Alpine Astronomy Titles & Links

Good News!

2008-01-22T10:45:00.001-08:00

Now, with our handy-dandy RSS feed that you see on the right, new content will be uploaded to this blog on a much more frequent basis.

Gone are the days of of weeks (or months) passing before you see new content. The RSS feed on the right uploads the latest book reviews from EBSCO's Academic Search Premier database to your blog. All you have to do is click on a title you find interesting, and a new window or tab will open with the abstract of the book review. Simply click on the full-text link at the top of the page, and you'll be reading about the latest books to be published in your field.

I'll be setting up another RSS feed soon that links you to recently published academic journal articles as well.

Finally, I will continue to post to the blogs myself when I can, with the intent of showing you online and multimedia resources you may find interesting.

Thanks for your support of the library, and please continue to inform us of your purchase requests whenever you find something you'd like us to buy.

David

Visual Media

2007-10-18T11:13:00.000-07:00

Some DVD titles, from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, that look interesting:

Cosmic Time: From Atoms to Black Holes

The Universe: A Guided Tour

100 Greatest Discoveries: Astronomy

Brilliant Minds: Secrets of the Cosmos

Cambridge Core Science Series: Space Science

New Links

2007-09-12T14:14:00.000-07:00

Hi Jimmy,

After too long a hiatus, I'm back on the blog scene. I meant what I said about posting weekly, it was simply a busy (and sickly) start to the semester.

Let me know if you're interested in any of these. If they lead to anything else, please don't hesitate to suggest additional titles as well. Thanks so much for your support in this.

David

Cosmology 101
by Kristine M. Larsen

The Universal Book of Astronomy: From the Andromeda Galaxy to the Zone of Avoidance
by David Darling

Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy
by Joseph A. Angelo, Jr.

The 50 Best Sites in Astronomy and How to See Them
by Fred Schaaf

Some cool titles from Springer

Inaugural Post

2007-08-15T13:45:00.001-07:00

Hey Jimmy!

This blog is just for you. As the library's liaison for science and math, you are one of the instructors that falls under my area of collection development. With this blog, I hope to push new astronomy and physical science titles your way for you to evaluate. When you come across something that you'd like to see us purchase for our collection, you can simply comment on the post, or send me an email.

Additionally, if you'd like to post to the blog then please do so. I will check all of my collection development blogs regularly, with rss feeds via bloglines. If there's anything you want me to see, and you're interested in familiarizing yourself with the blogger interface at the same time, this is a perfect opportunity. I will send you the username & password in an email.

Let's get cracking!

--David

The Observer's Sky Atlas

Many Worlds in One

Endless Universe

And finally, there is enough at this Harvard site to keep us busy all year. An astoundingly exhaustive list of print and electronic resources.