The Ground Truth Library Newsletter for Civil Engineering

The Ground Truth Library Newsletter for Civil Engineering
Liaison Contact: Barbara Howser	Science & Engineering Library Homepage
Email: howser@uta.edu Phone: 817-272-7519	PULSe Online Catalog
July 2002

Class Syllabus:
Fall 2002 classes are around the corner! Want to impact students' learning? Help with the University's mission of retention? Then when preparing your class syllabi, help me help your students understand how the library can enhance their learning experience by including my name and contact information on your print and online class syllabus:
Barbara Howser - Aerospace Librarian - Science & Engineering Library
Nedderman Hall B03D - howser@uta.edu - 817-272-7519

UTA Libraries Reserves Services
Do you know of library books that students will use frequently for a course you're teaching? If so, please place them on reserve prior to the beginning of the semester, so that all your students will have a chance to use them.

To place items on reserve, you may use either the print or online course reserves form. Allow approximately one week for reserve items to be processed. E-reserves must comply with copyright policy.
To find out more information about placing items on reserve, visit the UTA Libraries Electronic Reserves Services web page for faculty or contact Connie Eley, Reserves Coordinator for the Science and Engineering Library (817-272-1416).

ingenta
ingenta is a library gateway for searching a database of 11,000,000 citations from 20,000+ journals. 1985-present. Incorporating the former UnCover document delivery and Reveal services, ingenta provides access to journal article citations, summaries, document delivery, and selected full-text of over 25,000 journal titles in all subject areas. Search Medline as well as the combined ingenta/UnCover collections. Former UnCover users can log in and place orders using their previous UnCover profile ID and can continue to receive their UnCover Reveal Table of Contents alerts. UTA students, faculty, and staff have access to selected full-text of journal articles. Charges for document delivery are subsidized for UTA faculty. One important point to remember though regarding the subsidizing, if the individual article costs more than $35.00, the faculty member must submit her/his credit card information and pay for the article out of pocket. If you would like some refresher information or explanation of this database, please contact me.
Remember to contact me if you need library instruction sessions arranged for your classes, research teams, etc.

Borrowing Priviledges
TexShare Card
If you are a currently enrolled UTA student or currently employed UTA faculty or staff, you may be able to have access to other libraries in the in the State of Texas.
Around the State of Texas: UTA students, faculty, and staff may be able to have access to libraries that are members of TexShare.
Apply Now! or bring your UTA MavExpress ID Card to the Central Library Circulation Desk to get a TexShare Card. For more information contact us.
Contact each TexShare library to get complete information on:
The library's hours.
How to get to that library.
What privileges and responsibilities you will have at that library.
A list of TexShare libraries and policies and contact information for individual TexShare libraries is available.

Around the United States: UTA faculty may be able to have access to libraries that participate in OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program. Apply Now! or bring your UTA MavExpress ID Card to the Central Library Circulation Desk to get an OCLC
Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program Card.
Contact each OCLC Reciprocal Faculty Borrowing Program participating library to
get information on:
The library's hours.
How to get to that library.
What privileges and responsibilities you will have at that library.

Wireless Laptops:
Wireless Laptops are available! Check Out our Laptops
Laptop computers are available for UTA faculty, staff, and students to check out at the Circulation Desk. The laptops are for use
ONLY in the Library. They may be borrowed for a four hour period and are available on a first-come first-serve basis.

Some of the New titles in SEL

New Books	Author/Editor	Call Number
Advanced engineering mathematics	Alan Jeffrey	TA 330 .J44 2002
Green building handbook	Woolley and Kimmins	TA 403.6 .G74 2000 v.2
Rails across the Mississippi: a history of the St. Louis bridge	Robert W. Jackson	TG 25 .M6 J33 2001
Remediation of abandoned surface coal mining sites	Alena Mudroch, et al.	TD 195 .C58 R45 2002
Residential construction databook	Sidney M. Levy	TH 4813 .L48 2001
Stormwater collection systems design handbook	Larry W. Mays	TD 665 .S757 2001
Structural design: a practical guide for architects	Underwood & Chiuini	TA 658 .U53 1998
Traffic and highway engineering (3rd ed.)	Nicholas J. Garber	TE 145 .G35 2002

New Reference title in SEL
Basic construction materials by Theodore W. Marotta
Call no. SEL REF TA 403 .M295 2002

Library Liaison Barbara Howser
I serve as the liaison for the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. I provide library instruction sessions to classes, small groups, or individually with students and faculty to enhance their research skills. I am also available to meet with you to discuss how the library can more effectively meet your research and instructional needs. For more information, please contact me by e-mail or telephone 817-272-7519.