News
We have added all of the CD-ROMs and videos to the catalog. We now have only one major format to add, microforms, which we hope to add later this year.
About 700 new glacier photographs taken by Austin Post have been added to the Glacier Photograph Collection. Our students are hard at work QCing and adding the metadata to these images. Unfortunately, we do not have access to the original negatives or prints and are limited to creating digital images from microfilmed copies. The quality of the microfilm varies and so does the resulting digitized image. Due to the enormous amount of images and the format we have to deal with, we’ve decided not to weed heavily on image quality. We will announce the updates some time in the near future (after some of the metadata is cleaned up in the database). In addition to the images, we will also be reviewing the best way to add the more detailed metadata from the Glacier Photo Index project.
Staff Report
Gloria attended the American Libraries Association conference June 27-June 30. The ALA is the largest and oldest library association in the world. It’s membership includes librarians in public, special (law, medical, etc.), school, academic, research, etc. libraries. As a result, the conference programs offer a wide variety of sessions and vendors.
She attended sessions covering topics such as librarians helping people in Second Life (a virtual world) to the new changes to Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) processes and cataloging the Library of Congress way. If you want to see just what information specialists and librarians exchange during the annual conference, here is a link to the ALA Conference wiki, http://wikis.ala.org/annual2008/index.php/Annual_2008. You can also find handouts, slides, and other materials from conference sessions here, http://presentations.ala.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Reminder
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New Items in the Library
Journals & Reports
Antarctic Science, vol. 20, iss. 3
Polar Record, vol. 44, iss. 3, no. 230
Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 61, iss. 2
Report of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, #72
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 26
Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 46, iss. 1
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society,vol. 89, iss. 2
Monthly Weather Review, vol. 135, iss. 12
Glaciological Investigations in Norway 2007, #3 2008
Earth Observer, vol. 20, iss. 3
International Journal of Climatology, vol. 28, iss. 7
Journal of Climate, vol. 21, iss. 11
Environmental Studies Research Funds Annual Report 2007
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