Check out acquistions of Nov./Dec. 2011

Answer 3 questions correctly to win an iPad, cash or cool stuff!

The Knovel University Challenge may be a multiple choice contest but it goes a long way in emphasizing best practices for searching and gathering technical information.

The Knovel University Challenge has a new way to play! Questions are now divided into different difficulty levels, allowing for more deeper challenges and more opportunities to win.

Like last year, the 2011 University Challenge contest will live on its own microsite at knoveluniversitychallenge.com and can be accessed through any web browser. Additionally, the Challenge can also be played through a game embedded into Facebook itself. Full integration into the Facebook application will allow students to share the game with friends by posting it on their wall.

You have until (midnight) December 1st to submit your answers.

The Executive Board has appointed ir. Wilma van Wezenbeek as director of the TU Delft Library, starting from 1 Augustus 2011.

Wilma graduated in materials engineering in 1991 and subsequently began her career in scientific publishing. She held numerous positions at Elsevier, established a publication agency for the FEMS (Federation of European Microbiological Societies) and, in between, she also spent a couple of years working as a science information officer in Delft. She succeeded in combining her interests in publishing, science and communication when she joined the TU Delft Library in 2006. She has worked at the Library as a member of the management team for five years, most recently in the post of deputy director.



Wilma is taking over from Maria Heijne, who spent ten years as the Director of TU Delft Library, a period during which she and her team successfully raised the Library's profile to its current leading position.   

A quote from Maria herself: “I am proud that Wilma, who has made an important contribution to our TU Delft Library in recent years, has agreed to take on this challenge. She will no doubt rise to meet it successfully and in her own way.”

From Monday 11 July until Friday 12 August, the StuDoc will be open on Monday and Thursday from 11.00-12.00 for borrowing an returning books.

“Store-Share-and-Cite: Increase your citations by (re)use of research data”

 

9 June 2011, from 13:30 to 17:00
at TU Delft Library, Prometheusplein 1, Delft

 

Research data management and proper citation of research data are important subjects concerning researchers of all scientific disciplines. International and Dutch experts will present their views on this important but often neglected subject. A versatile discussion-panel consisting of experts from different fields will add an extra dimension to this mini-symposium.

 

Attendance is free of charge.

Please register before 25 May 2011

 

Preliminary programme:

 

Don’t miss the chance to share your view with fellow researchers or simply listen to what experts have to say!

 

 

This mini-symposium is a second event of the 3TU.Datacentrum and an initiative of TU Delft Library, a partner in the project 3TU.Datacentrum.

 

3TU.Datacentrum Since 2008, TU Delft Library is working together with the libraries of TU Eindhoven and University of Twente on building the 3TU.Datacentrum, a scientific data archive. The goal of the datacenter is to provide the research community with a long-term archive and permanent access to scientific research data for reuse.  For more information please consult the website of the 3TU.Datacentrum at datacentrum.3tu.nl. For questions please email the organizer at a.princic@tudelft.nl.

 

 

 

 

Dates: every Monday night 9 May until 6 June
Location: TU Delft Library, Blue room
Time: 19.00h - 21.30h
Language: Dutch
Required: some experience with Photoshop or other Adobe design program

Costs: € 55,- (students),  € 90,- (staff)
There is a maximum of 20 participants (students have priority)

Register

For more information please read the Dutch version of this news item.

Visitors to the central library were asked the following question: What is this object and what was it designed to do? Up until 7 April everybody had the chance to submit his or her answer. Now we can reveal the results...

X-ray diffraction camera The object is officially called a “Guinier-de Wolff Quadruple Focussing Camera II”, in other words an X-ray diffraction camera which can be used to analyse four different samples at the same time. First-year Mining Engineering student Adriaan van Natijne provided the clearest answer to the ‘what is this?’ question. He included a drawing to illustrate the way in which the X-rays pass through the camera and thus a sample and how part of the rays would then end up on the film. From the resulting pattern on the film researchers could then deduce information about the crystalline characteristics of the samples. For further technical details see Journal of Chemical Instrumenstation, Volume 44, Number 4, April 1967 p. A300-p. A304.

Or is it actually a kiwi robot? Jetze Schaafsma thought the device was a kiwi robot created by Pixar. This allowed the animators to study the motor function of a kiwi when making the the ‘kiwi’ short animation, according to his answer. Tests were also carried out to see whether real kiwi birds responded to the robot. This suggestion won Jetze the prize for the most original answer.

 

 

 

From now on you have access from the TU Delft campus to the AccessScience platform from McGrawHill.

This platform replaces the content of the following reference works which are no longer available through our library.

• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Bioscience
• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Chemistry
• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Earth Science
• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Engineering
• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Physics
• McGraw-Hill Concise Encyclopedia of Astronomy
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Bioscience
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Chemistry
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Computing & Communications
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Earth Science
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Electrical & Computer Engineering
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Environmental Science
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Geology & Mineralogy
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Materials Science
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Mathematics
• McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Physics
• McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology
• Microfluid Mechanics: Principles and Modeling
• Microwave Transmission Networks
• Molecular Thermodynamics and Transport Phenomena

In the TU Delft Library a mystery object from the heritage collection of the Delft University of Technology is currently on display. You’ll find the object at the entrance of the library as well as a drop-box in which you can drop your answer.

Can you reason out... what this object is for?
Then go ahead and enter the competition! Maybe you will be the winner of an iPod Shuffle with an iTunes Gift Card worth 25 euros! To enter you can write your answer down on a form found next to the mystery object and drop it in the drop-box. Answers which are submitted in any other way will not be considered for a prize.
A committee will judge the answers in terms of correctness and clarity of the accompanying explanation. There will also be a prize for the most original and inventive answer (and the scientific reasoning behind it).

Did you know that...  this object is part of our heritage collection?
The TU Delft Library preserves around 6000 objects which were used for teaching and research in the past, and/or form part of the TU Delft’s history. These vary from portraits of professors and members of the Royal Family, to measuring instruments used for teaching, to scientific research collections.

 

 

The faculty library, which has undergone thorough reconstruction and has been transformed into a Study and Documentation Centre (StuDoc), will be officially opened on 26 April 2011.

Thanks to this reconstruction StuDoc meets a major need among students and PhDs to be able to study quietly in a pleasant environment. StuDoc is also home to the renewed Student Helpdesk (SHD). The SHD provides ICT advice and support to students.

Opening hours
StuDoc is situated at the former faculty library's location on the first floor. The opening hours are: Monday to Thursday from 08:00 to 22:00 and Friday from 08:00 - 18:00

Further information is available through StuDoc's new website.