New Technology is a Good Thing!

It doesn't get any easier than this:

With one click and drag of the mouse, you can have a new tool, called a bookmarklet, that will allow you to check UH's library system for any book that you find on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com

Bear with me now, because this is exciting!

From this page, click-and-drag the "USA - Hawaii - Honolulu - University of Hawaii at Manoa" link up to your browser's link toolbar. The links are listed alphabetically, so you have to go about halfway down the page.

Now, the next time you find a book on Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com that looks interesting, but you aren't sure that you want to buy it, this tool will allow you to check if it's available on campus so you can preview it. (Of course, you'll want to check the IfA Library collection first...).

Say you are looking at the Amazon.com page for Planetary Systems from the Ancient Greeks to Kepler. Just click on the bookmarklet on your toolbar, and a new window pops up that shows you the UH record for that title.

Increasing the coolness factor is that each subsequent check will re-use the same window.

Not sure what any of this means? Just ask your friendly IfA library staff (we don't bite!).

New Books!

Currently on the new book shelf:

Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats (1994) by James D. Murray and William vanRyper (courtesy of the Pubs Dept!)

Reviews in Modern Astronomy v.16: The Cosmic Circuit of Matter edited by Reinhard E. Schielicke

Keck Science Meeting

The Keck Science Meeting 2004 has been announced. It will be held in September at UCLA.

New Books!

Currently on the New Book shelf:



Astronomy Communication edited by Andre Heck and Claus Madsen


Extragalactic Globular Cluster Systems: Proceedings of the Eso Workshop Held in Garching, Germany, 27-30 August 2002 edited by Markus Kissler-Patig


Galaxies and Chaos – Lecture Notes in Physics No. 626 edited by George Contopoulos and Nikos Voglis


Jets in Young Stellar Objects: Theory and Observations ed. by A.J. Fernandes, et al.


The New Science of Astrobiology: - From Genesis of the Living Cell to Evolution of Intelligent Behavior In the Universe by Julian Chela-Flores


Physics of the Solar System: Dynamics and Evolution, Space Physics, and Spacetime Structure by Bruno Bertotti, et al.


PHYSTAT2003: Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology edited by L. Lyons, et al.


Scientific Detectors for Astronomy: The Beginning of a New Era edited by Paola Amico, et al.


Solar Wind Ten AIP Conference Proceedings v.679 edited by Marco Velli, et al.