LIBRARY UPDATES

12/13/06 News about the Math Library will appear here from time to time. This year's Library Committee in the Math Department: Michael Kiessling and Jim Lepowsky
3/21/07

The library committee will maintain this web page to make information available related to library matters.

The Mathematics Librarian, Mei Ling Lo, has installed a link to a very useful mathematics subject guide.

Mei Ling Lo provides the following additional information to the Math faculty and graduate students:

1. Moving the Annals of Mathematics and other volumes to the Annex

Because of space restrictions in the Math Library, we have to move materials to the Annex (which is on Busch Campus, near the former Administrative Services Building) in order to find room for new journal volumes and new book purchases. I will send titles to the Annex only when the titles are available electronically.

The Annals of Mathematics volumes before 2000 have already been sent to the Annex. The Math Library has the print subscription plus two online subscriptions to the Annals. The JSTOR version has a "five-year moving wall". That is, the issues up to five years in the past are available online through JSTOR. The Project Euclid version provides online access to the entire run. The information can be found in IRIS, our computer catalog.

When we shift collections, I will also request budget to buy "dummies," which are styrofoam boxes that allow us to put notes on them. For example, I can place a dummy with the the Annals and write on it "The volumes before 2000 are available online. Search IRIS for details. The physical volumes are also available in the Library Annex."

The abstracts volumes of Mathematical Reviews (MR) have been transferred to the Annex. The subject index volumes are still in the Math Library. The space where MR was located will be used for shelving journals. We are planning to shift the entire collection of journals especially to make more room in the monographs (books) area. Each year, we add about 1200 volumes of monographs to the collection. In order to plan for 5-year growth, we need more room. Also, due to the new Financial Mathematics program, there are many books in the HG classification ranges. We have to leave more space in HG, in addition to making more space in the QA section.

The library committee will have a chance to review the list of titles that are sent to Annex.

2. Mathematics Ph.D. theses

We are planning to move the ACM Conference proceedings from the back corner of the library to the Annex. ACM publications are available through the ACM Digital Library. If this happens, the space can be used to shelve the Mathematics theses, which are part of the QA section. This would also free up space for other monographs.

3. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics - LOCUS

A few faculty members, mainly from the Computer Science and Operations Research Departments, have asked me if we could have access to the back issues of SIAM journals. By purchasing the LOCUS package, we will be able to meet their needs. After consultation with the Library Committee, we have placed the order. This will have a small and one-time effect on book purchasing.

4. RefWorks

The following information has been provided by Dean Michael Beals and Mei Ling Lo: Please let your faculty members and graduate students know that the University now has a site license for RefWorks,a Web-based bibliography and database manager that enables faculty authors to import references from many electronic databases, include citations, and build a bibliography according to different stylesheets (APA, MLA, etc.). It has the advantage of being a web application (so that the author's data is available anywhere with a web connection); bibliographies can be shared among users; faculty can put up bibliographies for students that can be used by a group. Also, the Libraries did the work to interface with the Library collection, so in many cases those bibliographies can take them directly to full text of the articles. For more detail, please refer to http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/refworks/refworks.shtml.

RefWorks Workshops will be held on April 23, May 31 and June 27.
Information and Registration for RefWorks Workshops.