CERN Book fair (1/2)

by (CERN)

Thursday 28 Oct 2004, 10:00 → 17:00 Europe/Zurich

60-01- (CERN)

The CERN Library, in conjunction with the IT Department Bookshop, is organizing a book fair on the 28 and 29 October. Some 15 major publishers will be represented, including 6 who will be here in person, and more than 700 of their latest titles will be on display (for sale or order). The major topics covered will be computing, physics, technology, mathematics, engineering and popular science.
Those present at this event will include Alpha Science, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Institute of Physics, Microsoft Press, O'Reilly, OLF Switzerland, Oxford University Press, McGraw-Hill, Springer, Pearson, Thali Switzerland, Wiley, World Scientific and Ebooks Corporation.

11.00 - Central Library (bldg. 52)
The particle odyssey
Christine Sutton / CERN
CERN's Christine Sutton is again contributing to making particle physics more easily accessible to the general public as her book "The Particle Odyssey: A Journey to the Heart of the Matter", co-authored with Frank Close and Michael Marten, now has been made available as paperback.
The book, originally published in 2002, is a revised version of the authors' "The Particle Explosion" (1987) and it incorporates lots of new material.
On Thursday, 28th October, at 11.00 in the Central Library Reading Room, Christine Sutton will meet her readers and talk about the challenge of explaining complex scientific concepts for lay readers without oversimplifying them or patronizing the audience.

12.00 - Salle Pauli (bldg. 60)
The electronic book library
Stephen Cole / EBooks Corporation

14.00 - Central Library (bldg. 52)
Prestigious Discoveries at CERN
Jean-Pierre Revol / CERN
Based on the symposium "1973 : Neutral currents. 1983 : W & Z Bosons. The anniversary of CERN's discoveries and a look into the future", organised last year, Roger Cashmore, Luciano Maiani and Jean-Pierre Revol have edited a proceedings that was recently published by Springer under the title "Prestigious discoveries at CERN".
As we all know, the discoveries of neutral currents and of the W and Z bosons marked a watershed in the history of CERN. The articles collected in this book have been written by distinguished physicists who contributed in a crucial way to these developments. The book also contains a discussion of the future of particle physics and gives an updated status of the LHC and its detectors currently being built at CERN.
On Thursday 28th October at 14.00 in the Central Library Reading Room, Jean-Pierre Revol will meet the readers to provide a short historical account of these discoveries and talk about how he perceives the developments in physics that they have led to.

15.00 - Salle Pauli (bldg. 60)
The electronic book library
Stephen Cole / EBooks Corporation

Ebooks are emerging in academic libraries and most of the publishers relevant to CERN activities are now entering the arena: Cambridge University Press, Chapman & Hall, CRC Press, Kluwer, Imperial College Press, Oxford University Press, Springer, Taylor & Francis, World Scientific, and even more are soon coming. Traditionally books not held by the library, have had to be borrowed from fellow libraries, normally including a small cost to cover the shipping and processing expenses. With electronic books the shipping costs and delays are eliminated, leaving room for a new concept of 'interlending'. Costs, still to be covered by the library, previously associated with traditional interlibrary loan could in this way be used to pay for temporary access to electronic books. Such 'rented items' can possibly later be upgraded to become part of the collection. Flags may be set to alert the librarian when a title has been borrowed on short term circulation a number of times and give the choice to purchase. The system can also be set to automatically purchase titles after a set number of short term circulation loans have occurred. Stephen Cole, the founder of eBooks.com and a lifetime bibliophile, will present how the system can be implemented to serve end users at CERN.

16.00 - Central Library (bldg. 52)
Infinitely CERN
Corinne Menard / CERN

CERN and Editions Suzanne Hurter released last week the beautiful book, "Infinitely CERN", published in French under the title "Infiniment CERN, Témoins de cinquante ans de recherches", to commemorate the human and scientific adventure of CERN.
The book, intended for the general public as well as for the personnel of CERN and its institutional, industrial or scientific partners, tells the history of CERN through the voices of those who lived it.
On Thursday, 28th October, at 16.00 in the Central Library Reading Room, Corinne Menard, who co-ordinated the writings, will meet the readers and talk about the conception of the project and the difficulties in making a selection of the material to be used in such a book. A book that many of us have strong opinions about - even before having looked at it ....

The fair will take place on the first floor of the Main Building (bldg.60), Salle des Pas Perdus, and will be open from 10.00 to 17.00 on both days.
In addition, EBooks Corporation will describe their electronic book system.
We look forward to your support for this initiative. Should you have questions or wish to make further suggestions please contact Jens Vigen ETT/SI (tel.72410) or Roger Woolnough IT/UDS (tel.79156).
Organiser(s): CERN Central Library and IT Department Bookshop
More information: http://www.eblib.com/

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