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MATHEMATICS LIBRARY
"The Mathematics of Change
Ringing" was featured in
an exhibit in the Mathematics
Library during Fall 2003. A
Junior Colloquium on the subject
was given by Prof. Joan Hutchinson
(Macalaster College), including
demonstrations of this art of
ringing permutations on bells.
The text and links to more information
are available at http://math.lib.umn.edu/changeringing.html
; web pages from selected previous
exhibits are also available,
such as "Mathematical Nonsense."
In April 2003, the Mathematics
Library and the School of Mathematics
co-sponsored a colloquium on
issues in mathematical scholarly
communication; the featured
speaker was Prof. Martin Groetschel
(Technical University of Berlin),
a member of the Committee on
Electronic Information and Communication
of the International Mathematical
Union. The publishing landscape
continues to transform itself,
and the speakers encouraged
their fellow mathematicians
to support those publications
whose practices benefit the
mathematics community. This
year the library again had to
consider canceling journals--fortunately
very few, as it turned out--since
prices overall continue to increase
faster than the budget. Nevertheless
the library continues to expand
access to electronic resources,
such as the online Encyclopaedia
of Mathematics (M. Hazewinkel,
ed.) and recent volumes of Lecture
Notes in Mathematics, which
also became available electronically
to those on campus. The library's
print collection continues to
grow as well: now more than
44,000 volumes. The books are
newly reorganized under a single
call number scheme (Library
of Congress, completely replacing
the Dewey Decimal call numbers).
While this means people may
have to go to an unfamiliar
spot for their favorite text,
the benefit is that books on
a given topic are now gathered
in one area.
Kristine Fowler, Mathematics
Librarian
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Kristine Fowler
Mathematics Librarian e-mail:
fowler@math.umn.edu
University of Minnesota phone:
(612)624-9395
310 Vincent Hall fax: (612)624-4302
206 Church St. S.E.
Minneapolis MN 55455
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