JUNE 2006 Volume 3 : Issue 2 This Issue :- Staff Directory Swinburne Library Greetings 1 Wireless LAN 1 New Novels 2-3 Dayang Zarina Abang Ismail N E W S L E T T E R Information Resources Manager IEEE Printed Journals 3 Email : [email protected] Quotes 3 GREETINGS !! Haslinda Husaini Staff Directory 4 Information Resources Officer As we are approaching During the first half of new system for the stu- Email : [email protected] the second half of the the year, the library has dents where they can (Level 6) year, let’s reflect and been busy purchasing now do their own print- look back at the things textbooks and other ing. By purchasing the we have done for the reference materials. Absec Card at a reason- reading pleasure during Adenan Sedi past 6 months. It was- The number of materi- able price of RM16.00, the holidays. This could Information Resources Officer n’t long ago when you als has now increased students can photocopy be a welcome break from Email : [email protected] had all just started substantially (As of 31st and print a total of 166 reading academic books classes and everyone May 2006, there are copies. With the imple- and at the same time, it Adeline Sophia Ho introduced themselves 9127 items with 5718 mentation of the new could help to improve your vocabulary signifi- Library Assistant and asked each other ’s titles) and we are now self-printing system, cantly. [email protected] names as a way to make slowly building up our the library staff no more friends. We be- collection for the new longer assist students in (Level 6) Last but not least, we lieve the new comers courses namely Civil photocopying and print- would like to take this have gotten used to Engineering, Electrical ing at the circulation Ng Shai Hong opportunity to wish all the university life and & Electronic Engineer- counter. Kindly refer to students and staff who are Library Assistant have discovered every ing, Electronics and any of our library staff celebrating Gawai, [email protected] corner of the Univer- Computer Systems, should you have any “SELAMAT HARI GAWAI”. sity. There are busy Telecommunications & inquiries. May you be blessed with Khursiah Omar days when you see eve- Internet Technologies, bountiful harvests and ryone either borrowing Human Resource Man- As we are approaching Library Assistant may this festive month books or researching agement and Interna- the long semester break [email protected] bring you fresh begin- materials in their at- tional Business. soon, check out page 2 & 3 for some of the new nings. To all students who tempts to meet their are sitting for their final Aliceson Renis assignment deadlines. In the month of May, novels in the library and the library introduced a grab them for your exam soon, “GOOD LUCK Library Assistant & ALL THE BEST”. [email protected] Good news for everyone ! The Wireless LAN is now up and running. SUTS has successfully installed the wireless access points in several areas around the university campus and students can now have ac- cess to the swinnet wireless network. With this facility, you can now connect your laptop to the internet within the areas of cover- Swinburne University of Technology (Sarawak Campus) age. Current coverage areas include the Library Annex (Level 6), Tingkat 1, Kompleks Negeri, gym, student council lounge and the cafeteria. A future plan to ex- Jalan Simpang Tiga, pand the coverage areas to include the student hostel is in the pipe- 93576 Kuching, Sarawak. line. Tel: +60 82 416353 In order to gain access to the wireless network, you must install and Fax: +60 82 423594 configure the VPN Client & Internet Explorer to your laptop before- hand. We’re are on the Web ! Installation Manual, Installation files and other details regarding the set-up can be found on the Blackboard System. www.swinburne.edu.my HAPPY SURFING !!!! Page 2 Swinburne Library Page 3 Shopaholic Series NEW NOVELS IN THE LIBRARY Shopping is always very popular among the ladies but do we have books devoted to it? Author Sophie Kinsella, started to write stories of a financial journalist Re- Wisdom to Create a Life of Pas- The Harmony Silk Factory , a A Lesser Evil — As Fifi declares sion, Purpose and Peace. This story of Johnny Lim, a Chinese- to her mother that she has se- becca Bloomwood who is a shopaholic, and her immature behavior when it comes inspiring tale provides a step- Malaysian man during and after cretly married Dan Reynolds, a to shopping. She constantly finds herself struggling to strike a balance between by-step approach to living with World War II. Tash Aw's novel is handsome but itinerant brick- her meagre income and her desire to shop. Everytime she feels stressed over greater courage, balance, abun- in three parts, with each section layer, her mother is incensed. growing bills, bank statements, bank’s request or financial problems, she turns dance, and joy. A wonderfully telling a different perspective Despite her mother's disap- herself to shopping for relief. With her loving, charming, funny and pleasant char- crafted fable, The Monk Who on Johnny's life. The first sec- proval, Fifi still heads to London acter, these series are pleasantly cheerful for readers and are well written literacy Sold His Ferrari tells the ex- tion is told by his son, Jasper, with her new husband. Their works that we can relate to in real life. traordinary story of Julian Man- who searches for the story of his flat may be small and the area Sophie Kinsella’s Shopaholic Series that are available in our library tle, a lawyer forced to confront father's life to find out how he quite deprived, but she finds the spiritual crisis of his out-of- became such a despicable man, the freedom of her new life ex- (Call No. : FIC / KIN) :- balance life. how he become a successful in hilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Call No. : FIC / SHA his career and his marriage to Fifi is fascinated by her eclectic • Shopaholic Abroad the most beautiful woman in mix of neighbours and most par- the valley, Snow Soong. The ticularly, the Muckle family. • The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic second section of the book is The Muckle's live in terrible Snow's diary of a belated honey- squalor. Fifi can't help but listen • Confessions of a Shopaholic moon trip, accompanied by a to their violent quarrels, watch Japanese professor, Mamoru the endless people coming and • Shopaholic & Sister Kunichika, and a British aes- going, or the stories and legends • Shopaholic takes Manhattan thete, Peter Wormwood. The about this ruthless family. And third section is Peter's remem- when she tries to help Angela, • The Undomestic Goddess brance of the same trip, and his the youngest member of the fond memories of both Johnny Muckle family, who has been The Real Mother is a story and Snow. The Harmony Silk physically abused by her father, about Sara Elliott has been Factory explores the life of a Fifi unwittingly starts a chain of forced to give up the life she's man as told from three different events that puts her and Dan in dreamed of to return home to sources, all with their own terrible danger, and will change Chicago and take charge of her memories and limitations. their lives forever. sisters and brother. She finds a Call No. : FIC / AWT Call No. : FIC / PEA IEEE Journals job and settles into the house Apart from access to online IEEE Xplore , Library Annex on Level 6 has now put up shelves to store the printed she grew up in, building a life journals for IEEE All-Society Periodicals Packages (ASPP) for students and staff. IEEE which stands for Institute for ten-year-old Doug and teen- of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is the world’s leading professional association for the advancement of agers Carrie and Abby. But Sara technology. IEEE publishes the leading journals, transactions and magazines in electrical engineering, comput- has another brother, Mack, now ing, biotechnology, telecommunications, power and energy, and dozens of other technologies. We encourage twenty, who left home three you to use it as one of your research tools as it covers essential information in technology today and are useful years earlier. With bewildering for those who are in the engineering field. Please take note that these journals are not for circulation but for volatility, Mack swings from kindness to cruelty, affection to in-house reading only. hostility, keeping the family always on edge, his past and The last place Anna Terry expects to fall in love is in the waiting room present a mystery. But with of her divorce lawyer's office. But in this book You Drive Me Crazy , expensive gifts, storytelling, that's where she meets Nick Diamond and Cupid's arrow strikes. If only QUOTES and the excitement of his pres- they were in the mood....Anna's had more than her fair share of heart- ence, he is winning over the ache. Her first marriage ended before her pregnancy was over, and her “Knowledge is the food of the soul .” children, and sometimes the second husband has disappeared, leaving her with a two-year old son, a - Plato - four of them stand together pre-pubescent daughter and not a penny to her name. Nick's luck has- against Sara. n't been any better: his wife has run off with the local butcher - which “If you have knowledge, let others light their candle by it.