http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/news.html A weekly news feed from the NOAA Central Library en-us chris.belter@noaa.gov (Chris Belter) Mon 25 July 2011 15:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Mon 25 July 2011 15:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Mon 25 July 2011 15:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html On Tuesday, July 19, a group of twenty Maury teachers, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and the United States Naval Academy, visited the NOAA Library and were given a demonstration of the NOAA Library website and a tour of the Rare Books. This has been an annual event and has been done for the last five years or so. Most of the teachers are science and math teachers and come from all parts of the United States and this year, two Canadian provinces. Mon 25 July 2011 15:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html On Wednesday, July 20, Albert Theberge of the NOAA Central Library gave presentations on the history of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, a photographic essay on what new NOAA Corps officers can expect to see and do in their career, and a bonus presentation on the Coast Survey in the Civil War to members of the new NOAA Corps Basic Officer Training Class. Theberge, a retired NOAA Corps officer, retains ties to the Corps and has made numerous presentations to the new officers of NOAA Corps over the past several years. Mon 25 July 2011 15:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Library staff scanned and sent PDFs of Volume I (Summary) and Volume II (Heavy Metals and Fossil Fuels) of NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS OMA 43 (An Historical Reconstruction of Major Pollutant Levels in the Hudson-Raritan Basin: 1880-1980) to patron, added the documents to library's catalog record, and sent PDFs to NOS staff to add to their publications site. Mon 20 June 2011 09:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Mon 20 June 2011 09:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Mon 20 June 2011 09:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html On Tuesday, June 16, the NOAA Office of Education hosted a group of representatives of the San Francisco Exploratorium for a tour of the NOAA Central Library Rare Books and collections. This very attentive and inquisitive group spent three hours in the Library, asked numerous pertinent questions, and were mesmerized by NOAA Library collections and website. The Office of Education is working towards cooperative efforts with many elements of NOAA and the Exploratorium. On Monday, June 14, Dr. John Cloud, historian in residence at the NOAA Central Library, provided the Exploratorium group with an overview of the digital map collection that he acquired for NOAA through the CDMP Project as well as an overview of the sources of information for historical Central California cartographic products. Mon 20 June 2011 09:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html http://www.lib.noaa.gov/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/5/?searchdata1=ocn726748979 (Click on "Catalog Record" tab to view full metadata description). Direct link to the scanned images is available at: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/RCA-TIROS/ ]]> Mon 20 June 2011 09:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Librarian Chris Belter is working with Counselors in NOAA's Office of General Council (OGC) to prepare an extensive literature review on the Sargasso Sea. The OGC has been tasked with creating a case for protecting the Sargasso Sea, an area in the southwestern North Atlantic that lies primarily beyond national jurisdiction, as a marine protected area. The OGC wanted a review of the existing literature on the Sargasso Sea in order to make this case. The literature review to be provided to the OGC includes over 675 books, journal articles, theses/dissertations, and technical reports. In addition to this review, Chris also provided the OGC with a literature review on establishing marine protected areas in the high seas. The library plans to make the Sargasso Sea bibliography available to the public in the coming weeks. Mon 20 June 2011 09:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html NOAA Central Librarian Steve Quillen attended the Library of Congress Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) and the LC Preservation Directorate Safety Net meeting on June 7th. Safety Net is a voluntary Washington Area federal network for disaster response. The meeting focused on After the Disaster: Replace, Recover or Digitize? The program evaluated steps for disaster recovery using various options and workflows. The Library of Congress has recently awarded a disaster recovery contract which is now used in conjunction with replacement, in-house recovery, contractual recovery and digitization of titles damaged by a disaster. Response to the Library of Congress disaster recovery contract was positive and Fedlink will look into providing a similar contract to Fedlink members. The Chief of the Binding and Collections Care at LC provided real-world examples of disasters and how best to deal effectively with damaged materials. Steve Quillen also attended the Preservation Working Group Meeting on the 7th for a discussion of training opportunities and an overview of the July 13th meeting on Sharing a Federal Print Repository for Federal Libraries. Mon 20 June 2011 09:45:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html http://www.lib.noaa.gov/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/5/?searchdata1=ocn706120193 and directly from the server at: http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/noaa_documents/NOS/MPA/video/Lost%20on%20a%20Reef%20HD.mov. Please allow some time for downloading. You will be rewarded by viewing this fascinating video in terms of its contents and quality. NOAA mission/goals: This visual material supports NOAA mission in educating and providing timely information to the general public on current NOAA research in preserving the national maritime heritage. ]]> Wed 01 June 2011 10:07:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Tue 24 May 2011 16:05:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html specialevents@loc.gov. Hope to see you there. John Hessler Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society Senior Cartographic Librarian Geography and Map Division Library of Congress 202-707-7223 ]]> Tue 24 May 2011 16:05:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html Tue 24 May 2011 16:05:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html The NOAA Central Library has been assisting Dr. John Cortinas, Director Office of Air and Weather Quality, OAR, in seeking out information concerning the dispersion of radionuclides in the ocean as the result of anthrophogenic activity including nuclear disasters such as Chernobyl and the intentional or resultant dispersion of nuclear materials through atmospheric and oceanic atomic weapons testing. The Library produced 65 documents for use by Dr. Cortinas. This initial collection is being reviewed by his assistant for assessing further information needs related to this incident. Library staff will meet with Dr. Cortinas and his assistant, Research Associate Joe Fillingham, this next week to firm up future directions for providing information to the NOAA team that will be involved with further developments in this on-going disaster. Mon 04 April 2011 16:25:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html The NOAA Central Library hosted fifteen members of the Washington Rare Book Group on Wednesday, March 16, for a tour of the NOAA Central Library Rare Book Collection. Librarians from the Library of Congress, other government agencies, and private curators and collectors attended. As a group they were extremely interested in the NOAA Central Library special collections of maps and rare science books. They asked many interesting and challenging questions and the tour was as informative for Library staff as it was for members of the group. Mon 04 April 2011 16:25:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html NHC library webpage in the near future.]]> Mon 04 April 2011 16:25:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html http://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib and the NOAA Photo Library at http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/]]> Fri, 25 March 2011 13:35:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html NOAA Librarian Steve Quillen attended An Exchange of Ideas: Meeting of Librarians, in San Diego on March 14th and 15th between the American Geophysical Union (AGU) publications staff and librarians from 10 scientific academic and government organizations. The meeting focused on changes by AGU in their publication policies, such as evaluating different pricing models, electronic delivery of books, changes in the AGU licenses, archiving backfiles with Portico, and where librarians saw libraries and users’ expectations in 5 years. Many of the AGU publication policies that had existed for many years have been abolished and the new policies are designed to make it easier to provide access to AGU publications. Fri, 25 March 2011 13:35:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html John Cloud made a presentation on "Bringing the NOAA Far North Archives 'Back Home"" to the Map Society of Wisconsin on March 16th, 2011at the AGSL Library, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As part of his research in Milwaukee at the AGSL Library, he has now found several hundred "new" historic Coast Survey and related maps not presently represented in the NOAA Central Library's CDMP Collections. These will be scanned through the AGSL and then incorporated into the larger NOAA Central Library CDMP digital collection and also the NOAA Photo Library Historic Maps and Charts Collection. Fri, 25 March 2011 13:35:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html http://www.lib.noaa.gov/researchtools/subjectguides/dwh.html and is also available as a pdf at http://www.lib.noaa.gov/researchtools/subjectguides/dwh_bibliography.pdf]]> Wed, 16 March 2011 16:35:00 EDT http://www.lib.noaa.gov/about/news/newsfeed.html OCLC Inc., a cooperative cataloging utility in which the NOAA Central has membership, has completed the initial phase of an update of the NOAA Central Library's detailed journal holdings information into their global database. The inclusion of these records in the OCLC database will provide other libraries with a detailed inventory of the NOAA Central Library's journal collection and streamline the interlibrary loan process. OCLC updated 531 records for previously inventoried journal titles and created inventory records for 2088 additional titles. The Library intends to update this inventory on an annual basis. Wed, 16 March 2011 16:35:00 EDT