USC Science and Engineering Library Virtual Tour

Do you want to know what your home library look library? Please watch this on-line tour of the USC Science and Engineering Library!

USC Libraries Interlibrary Loan has joined the RAPID Consortium!

5/12/08: USC Libraries Interlibrary Loan has joined the RAPID Consortium! What does this mean to patrons? Faster delivery of articles from journals, periodicals, and other documents, many within 24 hours. RAPID is an organization of libraries from across the globe decidated to fast, cost-effective, and innovative resource sharing. For more information about RAPID, please visit their website by clicking here.

The Science Citation Index of Web of Science at USC Libraries e-resources is back till 1900!

I am pleased to announce that the Science Citation Index of Web of Science at USC Libraries e-resources is back till 1900! It means when searching the web of science, you can search the database from the the beginning of it. Please go ahead and give a try, and I believe you will enjoy your information research more than before.

If you would like to know more about the database, please contact me for your preferred time and I am more than happy to provide a training session for you.

Happy searching!

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute is on-line at USC Libraries

I am pleased to tell you that Proceeding of the Combustion Institute is online at USC Libraries since 2002 now . Please go to the e-journal and search for this title, and you will get the following link.

This change is recommended by our AME graduate student. I appreciated her good suggestion. I hope you will enjoy having this useful title in our collection.

Please let me know if you have suggestions and advices! Thanks!

Chat with your S&E Librarians at nights!

From this week (Monday, Jan 14, 2008), USC S&E community users can chat with S&E Librarians during evenings.

The new chat services are Monday 7 -9 pm and Wednesday 6 – 8pm.

Please come to Ask-A-Librarian  and chat about your library questions with your librarian at nights!

SPIE Digital Library goes live in the E-Resources!

I am pleased to announce that SPIE Digital Library (the e-collection of SPIE journals and conference proceedings) is now live in the E-resources!

The new addition is the SPIE proceedings collection. The SPIE proceedings collection goes back to 1990 “beginning with Volume 1200 with more than 17,000 new research papers added annually”, and current issues access starting two weeks after a conference. For more information, please check the e-resources.

Hope this subscription resource is of use to you!

ENGnetBASE is now in the E-resources at USC Libraries!

I am pleased to announce that ENGnetBASE is now in the E-resources at USC Libraries!

ENGnetBASE is an electronic references collection published and developed by CRC press. Here are highlights of this E-reference database.

• over 700 titles of engineering handbooks and references
• coverage of all engineering disciplines, including aerospace, mechanical, electrical, and engineering management
• user-friendly search interface and easy access to important engineering information

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions regarding it! Thanks!

New service from Ask_A_Librarian: USC subject-based chat reference

Hey, have you ever been too shy to ask me (your librarian) questions, any kinds of questions? Did you every use the Ask_A_Librarian service at USC Libraries?

Now Ask_A_Librarian launched a new services, USC subject-based chat reference. USC librarians are going to provide the USC localized, subject based chat reference to you. You will get more “personalized” and “institutional specialized” services from us. All you need to do is very simple:

Go to the Ask_A_Librarian page, enter your name and usc email, and then chat!

Currently the USC Science and Engineering chat reference hours are

Monday 10 – 11

Wednesday 10 – 11

or by appointment (email ahead for an appointment) .

I hope you are going to enjoy it!