Frost Byte, Volume 4, Issue 51

News

The Analog Archives was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to support an assessment of the collections by a preservation consultant. As stated in our application, “The assessment will include recommendations regarding proper housing for the materials, furniture requirements, security, and environmental controls within the archives, and archives policy creation. The consultant will provide the NSIDC archivist with a written report detailing his findings, recommendations that will form the basis of future preservation implementation efforts at NSIDC.”

The following journals have returned from the bindery:

Materialy Gliatsiologicheskikh Issledovanii (Data of Glaciological Studies)

Meteorologiia I Gidrologiia

Permafrost & Periglacial Processes

Polar and Glaciological Abstracts

Polar Geography

Our next bindery shipment will be after the first of the year.

Staff Report

Gloria will be out of the office tomorrow (18^th) and Friday (21^st). If you have any library questions, please see Allaina.

Allaina will be in the office all week; however, you may find her in the analog archives working on some projects. Please stop in room 269 if you need any assistance.

Policy Reminders, etc.

If you use the library after hours, please remember to restart the computer, turn off the lights and close the door when you leave.

New Items in the Library

Journals & Reports

Meteorologiia I GidrologiiaI, # 11-12 (2006); 1-10 (2007)

Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres, v. 112, iss. D18, D19, D20

Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, v. 112, iss. C10

Neige et Avalanches, #119

Earth System Monitor, v. 16, iss. 2

EOS, v. 88, iss. 48, 49

Frost Byte, v. 4, iss. 50

News

With a whopping 16 votes, the blog wins! Thirteen of you voted for the blog; two of you liked the old bulletin board method of publication, and one of you wondered what Frost Byte was. Of course, the last person must have at least found Frost Byte’s blog in order to vote, so I guess we’re accomplishing what we set out to do—widen our reader base! Or something like that, anyway.

Thanks to those of you who respond to Gloria’s reminders and late notices! She does like to know that people don’t immediately delete her emails!

Staff Report

Gloria is here all of this week and through the 20th the next week. She will return on the 26th to provide you with your information needs. She will also be absent on the 31st.

Allaina is here all of this week and next week, and she will be off the 26th.

Journals and Reports

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, v. 45, iss., 2, 9, 10

Physics Today, v. 60, iss. 12

Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, iss. 19, 20

Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung, #560: Steps of Foundation of Institutionalized Antarctic Research : Proceedings of the 1st SCAR Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich (Germany), 2-3 June, 2005.

Berichte zur Polar- und Meeresforschung, #561: Application of stratified kriging to ERS-1 and ERS-2 radar altimeter data to investigate ice elevation changes in the Lambert Glacier / Amery Ice Shelf system, East Antarctica (by Ralf Stosius).

Meri, #59

Frost Byte, Volume 4, Issue 49

News

Don’t forget to vote on the new Frost Byte. You can also send any comments to library@nsidc.org or just stop by the library to chat.

We have added about 40 new images to the Glacier Photograph Collection, and we expect to add more in the next few weeks or so. Let us know if you have any trouble with the search interface or have any comments.

Staff Report

Allaina’s Conference Report

Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets

This two-day conference was held November 28 – 29 in Seattle, WA and was presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. The intent of the conference was to cover the “big picture” concepts in digital preservation, presenting several case studies and an overview of the current digital preservation landscape. It was presented in a lecture format with 10 faculty members presenting to an audience of over 200 attendees.

Here are some presentations of note:

The opening speaker, Liz Bishoff (Special Assistant to the Dean and Head of the Office of Sponsored Programs at CU-Boulder) was unable to attend. Her talk, “That All-Important Metadata”, was given by another faculty member. Topics covered included PREMIS, METS, and the differences between what has traditionally been done and what is now being implemented in the digital age.

Tom Clareson of PALINET - "Surveying Digital Preservation Readiness: Assessing Risks and Good Practices for Digital Collections". This talk focused on protecting the digital assets and preparing for disasters.

Robin Dale (UC – Santa Cruz) presented “Trusted Digital Repositories” covering what “trusted” means, what is a repository, many acronyms of this digital age including OAIS, principles and practice, and certification of repositories.

Kirsten Neilsen, California Digital Library, presented a case study, “Ingest in Time: Getting Content into a Repository”. (She also presented for Liz Bishoff.) This was interesting because it explained to librarians and archivists why and how digital repositories might serve their communities. This has been an issue at many of the conferences and workshops I have attended, and this session spoke well to the two groups in a common language.

The final presentation was given by Jim Gemmell, Microsoft Next Media Research Group. “MyLifeBits” was described as “an experiment in lifetime storage” and is a software system being developed by Microsoft that will allow users to capture, store, organize and retrieve “everything” about their lives in a digital format. Some actual practical uses would be for people who are the institutional memory of their organizations. Instead of searching for those materials in their office after spending many, many years creating materials, putting them in several boxes and donating them to an archives collection – instead of all of that paper -- there would only be a hard drive of materials to account for, theoretically already stored and organized. This is still in development; although, there was an interesting demo of what they’ve done to date.

Some questions and thoughts:

v Where does NSIDC fit into all of this digital asset management? where do we stand as an evolving data center – internally and externally?

v NSIDC should be presenting at these meetings as well, not just within the science data communities.

v How should I respond to questions about PREMIS and NSIDC’s role?

v Does NSIDC have a digital disaster plan?

v The time is now for the collaboration between traditional library repositories and digital data repositories.

v Trusted Digital Repository (TDR) vs. Certified Data Centers – what is the difference if there is any?

Another NEDCC Stewardship of Digital Assets workshop will be coming up next year. This two day workshop will be more of a hands on practicum to help plan for the preservation of digital assets. This workshop is being offered at three different locations in the country.

Policy Reminders, etc.

If you use the library after hours, please remember to restart the computer, turn off the lights and close the door when you leave.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports

EOS, v. 88, iss. 46, 47

Image #27

Frost Byte, Volume 4, Issue 48

Welcome back from the long holiday weekend! We do hope that everyone had a great time, and if you ate too much, don’t worry! There’s plenty of time before the flurry of Christmas parties to lose that extra 5 pounds.

News

The Library was quiet last week, which enabled Gloria and her trusty student, Kristin, to correct some problems with the catalog prior to the next transfer of data to Biblioline’s Arctic and Antarctic Research database.

Also, the International Polar Year Publications Database is now available at http://www.nisc.com/ipy. Anyone may access it from the internet for free. We hope that this database will provide a vital resource for researchers, students, and the general public on the IPYs, past and present. This is also an excellent resource for publishing your IPY research results.

The Journal of Glaciology #183, v. 53 (2007) is now available on the International Glaciological Society website at http://www.igsoc.org/ and will remain available until such time as Ingenta adds it to their website.

Staff Report

Allaina is out of the office from the 27th through the 30th to attend The Persistence of Memory conference in Seattle. She will return on Monday the 3rd of December.

Policy Reminders, etc.

Check out our electronic publications site! We have links to numerous journals, some e-books, reports, ice charts, etc.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports
Annals of Glaciology, v. 46
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, v. 39, iss. 4

Books, Reprints, & Other Formats
Recovery responses of acidified Finnish lakes under declining acid deposition by Jussi Vuorenmaa.

Frost Byte, Volume 4, Issue 47

Happy Thanksgiving Week! We hope everyone enjoys their turkey day with family and friends, and/or peace and quiet (if those aren’t interchangeable)!

News

The Glacier Photograph Collection will soon be expanding. By the end of this year, we should finish most of our backlog and will add approximately 330 more glacier photographs by the end of the year. We will also add a new Special Collection of Glacier Survey Reports from Rocky Mountain National Park (1939 – 1952). Also, in conjunction with the DAHLI project, we will add more glacier photographs taken during the IGY to the collection.

Staff Report

This week is a short holiday week. The library will be closed on Thursday and Friday. Allaina will be out of the office on Wednesday the 21st. Allaina will also be out of the office next week (27th – 30th) to attend The Persistence of Memory conference in Seattle.

Policy Reminders, etc.

If you use the library after hours, please remember to log off of the computer, turn off the lights and close the door when you leave.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports
Boreal Environment Research, v. 12, iss. 5
EOS, v. 88, iss. 45
Ice, #143 (2007)
VAW Mitteilungen, #202

Books, Reprints, & Other Formats
Evaluation of the Finnish National Biodiversity Action Plan 1997-2005 by Ari-Pekka Auvinen, et al.

Frost Byte, Volume 4, Issue 46

News

As you might have noticed, we have changed the format for Frost Byte! We’re now publishing it as a blog! We hope that you find the easier access helpful, and we are very excited about the change. Please let us know what you think about our new blogging newsletter by participating in the poll! (Top right)

As part of our participation in IPY 2007-08, we have updated our catalog records with key words used in the International Polar Year Publications Database hosted on the Biblioline web site. This database is now up and running. It is open to all, so you don’t need a user ID or password.

Also, in association with the IPY4, the DAHLI web site has also been updated. See the bibliography of digitized materials (with links to accessible materials) on the Find Literature page.

New look and a new name! The Online Glacier Photograph Database is now the Glacier Photograph Collection. The web site has been updated as well. Check it out!

Staff Report

Library and librarians’ schedules:

The Library is open 7 to 5 pm, Monday-Friday this week and Monday-Wednesday Thanksgiving week. We re-open on the 26^th at 7 am and will resume our normal hours until the Christmas holidays.

Allaina is out the 13^th and the 21^st.

Gloria is out the 14^th.

Policy Reminders, etc.

Thanks to everyone for your generous contributions to the candy fund. We should have enough candy to last until Christmas & beyond.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports

Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface, v. 112, iss. F3

Journal of Geophysical Research – Oceans, v. 112, iss. C9

Geophysical Research Letters, v. 34, iss. 18

EOS, v. 88, iss. 44

Physics Today, v. 60, iss. 11

Flux News, # 4

U. S. Clivar Exchanges, v. 12, iss. 4

Books, Reprints, & Other Formats

Climate Change 2007 : science basis edited by Susan Solomon, et al. (IPCC report)

Agile web development with Rails, 2^nd ed. by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson.

Ruby on Rails : up and running by Bruce A. Tate and Curt Hibbs.

IDL Programming Ruby : the pragmatic programmers guide, 2^nd ed. by Dave Thomas

Graphics of Large Datasets : visualizing a million by Antony Unwin, Martin Theus, Heike Hofmann.

Polynyas : windows to the world edited by W. O. Smith, Jr. and D. G. Barber.

WCRP Annual Report 2006-2007 : providing the science for climate change solutions.

Frost Byte, Volume 4, Issue 45

News

Bruce Molnia (USGS) was interviewed twice about his work, particularly his use of the Glacier Photograph Collection. The first was an interview that will be utilized by the Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) who funds the digitization of the photograph collection. They will include this interview in their annual report. The second was done at NSIDC with the help of Ryan Vashon (CIRES) for our own collection. In addition to the interview, parts of the Good Days film may also be included in the CDMP annual report.

Staff Report

Allaina attended three different library events over the past two weeks. October 24^th and 25^th she attended the Western Association of Map Libraries conference which was hosted by the Colorado School of Mines and held at the Denver Central Library in downtown Denver. October 29^th and 30^th she attended a Metadata Standards and Applications workshop at the BCR offices in Aurora. October 31^st she attended GSA presenting a poster she authored with Lisa Ballagh, Gloria Hicks, and Donna Scott.

Next week, Allaina will be out of the office on Tuesday the 13^th.

Policy Reminders

The due date for most items checked out this month is February 28, 2008. Special collections (New Acquisitions, Rare Books, etc.) have shorter loan periods, so please check the library’s circulation policy at http://newice.colorado.edu:8000/intranet/LIBRARY/

Thanks to everyone for your generous contributions to the candy fund. We should have enough candy to last until Christmas & beyond.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports

Journal of Glaciology, v. 52, #177, 178, 179 and v. 53, #180 & 181 (donated by RW)

Berichte zur Polar und Meeresforschung 557: The Expedition ANTARKTIS-XXIII/4 of the Research Vessel “Polarstern” in 2006.

Berichte zur Polar und Meeresforschung 558: The Expedition ANTARKTIS-XXIII/3 of the Research Vessel “Polarstern” in 2006.

Berichte zur Polar und Meeresforschung 559: Determination of sea ice surface elevation with laser and radar altimetry and comparison with ice thickness data sets in the Arctic and Antarctic by Sibylle Göbell.

EOS, v. 88, iss. 43

Polar Record, v. 43, #227

Earth Observer, v. 19, iss. 5

Books, Reprints, & Other Formats

Skaftafell in Iceland : a thousand years of change by Jack D. Ives.

JCOMM Expert Team on Sea Ice (ETSI) – third session; Steering Group for the Global Digital Sea Ice Data Bank (GDSIDB), Eleventh session, Geneva, Switzerland, 28-31 March 2007 : Final Report.

Plateau Station, Antarctica : concept, design, construction, and initial occupancy by J. P. Cosenza, et al. [microfiche reader in Librarians’ office]

IDL Programming Techniques by David W. Fanning