New Web Version of CRC Handbook Now Available

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[Or, in the catalogue, search for Chemnetbase]

The latest web version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now online. (It is actually the web version of the 88th print edition.)

This new web edition has tables with five new topics:
* Properties of Ionic Liquids
* Solubilities of Hydrocarbons in Sea Water
* Solubility of Organic Compounds in Superheated Water
* Nutritive Value of Foods
* Properties of Organic Semiconductors

Seven of the most heavily used tables have been extensively revised and updated:
* Critical Constants
* Heats of Vaporization
* Aqueous Solubility of Organic Compounds
* Thermodynamic Properties of Air
* Dipole Moments of Molecules
* Bond Dissociation Energies
* Properties of Fundamental Particles

Ten more tables have been made interactive and are now searchable by name, formula, and numerical properties.

There are also two new sections:
* Tables that were previously removed from older print editions for reasons of space - Appendix B
* Subject index giving you the same easy browsability as the print - Section 20

Congratulations Dr. Back!

This came through the chem-everyone-l list:

"... Dr. Tom Back is the recipient of the 2008 Alfred Bader award from the Canadian Society for Chemistry. This award is "a mark of distinction and recognition of a scientist, who shall not have reached the age of 60, for excellence in organic chemistry research."

The CSC site is not yet updated, but award winners & bios will be listed here:
http://www.chemistry.ca/index.cfm/ci_id/1207/la_id/
1/ss_id/year.htm

(As a reminder, Dr. Back is the Library Coordinator for the Chem dept. ... so, let him know if you have any book requests, library questions, etc.!)

Congratulations Dr. Back!

Lucille M. Wert Scholarship - Call for Applications

From the CHMINF-L list:

Deadline February 1, 2008

Designed to help persons with an interest in the fields of Chemistry and Information to pursue graduate study in Library, Information, or Computer Science, the Scholarship consists of a $1,500 honorarium. This scholarship is given yearly by the Division of Chemical Information of the American Chemical Society.

The applicant must have a bachelor’s degree with a major in Chemistry or related disciplines. The applicant must have been accepted (or currently enrolled) into a graduate Library, Information, or Computer Science program in an accredited institution. Work experience in Library, Information or Computer Science preferred.

The deadline to apply for the 2008 Lucille M. Wert Scholarship is February 1, 2008. Details on the application procedures can be found at: http://www.acscinf.org and once there click on “Awards” and then click on “Lucille M. Wert Student Scholarship”.

Applications (email preferred) can be sent to: margaret.matthews@thomson.com

Contact address:
Marge Matthews
633 Dayton Rd.
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-3801
Phone: 215-823-3922

Science Librarians Office Hours; Chemistry Librarian Office Hours in SA 204 (CHEM 351 Computer Lab)

Science A 124 (Wolcott Lab)
October 15 - December 5

Jennifer Lee (Chemistry, Mathematics/Statistics, Environmental Design)
Wednesdays, 10am - noon -- EXCEPT November 14

Don MacMillan (Biology, Physics/Astronomy)
Mondays, 11am - 1pm

Chemistry Librarian in SA 204 (CHEM 351 lab)
(Other Chem students are welcome!)
October - December 6
Mondays 2:30-4pm
Thursdays 3:30-5pm
EXCEPT November 15

Bring your: research questions, other library questions (book & journal collections, access to other materials, to SciFinder Scholar, CrossFire, etc.)

Flash Animation of The Elements by Tom Lehrer

Okay, it's not Friday, but think of this as a mid-week pick-me-up. The link below takes you to a flash animation of the classic "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer. The animation needs a bit of an update as a few more elements have been added since, but it's still fun:

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

Students: MS Office Available at a Great Price

Microsoft has a new promotion geared toward UofC students. A student can purchase Office 2007 for as low as $22.00 (this is for a one-year license). If you are interested in this offer, go to:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/it/help/articles/2454
and follow the instructions (this page may be a bit slow to load, due to high traffic...keep trying.) The instructions will take you to the portal and, from there, to the Microsoft site. Because this is a student offering it is only under the student role in the portal. If you would like to check it out (outside of the portal) go to:
http://www.theultimatesteal.ca/
(U of Calgary is not listed on this site, but it accepted my @ucalgary.ca email address, so we're eligible.)

Chemistry Nobel Laureate Readings - from the American Institute of Physics Journals

The American Institute of Physics is highlighting articles published in their journals by Gerhard Ertl of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Professor Ertl has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize for Chemistry "for his studies of chemical processes on solid surfaces."

AIP is pleased to make a selection of his seminal papers available for free at
http://journals.aip.org/NobelChem2007.html,
including the following:

Order-disorder phenomena in adsorbed layers described by a lattice gas model
G. Doyen, G. Ertl, and M. Plancher
J. Chem. Phys. 62, 2957 (1975)

Interactions between chemisorbed atoms: Oxygen on W(110)
G. Ertl and D. Schillinger
J. Chem. Phys. 66, 2569 (1977)

Semiempirical theory of chemisorption on narrow d-band metals
G. Doyen and G. Ertl
J. Chem. Phys. 68, 5417 (1978)

etc.

There are many more on the AIP site. At a certain point, you get to the end of the free articles. If you want to read those and aren't connecting from on campus, go through this link:
J. Chem. Phys.
http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=
http://ojps.aip.org/jcpo/

Chemistry Seminars - Announcements Email List

The Chemistry Department has set up an email list so people outside of the department can receive weekly seminar announcements (i.e., PhD seminars, departmental speakers, etc.). Please pass this on to your colleagues outside the department who are interested in receiving these announcements.

To subscribe, please visit:
http://mailman.ucalgary.ca/mailman/listinfo
/chemistry-seminars-l

*** This subscription is optional if you are in the Chemistry Department -- emails will continue to be sent out to the everyone@chem list. ***

United Way Fundraising - Library Booksale

No, we are not selling off books from the library! These are fiction books donated by LCR staff...

If you are looking for an affordable way to stay mentally fit this semester, you won't want to miss this year's fiction booksale put on by Library and Cultural Resources. All proceeds from the sale will go to the United Way.

The sale runs this Thursday, October 4th from 10:00 AM until 3:00 PM in the LIBRARY LINK.

Paperbacks $0.50
Hardcovers $1.00