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P.O. Box 2608, Houston, Texas 77252-2608 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Printed on acid-free paper (°o). 

I also wish to thank the Bodleian Library at Oxford University for permission to do research in the Frederick Soddy Papers in their Modem Manuscripts collections, and the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford University, for permission to work with Soddy s lecture notes and papers in their archives. I thank University College London, Special Collections, for permission to do research in the Sir William Ramsay Papers. I also thank the special collections librarians at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, for access to H. G. Wells s papers, and the University of Texas at Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center for access to Edith Sitwell s papers. Frances Soar of the Geographical Association, the administrators of the Frederick Soddy Tmst, and Maxwell Wright and Gwen Huntley of Bunkers Solicitors generously helped me in my efforts to track down an estate for Frederick Soddy s unpublished writings. And I wish to thank Mark Smithells and the Smithells family in New Zealand for permission to quote from Arthur Smithells s unpublished manuscript in the Frederick Soddy Papers. 

DEZ [Diethyl zinc] A process for preserving books and documents by treatment with diethyl zinc vapor, which neutralizes ary residual acidity from the papermaking process. The articles are placed in a low-pressure chamber and suffused by diethyl zinc vapor. This vapor reacts with the moisture in the paper to yield zinc oxide, which neutralizes the acid. The process was developed by Texas Alkyls (a joint company of Akzo and Hercules) and the U S. Library of Congress. A pilot plant was set up in 1988, capable of treating batches of 300 books, and plans to build two larger plants were announced in 1989. 

It is never superfluous to say thanks where thanks are due. Firstly, we want to thank Jim Revill of IOP Publishing who has assisted us so very much with our books. Next, a most substantial debt of gratitude is extended to the following libraries for allowing us to use their resources The Jesse H. Jones Library and the Moody Memorial Library, Baylor University the main library of the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor the main library of the Central Texas College the Perry-Castaneda Library, the Undergraduate Library, the Engineering Library, the Law Library, the Physics-Math-Astronomy Library, and the Humanities Research Center, all of the University of Texas at Austin. 

This work would not have been possible without the support of the National Library of Medicine, the National Biomedical Research Foundation in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and the University of Texas Health Center at Tyler. The authors are grateful for their helpful discussions with Dr. Hongzhan Huang at the National Biomedical Research Foundation and for the expertise and efforts of Dr. Karen Sloan and Sara Shepherd. 

The historical information in this section is reproduced, with permission, from the University of Texas at Austin Library website.)... 

Douglas, R. R., Special Libraries Assoc. Texas Chapter Bull., 5, 18 (1953). Education for special librarianship. 

That this is not the single ultimate solution, however, is apparent from the efforts of both colleges and industry to foster and encourage academic preparation for the chemical literature and related fields. Notable among present efforts are the industrial library internships for M. L. S. candidates at The University of Texas and the science-journalism curriculum offered at Iowa State College. 

Surveys of the literature and patents in various fields are made by the technical libraries of The Texas Co., prior to laboratory research. These surveys are made from as broad a viewpoint as possible and are mainly noncritical, as they are later critically reviewed by the individuals who are to do the research work. A detailed account is given of the techniques employed in making these surveys. 

This paper presents a description of the techniques employed by the technical libraries of The Texas Co. in making extensive patent and literature surveys as a background and basis for laboratory research. These techniques are fundamentally applicable for most chemical and petroleum searches. 

In addition to these thorough, noncritical surveys, the libraries of The Texas Co. are frequently requested to make brief searches of the literature and/or patents on various subjects. For those critical surveys, the problem is discussed with the inquirer to define its scope as clearly and within as narrow bounds as possible. These searches for information may require from a few hours to several weeks and are frequently limited to checking the more obvious sources of information. They might require, for example, the earliest references on oil-base drilling muds, the effective ranges of various adsorbents, the chemical reactions of a new reagent, the carcinogenic action of hydrocarbons, or all company patents on a special subjects such as boron trifluoride. The report for this type of sur-... 

The ready availability of sufficient and suitable source material is a very important requirement. While some libraries have available on their shelves only the abstract journals and the main reference sources and rely on public and other outside libraries for other publications, yet it would appear that this procedure would be very costly in time of personnel. Typing facilities are not available at most public libraiies and it is necessary to write in longhand the data required often, on checking the information later, it may be necessary to make another trip to the library to supplement the data first obtained. Consequently, it has been the aim to have available in The Texas Co. libraries not only all the main abstract journals, American, British, French, and German, reference works, and encyclopedias, but also practically all texts relating to the particular fields of interest of The Texas Co. In the main libraiy prints of reels 1 through 305 of the Technical Oil Mission reports and a collection of reports of the Publication Board, BIOS, FIAT, etc., are retained in loose-leaf binders. 

Ball, M. V. Marihuana - Mexican name for cannabis, also called loco weed in certain parts of Texas. In Canal Zone papers. Balboa Heights. Univeristy of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville, Virginia. 

I express my deep sense of gratitude to my wife, Mamata, for her inspiration, positive support and help that catalyzed me to write this hook. My sincere thanks to my daughter, Anasuya, for her assistance in the preparation of some of the figures. I also take this opportunity to express my deep sense of appreciation to the Chief Librarians of Harris County Public Library at Katy near Houston, Texas, USA and the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India for using their Library facilities. 

Sanders, M. Josephs, J., Schwartz, J. Tymiak, A. DiDonato, G. Rapid Identification of Natural Products Using a Modified Ion Trap Mass Spectrometer and MS/MS Spectral Library Searching, in Proceedings of the 47th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied Topics, Dallas, Texas, June 13-17, 1999. 

IMSL Library 7 Reference Manual," IMSL International and Statistical Libraries, Inc., Houston, Texas 1975. 

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Kathiin Dodds is a Electronic Resources Librarian for Texas Tech University. She is an active member of the SW/TX Popular Culture Association where she serves as Area Chair for the Collecting, Collections and Collectibles Area. Her research areas include the image and stereotypes of librarians. Native Americans, and Mexican Americans. She has been published in the Journal of Popular Culture and the Art Libraries Information Society (ARLIS). 

B. Lynn Whitfield is an Associate Archivist at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library where she serves as the University Archivist of Texas Tech University and administers its records management program She received her Bachelor s Degree in Art from Mercer University in 1993, her Master s Degree in Museum Science in 1995 and passed the national archivist s exam in 2004 to become a Certified Arcliivist. Recently she edited the exhibit catalog, Medieval Southwest Manifestations of the Old World in the New. ... 

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