October 2011

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Book purchase suggestion for the sciences collection

31st October, 2011 ~ 1 answer

I would strongly recommend purchase of the following book:

BOOK INFORMATION:

Infinite Words: Automata, Semigroups, Logic and Games
By Dominique Perrin & Jean-Éric Pin
Volume 141 of the Pure and Applied Mathematics series
Hardbound, 550 Pages
Published: FEB-2004
ISBN 10: 0-12-532111-2
ISBN 13: 978-0-12-532111-2
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS

http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780125321112

JUSTIFICATION:

I strongly recommend purchase of this book because it is the only source out there that contains all the major results of the field thoroughly gathered in a single place, making it easy for someone new to the field to get up to speed on what is known without wading through tons of papers. Furthermore, the information contained in the book is very well presented and organized, so even if it were not the only book in its class it would be worth adding to the collection because of how well it treats the subject.

It is worth noting that I am writing this recommendation not as a specialist in the field of automata myself but actually as a quantum physicist, which demonstrates that this information is useful not only for narrow specialists within the field of formal language theory but for other diverse disciplines as well.

Request for a toxicology journal

31st October, 2011 ~ 1 answer

Dear Ms Lyons,
I wonder whether it would be possible, please, for the library to subscribe to the "Journal of Analytical Toxicology"? Mater has a NATA accredited drugs-of-abuse laboratory and we often want to access this journal.

With many thanks,
Janet Warner
Chemical Pathologist (Mater Hosp)

Biol library express printing

26th October, 2011 ~ 2 answers

Hi,

Would it be possible to enable more of the printers in the biol science library to allow for express printing?

Thanks

Biol library express printing

26th October, 2011 ~ 2 answers

Hi,

Would it be possible to enable more of the printers in the biol science library to allow for express printing?

Thanks

book returns

24th October, 2011 ~ 1 answer

Hi Library,
The computerised book return gizmo in SSH is too slow and spits back the books or has a hissy fit (eg "One moment please!"). Also, a colleague in the book return queue said that sometimes the gizmo doesnt record the book return and one has to go retrieve the book from the shelf and shove it through the gizmo again.

How about a traditional hole in the wall slot for those of us who have a load of books to return and do not want to wait for the precious gizmo to align its microchips?
Thanks!
mg