Elizabeth Spreadbury Library
Elizabeth Spreadbury was killed in 1990, when a car hit her bicycle in Geneva as she rode home from a shift on the OPAL experiment, on which she was doing her Ph.D. Her parents gave her textbook collection, already extensive, to the group - and an endowment to the Department which was used to establish the Elizabeth Spreadbury Fund. The Fund (among other things) agreed to pay an HEP postgraduate student to act as librarian. At about the same time a beloved senior theory professor - Leonardo Castillejo - also died suddenly and his wife gave some of his books to the library. Since then the group has spent its own, and some Spreadbury Fund, money to improve the usefulness of the collection.
In memory of Elizabeth's twin passions for particle physics and astronomy an annual lecture is held. A full list of the lectures since 1991 can be found here.
Prof. David Miller (djm@hep.ucl.ac.uk), is chair of the Administrators of the Elizabeth Spreadbury Fund.
Prof. Mark Lancaster (markl@hep.ucl.ac.uk) is its treasurer.
Location:
The Library is located at room D17, on the 1st floor of the Physics & Astronomy building, just in front of the staircase.Librarian
Current librarian: Samer Kilani (librarian@hep.ucl.ac.uk) -- please put "Library" in the subject line.
Some former librarians have been:
| 1992-1993: | Sabah Salih (from Iraq) |
| 1993: | Jason Ward and Paul Makkar (both from UK) |
| 1994-1998: | Ed McKigney (from USA) and Antonios Papanestis (from Greece) |
| 1999-2000: | Ben West and Russell Taylor (both from UK) |
| 2003-2006: | Stathis Stefanidis (from Greece) |
| 2006-2010: | Matt Kauer (from USA) |
How to borrow
To borrow a book, library users must fill in the withdrawal sheet (available in the room, on a clipboard). It is essential to have a record of the borrower's name, date of borrowing and the book title and author.
Returning books
When returning a borrowed book, please DO NOT put it back on the shelf you got it from. You will find a shelf for returned books near the door. If you have taken a book off the shelf just to consult it and do not wish to borrow it, please replace it exactly where you took it from.On-line Search
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Current Library Status
There was a problem in the database causing the books to be listed in the wrong order; this has now been corrected. However, some book records list the author's forename or initials before the surname, which may make it difficult to find a book. These records will be corrected during January 2012.
Other links
- UCL Library Catalogue
- HEP Literature Database-SPIRES
- Los Alamos e-Print archive (UK mirror)
- Particle Data Group
- The Durham HEP Databases
Group members are invited to give their suggestions for making this web-page better.
Please send any comments or suggestions to librarian@hep.ucl.ac.uk -- please put "Library" in the subject line.
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