April 16, 2008: If you are teaching a course and would like to place books on Reserve to be available, the library is requiring a completely filled out Reserves form for each course to avoid confusion and delays in processing. The Reserves form is an Excel Spreadsheet file, which can be downloaded here: Walter Geology Library Reserves Form. These can be emailed to the georequests @ lib. utexas. edu address.
February 26, 2008: The first books purchased with the Chernoff Endowment funds are on the New Book Shelf. Dennis Trombatore, Walter Geology Librarian, and Dr. Robert Tatham, Professor and Shell Company Centennial Chair in Geophysics documented this momentous occasion with pictures of the books. Click the thumbnail to go to the pictures.
August 14, 2007: In 2007, Dean Eric Barron instituted a new tradition, requesting that newly promoted faculty and research scientists of the Jackson School select a book to be added to the Walter Geology Library in their name. They are also requested to write a short description of their reasons for their selections. The books include commemorative book plates acknowledging the successful promotion of the scientists. Thanks to the Dean and to the participants for further enriching our collections in this positive way!
Please click each book for a larger size image and a view of the accompanying text.
November 3, 2006: There have been intermittent problems downloading and accessing PDF articles for some Mac users using the Safari browser. If you are experiencing troubles, try holding down the Option key and then click the PDF link. This should allow access.
The Chernoff Family Library Fund for Geophysics and Earth-System Sensing has been formally established. We are still about $10,000 short of our initial goal of $100,000. Donations in any amount are welcome! We expect to begin acquiring materials on this fund in mid-2007. If there are geophysics or closely related materials you would like to suggest the library acquire, please let us know.
AAPG Datapages has been permanently underwritten for UT Austin through a donation to the AAPG Foundation by an alum - Daniel L. Smith. Many thanks!!
There are lots of recent developments to the AAPG Datapages web site
On the right side of the page, you can now BROWSE the Bulletin, and the book series tables of contents. We've been asking for this, and it makes it much easier to see the contents of the Memoirs, especially.
Note also that several new collections have been added (inside group headers),
including:
Indonesian Petroleum Association
Wyoming Geological Association
Fort Worth Geological Society
NOTE ALSO: The 'Search and Discovery' area on the lower right side of the page includes many meeting abstracts and other materials that are free to the public, and may not be included in the primary search file. To be sure you have searched completely, you must search BOTH Datapages AND Search and Discover!
Users might want to check out Lookupstream.org
This is a joint search database from AAPG, SEG, and SPE. UT AUstin users will have full text access only to the AAPG and SEG materials.
Geoscience World:
Journal of Environmental & Engineering Geophysics is a new title in GSW, European Journal of Mineralogy and Canadian Mineralogy will both be added in January 2007.
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America complete backfiles has also been added recently.
Until the end of November, the Royal Society of London is making available for free pdfs of all of their publications going back to the 1665 beginning of the Philosophical Transactions - news release at: http://www.royalsoc.co.uk/news.asp?id=5165
Archive at: http://www.pubs.royalsoc.ac.uk/index.cfm?page=1373
A reminder that the USGS is systematically digitizing their historical publications. To find whether the one you want is available, check the USGS Publications Warehouse.
Many of these items are available in PDF, but many are done as .DJVU files, which requires a free plug-in.
You can go to advanced search and look for author/title, or series and volume number information. When you get the reference you are looking for, click on MORE INFORMATION to see if a digitized version is available and what version.
We have also recently completed adding all the Professional Papers records to the catalog, and when we could find e-versions, we are linking them as well.
Next we will be adding author-title information for the USGS Bulletins.
ARTstor
http://www.artstor.org/info/
ARTstor is a new image database (300,000+ images) offered by the UT Libraries.
About ARTstor
To take advantage of all the features, you will need to register - see the ABOUT information above.
Note - Qualified instructors can take advantage of a slide show feature that is supposed to be more advanced than that available through power point.
Note ALSO - ARTstor uses pop-ups, so if you have pop-up blockers enabled it will not work.
For more information, contact Laura Schwartz in the Fine Arts Library - 495 4476.
With the help of Chris Bell, Jim Sprinkle, and the American Geological Institute, the library has added substantial backfiles of the following
journals:
Historical Biology QE 701 H55
The Beagle, occasional papers of the Northern Territory Museum QH 1 B434
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum QH 1 Q35
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece QE 271 D458
Memoires Geosciences - Montpellier QE 1 M456
And finally: an invitation to contribute to a new encyclopedia online:
"Dear Friends and Colleagues,
I invite you to help build what is fast becoming a seminal reference on understanding and managing the environment. With the recent public release of the/ Encyclopedia of Earth/ (http://www.eoearth.org/), scientists from around the world are joining to create a comprehensive, authoritative source of information about the environments of Earth and their interactions with society. The/ Encyclopedia/ is written and governed by experts working in a unique collaborative environment, and it has been released through the initial work of about 300 Authors and 100 Topic Editors. The/ Encyclopedia's/ oversight comes from an outstanding group of international scholars, our International Advisory Board (see below).
You can write on or edit any topic that interests you and that falls within the scope of/ Encyclopedia/. Entries are from 250 to 5,000 words, geared to a general audience. Your articles can be drawn directly from existing material you have written, subject to any copyright restrictions. The/ Encyclopedia/ is built, maintained, and governed by experts like you via a specially adapted "wiki," an online resource that allows users to add and edit content collectively.
Significantly, unlike other wikis, access to the Encyclopedia wiki is restricted to approved experts, and all content is peer reviewed and approved prior to being published at the free public site.
Contributing is easy: visit http://www.eoearth.org/, click on BECOME A CONTRIBUTOR, and follow the guidelines there. The site also contains additional information about the project.
I encourage you to circulate this invitation widely within your community.
Contact me or editorial assistants Alejandra Roman (eoe@earthportal.net) or Ida Kubiszewski (ida.kub@gmail.com) with questions.
Thanks for your consideration.
With best regards,
Cutler J. Cleveland
Editor-in-Chief
/Encyclopedia of Earth/
Professor
Department of Geography and Environment
and
Center for Energy and Environmental Studies Boston University"
February 7, 2006: For those library patrons located at the Pickle Research Center, you are still able to request materials from our library to be delivered to your office. To request items, simply go to the Pickle Research Campus Library Services page and fill out the correct online form. The materials do take several days to get routed and delivered, however you do not have to come to the library to pick the materials up. If, however, you do prefer to pick up your matierals, you may still request for them to be pulled and held for one week for you by sending an email with complete citation information and the call number for the item from the Library Catalog to GeoRequests.
January 12, 2005: The Elsevier journal back files are now available through Science Direct! Where before you could only access these titles to 1995, now you have access to all the back issues. Dates of coverage vary by each title, so if you have any questions or problems with the service, please email georequests@lib.utexas.edu
Dec 19th 2005: The Geology Library hours for the winter break can be found here.
The full text of 'Aquifers of Texas' by John B. Ashworth and Janie Hopkins has been made available electronically under the Full Text Resources section. The book contains information about the major and minor aquifers of Texas.
Dec 5th, 2005: The back copier's settings has been changed and now copies horizontally instead of vertically on the glass (8.5 X 11 R instead of 8.5 X 11). This will allow a large book to be reduced and copy two pages onto one sheet. Please make note of this change if you are using this copier.
Nov 1st, 2005: The website is undergoing major renovations. Please be patient while the updates are occurring over the next few weeks. If you come across broken links that used to work, please let the webmaster know by emailing georequests@lib.utexas.edu. Please include the URL of the page the broken link occurs and a description of the link.
Also note that the URLs that used uppercase letters, have been changed to lowercase. If you have any of these pages bookmarked, they will no longer work. (For example: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/BIGBENDgeology.html has been changed to http://www.lib.utexas.edu/geo/bigbendgeology.html). Please update your bookmarks for such URLs.
October 28, 2004: The New Book Shelf will be switched out at a new time starting next week. It currently gets switched on Tuesday morning, however starting next Tuesday it will be switched out on Tuesday around 4 P.M.
October 2003: All of the materials that are coming back to the Geology Library are back....what does that mean? All maps, folios, atlases, books, and journals that have Library of Congress Call Numbers (they look like this: GB 483 C239 1943, for example) are back and available for use. There is still a small amount of Dewey Decimal numbered items available. They are located in the library. If there is a call number that you do not see on the shelf, check to make sure it is not in the Library Storage Facility. If it is not, then it is being re-cataloged a a Library of Congress call number and will be some time before it becomes available. Please request these items from Interlibrary Services with a notation that it is currently unavailable.
For all other materials: We will still accept requests for materials through the georequests email address. Please make sure your request is not for something in the Library Storage Facility! These have to be recalled, so we need your UT ID number for these requests.
Click this link to send a retrieval request via a mailto command, or if your browser is not configured to send mailto messages, you should send an ordinary email to georequests@lib.utexas.edu
Your subject should be "Retrieval request" and the body of the email should contain as much of the following information as possible: Title, author, call number, ***volume number and page numbers*** (if a journal or multivolume set), publisher and year of publication, and any other information that will help us find exactly the material you need. Note--Your request MUST contain a call number. Your request will not be processed without a call number.
Whenever possible, cut and paste from UTNetCAT.
* These changes have been made in accordance with the UT Libraries web authoring guidelines.
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