27 June 2008
Added to the library recently were books on new leadership, economic indicators, remote sensing, health and safety, molecular design and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Selected new titles in Riccarton Library include Reshaping planning with culture, by Greg Young, and Excel for scientists and engineers: numerical methods, by E. Joseph Billo. You can search inside this book at Amazon. Both books are on standard loan.
A copy of the 2nd edition of The culture of design, by Guy Julier has been added to the library at Galashiels. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.
Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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7 May 2008
We have a number of new eBooks in the Library. They are:
Fitting the task to the human: a textbook of occupational ergonomics, 5th edition, by K.H.E. Kroemer and E. Grandjean.
Risk analysis in project management, by John Raftery.
Nanophotonics, by Paras N. Prasad.
Wiley, 2004.
Biodegradable and sustainable fibres, edited by R.S. Blackburn .
Woodhead, 2005.
Fashion marketing: contemporary issues, 2nd edition, edited by Tony Hines and Margaret Bruce.
Sustainable fashion and textiles design journeys, by Kate Fletcher.
Earthscan, 2008.
eBooks are full-text, electronic versions of published books that library users can search and read via the Internet.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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17 March 2008
Added to the library recently were books on statistical methods, fashion, flow cytometry, fermentation and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Some selected new titles in Riccarton Library include The big switch: rewiring the world, from Edison to Google, by Nicholas Carr, and The new rules of engagement: life-work balance and employee commitment, by Mike Johnson. There’s a preview of this book (table of contents, selected pages, etc) at Google Book Search.
A copy of Fashion and fetishism: corsets, tight-lacing and other forms of body-sculpture, by David Kunzle has been added to the Galashiels Library. You can search inside this book at Amazon.
Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.
Information on suggesting books for the library is also available, or you can let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for new titles.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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27 February 2008
Added to the library recently were books on urban culture, classical number theory, nuclear physics and several other topics.
For the full list of new books, go to the New Books section of the Catalogue.
Some choice titles include the 2nd edition of The craft of research, by Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb and Joseph M. Williams, and another copy of the 5th edition of Managing quality, edited by Barrie G. Dale, Ton van der Wiele and Jos van Iwaarden. Both have been added to Riccarton Library. You can search inside Managing quality at Amazon, and there’s an introduction to, and reviews of, The craft of research available at Google Book Search.
A copy of A passion for lingerie, by Jo Glanville-Blackburn has been added to the Galashiels Library.
Information on how to place a reservation for a book is available.
Please let the Subject Librarians know if you have any suggestions for titles to be purchased for the library.
Roddy MacLeod
Senior Subject Librarian
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7 February 2008
Heriot-Watt staff and students have access to a service called Newsroom via a Library subscription. NewsRoom is comprised of 11,000 abstracts and full text records from the world’s important trade, business and scholastic journals, local newspapers, regional business publications, national and international business newspapers, industry newsletters, broadcast transcripts, and corporate news releases. Because of this range of sources, Newsroom is potentially relevant to every discipline.
The full text of major UK broadsheets are available, such as the:
- Financial Times
- Daily Telegraph
- Independent
- Herald
- Scotsman
- Times
Sources in other languages are also covered extensively in Newsroom, some examples of the newspapers available are:
- El Pais
- Die Welt
- Der Spiegel
- Le Monde
Search results can be saved in various formats, including RTF, PDF or HTML. Don’t be alarmed if you see a message about “Estimated Costs” in US dollars when you log out: the Library is paying a subscription for the service, and these charges don’t apply!
Newsroom is accessible from the list of databases on the Library website. If you would like more information about Newsroom, please get in touch.
More information about access to newspapers for Heriot-Watt staff and students is available on the Library website
Catherine Ure
Subject Librarian
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