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Brian Quigley
Head, Sciences Division
Mathematics
bquigley@berkeley.edu
Krista Anandakuttan
Optometry, Public Health
kanandakuttan@berkeley.edu
Misha Coleman
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, Statistics
mishacoleman@berkeley.edu
Nicholas Dehler
Chemistry, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Physics
ndehler@berkeley.edu
Margot Hanson
Aerospace Engineering, Bioengineering, Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
mdhanson@berkeley.edu
Becky Miller
Natural Resources, Environmental Sciences
rcmiller@berkeley.edu
Lisa Ngo
Assistant Head, Sciences Division
Civil & Environmental Engineering, Nuclear Engineering
lngo@berkeley.edu
Susan Powell
Maps, GIS, Geography
smpowell@berkeley.edu
Elliott Smith
Biological Sciences
epsmith@berkeley.edu
Sam Teplitzky
Open Science, Earth Science, Astronomy
samteplitzky@berkeley.edu
Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Library
On June 23, after a two-year closure, the Kresge Engineering & Mathematical Sciences Library officially opened on the lower level of the Grimes Engineering Center. The Kresge Library now houses collections and services to support the College of Engineering, the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and the Department of Mathematics, following the merger of the Mathematics Statistics Library into the space. Features of the Kresge Library include:
The engineering and mathematics collections are still being integrated in the Kresge Library so please ask our staff if you have any trouble locating an item.
Hours
Our library hours for the fall semester are:
Please see Location + Hours for the latest information on library hours.
We are thrilled to announce that online access has been restored to ASHRAE and AASHTO standards through the Accuris Engineering Workbench platform. UC Berkeley affiliated users can authenticate with their CalNetID. Our license includes full text access to standards and guidelines published by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and standards, specifications, guidelines and manuals from The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
Dewey provides licensed access to datasets provided by corporate partners in the following subject areas: urban planning and real estate, behavioral economics and public policy, marketing and management, and corporate finance. This includes data on construction sites, building permits, and supply chains.
Hexagon satellite imagery for California
High resolution (up to 15cm) aerial imagery covering California every two years, starting in 2020 and including 2022 and 2024. Selected urban coverage is also available for 2018/2019. The State of California contracts with Hexagon geospatial to collect the imagery and makes it available to state and local government agencies, as well as public education institutions. Streaming access is available through ArcGIS Online. Contact Susan for downloading options.
Planet Labs satellite imagery
Daily satellite images of the Earth’s land surfaces and coastal areas. Natural color, near infra-red, and other multi-channel imagery products are available with 5m, 3.7m and 50cm ground pixel resolution. Images are exportable to GIS systems or can be viewed and analyzed using Planet's website and tools. Access is restricted to UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab faculty, staff, and students. See the Library's Remote Sensing guide for more information and a link to the required registration form.
MRS Online Proceedings Library
This archive provides access to more than 70,000 peer-reviewed papers from Materials Research Society (MRS) symposia between 1980 and 2016. It contains a wealth of valuable research in materials science and engineering. Since 2016, papers from the symposia have been published in the journal MRS Advances.
SIAM Membership
Thanks to the Library's membership in the Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM), not only do we get access to the SIAM journals, UC Berkeley graduate students can sign up for free student memberships in the organization. Faculty who are SIAM members also have the option to nominate up to two undergraduate students for free student memberships.
American Energy Society Membership
Create an account with your berkeley.edu email. Access to this professional organization includes publications and newsletters.
New e-book packages
New journals
Stop by the Reading Lounge at Kresge Library to browse our new Student Picks collection! Featuring classics, popular literature, fiction and non-fiction, and even a textbook, every title in the collection comes recommended by Berkeley students in engineering, mathematics and statistics.
Purchase Recommendation - we welcome your suggestions! Please contact your librarian or fill out the purchase recommendation form if you would like to suggest that we purchase a journal or book for the collection.
Workshops
Introduction to LaTeX with Overleaf
Introduction to OSF (Open Science Framework)
Practicing Open Science with the Open Science Team Agreement
GIS & Mapping: Where to Start
GIS & Mapping Community of Practice Co-Work Sessions
Introduction to Citation Management with Zotero
Copyright and Your Dissertation
Managing and Maximizing Your Scholarly Impact
Beyond Books: The Library's Not Just For Research
Bay Area Open Science Group
Fall Meetings
UC Carpentries
This fall, librarians and instructors across the University of California are offering the Software Carpentry, which aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation. Register for one or more modules, including Tidy Data, Open Refine, Unix, Git, SQL, Python, and R.
Lisa was awarded the Distinguished Librarian Award this summer in recognition of her sustained excellence in librarianship, innovation, and inclusivity at UC Berkeley and beyond!
Sam is on the steering committee for OSCLIP, the Open Science Collaborative of Library and Information Professionals. OSCLIP held its kickoff meeting online in May and will meet in person for the first time in October at Carnegie Mellon University.
A paper that Susan co-authored was selected as “Best Paper of the Year” for volume 20 of the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries.