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The Engineering Library will be open extra hours (10am-10pm Sunday) for study time. Best of luck with your finals! Coming Spring quarter we'll have a new website, you can preview it here: http://library.stanford.edu/englib.

As part of a pilot program with ACM, Stanford users can get continuous access to the ACM Digital Library by creating an individual account. This gives you access to all the ACM journals and conference proceedings on any device as long as you are logged into your ACM account. In addition you can save papers to folders and add comments.

To maintain continuous access, you must login to your account at least once every 30 days while on the campus network. You’ll know your access is working when you see Stanford University at the top of the ACM Portal page.

To get started, create an ACM account by clicking the “Sign Up” link at http://dl.acm.org/

Amy Hodge, Science Data Librarian, is offering a workshop Wednesday, Oct 11 from 1-2pm on using the DMPTool to create a data management plan.
Intended for faculty, post-docs, student, or research staff involved in writing a data management plan for research grant applications, the workshop will cover:

• Online Templates
• How to meet funder requirements
• Suggested language for preservation in the Stanford Digital Repository

We're ready to start training for creating content on the new website!

You are invited to sign up for the first round of training on Tuesday, June 26; Wednesday, June 27; Monday, July 9; or Tuesday, July 10 all at 1:30 pm. You can sign up through Coursework for one of these hands-on sessions at: https://coursework.stanford.edu/portal/site/LibraryWebsiteTraining. Once you've joined the site, click on the sign up link in the lefthand menu. This training is especially IMPORTANT for all subject specialists.

This initial training will last 60-90 minutes, and will cover two main topics:

This Friday, June 15 and Saturday, June 16, watch the ACM's Turing Centenary Celebration virtually! More than 30 Turing Award recipients will gather to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth with personal remembrances, talks, and panel discussions. Current and former Stanford Turing Award winners Edward Feigenbaum, Donald Knuth, Alan Kay, Barbara Liskov, Raj Reddy, Vint Cerf, John Hopcroft, Ronald Rivest, Robert Tarjan, and Niklaus Wirth are among the presenters and panelists.

The Web Redesign Team is working hard on the new website, especially the content creation environment and tools. We hope you are working on your web content, too--developing, editing, and refining the content you plan to publish on the new website’s subject guides, branch pages, and project pages.

In addition to the complete collection of Technical Papers our SAE subscription now includes:

• Aerospace Material Specifications
• Aerospace Standards
• Ground Vehicle Standards
• Historical Aerospace Material Specifications
• Historical Aerospace Standards
• Historical Ground Vehicle Standards

Access them all through the SAE Digital Library

Do you have countless files of .pdf documents?
Have you downloaded the same paper multiple times?

Then join us Monday through Friday April 16-20 for Mendeley Drop-In Workshops and get organized.

Noon-1:00pm in Huang 203.

You can now search for reserve items using the SearchWorks Course Reserves Catalog. This will eventually replace our existing reserve catalog on Socrates. If you encounter problems you can still search the old catalog. The libraries are happy to hear your feedback and suggestions, you can submit them anytime by clicking the Feedback link in the upper right navigation bar on SearchWorks.