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Newsletter October 2001 
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Virtual Reference describes the delivery of personalized reference resources to users outside the physical library, via Web-based technology. Initially the service hours will be Monday through Thursday, 10-12 am and 3-5 pm. This service will allow the Library to expand the scope of reference service to remote users throughout the Laboratory. "“Ask A Librarian” includes online chat or instant messaging, a two-way conversation in real time just like a telephone call, except that it uses text instead voice; and co-browsing, which is the ability to interact with and control the user’s Web browser. The librarian will be able to push Web pages and screen shots to the user to demonstrate solutions and answers. Experienced research librarians, expert at Internet searching, will be on duty. Librarians will be utilizing the vast digital collection of databases, journals and e-books that the Research Library has been building. “Ask A Librarian” is a free service from the Research Library.
In keeping with Library policy, information you submit is considered confidential.
Try out this new service by clicking on the “Ask A Librarian”
logo found on most library Web pages.
We would like to thank everyone for their support of the Research Library
policy during this period and for their patience.
Anyone with a LANL IP address can access the standards through the "Online Standards" page on the Research Library web site. Select "Specs & Standards" in the Standards Applications column. Because LANL is limited to 2 simultaneous users, it is very important to formally logout using the logout button at the upper right corner of the screen. (If asked for a password, the 2 simultaneous user limit is exceeded; try again later.) The following standards and codes are included in our current subscription for full-text printing and downloading:
IEEE standards continue to be available through Science Server at LANL.
In the last week some interesting data has emerged about the use of the Web and computers on September 11th. Everyone was searching for news, contact and reassurance. The most searched news outlets that day were 1)CNN, 2)MSNBC, 3)ABC, 4)BBC, 5)NBC. Searches for CNN came in at about 160 times their usual frequency over a 12-hour period. Google reported that between 8:30 and 9 am EST the number of searches for CNN averaged 6,000 per minute. From LYCOS we learned that the top ten search terms between noon and midnight on September 11 were: CNN, News, World Trade Center, CNN News, CNN.com, MSNBC, ABC News, BBC, Breaking News and World News. Later in the week the phrase “Red Cross” moved into the top ten. Yahoo listed top terms searched in the past few days as: World Trade Center, Pentagon, Osama bin Laden, Afghanistan and Nostradamus. The Pew Internet and American Life Project collected statistics on how Americans gained information about the tragedy. Even though Internet access is now available to more than half the US population, only 3% or 5.5 million people said the Web was their primary source of information. 81% of Americans watched television and 11% listened to the radio as their major source of news. In the two days after the attack, 74% of Americans used the telephone or Internet to contact friends and relatives. The immediacy and emotion of hearing someone’s voice was a powerful incentive for phone use. The amount of computer equipment used by the World Trade Center was staggering.
The New York Times speculated this week that securities firms housed in
the towers will spend $3.2 to $7 billion to replace computer systems destroyed
in the attack. Equipment to be replaced includes an estimated 50,000 trading-desk
workstations at $52,000 each; 34,000 personal computers, at $2-6,000;
8,000 Intel and 5,000 Unix servers which will cost about $370 million.
Dell has been a leader in being able to respond to these needs. The company
has sent hundreds of technicians to Manhattan and to the Washington area,
converted three 18-wheel trucks into mobile technology support-and-installation
facilities, and chartered an airliner to fly parts from Taiwan to their
Texas factory. According to the Times, Bloomberg L.P. had ordered almost
$14 million of laptops, and PCs by September 17th to get their organization
started back to work.
For additional information contact the Report Library, 7-4446, e-mail:
reports@lanl.gov.
Titles and years included are: Journal of Applied Meteorology (v.1, 1962+)
There is a new spectroscopy portal providing information to all types of spectroscopists available at www.spectroscopyNOW.com. The free web site is sponsored by John Wiley & Sons publishers and covers the key spectroscopic techniques including:
spectroscopyNOW.com is dedicated to spectroscopy and allows you to keep up-to-date with the latest spectroscopy news, provides authoritative information through an editorial panel of spectroscopy experts, access to job listings, a conference calendar and much more.
LANL Family Day has been rescheduled for Saturday, October 27, 2001.
As planned previously, the Research Library will be staffed from 10am-2pm.
The public terminals will be available for use, and we have created a
special Family Day page for kids with family-friendly web sites. This
page will be accessible from any Lab site during Family Day. We will also
have handouts with internet safety guidelines and information about Research
Library products and services. Because security conditions are changing
frequently, check the Research Library home page for the latest on library
access the week of the 29th.
Information about countries and regions of the world has been in high demand recently. The Research Library has access to some online sources of information that will help researchers learn more about the rest of the world. Each of the sources mentioned is unclassified.
The following new electronic journals have been added to the library collection and are available from your desktop: Biology Chemistry Engineering Environment Mathematics Physics
DAYPOP Since September 11 most people with Web access have used their computers to look for news, background data and information on currrent events. A unique search engine is www.daypop.com, which covers over 3,400 news sources and Weblogs each day. All the major news sources appear to be included and the search boxes allow you restrict your search by time—so you can look at new information that has been added in the last hour, 3 hours, day, 2 days, 1 week, etc. Since the engine is constantly crawling the Web this feature is extremely useful. Although there are similar sites that index news daily, especially if you are looking for specific industry related information, this is a very unique feature. Daypop also indexes Weblogs. If you haven't visited any Weblogs this can give you a taste for reading personal diaries, an author's view of current events. Weblogs are a popular new aspect of the Web and Daypop is a good introduction to those that have content of more general interest. A "Top 40" feature ranks the most popular websites from the last 24 hours and reviewing the headlines may give you some idea of how distant you might be from popular culture in America. Want a reminder? Newsletter Editorial Team: Donna Berg, Helen Boorman, Jack Carter, Lou Pray, and Kathy Varjabedian. The name and e-mail address of the Library member who contributed
an article appears at the end of the article. If you have comments or
further questions, please contact that person. If you have general questions
or comments about the Newsletter itself, please contact the Newsletter
Editor, Kathy Varjabedian. |
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You
can now access the full-text of Nature Online and the Nature monthly titles
at 
Online
access to additional standards through IHS (Information Handling Service)
has been expanded for the new fiscal year to include standards from the
American Nuclear Society, American Society for Quality, American Welding
Society, International Standards Organization Quality standards, and National
Fire Protection Association. This subscription to IHS Specs and Standards
is currently funded by the LANL FWO-SEM Engineering Standards Program.
The
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) has prepared a list of documents
relevant to the Homeland Defense. The documents along with links to sites
concerning terrorism are listed in this special issue of DTIC Review:
The
back years for American Meteorological Society (AMS) journals are now
available electronically at: 
UPDATE
10/9/01: LANL Family Day is postponed until Spring 2002.
Just
in case you've never spent a half-hour being lost in the pages of a gazetteer
(a wonderful word for a geographical dictionary) there is now an on-line
gazetteer at: 
The
