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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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