Introducing Bookmyne!

Bookmyne is the name of a free iPhone app that provides Cameo search & account functionality. There are three tools available via Bookmyne: 1) search, 2) holds and 3) My Account.

To use Bookmyne:

1. Go to the iPhone app store and install Bookmyne.

2. Open Bookmyne on your iPhone.

3. The iPhone GPS will find Bookmyne-compatible libraries near you.

4. Click 'nearby' at the top.

5. Click the plus sign next to Carnegie Mellon University to search its catalog.

6. Next click the tab labeled 'My' at the top. You will see Carnegie Mellon University.

7. Click Carnegie Mellon University to see information about the library such as hours and phone numbers.

8. Click 'search' at the bottom to do a keyword search in the Carnegie Mellon Libraries' catalog. (There is no advanced search)

9. To place a hold, click the dot on the left of an item to check-mark it, and then click 'Place hold' at the bottom. Several items can be marked simultaneously. Choose a pickup location and then press 'confirm' to send the hold.

10. Back in the list of results, click an item to see more details about it.

11. Click 'My account' at the bottom to see an account summary after logging in with a Carnegie Mellon ID and PIN.

For more information please check out this page.

SEE 2010 & Illumin Magazine

It’s summer, so that means it’s time for SEE 2010!
SEE is Carnegie Mellow University’s Summer Engineering Experience for Girls. The aim of the program is to foster an interest in the sciences and math for teenage girls. For two weeks participants have the opportunity to learn how to think like engineers and examine the world around them as an engineer would.

While looking for websites that would be good for the girls participating in SEE 2010 we found an e-magazine called Illumin published by graduate undergraduate students at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. This magazine focuses on how everyday things work such as toilets, shoes, building materials, footballs, LEDs, and GPS. It discusses everything in a way that is very easy to understand, and it’s also very interesting. It’s definitely worth checking out, no matter what your age is or your level of experience with engineering and the sciences.


Check it out at http://illumin.usc.edu!

Upcoming

We have some great additions to the library for the upcoming Fall semester, stay tuned for more information!

BP Cleanup

The oil cleanup is probably going to be continuing for quite some time, but BP has posted live video feeds from each of the ROV's in use for this operation. It's definitely worth checking out.

Click here to see the ROV's in action

WHO knows how to get CMU digital theses?

     Photo credit:  U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

HOW DO I FIND ELECTRONIC COPIES OF

CARNEGIE MELLON DISSERTATIONS?

Go to Library’s home page to get to the “Articles & Databases” link.
Click on:  Databases A-Z
http://search.library.cmu.edu/rooms/portal/page/22922_Databases_A_Z

Go to “P” for ProQuest Direct.

On the Basic search screen, you can type in the name of the author of the dissertation in the Author field.

For “Publication type” choose: Dissertations.

And now for the CUTEST, MOST AMAZING & ADDICTIVE + “popular to science librarians” website for spring:
Go to the live webcam in a barn owl’s nest:
http://www.sportsmansparadiseonline.com/Live_Owl_Nest_Box_Cam.html

And the live webcam of an eagle’s nest can be just as addictive::
http://www.sportsmansparadiseonline.com/Bald_Eagle_Nest_Cam_P0SF.html

If you know of any interesting live ENGINEERING webcams, we want to know about them--Send me an email:  Donna Beck, Engineering Librarian or Post a comment here.