronautical and related technologies. In addition, it fosters dialog with entities such as NASA, the AIAA and other important sources of technical data and bibliographical services.

“Beyond Borders” was the theme of the the conference. 2014 Annual Conference in Vancouver, Can- ada, last June 8-10. That beautiful city was a The highlight of the meet- great setting for SLA members to expand our ing was the presentation understanding by stretching across borders of the 2014 George Mandel Memorial Award of all kinds. Varied programs encouraged us to Kathryn Breininger of Boeing. Kathryn is to think beyond our current expertise and the manager for Standards Production, Re- responsibilities to grow in our professions. lease, and Technical Orders within the Boe- Networking and social events were opportu- ing Research & Technology organization in nities to meet others The Boeing Compa- from many countries ny. An SLA member and backgrounds. since 1988, Kath- And the conference ryn has served the center had lots of Aerospace Section places to sit and take as Chair Elect, Chair, a break with a new and Past Chair. She friend, to chat while has also been Chair admiring the beautiful Elect, Chair, and Past views of the moun- Chair of our parent tains and harbor – or Engineering Divi- rather harbour! sion, as well as serv- ing on several SLA Aerospace Section committees and pre- members met on senting at numerous Edna Paulson (R) presents the 2014 George Monday, June 9, for Mandel Memorial Award to Kathryn Breininger professional confer- our annual business (L) of Boeing. ences. We congratu- meeting and break- late Kathryn! And we fast. Generous sponsorship by AIAA, HIS, thank Engineering Division Chair Elect Sara and Sage Publications provided the delicious Davis for the photo. start to our day. About 22 members attended, plus representatives from our sponsors. As I write this, the search for our 2015 Chair As current section chair, I reviewed events Elect is continuing. Please send any ideas for of the year. Chair- Elect Mary S. Whittaker next year’s conference to Chair-Elect Mary encouraged members to consider volunteer- Whittaker at [email protected]. ing for the nominating committee and suggesting candidates for 2015 Chair-Elect. Past Edna Paulson, Chair Chair Mary Strife was unable to be with us at [email protected]

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Malaysian Chapter Scholarship Awardee’s Conference Report at the 45th International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC), Savannah, Georgia, USA by Malarvili Ramalingam (PhD) Department of Chemistry Malaysia, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

Introduction become increasingly vital to conserving petroleum resources as well as protecting the In May 2014, the International Oil Spill Or- environment against indiscriminate use of ganizing and Program Committees held oil. In addition to naturally occurring seeps, the 45th International Oil Spill Conference international petroleum extraction, trans- (IOSC) to explore all issues associated with portation, and consumption inexorably have oil spills. The conference was held in Savan- caused oil release into environment (Wang, nah, Georgia from May 5-8, 2014 at the Sa- 2011). This includes the spills into the rivers, vannah International Trade Center, in con- open waters and in coastal waterways. Gen- junction with 140 exhibitors with displays of erally, most oils spilled into the sea are fuels the latest in oil-related technology and prod- and crude oils (Wang, 2011). ucts, and included significant delegations from over 60 countries. The joint organizers Reducing oil spill pollution is a major interna- of the conference were: tional goal, which has turned out to be more • International Maritime Organization complex and difficult than was originally (IMO) thought. This conference played a key role • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Ad- in providing a vital forum for professionals ministration (NOAA) from the international response community, • United States Environmental Protection the private sector, government, and non- Agency (USEPA) governmental organizations to discuss inno- • American Petroleum Institute (API) vations and practices on oil spill prevention, • Bureau of Safety and Environmental En- preparedness , response, restoration, proto- forcement (BSEE) cols and education. • United States Coast Guard • International Petroleum Industry Envi- The conference highlights included award- ronment Conversation Association (IP- ing of commemorative medallion; film fes- IECA) tival and photo gallery displays; poster and

Petroleum plays a very important role in the modern society. The constantly increasing world population coupled with massive industrialization has led to an ever increasing energy demand worldwide. The estimated oil consumption world-wide in 2004 was about 30 billion barrels (DOE, 2004). At present, oil still is the main source of energy and it is expected to remain so over several decades (NRC, 2002; Wang, 2011).

Oil pollution is a major global issue, requiring systematic mitigation. Analyses Figure 1: Author with her host, Mr. Mark Dix, Deputy Chief, Emergency Response Division, National Oce- of oil-related pollution, monitoring and anic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA. management programs therefore have

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platform presentations; short courses; exhi- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety bition; featuring the film festival and photog- Administration, US Department of Trans- raphy contest. Other events included awards portation, USA luncheon; on-water and aerial technical demonstration; 2014 IOSC Golf Tournament Dr. Daniel Yergin (Figure 2) and Dr. Karen and aclosing reception and dinner. Purnell stressed the significant reduction in tanker incidences during the past four decades and pointed out how the advances in training, the technology and overall preparedness have made oil transport much safer (Figure 3). An aerial water and technical demonstration provided a real world example of these techniques in practice.

Jack Gerard illustrated on the rise of Unit- ed States’ to the energy superpower status, which has been built on surging oil and Figure 2: Keynote address by Dr. Daniel Yergin. natural gas production, which will demand increased energy infrastructure. He pointed An important element of IOSC 2014 is award out that the greater demand for energy will of a scholarship. Scholarships were given test the oil and natural gas industry’s abil- to some 50 participants from 26 countries. ity to develop reserves but also how well in- The scholarships were awarded to appli- dustry transports and stores the energy it cants on needs basis after a thorough review produces. He reiterated that improvement and approval by the IOSC 2014 Scholarship of industry’s ability to prevent and prepare Committee. The author is honored to have for spills, as well as its response if incidents been among those selected. Each scholar- occur, will be the key to sustaining America’s ship recipient was assigned to a host, who oil and natural gas production increases. were identified based on achievement made in their selected field (Figure 1). The host was responsible for providing guidance and support to the scholar throughout the conference.

Programs

Keynote and Plenary Sessions

The IOSC 2014 had one keynote speaker and four plenary speakers. They were grouped Figure 3: An ITOPF Chart reflecting on Oil Spill under the Opening Plenary and Keynote Ad- Reduction dress and Closing Plenary Forums: • Dr. Daniel Yergin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and energy expert, USA Oral and Poster Presentations and • Peter Velez, Chairman, IOSC 2014 Con- Exhibition ference, USA • Dr. Karen Purnell, Managing Director, the The oral presentations were divided into 45 International Tanker Owners Pollution sessions, which were classified as the most Federation Limited (ITOPF), UK important areas in oil spill management and • Jack Gerard, President and CEO, Ameri- techniques and each session had a minimum can Petroleum Institute, USA of three paper presenters. This was to get • Cynthia L. Quarterman, Adminstrator, participants to be involved and to focus on

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Spill Prevention, Control and Countermea- sure Rule; Slow Water and Fast Booming Techniques; Fundamentals of Oil Spill Re- sponse; Arctic Drilling Environmental Con- siderations ; Advanced Spill Management; NRDA and Other Worldwide Damage As- sessment and Liability Practices; Wildlife Re- sponse; and Advanced Oil Spill Modeling & Data Sources. These courses were designed to prepare and provide a foundation for conference participants.

On-Water Aerial and Technical Figure 4: Exhibition Hall-The author (in the mid- Demonstration dle with the Participants from Indonesia at an In- donesian OSCT Booth. This event was a 45-minute demonstration and was held on the Savannah River in front their specialized area of research and inter- of the Convention Center (Figure 7). The ob- est. jective was to demonstrate oil spill response resources involving new and existing tech- The topics covered for presentation under nology configured to increase the effective- IOSC 2014 included: ness of a response such as improved detec- International Guidelines for Spill Planning; tion, tracking and increased encounter and Cutting Edge Techniques and research; Re- recovery rates. The attendees were able to sponse to Non-Floating Heavy Oils/Diluted observe the narrated on water events di- Bitumen; Assessing and Communicating rectly and see the live feeds from the equip- Risk in Oil spill Planning and Response; Pre- ment in use on large monitors. The narration vention, Preparedness & Response-Asian Pa- included a description of the scenario and cific Region; Recent Case Studies; Oil Pol- brief description of the equipment included lution and natural Disasters; Unique Spill in the complete response system. The dem- Response Issues; Prevention, Preparedness onstration was followed by a scripted simu- and Response-New policy Questions and Di- lated spill scenario beginning with a remote rections; Dispersants-Subsea Applications oil detection device that initiates an oil spill and Oil Fingerprinting/Forensics. alert message with spill coordinates to the The poster presentations were held at the exhibition hall and divided into five catego- ries: Prevention, Preparedness, Response, Restoration, and Science and Technology. The Info-Expo was also held at the exhibition hall. (Figures 4, 5 and 6).

Short Courses

Eleven short courses were conducted, including:

Shoreline Clean-up Assessment Technique; Arctic and Cold Weather Response Consid- erations and Methods; Environmental Trade- Figure 5: Mr. Peter Velez with Cynthia L. Quarter- offs Focusing on Protected Species; Regula- man (Plenary Speaker) and NOAA’s Dave Wester- tory Programs: Facility Response Plans and holm were seen together at the Exhibition Hall.

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responsible party, and spill management an opportunity for publishing research find- team. In brief, the exercise showed how ro- ing and discoveries and to demonstrate the botics, modern communications and other results obtained to stimulate thinking and for techniques pinpoint a spill’s location sharing successful research findings.

Film Festival and Photo Gallery Networking Opportunities: It provided an opportunity to establish networking with in- Three days of short films and a gallery of ternational experts, in particular with those photos were shown by agencies, organiza- who have similar expertise and interest. tions and individuals in the areas of oil spill Discussion with them has been a good plat- related to the IOSC 2014 theme (Oil Spill form to further enhance the skills and un- Prevention, Preparedness, Response and derstanding in each of the issues presented Restoration). and discussed. It also provided opportunity to discuss common challenges and opportu- General Benefits from This Conference nities with researchers in similar field.

The congress received extensive recogni- Debate Key Issues: Provided an opportunity tion from all over the world. The organizers to discuss on available techniques for oil spill reported that fingerprinting/ this confer- forensic ap- ence brought proach and for together about management 2,000 partici- of oil spills. pants from 60 plus countries, Conclusion which included more than 180 The 2014 IOSC paper present- conference was ers, 94 poster a platform to presenters and gather profes- 140 exhibitors. sionals and scientists from Unique plat- Figure 6: Exhibitors with their advance technologies displayed all around the form: The sum- at the Exhibition Hall. world to share mit provided a their views on platform for updating new policy, scientific oil spill prevention, preparedness and re- and technological innovations, and knowing sponse in all parts of the world. The output the available financing sources /mechanisms was in concurrence with the IOSC purpose to get help for the global researchers and to create a global colloquium for public, gov- professionals working on Oil Spill related ernment, academia, industry, and response field. Also provided better understanding of organizations to address all aspects of oils what is already happening, identifications of spills impacting the environment. As Jack good next steps, new ideas and knowledge Gerard said in his talk, “No matter how safe- of activities of others in the similar field. ly and effectively we operate, when talking about our spill response framework, three Leading-edge Technologies: Presentations words you’ll never hear are ‘that’s good at the front of top international researchers, enough.’ … This is what truly sets us apart: scientists, practitioners, policy-makers and how we learn from setbacks and continually investors allowed for the commercialization raise the bar on safety”. of the innovations. References Research made known to others: Provided 1. National Research Council (NRC), Oil in

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the Sea III: Inputs, Fates, and Effects, the National Academies Press, Wash- ington, DC, 2002. 2. DOE 2004, Energy In- formation Administration Website, United States Department of Ener- gy, http://eia.doe.gov/, 2004. 3. Wang, Z, Oil Spill Envi- ronmental Forensics: Fin- gerprinting and Source Identification, China En- Figure 7: On-Water Aerial and Technical Demonstration. vironment Society, 2011 4. International Oil Spill Jack Gerard’s remarks at the 2014 Inter- Conference (IOSC) 2014. http: //www. national iosc.org 6. Oil Spill Conference in Savannah, GA: 5. Highlights from API President and CEO (Mark Green, 214), 2014

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working, building trust and cooperation, motiva- GEOGRAPHY tion, leadership, electronic decision making, and cross-cultural issues. G70 9781466586512 Big Data: Techniques and Technologies in HD9685 9781466590489 Geoinformatics Green Power: Perspectives on Sustainable Edited by Hassan A. Karimi Electricity Generation CRC Press, ©2014 298 p. $129.95 Edited by Joao Neiva de Figueiredo and Mauro F. The growth of significance of big data for social Guillen and economic research is a relatively new phe- CRC Press, ©2014 575 p. $69.95 nomenon, but some fields have struggled with This edited volume analyses the current state of the data deluge for some time now and have world energy sustainability by examining a subset amassed a plethora of methods and solutions to of the global energy market--electricity genera- the problems presented by it. Geosciences have tion and usage--as viewed through a ‘green’ lens. long had to deal with the rapidity of data acquisi- Renewable energy and green energy are identi- tion, a variety of data formats, and the immense fied as different (though not mutually exclusive) size of the databases containing relevant informa- things--sustainable, green energy must be able tion. By standards of big data, geoinformatics is to meet the intergenerational moral obligation of an old, venerable, and well-developed discipline. avoiding damage to future generations’ ability to In this volume, several international experts in meet their own needs. Chapters provide an over- the field present a state-of-the-art snapshot of view of current electricity generation sources; currently employed methods and technologies. analyses of energy sectors in several contrasting Subjects covered include major projects such countries (Germany, China, Spain, French Poly- as GEOSS Clearinghouse, data integration, the nesia); a discussion of the global biopower indus- use of cloud computing and open environments, try; and a discussion of electric vehicle adoption. online visualization and analysis services, inter- Two chapters are devoted to China, one chapter action with the social media, and many others. emphasizing that country’s rapid economic ex- Case studies of particular technologies (for ex- pansion and current heavy dependence on coal ample, NASA global precipitation products) are for electric generation (even while efforts are discussed throughout. made to develop clean coal technologies), and the other chapter detailing China’s search for cleaner PRODUCTION, INDUSTRY, LABOR generation technologies, including massive efforts in developing hydroelectric power (techni- HD66 9781440828379 cally renewable, but not green) and solar and Virtual Teams: Mastering Communication wind power (which are greener, as they are less and Collaboration in the Digital Age permanently damaging to people and the land- Terri R. Kurtzberg scape). Looking further ahead, another chapter Praeger, ©2014 212 p. $37.00 makes a business case for power generation in This volume considers communication and col- space. The editors have academic backgrounds laboration issues involved in virtual teams. It ad- in international management. Tables, charts and dresses virtual interactions in general and how other illustrations appear throughout the text. behavior, interpretations, and decisions are different in them. It details the negative tendencies HD9993 9781466645349 and changes in pace in electronic communication, Gender Divide and the Computer Game In- electronic multitasking and conference calls, and dustry electronic communication practices, then specific Julie Prescott and Jan Bogg (Advances in Human aspects of virtual teams: teambuilding and net- and Social Aspects of Technology)

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Information Science Reference, ©2014 301 p. entry, for instance. Some entries are individual $175.00 artist’s statements; others cover large areas of Prescott and Bogg present an interdisciplinary lit- Internet culture, such as blogging or social me- erature review of the multiple issues related to dia. The editors are professors of English; the gender and computer games for women as both book will be most interesting to social and art producers and consumers of computer games. theorists, and is not intended for advanced stu- They cover why the gender divide in computer dents or practitioners of computer science, web games is an important and timely issue; the design, or the digital humanities. computer game industry, market, and culture; whether games can make a better world; play preferences and the gendering of gaming; rep- SCIENCE (GENERAL) resentation, image, and identity; game workers and the gender divine in the production of com- Q335 9780124104068 puter games; the experience of women game de- Efficient Computation of Argumentation Se- velopers; issues career women face; and reflec- mantics tions for the future. Beishui Liao (Intelligent Systems Series) Academic Press, ©2014 137 p. $99.95 HD9999 9780857938343 Argumentation systems are an important area Handbook on Agriculture, Biotechnology of research in artificial intelligence, and their use and Development is at the center of intelligent system work. This Edited by Stuart J. Smyth, Peter W.B. Phillips, slim, formal-logic-heavy volume presents the and David Castle state of the art snapshot of research. Novel de- Edward Elgar, ©2014 868 p. $345.00 compositional methods are presented, in a high- Providing diverse perspectives on agbiotech, ly rigorous manner; new results are proposed 51 contributed chapters address the impact of and derived. Proofs abound throughout. Differ- a range of genetically modified products, how ent approaches to argumentation semantics are and why various products have been variously analyzed, and different types of argumentation successful globally, and the regulatory structure systems are described. The methods developed in particular nations and internationally. Chap- herein are applicable for AI and broader areas ters are devoted to each region of the world; to of research, particularly for expert and intelligent themes such as risk assessment, public resis- systems development, intelligent automation tance, adoption decisions, market power, envi- and transportation systems. Semantics of argu- ronmental effects, labeling, biotechnology com- mentation in general is described thoroughly and munication, and the paradox of GM crops in rigorously, providing motivation for this specific development countries; and to particular crops, direction of research and its results. Global and including soybeans, corn, cotton, papaya, sugar local semantics are developed side by side and beets, and rice. compared in terms of their relationships. Both static and dynamic argumentation frameworks are discussed. The final chapter addresses sev- LANGUAGE, LITERATURE eral possible avenues for future research and discusses the general possibilities and promises of P90 9781421412245 this approach. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media Edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, Lori Emerson, and Q572 9780128010204 Benjamin J. Robertson Xylanolytic Enzymes Johns Hopkins U. Press, ©2014 538 p. Pratima Bajpai $44.95 (pa) Academic Press, ©2014 112 p. $39.95 (pa) Because new media fields are changing so rap- Bajpai summarizes knowledge of the plant hemi- idly, this book cannot be either a comprehensive cellulose xylan, the enzymes that hydrolyze it, reference encyclopedia or a general textbook of and its applications. The topics are the occur- concepts. Instead, it functions as a sort of tasting rence and structure of xylan; microbial xylano- platter for readers excited in conceptual rather lytic systems and their properties; structure and than practical ways about the idea of a postmod- synergism between the enzymes of the xylano- ern world filled with new technology. The term lytic complex; sources, production, and classifi- digital media is used loosely here; an artist who cation of xylanases; purifying xylanases; and im- has bacteria genetically engineered with the word mobilizing xylanases. The applications surveyed DNA and displays them in gallery shows rates an

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are in pulp and paper, food, feed, textiles, and tations of Algebras, held in Bielefeld, Germany pharmaceutical and chemicals. during August 2012. Among the topics are infinite dimensional tilting theory, a survey of modules of constant Jordan type and vector bundles on pro- MATH, COMPUTERS jective space, representation-finite algebras and beyond, ordered exchange graphs, Donaldson- QA41 9780124169715 Thomas invariants, cluster algebras and singular Laboratory Statistics: Handbook of Formu- supports of perverse sheaves, and super-decom- las and Terms posable pure-injection modules. Distributed in Anders Kallner the US by the American Mathematical society. Elsevier, ©2014 139 p. $49.95 (pa) Kallner offers fellow non-statistical laboratory QA169 9780821891759 scientists a quick reference to statistical formulas Cohomology for Quantum Groups via the and concepts that can be used as they are, but Geometry of the Nullcone can also form a crystal around which to develop Christopher P. Bendel, Daniel K. Nakano, Brian more advanced and specialized statistical tools J. Parshall, and Cornelius Pillen (Memoirs of the and routines in research and routine laboratories. American Mathematical Society; Volume 229, The topics include distributions of data, analysis Number 1077) of variance, nonparametric comparisons, correla- American Mathematical Society, ©2013 93 p. tion and covariance, performance characteristics, $71.00 (pa) estimation of minimal sample size, and the un- Mathematicians present new results on the co- certainty concept and uncertainty budget. homology of quantum groups, in particular computing the cohomology algebra in most of the QA63 9781466587779 remaining cases. They rigorously develop and Computational Thinking for the Modern present new results on the cohomology theory of Problem Solver parabolic sub-algebras for quantum groups, and Daivd D. Riley and Kenny A. Hunt (Chapman & demonstrate how the Grauert-Riemanschneider Hall/CRC Textbooks in Computing) theorem and the normality of certain orbit clo- CRC Press, ©2014 389 p. $79.95 sures play a vital role in carrying out their co- Riley and Hunt introduce computer science as an homology calculations. Some of the major input independent body of thought that is an essential is the analysis of the combinatorics involving the part of what it means to be educated today. Think- multiplicity of the Steinberg module in certain co- ing algorithmically is uniquely important just as is homology modules related to unipotent radicals scientific investigation, artistic creativity, or proof of parabolic sub-algebras. theory in mathematics, they say, yet computational thinking is a distinct form of thought, sepa- QA182 9780821890950 rate from other academic disciplines. Their top- Spectra of Symmetrized Shuffling Operators ics include how real-world information becomes Victor Reiner, Franco Saliola, and Volkmar Welker computable data, modeling solutions, data orga- (Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society; nization, and limits of computation. A course us- Volume 228, 1072) ing this book would be expected to include some American Mathematical Society, ©2013 109 p. instruction in computer programming, but they $76.00 (pa) leave the choice of programming language and The treatise grew out of a desire to understand the depth of coverage to the discretion of the in- why a certain family of combinatorial matrices structor and to other textbooks. were pair-wise commuting and had only integer eigenvalues. It defines and studies a set of oper- QA155 9783037191255 ators at various levels of generality: hyperplane Advances in Representation Theory of Alge- arrangements, hyperplane arrangements invari- bras ant under a (linear) action of a finite group, re- Edited by David J. Benson, Henning Krause, and flection arrangements corresponding to a real re- Andrzej Skowronski (EMS Series of Congress Re- flective group, crystallographic reflection groups ports) (or, equivalently, Weyl groups), and a symmetric European Mathematical Soc., ©2013 367 p. group. The general themes are the original fam- $98.00 ily of matrices, using the W-action, an eigenvalue The volume presents expository survey articles integrality principle, and a broader context with based on 10 selected lectures at the 15th Work- more surprises. shop and International Conference on Represen-

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QA252 9780821843550 game-theory models--reflexive games--that de- Classification and Identification of Lie Alge- scribe the interaction of subjects making deci- bras sions based on a hierarchy of beliefs about es- Libor Snobl and Pavel Winternitz (CRM Mono- sential parameters, beliefs about beliefs, and graph Series; Volume 33) so on. They cover reflexion in decision making, American Mathematical Society, ©2014 306 p. informational reflexion and control, strategic re- $124.00 flexion and control, and applied models of infor- For readers who apply Lie algebras and Lie mational and reflexive control. groups to solve problems arising in science and engineering, Snobl and Winternitz show how to QA273 9781482219777 transform a Lie algebra obtained in some arbi- Probability and Statistics: A Didactic Intro- trary basis into a more canonical basis in which duction all basis-independent features of the Lie algebra Edited by Jose I. Barragues, Adolfo Morais, and are directly visible. They limit the discussion to Jenaro Guisasola finite-dimension Lie algebras over the fields of CRC Press, ©2014 480 p. $149.95 complex and real numbers, and provide a repre- An interesting new introduction to statistics, this sentational list of all Lie algebras with six or fewer collaborative effort adopts a different pedagogi- dimensions. They also describe some classes of cal approach from most other texts. Rather than nilpotent and solvable Lie algebras of arbitrary fi- relying on the standard format that proceeds nite dimension for which a complete classification from definitions via theorems to examples, it exists and so an exact identification is possible. adopts a problem-oriented approach. In a sense, this is the opposite of the traditional pedagogy: QA267 9781466513457 a problem is presented that both illustrates the Formal Languages and Computation: Mod- methods and motivates theoretical development. els and Their Applications The latter is then constructed using an intuitive Alexander Meduna approach. Standard subjects for a first course in CRC Press, ©2014 295 p. $99.95 statistics are covered: descriptive statistics, prob- Formal language theory lies at the foundation of ability and random variables, sampling, tests, most programming languages and general com- variance, factor and discriminant analysis, and puter science. This mathematically and logically multiple regression. The authors are instructors rigorous monograph provides the necessary ba- who have utilized this approach in their classes sics for understanding and using it, and many ad- before, testing its validity and pedagogical value. vanced tools, including many proofs and results. The text makes use of SPSS and R software pack- After a quick overview of necessary prerequisites ages, and a GoogleDocs folder providing neces- such as set and graph theory and the study of sary spreadsheets and code snippets is available relations and general logic, the author follows to the readers. a path that narrows its themes from chapter to chapter: from regular to context-free languages QA274 9789814522281 and their models, to Turing machines and specific Random Processes by Example computation issues, including computability and Mikhail Lifshits decidability and general and context-sensitive World Scientific, ©2014 219 p. $65.00 grammars. Concluding discussions of modern Lifshits helps advanced graduate students and trends in specific grammar types and two appen- researchers in pure or applied mathematics be- dices (indices of special symbols and language come familiar with a wide class of key random models) provide and open-ended note and indi- processes; understand how probability theory cate avenues for future research and more ad- works in an important applied problem; and rec- vanced study. ognize the variety of limit theorems, especially for random processes. Among the tools he de- QA269 9781138024731 scribes are Gaussian processes; independently Reflexion and Control: Mathematical Models scattered measures; stochastic integrals; and Dmitry A. Novikov and Alexander G. Chkhartish- compound Poisson, infinitely divisible, and stable vili (Communications in Cybernetics, Systems distributions. The book could be used in a one- Science and Engineering; Volume 5) semester advanced course. CRC Press, ©2014 284 p. $89.95 In surveying modern approaches to the mathe- QA275 9781420099935 matical modeling of reflexion in control, Novikov Quasi-Least Squares Regression and Chkhartishvili include an important class of Justine Shults and Joseph M. Hilbe (Chapman &

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Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied an space, measures on metric spaces, topological Probability; 132) groups, Banach and measure, compact groups CRC Press, ©2014 203 p. $89.95 have a Haar measure, applications, Haar mea- This volume from Shults and Hilbe on quasi-least sure on locally compact groups, metric invariance squares regression is aimed at both theoretical and Haar measure, Steinlage on Haar measure, and applied statisticians with the potential for use and Oxtoby’s view of Haar measure. as a graduate text. The introductory chapter gives an overview of the generalized estimating equa- QA325 9781118709252 tion (GEE) and the related quasi-least squares Repeated Measurements and Cross-Over (QLS) approach, followed by a review of general- Designs ized linear models. Subsequently, the theory and Damaraju Raghavarao and Lakshmi Padgett application of QLS is examined in detail. A history Wiley, ©2014 255 p. $125.00 and rationalization of the approach is presented Raghavarao and Padgett describe experimental first, followed by discussion of mixed linear struc- designs that can be used in a number of disci- tures in familial data and correlation structures plines, including agriculture, drugs, and manu- for clustered and longitudinal data. Data analysis facturing. Unlike some researchers they distin- when multiple sources of correlation are present guish between repeated measurement designs and treatment of correlated binary data are cov- and cross-over designs, using the former term ered next. The last two chapters address model for experiments in which the units being stud- evaluation in terms of goodness of fit, choice of ied do not receive different treatments during the correlation structure, and sample size. Chapters experiment, and using the latter for experiments conclude with practice exercises, and some use in which they do. The topics include one-sam- of Stata, R, SAS, and MATLAB code is offered. ple repeated measurement design, growth curve models, cross-over designs with and without QA279 9781439821510 residual effects, two-period cross-over designs Optimal design for nonlinear response mod- with residual effects, and some constructions of els. cross-over designs. Fedorov, Valerii V. and Sergei L. Leonov. (Chap- man) QA331 9781470414566 CRC Press, ©2014 373 p. $89.95 Geometry of Isotropic Convex Bodies Drawing on their experience in drug companies Silouanos Brazitikos, Apostolos Giannopoulos, developing optimal design machinery for earlier Petros Valettas, and Beatrice-Helen Vritsiou phases of clinical studies, Fedorov and Leonov (Mathematical Surveys and Monographs; Volume introduce graduate students and researchers to 196) a statistical area that can loosely be called the American Mathematical Society, ©2014 594 p. model-based optimal design of experiments. Most $134.00 of the book requires only a modest formal back- The authors introduce a number of basic ques- ground in calculus, matrix algebra, and statistics, tions regarding the distribution of volume in so is accessible to readers with backgrounds in high-dimensional convex bodies, and provide an natural sciences and engineering as well as to up-to-date account of developments since the be- statisticians. The topics include regression mod- ginning of the 21st century. It is now understood els and their analysis, algorithms and numerical that the convexity assumption forces most of the techniques, nonlinear response models, adaptive volume of the body to be concentrated in some model-based design, and useful matrix formulae. canonical way, they say, so the main question now is whether, under some natural normaliza- QA312 9781470409357 tion, the answer to many fundamental questions The Joys of Haar Measure should be independent of the dimension. Among Joe Diestel and Angela Spalsbury (Graduate their topics are isotropic log-concave measures, Studies in Mathematics; Volume 150) bodies with maximal isotropic constant, tail esti- American Mathematical Society, ©2014 320 p. mates for linear functions, the central limit prob- $65.00 lem and the thin shell conjecture, and infimum For readers who have been exposed to a basic convolution inequalities and concentration. course in real variables, and have a certain degree of mathematical maturity, Diestal and Spal- QA378 9781482206425 sbury highlight developments in the existence, Modeling and Inverse problems in the Pres- uniqueness, and applications of invariant mea- ence of Uncertainty sures. They cover Lebesgue measure in Euclide- H.T. Banks, Shuhua Hu, and W. Clayton Thomp-

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son (Monographs and Research Notes in Math- degeneracy condition--is actually necessary for ematics) the validity of the global regulation of Fourier in- CRC Press, ©2014 391 p. $89.95 tegral operators. They walk through the steps in- Banks, Hu, and Thompson share the results of volved in the proof and discuss various conditions their research since the beginning of the 21st they impose on the operators as well as some century on certain aspects of uncertainty prop- motivations for the study of rough operators. agation. They write for investigators in applied mathematics interested in deterministic and/or QA431 9783037191248 stochastic models and their interactions as well Invariant manifolds in discrete and continu- as for scientists in biology, medicine, engineer- ous dynamical systems. ing, and physics interested in basic modeling Nipp, Kasper and Daniel Stoffer. (EMS tracts in and inverse problems, uncertainty in modeling, mathematics; 21) propagation of uncertainty, and statistical model- European Mathematical Soc., ©2013 216 p. ing. Among the topics are mathematical and sta- $78.00 tistical aspects of inverse problems, estimating Nipp and Stoffer (both mathematics, Eidgenos- probability measures using aggregate population sische Technische Hochschule, Zurich) investigate data, and a stochastic system and its correspond- dynamical systems from a geometric perspec- ing deterministic system. tive, focusing on invariant manifolds, which are an important tool in mechanical systems, chemi- QA402 9781466584594 cal reaction dynamics, fluid mechanics, electron- Nonlinear Control of Dynamic Networks ic circuit theory, and other applications. Among Tengfei Liu, Zhong-Ping Jiang, and David J. Hill their topics are perturbation and approximation, (Automation and Control Engineering) the smoothness of the foliation with respect to CRC Press, ©2014 323 p. $139.95 the base point, invariant manifold results, invari- Liu, Zhong-Ping, and Hill present a set of novel ant curves of perturbed harmonic oscillators, and analysis and design tools to address the newly blow-up in singular perturbations. Distributed in arising theoretical problems regarding dynam- the US by the American Mathematical Society. ic networks. They regard dynamic networks as composed of structurally interconnected sub- QA432 9781420071153 systems that often display complex dynamic Generalized Calculus With Applications to behaviors, and finding common characteristics Matter and Forces among the subsystems is the key to controlling L.M.B.C. Campos (Mathematics and Physics for the network. Their results are intended to help Science and Technology) solve real-world nonlinear control problems, in- CRC Press, ©2014 835 p. $89.95 cluding quantized control and distributed control Campos completes his trilogy on the theory of aspects. They cover interconnected nonlinear functions by considering generalized functions systems, large-scale dynamic networks, control such as the Heaviside unit jump, Dirac unit im- under sensor noise, quantized nonlinear control, pulse, and its derivatives of all orders. The two and distributed nonlinear control. main approaches to generalized functions he presents are a non-uniform limit of a family of QA403 9780821891193 ordinary functions, and a functional over a set Global and Local Regularity of Fourier Inte- of test functions from which properties are in- gral Operators on Weighted and Unweight- herited. He develops the latter more extensively ed Spaces to include multi-dimensional generalized func- David Dos Santos Ferreira and Wolfgang Stau- tions whose arguments are ordinary functions of bach (Memoirs of the American Mathematical So- several variables, which allows integration along ciety; Volume 229, Number 1074) curves, surfaces, and hypersurfaces and relates American Mathematical Society, ©2013 65 p. to the invariant differential operator’s gradient, $63.00 (pa) curl, and divergence. The first two volumes cover It has long been known that stronger conditions complex analysis with applications to flows and than mere non-degeneracy must be assumed on fields, and transcendental representations with the phase function in order to obtain global Lp applications to solids and fluids. boundedness results, say Ferreira and Staubach, but they show that an assumption on the phase QA614 9781119942399 function that requires a non-zero lower bound Fractal Geometry: Mathematical Founda- on the modulus of the determinant of the mixed tions and Applications Hessian of the phase--they call it the strong non- Kenneth Falconer

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Wiley, ©2014 368 p. $60.00 mation in disks were also reported from recent Falconer explains the mathematics associated multi-wavelength observations at space-based with fractals and dimensions at a level that is and ground-based observatories. Other areas reasonably accessible to those who encounter the 59 papers cover are disk galaxy morphology; fractals in mathematics and science. Though his dynamics, disk structure, and dark matter; spi- focus is on the mathematics, he does try to pro- ral structure; secular evolution; scaling laws; and vide intuitive insights as well. He begins with the environment and interactions. general theory of fractals and their geometry, then applies the theory to examples of fractals from a wide variety of mathematics and phys- PHYSICS ics. The topics include techniques for calculating dimensions, intersections of fractals, examples QC39 9781439848913 from number theory, the iteration of complex Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sen- functions in Julia sets and the Mandelbrot set, sors Handbook: Electromagnetic, Optical, and multi-fractal measures. Radiation, Chemical, and Biomedical Mea- surement, 2nd Edition QA871 9781611973136 Edited by John G. Webster and Halit Eren Analytic Perturbation Theory and Its Appli- CRC Press, ©2014 1912 p. $199.95 cations The second volume in the two-volume set in- Konstantin E. Avrachenkov, Jerzy Filar, and Phil troduces the sensors used in measurement in- G. Howlett strumentation, reviews the math for calculating SIAM, ©2013 372 p. $89.00 electrical and electromagnetic variables, and de- Mathematicians consider systems that can be scribes applications in medical imaging, blood disturbed, to a varying degree, by changing the pressure measurement, patient monitoring, and value of a single perturbation parameter loosely environmental sensing. The signal processing referred to as the perturbation. They present a chapters explain modulation techniques, filters, unified analysis of the general linear and nonlin- spectrum analysis, algorithms, analog-to-digital ear systems of algebraic equations that depend converters, amplifiers, and the importance of on a small perturbation parameter. In sections grounding and shielding. Other topics of the 98 on finite dimensional perturbations, applications contributions include CMOS integrated gas sen- to optimization and Markov processes, and infi- sors, energy harvesting for sensors, oscilloscope nite dimensional perturbations, they discuss such voltage measurement, capacitance, photocon- topics as the inversion of analytically perturbed ductive sensors, colorimetry, chemical sensors, matrices, polynomial perturbation of algebraic airborne radiometers, and displays. nonlinear systems, applications to Markov decision processes, the analytic perturbation of linear QC243 9781118368473 operators, and background on Hilbert spaces and Sound Visualization and Manipulation Fourier analysis. Yang-Hann Kim and Jung-Woo Choi Wiley, ©2013 416 p. $130.00 Specialists in sound and noise analysis, Kim and ASTRONOMY Choi present the simplest one-dimensional theories about visualizing and manipulating sound QB858 9781583818442 and their mathematical dimensions. These can Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies; be expanded to deal with more dimensions easily proceedings and directly, they say. They begin by explaining Structure and Dynamics of Disk Galaxies Con- three physical quantities in acoustics--radiation, ference (2013: Petit Jean Mountain, Arkansas) scattering, and diffraction--and interrelationships Edited by Marc S. Seigar and Patrick Treuthardt among acoustic pressure, particle velocity, and (Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference acoustic density. Then they introduce sound vi- Series; Volume 480) sualization methods and explain how the basic Astronomical Soc./Pacific, ©2014 289 p. principles can be varied depending on certain $77.00 basic functions. Finally they deal with the two The conference considered the formation and main methods for manipulating sound: focusing evolution of disk galaxies, with sessions dedi- sound in specific areas of space, and reproduc- cated to the Milky Way, the Local Group, and ing a sound field to generate a wave front in the nearby galaxies that are critical to understanding desired forms. The material should be accessible the disk galaxy picture. New results of star for- to engineers and graduate and advanced under-

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graduate students in acoustics. tering (SERS), covering theory, instrumentation, applications, and new research areas. Spectral QC320 9783038350002 calculations using a combined quantum mechan- Fluid Flow, Energy Transfer and Design: ics/electrodynamics method are discussed first, Special Topic Volume With Invited Peer Re- followed by “hot spots” of plasmonic nanoaggre- viewed Papers Only gates, the implications of nanoparticle symmetry Edited by Antonio F. Miguel, Luiz Rocha, and An- in single-molecule scattering, and an experimen- dreas Ochsner (Defect and Diffusion Forum; Vol- tal demonstration of the technique’s electromag- ume 348) netic mechanism. Use of SERS as a probe for Trans Tech Publications, ©2014 394 p. metal-surface adsorption dynamics, mathemati- $138.00 (pa) cal analysis of blinking SERS, nanoscale imaging, Physicists, mathematicians, and chemists con- and shell-isolated nanoparticle-enhanced spec- tributed to the special session at the 2013 Con- troscopy are discussed. The last several chapters ference on Diffusion in Solids and Liquids, from cover applications in super-resolution imaging, which the 29 papers here emerged. They cover lithographically fabricated substrates, fluores- multiphase flow; diffusion, osmosis, and phase cence detection in Langmuir-Blodgett monolay- change; forced convection; external flows; en- ers, and biological systems for metabolomics, ergy, design, and optimization; and learning diagnostics, and cell biology research. and teaching techniques. Among the topics are the numerical analysis of heat transfer in a flow QC457 9780124077713 confined by wire screen in a lithium bromide ab- Rotational Structure in Molecular Infrared sorption process, the diffusion phenomenon of a Spectra pollutant flowing into a lagoon, an experimental Carlo Di Lauro study of internal forced convection in ferrofluid Elsevier, ©2013 329 p. $179.95 flow in porous media, energy transfer and fluid Lauro offers a bridge between recent research on flow around a massive astrophysical object, and advanced aspects of molecular spectroscopy and the numerical investigation of the viscous dissi- elementary basic methods in the field of the ro- pation term on two-dimensional heat transfer. tational structure in the infrared spectra of gas- eous molecules, an area that has not been stud- QC446 9789814460347 ied much during the past few decades. Among Strong Light-Matter Coupling: From Atoms his topics are the vibration-rotation problem, the to Solid-State Systems interaction of matter and light, molecular sym- Edited by Alexia Auffeves, Dario Gerace, Maxime metry and spectroscopy, nuclear spin statistical Richard, Stefano Portolan, Marcelo Franca San- weights, effects of centrifugal distortions, spectra tos, Leone Chuan Kwek, and Christian Miniatura of symmetric top and linear molecules, spectra World Scientific, ©2014 292 p. $108.00 of spherical top molecules, and floppy molecules. In chapters mostly derived from lectures in a special course held at Nanyang Technical Uni- QC611 9789814316903 versity, physicists explore interactions between Nanostructured Semiconductors: From Ba- light and matter from a number of perspectives. sic Research to Applications Among them are cavity quantum electrodynam- Edited by Petra Granitzer and Klemens Rumpf ics in atomic physics, exciton-polaritons in bulk Pan Stanford Publishing, ©2014 684 p. semiconductors and in confined electron and $149.95 photon systems, basic concepts in quantum in- This text/reference is written for graduate stu- formation, cavity polaritons: crossroads between dents and practicing scientists needing an in- non-linear optics and atomic condensates, quan- troduction to the fabrication and application of tum polaritonics, and optical signal processing nanostructured semiconductors in fields includ- with enhanced nonlinearity in photonic crystals. ing optics, acoustics, and biomedicine. Coverage encompasses the fundamentals of pore growth in QC454 9781118359020 III-V semiconductors; formation techniques such Frontiers of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scat- as anodization, stain etching, and metal-assisted tering: Single Nanoparticles and Single Cells etching; and physical properties, with a focus Edited by Yukihiro Ozaki, Katrin Kneipp, and Ri- on transport and optical behavior. Distributed by cardo Aroca CRC Press. Wiley, ©2014 313 p. $180.00 Editors Ozaki, Kneipp, and Aroca present this detailed volume on surface-enhanced Raman scat-

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QC915 9783527331772 with various ligands. The use of hypervalent io- Industrial Moisture and Humidity Measure- dine reagents in synthesis and is covered, with ment: A Practical Guide the largest subsections pertaining to iodine(III). Roland Wernecke and Jan Wernecke Recycling methods, green chemistry, and prac- Wiley-VCH, ©2014 498 p. $190.00 tical applications round out the book. Synthetic Wernicke and Wernicke explore the different as- chapters are presented with extensive schemes pects of measuring industrial moisture and hu- and numbered compound references and fre- midity for process engineers, students, and pro- quent attention to experimental details and theo- fessions who must conduct such measurements. rized mechanisms. Their topics include thermodynamic terms and definitions, selecting a measurement method, QD322 9781439875940 reliability and traceability of measurements, ap- Carbohydrate Chemistry: Proven Synthetic plications in the food and beverage industry, ap- Methods; Volume 2 plication in the manufacture and processing of Edited by Gijsbert van der Marel and Jeroen paper and textiles, moisture measurement in Codee (Carbohydrate Chemistry: Proven Syn- construction, laboratory-based moisture mea- thetic Methods; Voume 2) surement, and moisture and humidity measure- CRC Press, ©2014 293 p. $149.95 ment in space. Van der Marel and Codee edit this compilation on synthetic carbohydrate chemistry. Prefatory remarks encourage the reader to study the classics CHEMISTRY of carbohydrate literature and emphasize good practices for safety, preparation, characteriza- QD39 9783110300079 tion, and reporting. Thirty-four chapters in two Mathematical Chemistry and Chemoinfor- sections are presented, each consisting of a con- matics: Structure Generation, Elucidation cise but detailed experimental report with pro- and Quantitative Structure-Property Rela- ton and carbon NMR spectra and structural as- tionships signments. The first section discusses synthetic Adalbert Kerber, Reinhard Laue, Markus Mering- methods for particular local transformations, er, Christopher Rucker, and Emma Schymanski protections, chemo- or stereoselectivity, while De Gruyter, ©2014 491 p. $182.00 the section section targets useful intermediates Reporting on research at the University of with versatile structures. Bayreuth into constructive combinatorics based on the use of finite groups actions, the book de- QD341 9783527332588 scribes, extends, and applies methods of com- Graphene; synthesis, properties, and phe- puter chemistry and chemoinformatics that can nomena. be used in generating molecular structure, elu- Title main entry. Ed. by C.N.R. Rao and Ajay K. cidating structure, combinatorial chemistry, Sood. quantitative structure-property relations (QSPR), Wiley-VCH, ©2013 416 p. $170.00 generating chemical patent libraries, and other Materials scientists, chemists, and physicists sur- applications. Among the topics are the basics of vey some of the salient aspects of single-layer or graphs and molecular graphs, advanced proper- few-layer graphene and a few graphene-like inor- ties of molecular graphs, chirality, stereoisomers, ganic layered materials that are of current inter- supervised statistical learning, and case studies est. Among the topics are investigating graphene of computer-aided structure elucidation (CASE). with Raman scattering, the physics of quanta and quantum fields in graphene, suspected gra- QD181 9781118341032 phene devices for nanoelectromechanics of and Hypervalent Iodine Chemistry: Prepara- for studying the quantum Hall effect, a detailed tion, Structure and Synthetic Applications computational study of electronic and magnetic of Polyvalent Iodine Compounds properties of patterned nanoribbons, heteroge- Viktor V. Zhdankin neous catalysis by metal nanoparticles supported Wiley, ©2014 468 p. $170.00 on graphene, and biomedical applications. The Zhdankin presents this compendium on hyper- anthology could introduce students, teachers, valent iodine, beginning with a discussion of the and researchers to the recently discovered form classification, bonding, structure, and reactivity of carbon. of polyvalent iodine compounds. Preparation and characterization are discussed next, including iodine in the +3, +5, and +7 oxidation states and

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QD381 9781926895642 the topics are studies of photoinduced nitrogen Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules: hydrogen tautomerism by stationary and time- Macro to Nanoscales resolved fluorescence techniques, isotropic- ef Edited by Chin Han Chan, Chin Hua Chia, and fects on chemical shifts as a tool in the study Sabu Thomas of tautometric equilibria, the tautomer-selective Apple Academic Press, ©2014 639 p. $179.95 spectroscopy of nucleobases isolated in the gas Chan, Chia, and Thomas offer a research vol- phase, the force field treatment of proton and ume on physical chemistry of macromolecules hydrogen transfer in molecular systems, and the with a focus on polymer thermodynamics in two quantum chemical calculation of tautomeric equi- parts. The first part discusses basic aspects of libria. polymer physics, including mass distribution, solution behavior, transitions, crystallization and QD475 9781119953197 melting, non-equilibrium, liquid-crystalline order, Multi Length-Scale Characterisation surface tension, and characterization through Edited by Duncan W. Bruce, Dermot O’Hare, and chromatography and spectroscopy. The second Richard I. Walton (Inorganic Materials Series) part discusses detail and applications of materi- Wiley, ©2014 294 p. $125.00 als, including ionic liquid methods for obtaining Materials scientists and chemists examine some chitin-based materials, fire-resistant bio-based key methods used to investigate the structure polyurethane, graft copolymers in drug delivery, of inorganic materials at various scales from the thermal properties of different polymer classes, local atomic order through crystalline and long- palm oil-based resins to replace petroleum-based range order to the mesoscopic, and the mac- tackifier, and thermoplastic polyester. Distributed roscopic. They cover measuring bulk magnetic by CRC Press, a Taylor & Francis Group. properties, thermal methods, and gas sorption in the analysis of nanoporous solids, all of which QD412 9780470973592 deal with the bulk properties of materials; atom- The Chemistry of Organoiron Compounds ic force microscopy, which looks at structure on Edited by Ilan Marek and Zvi Rappoport (Patai’s atomic length scales; and dynamic light scatter- Chemistry of Functional Groups) ing, which is used for particle sizing and provides Wiley, ©2014 651 p. $980.00 a bridge to the new method of differential dy- Editors Marek and Rappoport offer this encyclo- namic microscopy. pedic volume on on organoiron compounds with upwards of 100 references for each chapter. QD476 9781118150924 Structural and spectroscopic theory, systematic Organic Synthesis and Molecular Engineer- treatment of thermochemistry and energetics, ing and gas-phase ion stereochemistry of complex- Edited by Mogens Bro>ndsted Nielsen es fill the first few chapters. Coordination and Wiley, ©2014 460 p. $150.00 catalytic chemistry are described for phosphino- Chemists examine a representative sample of ferrocenes, diene and dienyl ligands, frustrated topics regarding the use of organic synthesis in Lewis pairs in ferrocene chemistry, iron-alkyl and molecular engineering, some tightly focused on iron-acyl complexes. Finally applications of iron- a particular area and other surveying broader containing complexes to specific chemical trans- matters. Among the topics are organic building formations are discussed, including reductions, blocks for molecular engineering, the design and asymmetric synthesis, Lewis acid catalysis, C-C synthesis of organic molecules for molecular elec- bond formation with C-H bond activation, and tronics, molecular storage systems for solar ther- cross-coupling. mal energy storage and conversion, strategies to switch fluorescence with photochromic oxazines, QD471 9783527332946 recognizing carbohydrates, the synthesis and Tautomerism: Methods and Theories function of cyclodextrin-based artificial enzymes, Edited by Liudmil Antonov and dendrimers in biology and nanomedicine. Wiley-VCH, ©2014 377 p. $190.00 Focusing on the most common case--the trans- QD501 9781405176682 fer of a proton or hydrogen atom--chemists build Proton Transfer Reaction Mass Spectrom- a bridge from the basic knowledge discussed in etry: Principles and Applications other textbooks and specialized scientific pa- Andrew M. Ellis and Christopher A. Mayhew pers, to the results of recent findings and ongo- Wiley, ©2014 349 p. $165.00 ing research into tautomerism, tautomeric com- Proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry pounds, and methods for studying them. Among (PTR-MS) is widely used to detect volatile organic

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compounds in air, but it is increasingly used in sulfur, hydrocarbons and aromatics, and symme- other applications as well, so potential users may try breaking and metallization phenomena. Dis- not be as steeped in the arcana of the chemical tributed by World Scientific. sciences as most introductions to the technology assume. Therefore, Ellis and Mayhew explain QD569 9783527332274 the theory, procedures, and applications to read- Electrocatalysis ers who are relatively new to it, and may come Edited by Richard C. Alkire, Dieter M. Kolb, Lud- from fields other than chemistry or physics. They wig A. Kibler, and Jacek Lipkowski (Advances in explain the chemistry, thermodynamics, and ki- Electrochemical Sciences and Engineering; Vol- netics of chemical ionization; components and ume 14) principles of experimentation; and quantitative Wiley-VCH, ©2014 303 p. $205.00 analysis. Then they sample applications in the Chemists and related scientists review recent de- environmental, food, and medical sciences; developments in electrocatalysis and modern elec- tecting threat agents; and analyzing liquid. trochemical surface science, emphasizing methodological innovations that are driving research QD505 9781118207949 in the field. They cover the multi-scale modeling Olefin Metathesis: Theory and Practice of electrochemical systems, statistical mechan- Edited by Karol Grela ics and the kinetic modeling of electrochemical Wiley, ©2014 592 p. $165.00 reactions on single-crystal electrodes using the The comprehensive reference for synthetic chem- lattice-gas approximation, single-molecule elec- ists requires no deep knowledge of inorganic and trochemistry within a scanning tunneling mi- coordination chemistry but provides a contem- croscope, from microbial bioelectrocatalysis to porary view of the theory and methods of olefin microbial bioelectrochemical systems, the elec- metathesis. The first part surveys applications trocapillarity of solids and its impact on hetero- and the second part describes tools. Among the geneous catalysis, synthesizing precious metal topics are domino and other olefin metathesis nanoparticles with high surface energy and high reaction sequences, applications in the synthe- electrocatalytic activity, and X-ray studies of sis of natural and biologically active molecules, strained catalytic de-alloyed platinum surfaces. challenges and opportunities for scaling the ring- closing metathesis reaction in pharmaceuticals, immobilizing olefin metathesis catalysts, and GEOLOGY olefin metathesis in green organic solvents and without solvent. QE369 9780939950935 Spectroscopic Methods in Mineralogy and QD538 9781848163058 Materials Science Materials Under Extreme Conditions: Molec- Edited by Grant S. Henderson, Daniel R. Neuville, ular Crystals at High Pressure and Robert T. Downs (Reviews in Mineralogy and Roberto Bini and Vincenzo Schettino Geochemistry; Volume 78) Imperial College Press, ©2014 354 p. $135.00 Mineralogical Soc. of America, ©2014 800 p. Bini and Schettino present this overview of high- $50.00 (pa) pressure materials research, beginning with an This volume complements the 1988 Spectro- introduction to the expanded potentialities of fa- scopic Methods in Mineralogy and Geology and miliar substances under high pressure conditions updates many of the techniques. The topics in- and a historical review of high-pressure chemical clude insights from X-ray Raman scattering at research. The remainder of the book comprises high pressure into probing pressure-induced four in-depth chapters covering, in sequence: bonding transitions in crystalline and amorphous equations of state and the effect of temperature earth materials, analyzing mineral surfaces by and pressure on isotropic and anisotropic elas- atomic force microscopy, carrying over sampling ticity in crystals; instrumentation and analytic errors and other problems in far-infrared to far- methods for studying high-pressure chemistry ultraviolet spectra to associated applications, including piston-cylinder devices, the diamond- nuclear magnetic radiation spectroscopy of inor- anvil cell, optical spectroscopy, X-ray and neu- ganic earth materials, high-pressure apparatus tron diffraction, and NMR; the effect of pressure integrated with synchrotron radiation, and in situ on equilibria, reaction rates, and the electronic high-temperature experiments. basis of reactions; and reversible and irreversible reactions in molecular crystals including solid nitrogen, red oxygen, carbon dioxide, formic acid,

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QE516 9780939950928 Geochemistry of Geologic CO2 Sequestra- ENGINEERING (GENERAL, CIVIL) tion Edited by Donald J. DePaolo, David R. Cole, Al- TA168 9781466578012 exandra Navrotsky, and Ian C. Bourg (Reviews in Coupled Systems: Theory, Models, and Ap- Mineralogy and Geochemistry; Volume 77) plications in Engineering Mineralogical Soc. of America, ©2013 539 p. Juergen Geiser (Chapman & Hall/CRC Numerical $40.00 (pa) Analysis and Scientific Computing Series) Geologists and other earth scientists investigate CRC Press, ©2014 289 p. $89.95 the degree to which geochemistry can affect the Geiser describes theoretical and practical aspects behavior of geologic sequestration systems. They of solving complicated and coupled models in en- describe a number of ways that chemical reac- gineering using analytical and numerical meth- tions between fluids and between fluids and min- ods. Because such problems are often so deli- erals can modify expectations that might be de- cate, he discusses the ideas of solving multiscale rived from a view in which the physical properties and multiphysics problems with the help of split- of the fluids and medium were the primary con- ting multiscale methods, and describes analyti- trolling factors. Among the topics are the ther- cal and numerical methods in time and space for modynamics of carbonates, experimental per- evolution equations that arise from engineering spectives of mineral dissolution and precipitation problems and their applications. The algorith- due to carbon dioxide-water-rock interactions, mic section discusses the methods with respect carbon mineralization from natural analogues to to their capability for solving problems in real- engineered systems, geochemical monitoring for life applications to engineering tasks, and in the potential environmental impacts of geologic se- experimental part he presents engineering prob- questration of carbon dioxide, and how capillary lems with respect to the MATLAB code used and pressure and mineral wettability influence a res- implemented. ervoir’s carbon dioxide capacity. TA354 9781845648794 Projectile Impact: Modelling Techniques TECHNOLOGY (GENERAL) and Target Performance Assessment Edited by S. Syngellakis T211 9781439888056 WIT Press, ©2014 231 p. $210.00 Consider a Spherical Patent: IP and Patent- This volume collects 21 analytical and experi- ing in Technology Business mental studies of modeling techniques and the Joseph E. Gortych assessment of the impact of projectiles on vari- CRC Press, ©2014 245 p. $59.95 (pa) ous materials. Engineers and other scientists In this guide for technology workers, Gortych, from around the world describe developments for an intellectual property attorney, describes the Lagrangian algorithms applied to ballistics prob- fundamentals of patents, how they are obtained lems involving severe distortions; the prediction and used in business, why they are pursued, and of projectile penetration and perforation; the in- how to participate in an organization’s patenting fluence of the constitutive relation in numerical process. He addresses the common oversimpli- simulations of the perforation of steel plates; the fied (or spherical) view people have of patents, effect of lateral confinement on penetration- ef and discusses its actual complexity, covering the ficiency as a function of impact velocity; the use intellectual property world, requirements for a of 3D numerical simulations for the interaction patent application, how patents can be viewed of long rods with moving plates; and the valida- in groups called portfolios, the uncertainty of the tion of finite element models of bullet impact on patenting process, provisional patent application, high strength steel armors. Others examine the the relationship between infringeability and va- improvement of penetration performance of lin- lidity, the exponential growth in patenting and ear shaped charges, the resistance of ultra-high the intellectual property space, difficulties in get- performance fiber-reinforced concrete to projec- ting a patenting system of a technology business tile impact, the impact behavior of hybrid rub- to function, the role of obviousness in the pat- ber materials under rifle shooting, the resistance enting system and patent examination process, of doped zirconia to ballistic impact, the mod- the problem of intellectual property illiteracy eling of bullet perforation of textile targets, and among the technology workforce, challenges for the impact response and ballistic performances independent inventors, and intellectual property of graphite foams. The US office of WIT Press is strategies and how to formulate them. Computational Mechanics.

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TA419 9781466645547 vibrations of beams and plates, the stability of Research developments in wood engineer- beams and plates, and some related problems. ing and technology. Title main entry. Ed. by Alfredo Aguilera and J. TA1634 9781568817255 Paulo Davim. Image Statistics in Visual Computing Engineering Science Reference, ©2014 390 p. Tania Pouli, Erik Reinhard, and Douglas W. Cun- $165.00 ningham Wood engineers, architects, electrical engineers, CRC Press, ©2014 354 p. $69.95 and other contributors explore engineering wood An interesting and interdisciplinary approach to products and processing technologies that re- computer graphics and visualization, this collab- quire new materials, adhesives, tools, and design orative effort begins with a statistical approach to techniques. The topics include wood and fiber human vision--determining regularities, patterns panel technology; the chemistry and technology in visual data that our brains use to construct a of natural adhesives, binders, and matrices for visual representation of reality and then applying wood and fiber composites; using ultrasound to the concepts to the development in visual com- evaluate the surface and sub-surface quality of puting. Essentially, the explanatory path takes us engineered wood products; non-wood lignocellu- from biology to mathematics to programming: losic composites; and an inventory of experimen- from our brains’ hardwired responses to statis- tal works on the life of cutting tools for the wood tical interpretation of the stimuli causing par- industry. ticular responses to a graphic implementation of those statistical patterns to create more realistic TA455 9783527327935 computer graphics...that would trigger the brain High Temperature Performance of Polymer response in question. this is quite a rewarding Composites exploration, mathematically dense and challeng- Yu Bai and Thomas Keller ing, that takes us from basic statistical concepts Wiley-VCH, ©2014 233 p. $160.00 (and their interpretation within biological con- Civil engineers Bai and Keller review and com- text) to image statistics in two and three dimen- pare research into the performance of fiber-re- sions (wavelets, Markov fields, the statistics of inforced polymers (FRP) under high-temperature color), via mathematical interpretations of gradi- conditions in civil engineering applications. Their ents and edges, a discussion of image databases emphasis in on changes in qualities that are im- (with their own statistical challenges), and Fou- portant in structural and other applications in rier analysis--among other topics. A multitude of constructions. They cover material states of FRP color illustrations illustrates major points. composites under elevated and high tempera- tures, effective properties of material mixtures, TA1750 9789814449885 thermophysical and thermomechanical proper- Vectorial Optical Fields: Fundamentals and ties of FRP composites, thermal and mechanical Applications responses, post-fire behavior, and fire protection Edited by Qiwen Zhan practices. World Scientific, ©2014 280 p. $98.00 Seven review studies summarize the current TA660 9781118725191 state of research into vectorial optical fields with Asymptotic Methods in the Theory of Plates spatially inhomogeneous state of polarizations, With Mixed Boundary Conditions interest in which has grown out of studies of op- Igor V. Andrianov, Jan Awrejcewicz, Vladyslav V. tical imaging such as the optimal concentration Danishevs’kyy, and Andrey O. Ivankov of electromagnetic radiation in the focal region. Wiley, ©2014 272 p. $145.00 They cover cylindrical vector beams, vector opti- Mechanical and civil engineers working with cal fields and their novel effects, cylindrical vec- structural plates can find information about as- tor beams for spectroscopic imaging of single ymptotic approaches and computational methods molecules and nanoparticles, comprehensive fo- for plates and beams with mixed boundary con- cal field engineering with vectorial optical fields, ditions for designing or analyzing structures and plasmonics, optical measuring techniques, and structural elements. The topics include asymptot- partially coherent vector beams from theory to ic series and approximations, some nonstandard experiment. perturbation procedures, summing asymptotic series, mating limiting asymptotic expansions, averaging homogenization, natural and forced

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Contributors from life and environmental sci- ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY ences survey technologies currently being used to mitigate, remediate, and store carbon dioxide TD427 9780873353540 emissions by industry. They cover absorption, Techniques for Predicting Metal Mining In- adsorption, and membrane-based separation fluenced Water processes; geological sequestration, biological Edited by R. David Williams and Sharon F. Diehl sequestration, research trends in using ionic liq- (Management Technologies for Metal Mining In- uids, and air capture. Among specific topics are fluenced Water; Volume 5) carbon dioxide capture in a spray column using Soc./Mining, Metallurgy & Expl, ©2014 137 p. a critical flow atomizer, a new approach for near- $89.00 (pa) surface assurance monitoring in geological carbon Williams and Diehl edit this handbook on predict- sequestration, carbon dioxide efflux from cleared ing, testing, and evaluating the impact of metal mangrove peat, soil microbial responses to el- mining on drainage water and the surrounding evated carbon dioxide and ozone in a nitrogen- environment. The introduction discusses the Acid aggrading agroecosystem, and capturing carbon Rock Drainage (ARD) predictive approach and dioxide from air. Distributed in the US by CRC outlines general considerations of environmental Press, a member of the Taylor & Francis Group. setting, geology, mineralogy, hydrology, mining parameters, and climate. The next two chapters discuss acid generation, neutralization, and min- MECHANICAL ENGINEERING & MACHINERY eral oxidation in detail, followed by predictive factors that can be measured at the mining site. TJ211 9781848215207 Static, leach, field, and kinetic tests are reviewed Flexible Robotics: Applications to Multiscale in concept and application, followed by evalua- Manipulations tions of their advantages and disadvantages. The Edited by Mathieu Grossard, Nicolas Chaillet, and final chapter summarizes the predictive process. Stephane Regnier (Robotics Series) Substantial appendices provide methodological ISTE/Wiley, ©2013 385 p. $165.00 details of the tests discussed. Contributors examine specific aspects of designing, modeling, identifying, and controlling robotic TD758 9781138001275 manipulation devices characterized by a degree Advanced Oxidation Technologies -- Sus- of mechanical flexibility. The topics include- de tainable Solutions for Environmental Treat- signing integrated flexible structures for micro- ments manipulation, open-loop control approaches to Edited by Marta I. Litter, Roberto J. Candal, and compliant micromanipulators, mechanical flex- J. Martin Meichtry (Sustainable Energy Develop- ibility and the design of versatile and dexterous ments; Volume 9) grippers, the modeling and motion control of CRC Press, ©2014 348 p. $159.95 serial robots with flexible joints, and the robust Chemists and other scientists examine state- control of robotic manipulators with structural of-the-art advanced oxidation technologies and flexibilities. their use in sustainable, low-cost and low-energy treatments for water, air, and soil. The topics in- TJ214 9781119992745 clude decontaminating water by solar irradiation, Electromechanical Motion Systems: Design degrading perchlorate dissolved in water by a and Simulation combined application of ion exchange resin and Frederick G. Moritz zero-valent iron nanoparticles, decontaminat- Wiley, ©2014 394 p. $130.00 ing commercial chlorpyrifos in water using the Having been both a designer and user of various ultraviolet/hydrogen peroxide process, modified components used in high performance, servo/ montmorillonite in photo-Fenton and adsorption control systems, Moritz introduces the technol- processes, stabilized titania nanoparticles on clay ogy of the major components that are used in minerals for air and water treatment, and the every motion system. Such information is usually photodegradation of beta-blockers in water. crowded out of a one or two semester control/ servo system course by the mathematics neces- TD885 9781771880213 sary. System designers will never fabricate their Carbon Capture and Storage: CO2 Manage- own motor or encoder, he says, but they must ment Technologies understand the basics of those components in Edited by Amitava Bandyopadhyay order to apply them properly and to have fruitful Apple Academic Press, ©2014 391 p. $129.95 discussion with component suppliers.

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TJ217 9781466515796 altitude jetstreams, large turbines using electro- Disturbance Observer-Based Control: Meth- magnets, Tormod systems, and wind power com- ods and Applications plexes with hydropower and hydrogen storage. Shihua Li, Jun Yang, Wen-Jua Chen, and Xisong It belongs to an engineering tradition of extreme Chen solutions to ordinary problems at the largest pos- CRC Press, ©2014 314 p. $99.95 sible scale. Specialists in automation and control describe control systems based on disturbance observers, which provide an effective disturbance estimation ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, ELECTRONICS, technique for a wide range of systems in which NUCLEAR ENGINEERING disturbances cannot be measured by sensors. They consider theoretical aspects of disturbance TK146 9781482228830 estimation and compensation for control systems, Electrical Engineering for Non-Electrical En- and their practical application in process-control, gineers mechatronic, and flight-control systems. Among S. Bobby Rauf the topics are nonlinear disturbance observers, CRC Press, ©2014 492 p. $129.95 generalized extended state observer-based con- Rauf presents a resource for exploring and under- trol for systems with mismatched uncertainties, standing basic electrical engineering concepts, disturbance rejection for magnetic levitation principles, and analytical and mathematics strat- suspension systems, and disturbance rejection egies. Readers looking for just the basic knowl- for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles. Readers edge should find this book sufficient, he says, and should have at least an undergraduate-level un- those proceeding to intermediate or advanced derstanding of basic automatic control theory. stages can use it as a foundation. He includes most of the necessary reference data--excerpted TJ765 9781118818435 from elsewhere in the book--in each case study, Stirling Cycle Engines: Inner Workings and exercise, and self-assessment problem solutions Design so readers do not have to track it down. Among Allan J. Organ the topics are direct circuit analysis and basic Wiley, ©2014 272 p. $135.00 electronic devices, power factor, electric motors Organ sets out what has been learned and accom- and generators, electrical controls and drawings, plished in nearly two hundred years of research and illumination and lighting system design. into the Stirling engine, so that researchers and engineers just discovering it to not have to start TK2514 9781420091434 over. His topics include Stirling myth and real- Mechanical Design of Electric Motors ity, Carnot efficiency, steady-flow heat transfer Wei Tong correlations, a question of adiabaticity, dynamic CRC Press, ©2014 702 p. $159.95 and intrinsic similarity, getting started, Stirling Tong provides fellow engineers, researchers, stu- engine design without the hot air, the wire-mesh dents, and maintenance personnel with an in- regenerator, hydrogen versus helium versus air, depth knowledge base of designs, techniques, the “hot air” engine, and the ultimate Lagrange and developments of modern electric motors. formulation. Among his considerations are details of motor design and performing characteristics, material TJ828 9781118720929 selections, and innovative motors developed in Wind Power: Turbine Design, Selection, and recent years. He covers designing rotors, shafts, Optimization stators, and motor frames; motor bearings; mo- Victor Lyatkher tor power losses; motor cooling; motor vibration Scrivener/Wiley, ©2014 311 p. $195.00 and acoustic noise; motor testing; modeling, Lavishly illustrated with small diagrams and tech- simulation, and analysis of electric motors; and nical illustrations, this is an engineering design innovations and advanced motor design. book of turbines that generate wind energy. There are seven chapters: transformation of flow TK2931 9781118369234 power, collinear wind turbines, orthogonal wind Enzymatic Fuel Cells: From Fundamentals to units, ordinary orthogonal windmills, largest open Applications wind turbines on ground or sea, units without Edited by Heather R. Luckarift, Plamen Atanass- external rotation, and high jet power stations. A ov, and Glenn R. Johnson short conclusion recommends implementation of Wiley, ©2014 468 p. $125.00 the book’s suggested designs for tapping high- Luckarift, Atanassov, and Johnson edit this vol-

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ume on enzymatic fuel cells beginning with an programming paradigms, miscellaneous control introduction to fuel cells and electrochemical pa- and management software, controller architec- rameters. A variety of bioelectrocatalytic tech- ture and network virtualization, among others), niques and components are discussed individu- quality of service issues and concluding with sev- ally, including MCO oxygen reduction, anodic eral chapters dedicated to more advanced topics: oxidation catalysts, metabolons, and hydroge- optical networks using SDN/OpenFlow, security nases. Approaches such as protein engineering, issues and specific implementations, with a case multicopper oxidases, mediated enzymes, hier- study of anycast implementation in SDN. archical materials architecture, and enzyme im- mobilization are covered, followed by character- TK6565 9781608071180 ization methods including analysis of immobilized Understanding Quartz Crystals and Oscilla- enzymes, examination of the bio-nano interface, tors scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray spec- Ramon M. Cerda (Artech House Microwave Li- troscopy. Engineering and applications chapters brary) round out the book, discussing overall design, Artech House, ©2014 299 p. $179.00 miniature cells, switchable electrodes, and bio- Cerda presents this detailed text on quartz crys- medical applications as well as future outlook. tal oscillators, beginning with an introduction to the discovery, crystal structure, and thermal TK3105 9781119975809 and electrical properties of quartz. The concepts Smart Grid: Communication-Enabled Intel- and mathematics of resonance and MEMS os- ligence for the Electric Power Grid cillators are presented, followed by advice on Stephen F. Bush crystal choice for given applications and cover- IEEE/Wiley, ©2014 538 p. $110.00 age of oscillator theory, phase noise, and jitter. Assuming as little prerequisite knowledge as pos- Specifications of crystal oscillators are discussed sible, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Bush describes and the Pierce-Gate, Colpitts, and Butler designs the evolving electric power grid and the potential are described. The final four chapters focus on for building a smart electric grid that responds the issues of characterization, frequency multi- intelligently to all its interconnected components. plication, telecommunications requirements, and After reviewing the fundamentals of power gen- testing. eration and transmission, the book examines the power grid from the perspectives of complexity TK6570 9780470740583 theory, graph theory, network science, and in- Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimiza- formation theory, introduces IEEE 802.15.4 com- tion: Design, Evaluation and Application munication protocols, and surveys several mod- Ashutosh Dutta and Henning Schulzrinne els for automating distribution while maintaining IEEE/Wiley, ©2014 442 p. $125.00 power system protection and self-healing. Later Dutta and Schulzrinne introduce networking pro- chapters discuss machine intelligence algorithms fessionals to mobility protocols for different lay- and where they might fit in the power grid, state ers of mobile networks, to the systematic analysis estimation, synchrophasors, advances in power of the mobility event, and to optimization tech- electronics, and nanoscale communication net- niques associated with each of the handoff oper- works. ations in different layers. They take into account various kinds of mobility deployment scenarios, TK5105 9781466572096 including wireless service providers, enterprise Network Innovation Through OpenFlow and networks, ad hoc networks, and vehicular net- SDN: Principles and Design works supporting both unicast and multicast traf- Edited by Fei Hu fic. They also present results and performance CRC Press, ©2014 496 p. $89.95 analysis from mobility test beds and theoretical The key idea of software-defined network (SDN) is models that validate the optimization techniques to split the network forwarding from the network for various scenarios. control functions and define them, correspond- ingly, by data and control planes. OpenFlow, the TK6575 9781439865996 main SDN implementation, is the subject of this Small and Short-Range Radar Systems collection of papers concentrating primarily on Gregory L. Charvat (Gregory l. Charvat Series on network design using this paradigm. The volume Practical Approaches to Electrical Engineering) opens with an overview of basic concepts, includ- CRC Press, ©2014 385 p. $149.95 ing design cycle and addresses specific design Charvat provides high-level analysis of small and problems (such as the choice of language and short-range radar systems, and demonstrates

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them with working examples. For each of the TK7885 9781849801607 several types, he derives the radar range equa- Simulating Innovation: Computer-Based tion, explains applicable algorithms, and pres- Tools for Rethinking Innovation ents a case study that couples theory to real- Christopher Watts and Nigel Gilbert ity by demonstrating the implementation of an Edward Elgar, ©2014 291 p. $130.00 actual radar system. After setting out the basic This collection of papers presented at various principles of radar, he considers continuous wave recent conferences is based on work conducted radar, frequency modulated continuous wave ra- as part of the SIMIAN project at the Universi- dar, synthetic aperture radar, practical examples ty of Surrey, England. Presenting interdisciplin- of small synthetic aperture radar imaging sys- ary work in areas such as sociology, economics, tems, phased array radar, ultrawideband impulse business studies, and operational research, the radar, police Doppler radar and motion sensors, papers examine computer models that simu- automotive radar, and through-wall radar. late how innovations are generated and diffused among people and organizations, and how inno- TK7875 9780857091185 vations impact practices, technologies, and orga- MEMS for automotive and aerospace appli- nizations. All of the simulations discussed use the cations. authors’ own programs, and all of the programs Title main entry. Ed. by Michael Kraft and Neil M. presented in the book can be downloaded from White. (Woodhead Publishing series in electronic a web site and run on a home PC. The book is and optical materials; no.32) for researchers in innovation studies, econom- Woodhead Publishing, ©2013 342 p. $240.00 ics, organization studies, sociology of science, Writing for MEMS manufacturers, researchers, and policy modeling. Those with no background and engineers, international contributors explain in simulation modeling may learn the advantages how micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) of working with social simulation modelers, while are used in the automotive and aerospace in- experienced modelers will find examples of so- dustries. The section on automotive applications cial simulation, especially agent-based modeling. looks at applications in areas such as passenger The book is also for physics, math, and biology safety, vehicle stability, tire pressure monitoring researchers interested complex adaptive systems systems, radar sensors, and passenger comfort. more generally. The next section describes aerospace applications for active drag reduction, inertial navigation TK8322 9780470065518 systems, harsh environment sensors, and thrust- Solar Cell Materials: Developing Technolo- ers for nano- and pico-satellites. A final chapter gies explores the future role of MEMS in space explo- Edited by Gavin Conibeer and Arthur Willoughby ration and exploitation. B (Wiley Series in Materials for Electronic and Op- toelectronic Applications) TK7882 9780128001394 Wiley, ©2014 325 p. $185.00 Speech Enhancement: A Signal Subspace Engineers in Europe and Australia survey recent Perspective developments and the current status in photo- Jacob Benesty, Jesper Rindom Jenson, Mads voltaic materials designed to milk the maximum Graesboll Christensen, and Jingdong Chen amount of electrical power from sunlight at mini- Academic Press, ©2014 135 p. $64.95 (pa) mal cost both financially and environmentally. Of the several common approaches to enhancing The topics include fundamental physical limits to the signal of speech communication, the focus photovoltaic conversion, the physical character- here is on optimal filtering, of which the classical ization of photovoltaic materials, developments Wiener filter is a special case. The book shows in crystalline silicon solar cells, amorphous and how speech enhancement using the principles of microcrystalline silicon solar cells, chalcogenide subspace-based methods can be cast as an op- thin-film solar cells, printed organic solar cells, timal filtering problem, thus unifying in a single and third-generation solar cells. framework what has previously been considered two competing principles of speech enhancement. This makes it possible to combine the ben- MOTOR VEHICLES, AERONAUTICS, efits of the subspace methods and optimal filter- ASTRONAUTICS ing methods, and to analyze and compare the performance of the various approaches analyti- TL220 9781118341513 cally. Electric and Hybrid Vehicles: Technologies, Modeling and Control: A Mechatronic Ap-

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proach neers need when developing and analyzing con- Amir Khajepour, Saber Fallah, and Avesta trol system for powertrains. They cover vehicle Goodarzi propulsion fundamentals, engine fundamentals, Wiley, ©2014 415 p. $135.00 modeling and controlling engines and drivelines, Khajepour, Fallah and Goodarzi present this text and diagnosis and dependability. on hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs/HEVs) from an integrated systems perspective, building on TL787 9780877036050 earlier works concerned more narrowly with de- Astrodynamics; 3 volume set; proceedings tails of electrical engineering. The first chapters (CD-ROM included) focus on the history of vehicle technologies, dis- AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference cussing propulsion, powertrain including battery- (2013: Hilton Head, South Carolina) Edited by electric, fuel-cell and hybrid electric powertrains, Stephen B. Broschart, James D. Turner, Kathleen and body and chassis designs. A transitional C. Howell, and Felix R. Hoots (Advances in the chapter discusses fundamentals of vehicle dy- Astronautical Sciences; Volume 150) namics, including kinematics and tire mechanics. Am. Astronautical Society, ©2014 3502 p. The latter half addresses optimization of EV/HEV $660.00 systems, covering modeling, motor and battery The conference has been held annually since the parameters, performance characteristics, propul- mid-1960s, managed alternately by the American sion and braking, handling analysis, power allo- Astronautical Society and the American Institute cation, and control systems. The book is geared of Aeronautics and Astronautics; the proceedings toward use as an undergraduate/graduate text- are published every second year. Three volumes book and engineering reference. contain the proceedings of the 2013 conference, and the included CD-ROM affords digital access. TL221 9780071826839 Approximately 200 papers are arranged accord- Hybrid Electric Vehicle Design and Control: ing to the 28 session themes: space situational Intelligent Omnidirectional Hybrids awareness; mission operations; nonlinear mod- Yangsheng Xu, Jingyu Yan, Huihuan Qian, and Tin eling and analysis methods; spacecraft autono- Lun Lam my; orbit determination and estimation; dynami- McGraw-Hill, ©2014 286 p. $125.00 cal systems theory; formation flying and relative Professors Xu Yan and Qian Lam have already motion; orbit debris modeling and mitigation; at- presented papers and theses on the topic, and mospheric flight and entry, descent, and landing; here they advance to present works on hybrid and lunar mission design and concepts, among vehicles that would negotiate paths and have the other topics. Published by Univelt for the Ameri- strength and smarts to control them. They begin can Astronautical Society. The third volume con- by describing four wheel independent steering tains a chronological index and an author index. (4WIS) and four wheel independent drive (4WID) vehicles, their hardware and software, hybrid vehicle design structure, zero-radius turning MINING ENGINEERING and lateral parking, steer-by-wire and extended steering, traction force distribution and stability. TN870 9781118831137 Formation Testing: Pressure Transient and TL260 9781118479995 Contamination Analysis Modeling and Control of Engines and Drive- Wilson C. Chin, Yanmin Zhou, Yongren Feng, lines Qiang Yu, and Lixin Zhao Lars Eriksson and Lars Nielsen (Automotive Se- Scrivener/Wiley, ©2014 451 p. $195.00 ries) Petroleum engineers and a software specialist Wiley, ©2014 567 p. $130.00 explain what the important fluid-dynamics prob- Most treatments of the modeling and control of lems are in formation testing, survey and critique engines and drivelines take a mechanics and fluid existing analysis and interpretation models, de- dynamics perspective, but Eriksson and Nielsen velop key suites of mathematical models for soft- approach the matter with a clear perspective ware implementation, provide detailed calcula- of systems engineering and control system de- tion and graphical results illustrating important velopment. This perspective is currently at the physical concepts, and summarize all new mod- core of overall design of vehicle properties, they els made available for distribution to all industry- say, and their close collaboration with automobile wide users. They emphasize that with one excep- manufacturers has given them a good picture tion, all the methods they describe are available of the knowledge and skills that practicing engi- for use under flexible executable and source code

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licenses. rial synthesis in the gas phase, the movement of bioaerosols in the atmosphere and the conse- quences for climate and microbial evolution, and CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY disinfecting airborne organisms by ultraviolet-C radiation and sunlight. TP155 9783110306644 Process Integration and Intensification: TP248 9781118469651 Saving Energy, Water and Resources Concise Encyclopedia of High Performance Jiri Jaromir Klemes, Petar Sabev Varbanov, Shar- Silicones ifah Rafidah Wan Alwi, and Zainuddin Abdul Man- Edited by Atul Tiwari and Mark D. Soucek an Scrivener/Wiley, ©2014 402 p. $99.95 De Gruyter, ©2014 251 p. $84.00 (pa) Tiwari and Soucek present this reference compi- Process engineers describe engineering approach- lation on silicones, presented as a series of pa- es to improving the efficiencies of the supply and pers in three sections. The first section discusses utilization of energy, water, and other resources synthetic developments, including vulcanization, while simultaneously reducing the emission of copolymers, phosphorus inclusion, nanostruc- pollutants. Introducing process integration and ture, refractive index control, irradiation, rein- process intensification, they discuss setting- en forced composites, and surface functionaliza- ergy targets and heat integration, the synthesis tion and modification. The second part focuses of heat exchanger networks, total site integra- on material characterization by NMR and other tion, water pinch analysis, setting the maximum spectroscopic techniques, thermal analysis, water recovery targets, water networking design modeling, toxicological and mechanical analyses. and retrofit, and the design of a cost-effective Finally, applications are presented for electronics, minimum water network. contact lenses, phase separations, medical im- plants, chemical sensing, regenerative medicine, TP156 9781466558519 microfluidics, and pharmaceutical packaging. Foam Fractionation: Principles and Process Design TP325 9781138000209 Paul Stevenson and Xueliang Li Clean coal technologies for power genera- CRC Press, ©2014 192 p. $229.95 tion. Chemical engineers Stevenson and Li explain Reddy, P. Jayarama. foam fractionation and the related processes CRC Press, ©2014 309 p. $99.95 of ion flotation and bubble fractionation, all of Hyderabad-based energy consultant Reddy pres- which involve molecular species being adsorbed ents an overview of new coal technologies that onto bubble surfaces. They cover the adsorption claim to produce highly efficient, clean electric of surface-active species to gas-liquid interfaces, power and global energy security with reduced the hydrodynamics of pneumatic foam, mecha- emissions. His topics include global energy con- nisms of foam instability, the hydrodynamics of sumption, pollution from coal combustion, coal bubble swarms, modes of operation, column and treatment and emissions control technologies, process design, process intensification, and the coal-based electrical generation, carbon cap- production of the antimicrobial peptide nisin as a ture and storage, and clean coal technologies in case study. developing countries. The book could serve as textbook for beginning students of engineering TP244 9781119977926 and the physical sciences, or a reference for re- Aerosol Science: Technology and Applica- searchers and consultants in coal. tions Edited by Ian Colbeck and Mihalis Lazaridis TP363 9783527315604 Wiley, ©2014 474 p. $185.00 Modern Drying Technology; Volume 5: Pro- Environmental, pharmaceutical, physical, and cess Intensification biological scientists review the technological ap- Edited by Evangelos Tsotsas and Arun S. Mujum- plications of aerosol science, describe the current dar (Modern Drying Technology) scientific status of aerosol modeling and- mea Wiley-VCH, ©2014 372 p. $215.00 surement, present the fundamental properties Food, environmental, and chemical engineers of aerosols, and introduce some aspects of aero- conclude the five-volume series by looking at sol dynamics. The topics include recommenda- drying processes that are as intensive as possi- tions for aerosol sampling, the remote sensing ble in order to reduce the drying time and hence of atmospheric aerosols, nanostructured mate- the equipment size. Their topics include imping-

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ing jet drying, pulse combustion drying, the su- and polysulfides. The information could interest perheated steam drying of foods and biomateri- engineers and designers in building, automo- als, the intensification of fluidized-bed processes tive, aerospace, electric, mechanical, and nuclear for drying and formulation, the intensification of fields, as well as materials scientists and chem- freeze-drying of pharmaceutical and food, drying ists interested in the nature of the plastics rather foamed material, the process-induced minimiza- than their application. tion of mass transfer barriers for improved drying, and infrared drying. PUBLISHING, LIBRARY SCIENCE, TP968 9781605950969 BIBLIOGRAPHY The Mechanics of Adhesives in Composite and Metal Joints: Finite Element Analysis Z665 9783110234992 With ANSYS Handbook of information science. Magd Abdel Wahab Stock, Wolfgang G. and Mechtild Stock. DEStech Publications, Inc., ©2014 216 p. De Gruyter Saur, ©2013 901 p. $210.00 $129.50 This translation of an influential German textbook Appropriate for both graduate students and prac- is aimed at library and information scientists and ticing engineers, this guide introduces ANSYS knowledge managers, among others. As the commands for modeling stress, fracture, fatigue amount of information available to us increases, crack propagation, heat transfer, and diffusion new ways must be found to manage, manipulate, of moisture in adhesively bonded composite and and access it. Modern information science fills metallic joints. The opening chapters explains this need, lying at an intersection of information the classification of industrial adhesives, and re- theory, computer science and philosophy. The view relevant aspects from the theory of plastic- approach here is not strictly mathematical, but ity, fracture mechanics, the cohesive zone model, widely conceptual. Specifically, sub-disciplines of diffusion theory, and the finite element analysis information science are addressed in detail, in of structural mechanics problems. The publish- particular, the problems of information retrieval er’s website contains the ANSYS input files from and knowledge representation. Many original the examples. concepts are proposed here, and the discussion looks at a wide range of retrieval models (Bool- TP1110 9781118633892 ean, classical, and web--the latter with its own Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Tech- heretofore under-studied topology), language nology, 4th Edition; 15 volume set processing, the use of metadata, tagging and tag Herman F. Mark. Edited by Mihai Peterca and gardening, and knowledge classification and or- Azra Seidel ganization systems, without which the collections Wiley, ©2014 12344 p. $3,595.00 of bits would be utterly useless to anyone. Infor- The fourth edition appears close to the 50th anni- metrics, indexing and summarization are covered versary of the 1964 publication of the first edition as well. titled Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engi- neering. Fifteen volumes contain approximately Z668 9781466636880 400 authoritative, peer-reviewed articles, orga- Advancing library education; technological nized alphabetically; 20 percent are new, and the innovation and instructional design. others have been updated and revised. Contribu- Title main entry. Ed. by Ari Sigal. (Advances in tors are from 30 countries, and the scope is com- library and information science) prehensive. This is an indispensable reference Information Science Reference, ©2013 319 p. available as well in digital formats. $175.00 Information and library scientists survey a num- TP1150 9781847355683 ber of rapidly changing aspects of distance educa- Engineering Plastics tion that are affecting education and professional T.R. Crompton development in their field, and relations between Smithers Rapra, ©2014 264 p. $205.00 the campus librarian and library students. Among Crompton reviews polymers that are replacing their topics are perceptions and experiences of conventional materials such as metals and alloys electronic learning among on-campus students, in general engineering, and materials that have professional development in virtual worlds, ped- properties that are not easily available in con- agogical evolution in the teaching of reference ventional polymeric materials, for example the services enabled by the use of three-dimensional exceptionally high heat resistance of polyimides immersive virtual-world technology, the mas-

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ters in library and information studies program to consortia and must choose cataloging systems through distance at the University of Wisconsin- for effective widespread discovery. Finally, part Madison, and the awareness and use of electronic IV addresses special collections and preserva- resources among library and information science tion, including both print and digital archives and distance learners at Alagappa University in India. disaster preparation.

Z687 9781610693059 Z696 9781843347033 Rethinking Collection Development and From Knowledge Abstraction to Manage- Management ment: Using Ranganathan’s Faceted Sche- Edited by Becky Albitz, Christine Avery, and Di- ma to Develop Conceptual Frameworks for ane Zabel Digital Libraries Libraries Unlimited, ©2014 394 p. $60.00 (pa) Aparajita Suman (Chandos Information Profes- Editors Albitz, Avery, and Zabel present this li- sional Series) brarian’s guide to various aspects of collection Chandos Publishing, ©2014 254 p. $80.00 (pa) development and management as they have Suman presents a context-based faceted ap- changed with new developments in technology proach to organizing information. The term on- and the publishing industry. The first chapter tology has been borrowed from philosophy and highlights the current state of scholarly publish- converted to indicate the existence of a docu- ing and the factors that shape what is available ment on the World Wide Web, she says, but what and in what formats, while the remainder of is required is redefining both the concept and part I discusses other aspects of selection and technology for the purpose of knowledge portals. assessment: goals of the collection, staff rela- She covers the problem of knowledge abstraction tionships, evaluation of subscription databases, and context-based solutions, the architecture weeding-out, and education of decision-makers. and tools of the non-semantic versus semantic Part II discusses different types of acquisitions, web, the role of knowledge organization within including demand-driven acquisition, a hybrid ac- the unfathomed space, developing conceptual quisition model, journal licensing, leasing, self- frameworks, unified modeling language to untie publishing, eBooks, and streaming video. Part III the tangles, faceted knowledge representations, covers cooperative aspects of collections, where and designing the framework. libraries may have distributed access or belong

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