Ellen Lauri Ochoa is a former astronaut and current Director of the Johnson Space Center. Ochoa became director of the center upon retirement of the current director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012. She was born May 10th, 1958 in Los Angeles and educated at Stanford University. For more in depth information check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellen_Ochoa.
Engineering Library resources on flight: http://ow.ly/kTQ6I
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“It was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept so much in our lives ‘together.’ On its way up the zipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday costume. The magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper the popular item it is today, but it happened nearly eighty years after the zipper’s first appearance.” Check out the History of the Zipper at http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa082497.htm. At this website you can check out the pictures of the inventors.
No one has received more U.S. patents than Thomas Edison – 1,093 to be exact. http://ow.ly/kx1Vs
Open access is an electronic publishing model that allows free and immediate access to research, and also allows authors to retain intellectual property rights to their research. Many open access journals charge authors publication fees, which can be a barrier to publishing in such venues.
To help offset the cost of publishing in open access journals the Office of the Provost and University Libraries have established a small fund to assist with authors’ fees.
Researchers may apply for funding to be applied toward publication fees up to:
- $3,000.00 for publication in full open access journals that allow immediate, free access to all their articles upon publication (check the Directory of Open Access Journals: http://www.doaj.org/ for titles that qualify).- $1,500.00 for publication in “hybrid” open access journals. These are subscription-based journals that allow open access only to articles for which author open access fees have been paid (check Sherpa/RoMEO’s list of Publishers with Paid Open Access Options: http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/PaidOA.html).
Funding is not available to researchers with grant funding that could be used to pay open access fees.
For more information and an application form, go to: http://guides.lib.uiowa.edu/OAfund
Questions about the process may be directed to Mike Wright, Interim Associate University Librarian, Collections and Scholarly Communication (michael-wright@uiowa.edu).
Celebrate National Library Week, April 14-20, 2013, with Honorary Chair Caroline Kennedy.
Every day across the country, libraries open their doors to everyone: students, parents, seniors, teachers, writers, artists, job seekers, entrepreneurs, readers, gamers, movie lovers and travel buffs.
Head to your library during National Library Week to see what’s new and take part in the celebration. Libraries across the country are participating.
Just in time for National Poetry Month and National Library Week: Check out Poetry Beats Studio, an interactive studio designed for students, educators and poetry lovers, where they can explore the rhythm and sound of spoken word. Poetry Beats Studio is in support of Caroline Kennedy’s new book, Poems to Learn by Heart.
Learn more about Patents during a 15 minute Library Xpress Class, April 18th at 10:00am and 2:30pm in the Engineering Library.
ebrary currently hosts 630,401 documents with 13, 634 added in the past 30 days. This month, ebrary added more than 5,500 e-books from Encyclopedia Britannica, Peter Lang Publishing, University of California Press, World Scientific College Press and other leading publishers to their growing catalog of over 399,700 titles for purchase. ebrary has already added 13,5800 new titles in 2013! At the Engineering Library find: 
Membrane and desalination technologies with access limited to ebrary affiliated libraries and other ebrary e-book http://ow.ly/k9vC0
April 15th Tax Day is when you celebrate this weird and wacky holiday called national Eraser Day. Office supply geeks, eraser collectors, artists, writers, librarians school children and rubber eraser lovers band together every April 15th to praise this simple product that has done so much for so many.
Since the day Nicolas Conte made the first pencil back in 1795, many have owed a d3ebt to the inventor of the rubber eraser. Edward Naime, an English Engineer, mistook a cube of rubber for the commonly used piece of bread to get rid of unwanted pencil markings and discovered a new property of rubber. Since that day erasers have been the bookkeeper’s best friend and the writer’s handmaiden. To learn more please check out http://www.squidoo.com/eraser-rubber-eraser-day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eraser
Look at this relevant books: http://ow.ly/k5rpm; The pencil : a history of design and circumstance /
