Yosemite Display at Branner
May 15th, 2008
Just in time for your next field trip, come see our new display about Yosemite National Park.
Yosemite National Park, California. Cathedral Peak, viewed from Cathedral Pass, showing cut terrace. 1908. G.K. Gilbert. [via] USGS.
Visit us in person, or go to Branner’s Library Thing for a full list of books and maps on display.
We have additional copies of many of the display items available for you to take with you on your next Yosemite excursion.
SULAIR Open House
October 13th, 2007
Join us at the Stanford University Libraries Open House on October 17th from noon to 4pm. Mike Keller, the University Librarian, will talk about the future of the libraries, there will be tours of the robotic book scanner, and information from 20 libraries across campus. Win prizes including an iPod Nano (courtesy of Apple and the Stanford Bookstore), books by Stanford authors, iTunes and Stanford Bookstore gift certificates, and more.
The Open House will take place in Green and Meyer Libraries this Wednesday from noon to 4pm. We look forward to seeing you there!
Fall newsletter + more orientation sessions
September 27th, 2007
NEWS:
The Branner fall newsletter is up on our site here. Click over to the newsletter for information about recent library purchases, changes in journal subscriptions and other news.
ORIENTATION:
An orientation session for new ERE students will be held this morning at 11 am in the Branner Teaching Corner.
Orientation to Branner Library
September 19th, 2007
Welcome back! Several orientation sessions are coming up at the library. These are intended for new students, but returning students who’d like a refresher are welcome as well. Details follow:
Thursday, 9/20 at 3 pm for GES students (Branner Library, 2nd floor Mitchell Building)
Friday, 9/21 at 2:45 pm general introduction for all School of Earth Sciences students (Hartley)
TBD: IPER, Geophysics, and ERE.
Want to hear about upcoming events at the library? Visit our calendar.
List 2: International Polar Year
September 13th, 2007
Polar Station at Sodankyla, Finland.
In preparation for the new quarter, we have a new display in Branner. The theme is polar, arctic + antarctic, in honor of the third International Polar Year. Visit the library to see the books in person or see the list virtually on Library Thing. We’ll be amassing Polar Year e-sources on del.icio.us under the tag “ipy.”
If you’d like to find books from the last display “General Interest Earth Science reading”, click to List 1 in the blog or the tag list 1 on Library Thing.
Image from NOAA, “First International Polar Year.”
Virtual Bulletin Board
August 29th, 2007
We’ve been posting articles on the bulletin board of our photocopy room for some time now. We hope you’ve enjoyed having news to peruse as you’ve made your copies. In case you want to find something you encountered there, all of the citations for our bulletin board bits will be saved in Branner’s CiteUlike library under the tag “bulletinboard.”
If you have access through Stanford you should be able connect directly to the full text of the articles when available.
If you use CiteULike or would like to join the Branner group, let us know.
Book burro and your library
June 13th, 2007
If you’ve ever searched for a book on amazon or some such site, but hesitated with your purchase because you wondered if you might just borrow the book from the library, then book burro is the tool for you. From the site:
Book Burro is a Web 2.0 extension for Firefox and Flock. When it senses you are looking at a page that contains a book, it will overlay a small panel which when opened lists prices at online bookstores such as Amazon, Buy, Half (and many more) and whether the book is available at your library.
So rather than cut-and-paste the title from amazon to socrates, book burro links to WorldCat and lets you see if we (or another local library) have the volume. Once you install the plug-in, update your zip code so book burro knows where you are.