Large Hadron Collider - Basic Resources

Yesterday CERN's Large Hadron Collider began colliding subatomic particles. When the collider began operating, it was the culmination of about sixteen years of planning, construction, and great anticipation.

If you're wondering about the history of this collider project, the science behind it, or what physicists are trying to find out by using the collider, there are resources at the library to satisfy your curiosity.

A library catalog search for the keywords "large hadron collider" retrieves nine items specifically about the collider, ranging from print books to electronic books to government documents on microfiche. These items are a great place to start when researching the Large Hadron Collider project.

Asides from these specific nine, there are many, many more books, articles, and other resources in the library related to the Large Hedron Collider, particle accelerators, and particle physics. For more information on finding these resources, contact the Science Reference Department or me directly.


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Tips for New Catalog

Just this afternoon we added a new "tips" section on the search page of our new library catalog. We've had, for a good part of the summer now, search buttons on the library home page for both the new version of the library catalog and the "classic" version (highlighted with those purple arrows in the image above).

All the same materials are still in the catalog, you just now have a slightly different tool to use to find them. And, now you have a more fleshed-out tip sheet to help you use this new tool.

Questions? Let me know!

Testing new library catalog

The WMU Libraries are testing a new library catalog that, we hope, will be easier to use. But to determine how well the new catalog works our library web master, Michael Whang, and one of our librarians, Sheila Bair, need faculty volunteers for a study they are conducting.

All volunteers would need to do is to search in the old and new library catalog for answers to six questions. It shouldn’t take more than 30 minutes.

You can view a brief library web page about the study.

If you are interested, contact Michael at michael.whang@wmich.edu or Sheila at sheila.bair@wmich.edu.