Frost Byte, Issue 5, Volume 25

News

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