VKC Civil Engineering News

Acquisitions

Monique de Bont — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:47:45 +0000

Check out acquisitions of April 2012.

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Online access to Nature Climate Change

Monique de Bont — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:34:05 +0000

Articles from Nature Climate Change are now full text available: http://www.nature.com/nclimate/index.html

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Changes Map Room

Monique de Bont — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:18:36 +0000

On March 1, 2012, Addie Ritter, for years everyone familiar face of the Map Room, will move to the Central Library.
He will leave the front office, but will remain involved with the Map Room in the back office. He will also continue to manage the website of the Map Room.

The team working at the library of the Faculty of Architecture and the Map Room will consist of four persons. The fourth man is Hans Dessens, before location manager at the (recently lifted) faculty library of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

This team will deal with the primary questions for the Map Room. Melle de Winter will be the first point of contact.
Special questions will be still treated by Addie. He can also work by appointment.

You can use the following e-mail address for questions to the Map Room:
kaartenkamer@tudelft.nl

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Knovel University Challenge

Monique de Bont — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:21:49 +0000

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.

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Ir. Wilma van Wezenbeek has been appointed director of TU Delft Library

Monique de Bont — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:56:59 +0000

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.”

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Closing StuDoc during the summer

Monique de Bont — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:33:42 +0000

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.

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TU Delft Library invites you to a free mini-symposium

Monique de Bont — Fri, 20 May 2011 13:37:25 +0000

“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:

13:30 – 13:40	Opening	Maria Heijne, TU Delft Library
13:40 – 14:00	Services for long-term storage, publication, and citations of research data	Michael Diepenbroek, University Bremen, Germany & PANGAEA
14:00 – 14:20	User experience: Reproducibility of research	Patrick Vandewalle, Eindhoven, Netherlands
14:20 – 14:40	The publishers’ role in the “data world”	Wim van der Stelt, Executive Vice President Corporate Strategy Springer, Netherlands
14:40 – 15:00	break
15:00 – 15:30	Science Data Services in the Netherlands - Overview and examples	Jeroen Rombouts, TU Delft Library
15:30 – 15:50	Group voting on selected topics
15:50 – 16:10	Forum discussion
16:00 – 16:10	Closing remarks
16:15 – 17:00	refreshments

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.

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Five-part course Photoshop-Indesign-Illustrator

Monique de Bont — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 11:27:19 +0000

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)

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

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