Georgia Tech Library News

All billable Library services, including photocopies, interlibrary loan, fines, etc., may now be paid with your BuzzCard. Stop by the Circulation Desk to transfer any value remaining on your Library copy card to your BuzzCard.

Expert Help is only an Instant Message away here in our Library. In addition to face-to-face help at our reference desk, assistance is available by phone, by email and now by Instant Message. Load the library’s Instant Message buddy name onto your YAHOO, AOL or MSN Contact list today. ASK! Us for all the details.

An enhanced “New Books” tab is available on the Library’s website (http://www.library.gatech.edu). To access it, link to the GT Catalog (GIL) page in the lefthand frame. Then link to the “New Books” tab on the right. This service enables you to keep track of new books as they are added to the Library’s collections. The collections/locations that can be specified are:

• Architecture
• Archives
• Electronic Resources
• General Collections
• Government Documents
• Popular Reading (1 West)
• Reference Collection (2 West)
• Ready Reference (1 West)

The New Books service provides the ability to customize a new books search as follows. You can:

• choose one of eight locations or “All locations”
• choose one of four time periods (one, two, three or four months)
• sort by call number, author, or title

The new link:

There is a similar link in most of the Library’s article databases.

The Georgia Tech Library is very pleased to announce that the following Nature titles are now available online –

• Biotechnology
• Cell Biology
• Genetics
• Immunology
• Materials
• Medicine
• Neuroscience
• Structural & Molecular Biology
• Nature Reviews, Cancer
• Nature Reviews, Microbiology

In addition, we have purchased the Nature Archive which will provide online access back to 1950.  Current access is from 1980 forward and completion of the archive is expected sometime in 2006.

Georgia Tech students, faculty and staff now have access to over four million books held by the 34 libraries of the University System of Georgia (USG) and the Gwinnett University Center.

The new program, called GIL Express, offers the options of either online or in-person requests for circulating items contained in these collections. GIL Express online requests can be made from the Universal Catalog which can be accessed from the Georgia Tech Library catalog by clicking on “GIL Universal Catalog.”
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Our state-of-the-art Presentation Rehearsal Studio can now be reserved online via Buzzport. For step-by-step booking instructions, and details on both the technology available and the
use policies, visit the Presentation Rehearsal Studio page. Check out this ideal space to practice and put the finishing touches on your classroom presentations!

The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and The Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology are now available online.  Access from the Library’s web page using the following path: Search & Locate > Search the Databases > K > Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology or E > Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology.

The Library currently has a trial subscription to the Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt (TVNA). The trial will run through May 31, 2004.

The presentation rehearsal studio is an ideal space on campus to practice and put the finishing touches on classroom presentations. The technology in the Studio is identical to technology available in Tech classrooms. The studio was built as a result of student and faculty feedback about the critical need for presentation rehearsal space on campus. Two hour reservations are available any hours that the Library is open.