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.

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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.

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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.

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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