BOOKENDS March 2018, Volume 1, Issue 1
UPCOMING EVENTS
STAFF SPOTLIGHT
I am Rani Anand, your ‘E-resources and Instructional Librarian’.
Rani hails from the beautiful and lush state of Kerala in India. She holds an MSc in Library & Information Studies from Robert Gordon University, Scotland, postgraduate degrees in Education Management and Sociology, B.Sc. in Physics, B.Ed. in Physical Science, and a postgraduate diploma in Computer Applications. She has over 15 years’ experience in academic libraries - a career which started off at Khalifa University Library in 2010.
Rani professes - "My roots influenced my love of mountaineering and environments, and this is my source of inner peace and energy. Obviously, books are my passion and I’m particularly interested in the writings of ‘Gabriel Garcia Marquez’. (In the library) My role spans all the way from making sure our e-resources are working smoothly, dealing with vendors, managing content of discovery services, designing and delivering Information Literacy classes. Most importantly, I see myself as supporting students, faculty and other library users in their studies and research, as well as promoting knowledge through my teaching, workshops and training sessions."
Rani had introduced and implemented many technical & system based projects and applications to enhance our library processes and services. Slowly but surely, the Library went from a handful of databases to its current state of over 40 major academic databases. She likes to stay abreast of any new technologies and innovations in her field. Rani recently wrote a research paper on Use and User Perception of Electronic Resources by Students at Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates.
Rani can be contacted using the following information:
Location: Main Campus Library, 2nd Floor, Room E02058
E-mail Rani
E-BOOK SPOTLIGHT
Essential Math Skills for Engineers
Clayton R. Paul
Just the math skills you need to excel in the study or practice of engineering.
Good math skills are indispensable for all engineers regardless of their specialty, yet only a relatively small portion of the math that engineering students study in college mathematics courses is used on a frequent basis in the study or practice of engineering. That's why Essential Math Skills for Engineers focuses on only these few critically essential math skills that students need in order to advance in their engineering studies and excel in engineering practice. Essential Math Skills for Engineers features concise, easy-to-follow explanations that quickly bring readers up to speed on all the essential core math skills used in the daily study and practice of engineering. Readers will have mastered a key component of the knowledge needed to become successful students of engineering. In addition, this text is highly recommended for practicing engineers who want to refresh their math skills in order to tackle problems in engineering with confidence.
- Most Relevant Pages from this Ebook:
- How to identify simultaneous, linear, Algebraic equations.
- Where they arise: the meaning of a solution.
- Solution of linear, constant-coefficient, partial differential equations.
- Transforms of important functions.
- Mathematics of vectors.
To explore or use this Ebook, please click here.
FROM THE STACKS
Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization
Ashok Swain and Anders Jagerskog
Increasingly the Middle East and its growing population face a highly complex and fragile security system. The rich deposits of natural resources, such as oil and gas, suffer from a strained renewable resource base that includes water and arable land. This leads to water scarcity, desertification, and land degradation. Increasing population, industrialization, and urbanization put more and more demand on the food supply. Energy insecurity may not be generally associated with the Middle East, but the countries in the eastern Mediterranean part have been traditionally vulnerable to it as their fossil fuel endowments have been low. Another issue is the large-scale temporary labor migration and the large number of forced migrants, refugees, and internally displaced persons. The book analyzes these emerging security challenges in a comprehensive and systematic manner. It draws national and regional security issues into both the global security and human security perspectives. (from the publisher)
REFERENCE DESK
Answer: Go to the Library Catalog from the KU website and "Place Hold" on the book’s entry in the Library Catalog.
If you have more questions AskUs here.
PREVIOUS ISSUES
FEATURE ARTICLE
Welcome to Our New Library Catalog Portal
The year of 2018 has been declared to be the Year of Zayed by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates. KU Libraries, in honor of the memory of Sheikh Zayed, have compiled a list of books and resources related to his work, as well as writings about him. Click here to view these resources.
One of the largest benefits of the merger is the increased access to print and online resources. The new library catalog allows you to find print resources. You can search just one campus or all three. If you need more help, check out our FAQ about the catalog. These will show you web pages for every program at KU, help you with building your research skills, and teach you the basics of information literacy.
To visit the library catalog, go to https://khalifa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=971KUOSTAR_INST:KU .
DATABASE SPOTLIGHT
Engineering Case Studies Online from Alexander Press
What makes Engineering case studies Online unique, is that it focuses on providing analysis of Engineering failures which helps engineers and researchers to know what not to do and avoid mistakes happened in previous designs. Engineering case studies online provides detailed materials videos and text resources of causes and impact of engineering failures. These materials include:
- Feature - length video documentaries of major failures.
- Monographs explaining cases in detail.
- Simulations depicting precisely what went wrong.
- Primary footage of accidents.
- Audio footage and transcripts, and many more.
If you need more information on the database, visit their website here.
EVENT SPOTLIGHT
PATENTS WORKSHOP
KU libraries organized a workshop to highlight an important topic PATENTS. The workshop covered the following topics: a brief introduction about patents and an overview on patentability, patent databases and how to search for patents in these databases, classification of patents. Researchers, faculty, graduate students, and staff attended this workshop. This workshop was presented by Rani Anand on the 20th of February Masdar Campus.
QUIZ NIGHT
KU libraries regularly holds Quiz Night events using the Kahoot app. Kahoot is a game-based classroom tool or educational technology used to administer quizzes, discussions and surveys. Participants are pitted against each others to show off their knowledge in different categories such as: General knowledge, Science, Geography, Sports, Music and many more. The last Quiz Night was held in Habshan Library on February 21, 2018 and was hosted by librarian Walter Brian Hall.
SERVICES SPOTLIGHT
We have great news for you! New RefWorks is now available at Khalifa University three campuses!
The New RefWorks is a reference management service that supports the needs of students, faculty, and researchers. With an improved user experience, full-text management, and collaboration features, RefWorks gives students and faculty a tool that enables a more efficient and reliable process for producing research papers.
If you are new to RefWorks or have experience with it, we will help you all way long!
To access new RefWorks and start your fantastic experience simply, please follow the instructions here.
You can check new RefWorks YouTube training videos to help you become more familiar with the tool.
You can also check the recorded workshop training session here.
For a list of FAQs please click here.
You can request a workshop for your study group or as part of your class. Just email us at libse@ku.ac.ae
LIBRARY FACTS
@ KU libraries
You get knowledge and education.
@ KU libraries
You have access to nearly everything of the best in print, online, and databases resources.
@ KU libraries you have access to
27 instruction and study rooms equipped with computers, whiteboards and projectors.
250 OPACS
BUT did you know that
@ your library you also get something very special
you have friendly professional librarians to help and assist you.
TECHNOLOGY BYTES
Presentation of data is final step of a research project and the first step in turning research into action. This often means presenting data to different audiences with wildly different background. To communicate research to a wide audience, data visualization of works where speaking or text fails. One tool to help with creating beautifully visualized data is Fusion Charts. Fusion Charts is a data visualization tool with over 90 charts and more than 960 maps designed to serve the full range of needs of developers and professional data visualization experts. It works on a variety of platforms and is free but does put a watermark on images.
Books like Infographics and Beautiful Visualization can give you in depth information on the how’s and why’s of data visualization – and the science that drives it.
