Good News!

Now, with our handy-dandy RSS feed that you see on the right, new content will be uploaded to this blog on a much more frequent basis.

Gone are the days of of weeks (or months) passing before you see new content. The RSS feed on the right uploads the latest book reviews from EBSCO's Academic Search Premier database to your blog. All you have to do is click on a title you find interesting, and a new window or tab will open with the abstract of the book review. Simply click on the full-text link at the top of the page, and you'll be reading about the latest books to be published in your field.

I'll be setting up another RSS feed soon that links you to recently published academic journal articles as well.

Finally, I will continue to post to the blogs myself when I can, with the intent of showing you online and multimedia resources you may find interesting.

Thanks for your support of the library, and please continue to inform us of your purchase requests whenever you find something you'd like us to buy.

David

Visual Media & More

Some DVD titles, from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, that look interesting:

Mathematics Core Curriculum Video Library

Music of the Primes: Math's Greatest Riddle, Math's Greatest Minds

The Math Life

Mathematics and Computers

Some print titles, from Perseus Books, that also look interesting:

God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs that Changed History

I Am a Strange Loop

The Mathematical Traveler: Exploring the Grand History of Numbers

New Links

Hey guys,

In spite of missing a few weeks due to a busy beginning of the semester, I am going to try and update my blogs at least weekly, if not more. Here are some links to more titles for your perusing pleasure. If you see anything you want the library to buy, let me know!

David

Math titles from Wiley (primarily textbooks, but a little of everything is here)

Math titles from Dover (lots of stuff here)

A couple of fun titles from O'Reilly

God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
by Amir D. Aczel

Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
by Amir D. Aczel

The Case of the Missing Neutrinos
by John Gribbin

Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity
by John Gribbin

Inaugural Post

Hello Steve C., Steve D., and Alex!

This blog is just for you guys. As the library's liaison for science and math, you are three of the instructors that fall under my area of collection development. With this blog, I hope to push new Math & Engineering titles your way for you to evaluate. When you come across something that you'd like to see us purchase for our collection, you can simply comment on the post, or send me an email.

Additionally, if you'd like to post to the blog then please do so, either by commenting on an existing post or creating a new one. I will check all of my collection development blogs regularly, with rss feeds via bloglines. If there's anything you want me to see, and you're interested in familiarizing yourself with the blogger interface at the same time, this is a perfect opportunity. I will send you the username & password in an email.

Let's get cracking!

--David

Books

Math You Can Really Use

Effective Learning and Teaching in Mathematics & its Applications

Achieving Quantitative Literacy

Links

American Mathematical Society Bookstore

Oxford Mathematics Catalogue

Algebra Titles from Wiley