Frost Byte, Issue 5, Volume 25

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On the 12^th, Allaina attended a Society of American Archivists workshop in Denver. “Project Management for Archivists” provided tools geared toward archivists who generally have several projects going on at once. Although the workshop did not provide time management tools to assist with multiple projects, the ability to manage projects individually and to determine the difference between projects, programs and processes was highlighted.

Last week Allaina attended the Special Libraries Association’s annual conference in Seattle, WA. Among the sessions she attended was a very informative session – “Surviving Your Digitization Project”. This session built on the SAA workshop from the previous week even though they were not directly related. The session was presented by librarians from the Combined Arms Research Library (Ft. Leavenworth, KS) who discussed their successes in creating a digital library of their not easily accessible materials. Another, “Building Global Bridges across Science Databases”, was a panel session presented by Walter Warnick, Director of DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Ellen Herbst, Director of the National Technical Information Service, and a third speaker who was filling in for Gladys Cotter (Associate Biology Director for Biological Information, Biological Resources Division, USGS). This session discussed many of the reasons why federated searching of science databases benefits the world. These are mainly concepts already being discussed and presented by some folks at NSIDC so it was nice to see others finally discussing it as well. Some databases that were mentioned were:

Science.gov

Science Accelerator

World Wide Science

National Biological Information Infrastructure

Staff Report

This week’s schedule:

Allaina is out the 24^th and 25^th to attend Collaboration in the Digital Age a forum in the Connecting to Collections initiative sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in cooperation with Heritage Preservation.

Gloria is out the 27^th and 30^th to attend the American Library Association’s annual conference.

Reminder

When you browse the library shelves (even the New Acquisitions), please place the item flat on an empty shelf (or empty space on a shelf) or in the wire baskets by the library door. We track the ‘in-library’ usage for all items.

New Items in the Library

Journals and Reports

Ice, #145 (2007)

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 134, iss. 632

Image, #28

EOS, vol. 89, iss. 24

Frost Byte, v. 5, iss. 24

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We do hope that everyone had a wonderful Father’s Day and enjoyed the sunny (if a tad too warm) weekend.

Gloria and Kristin have started adding all of the CD-ROMs to the catalog, as well as our VHS tapes. After that, we might tackle the microforms, but that is definitely in the future and a long term project.

Gloria has added some new links to the Library’s e-journals page, including the new open source journal, Himalayan Journal of Sciences. Please check it out.

Staff Report
This week, Allaina is out the 16th – the 18th, and Gloria is out the 19th and 20th.

Reminder
When you finish looking at a journal or a book, please place it flat on an empty shelf or put it in the return basket by the door.

New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 22, 23
Norsk Polarinstitutt. Arsmelding 2007
Ice Reports/Ice Charts Winter 2007/2008 (BSH) [CD]
Polar & Glaciological Abstracts, vol. 19, part 1
Physics Today, vol. 61, iss. 6
Environmental Studies Research Funds, #153: Traditional knowledge guide for the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, Northwest Territories, volumes I & II.
Eastern Snow Conference, #64, Proceedings

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
The Swiss Glaciers 2001/02 and 2002/03. Edited by Evelyne R. Herren and Andreas Bauder.

Expeditions of the First International Polar Year 1882-83, 2nd ed. by William Barr.

Lawinenunfälle in den Schweizer Alpen Winter 2001/02 : Personen und Sachschäden by Stephan Harvey.

Lawinenunfälle in den Schweizer Alpen Winter 2005/06 : Personen und Sachschäden by Benjamin Zweifel.

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Gloria has returned from the Great White North, i.e. Edmonton, Alberta, but it was actually quite green and beautiful. The weather was ideal, and she enjoyed all of the walking!

She attended the 22nd biennial Polar Libraries Colloquy (her first PLC!), and she hopes to attend the next one in Germany in 2010. The speakers and papers and presentations ranged from a documentary on the sea mammal diet of the inhabitants of the Chukchi people in Siberia (yes, she had to close her eyes a few times, especially when they were eating fermented whale fat and again when they killed one of the walruses) to the silent auction for items unique to polar libraries and their parent organizations. To get a day-by-day write-up of the conference, check out the PLC blog, http://www.plcblog.blogspot.com/.

PLC was held in conjunction with the University of the Arctic’s conference, adding still another level of information sharing.

She regrets to say that she was out-bid on a couple of great books (for the NSIDC library of course).

For a little background on the PLC, the colloquies alternate between Europe and North America. The last time that Boulder hosted the event was 1988, so Allaina, Gloria, and Shelly (from INSTAAR) volunteered to host the 2012 PLC. The steering committee was very happy to accept our offer. So, for the next four years, we will be working on making it the best PLC ever.

This weekend Allaina was co-instructor for a graduate archives course for the School of Library and Information Management (Emporia State University). The Introduction to Archives course is an overview of the profession and involves lots of tours and guest speakers. This weekend the class toured the Carnegie Branch of the Boulder Public Library and also NSIDC.

Staff Report
This week, Allaina is out the 12th and next week, the 16th – the 18th.

Reminder
All items checked out in June are due Sep. 30, 2008.

New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 21
Boreal Environment Research, vol. 13, iss. 2
Frozen Ground, #31 Dec. 2007
Meridian, Spring/Summer 2008

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
Advances in Land Remote Sensing. Shunlin Liang, editor.

Building polar networks, a strategy for the future edited by Silvia Sarti and Michela Cecconi.

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NSIDC participates in the International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD), a collaborative project that aims to will attempt to “identify and describe all publications that result from, or that are about” the current IPY. IPYPD is also part of IPYDIS. As materials are cataloged, you may search for them online through the Arctic and Antarctic Regions (AAR) database. For more information see the about page at IPYPD.

Staff Report

Gloria is out of the office attending the 22nd Polar Libraries Colloquy in Edmonton. She will be out all week, checking email as time allows, and will return to the office on the 9^th. If you have any questions, please see Allaina.

Allaina will be out part of the day Tuesday (3^rd) to take her mother to the airport.

Reminder

June is a busy library conference month this year so you may only see one of the librarians in the office at a time. We are each other’s back up so don’t hesitate to ask either of us for assistance. At least one of us will be away from the office on these dates: June 2-6, 12, 16-20, 24-30.

New Items in the Library

A collection of NSIDC IPY posters will be preserved in the Analog Archives for future reference. Copies of each poster will be housed in flat files so that, 50 years from now, as researchers and staff look back on the events of the 4^th IPY they can view or distribute the posters without the concerns of future digital conversion and access.