The 2008 CERN Book Fair took place on 8–10 October and was a great success. During the three-day event, we had six authors presenting their new books and eight publishers exhibiting their wares. Given this large interest, the Bookshop plans to organize an annual Book Fair, alternating a Physics and Engineering Book Fair with an IT-themed one. Therefore, the next Book Fair will focus on computing books and will take place on 3–4 September this year. Key publishers and book distributors have been invited and special side events, such as book presentations, are already being prepared. For example, Bjarne Stroustrup, who developed the C++ programming language, is scheduled to give a talk on Thursday 3 September.

Integration with CERN Stores

The Bookshop's stock will soon be integrated into the CERN Stores catalogue. Therefore, it will also be possible to purchase books via the EDH interface using a CERN budget code. Private purchases are still possible by paying directly into our UBS account. CERN users can buy books and CDs at discounted prices.

The Bookshop is located in the Central Library, Building 52/1-052, and is open on weekdays from 8.30 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. The Bookshop is staffed by Eva Papp; and since November 2008 Tullio Basaglia has taken over the management from Joanne Yeomans. We purchase books from about 15 publishing houses, however, the offer is not limited to these publishers – the staff are ready to order any title that exists in print. In addition, we welcome suggestions from the user community, especially concerning new titles that you wish to be added to the stock. You can contact us by e-mail at bookshop@cern.ch.

There are many new titles available in the Bookshop. The following list is a sample of some of these.

Computing

D M Smith 2009 Engineering Computation with MATLAB.
M Summerfield 2008 Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language.

Physics

D J Griffiths 2008 Introduction to Elementary Particles 2nd edition.
B Martin 2009 Nuclear and Particle Physics: An Introduction 2nd edition.
B Martin and G P Shaw 2008 Particle Physics 3rd edition.
D McMahon 2009 String Theory Demystified.

Accelerators and detectors

W Blum, W Riegler and L Rolandi 2008 Particle Detection with Drift Chambers 2nd edition.
C Grupen and B Schwartz 2008 Particle Detectors 2nd edition.
H Padamsee 2009 RF Superconductivity: Volume II: Science, Technology and Applications (available in June 2009).
J T Tanabe 2005 Iron Dominated Electromagnets: Design, Fabrication, Assembly and Measurements.
T P Wangler 2008 RF Linear Accelerators 2nd edition.

Other topics

F E Close 2009 Antimatter.
C Leroy and P-G Rancoita 2009 Principles of Radiation Interaction in Matter and Detection 2nd edition (available in June 2009).
H Schopper 2009 LEP: The Lord of the Collider Rings at CERN 1980–2000 (available in June 2009).

The full list of current titles is available at http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/CERN%20Bookshop and http://cdsweb/tools/itbook.py.