- Learning Studio - week of September 8

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From: Gilles Poitras (gilles@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 10:49:03 PDT 

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From: Gilles Poitras <gilles@exploratorium.edu>
Subject:  - Learning Studio - week of September 8

This is the weekly informative posting by the Exploratorium Learning Studio.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/

A slow week for the museum, now's a good time to visit before field trips
get rolling in October. For the Learning Studio staff it was a bit busy.
There seem to be lots of staff coming in to use equipment and plenty of
regular library type duties to do.

We have instituted one small change that will be of use to our magazine
readers. We now have a blue 'pam' box on the table with magazines that have
been here less than one week. This servers several purposes:

It allows visitors to easily check for the latest title, assuming it has
not been checked out.
It makes some titles easier to discover as they will not be 'buried' on the
rack.

Be aware that some titles are donated by staff who and at times these
titles arrive later than the release date and in batches. In these cases
the magazines will still be added to the box for the week after arrival.

WEB PAGE OF THE WEEK:

Ed Uthman's home page
http://www.neosoft.com/~uthman/

John found this one while looking for materials related to forensics. I
have now added it to the Forensics web page
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/ForensicsInfo.html for Uthman's
Original pathology- and lab medicine-related resources section.

SCIENCE NEWS:

Satellites give new view of quakes
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2255825.stm

An article on the use of synthetic aperture radar to measure movements
around faults.

UPDATED WEB GUIDES:

San Francisco Bay Area Related Resources
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ls/infosources/SFInfo.html

This page still has quite a ways to go but significant changes were made in
the last week. Among the changes were that the lists of local places to go
were divided into indoor and outdoor as well as by county. A section for
educator resources was created as several local museums etc. have such
sections on their pages. We hope this subdiuvision will not only be useful
for teachers but also for parents.

PRINTED, NEW ACQUISITIONS:

Telephones: their construction, installation, wiring, operation and
maintenance; a practical reference book and guide for electricians,
wiremen, engineers, contractors, architects, and others interested in
standard telephone practice...
By W. H. Radcliffe, E.E. and H.C. Cushing, jr...Contains one hundred and
twenty-five illustrations, showing apparatus, circuits and systems.
New York, The N. W. Henley Pub. Co., 1908.
General collection circ.
TK 6161 .R3 1908

An old book, just a few years shy of 100. Older titles such as this one
often have details that can be useful for illustrating basic principles and
not found in more recent works. A few unusual ones include the proper time
of year to cut trees for telephone poles, the proper way to speak into a
wall mounted phone, how to use a short piece of wire to reduce line noise
and many others. Well illustrated with etchings and line drawings.

NEW INTERNET eTEXTS:

Each week I will list online materials are freely available over the Internet.
These materials were located in the past week by Learning Studio staff.

Some of these documents may be in PDF format and require the use of a free
reader.
 http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Additions for the week of September 1:

New Books and Pamphlets:

1. An Account of the Fishes of the Ganges
by Francis Hamilton
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=3060

2. A Flora of California
by Willis Linn Jepson
vol. 1
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=3061
vol. 2
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu:8080/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=3062
3 Part 1
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu:8080/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=3063
3 Part 2
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu:8080/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=3064
4 part 2
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/doc_home?elib_id=3065

3. Jepson Manual Higher Plants of California
Edited by James C. Hickman
http://ucjeps.herb.berkeley.edu/jepman.html

New Periodicals:

Birdscope
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/publications/birdscope/index.html

Gilles Poitras gilles@exploratorium.edu
Learning Studio, Exploratorium Museum

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