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Looking for more technical information than is commonly found in news reports ? Try the Mine Safety and Health Administration pages for this incident or the general MSHA page. For books about previous mine accidents, try worldcat.org . Some books you might want to check out are: Death underground : the Centralia and West Frankfort mine disasters, The deep dark : tragedy and redemption in America's richest silver mine, Fire and brimstone : the North Butte mining disaster of 1917 Last man out [the story of the Springhill Mine Disaster] For general coal mining information search Worldcat.org for coal mines and mining . A couple of books, recently added to the Devereaux Library, Hard at the rock itself and Hole in the Ground with a Liar at the Top: Fraud and Deceit in the Golden Age of American Mining are worth a look as well. The Devereaux Library also has a number of mining and geology related databases and journals. For research assistance contact the library.

I don't know about you, but I tend to take many of the engineering marvels that surround me for granted. It rarely crosses my mind that the building I'm in might fall over, or that the bridge I'm driving on might collapse. This is, of course a tribute to the engineers, architects and construction crews who designed and built the structures that surround me. The I35W collapse brings to mind other infamous crashes. Some of them are very well known, such as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge others are less well known, but no less interesting. To find out more, check your local library catalog under the subject Bridge failures . You might also use the catalog to find books by Henry Petroski who writes excellent books about engineering and engineering failures. You could also check Engineering Index (you must be on the SDSM &T campus to use this link) and Wilson's Applied Science and Technology Index (also SDSM&T campus only) for technical information about bridge...

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The Devereaux Library is using goodreads to host our Acquisitions List and our new Reader's Advisory Service. What is Reader's Advisory? Quite simply, it is the act of putting people together with the books they love. Librarians, booksellers, literature teachers—anyone in the business of helping readers find the books they love—are readers' advisers . In other words, when you recommend a book to someone, you are participating in readers' advisory. From: http://www.genreflecting.com/Readers%20Advisory.html Several Devereaux Library staff members have ranked lists of books they have enjoyed and added them to goodreads along with the "new_books_2007" shelf. We invite you to look around http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/198920 . If you'd like to join us reading, ranking and reviewing, click http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDY5MDI4MTg6MzE3%0A and become a friend. Once you are a friend you can choose to receive updates (by email or rss feed) of n...

http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20070710.093732&time=10%2014%20PDT&year=2007&public=0 BERKELEY, Calif., July 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Science Foundation (NSF) has chosen Homestake, a former gold mine in the Black Hills, near Lead, South Dakota, as the site for a multipurpose deep underground science and engineering laboratory. The proposal, chosen from a field of four finalists, was prepared by a multi-institutional collaboration of researchers and submitted to an NSF site selection panel through the University of California (UC) at Berkeley. Leading the "Homestake Collaboration" was Kevin Lesko, a physicist who holds a joint appointment with UC Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).