Recent acquisitions at IT bookshop

The shop is situated in Building 513 R-047. CERN users can buy books and CDs there at discount prices. The service is open on weekdays from 8.30 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. and it can also be contacted by e-mail (Bookshop@cern.ch) or phone (74050).

Books are purchased from some 15 publishing houses, and the bookshop's catalogue offers documentation aimed at the computing utilities that are available at CERN. The service welcomes suggestions from the user community for acquisitions.

The most recent acquisitions in the physics field are:
Learning about Physics by Jack Steinberger
Enrico Fermi: His Work and Legacy
Understanding the Universe from Quarks to the Cosmos
Particle Physics (soft cover)

In the computing field:
Object Oriented Analysis and Design by John Deacon
Patterns for Parallel Programming
The MATHEMATICA Guidebook for Programming by Trott
• A second edition of Unix Shells by Example.

The complete list is integrated into the CERN library system. It is compiled regularly and is made available on the CERN network at http://cdsweb/tools/itbook.py.

A big thank you to all who came to the first CERN book fair in October. We see that there are areas where we can improve the service, and apologize to those who had to wait for books to be ordered - we hadn't expected such a large demand for this service.

In the future we will work with the central library to ensure that we can order popular physics books at bookshop rates.

About the author

Roger Woolnough and Jutta Megies, IT/UDS