Frost Byte, vol. 5, iss. 36

News

The contest to name the library and archives is going to be on hold for a little while. We still have some tweaking to do on the name, and we will post again when things are squared away. Do keep those ideas coming! We’ve only received a couple so far and need more. We will let you know of the new deadline and any changes to the details as soon as possible.

The DAHLI project quietly continues. We’ve just sent to our contractors a set a 30 slides donated by John Hollin (INSTAAR) of his time at Wilkes Station, Antarctica, during the International Geophysical Year. We will digitize these images and after we gather the needed metadata from Dr. Hollin, add them to the DAHLI database.

Staff Report
Gloria will be out on Friday, the 3rd.

Reminder
Gloria and Allaina are available to help with any research needs you might have.

Thanks to everyone who donates to the library’s candy fund!

New Items in the Library
Journals & Reports
Physics Today vol. 61, iss. 9
Il Polo, vol. 63, iss. 2
Seppyo, vol. 70, iss. 4
Polar Record, vol. 44, iss. 231
Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, vol. 19, iss. 3
Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 35, issues 14 and 15

Frost Byte v. 5, iss. 35

News
The Information Center (library) and the Analog Archives have a new name! In order to ensure our long-term viability and hopefully bring in more financial support, we decided (and received approval from the various people involved) to create a single identity for both departments. Our new name is the Roger G. Barry Cryospheric Resource Center at NSIDC. This is just the first step we need to take to bring greater awareness to our historically important collections.

But as you can see, it’s a very long name! So, we are asking for your help! We are looking for an acronym or ‘nick’ name that is easier to remember, and we are turning to you for suggestions. Can you think of a short and memorable name for the Roger G. Barry Cryospheric Resource Center at NSIDC?

If you can, please email the library with your suggestions. We need all suggestions by the 29th of Sep. We will compile a list of your ideas and send them out to everyone for a vote. You will have until Oct. 2 at noon to cast your vote. The winning suggestor will receive a prize (to-be-determined) and will have that special thrill of seeing their winning suggestion on our new internet site!

Staff Report

The Society of American Archivists 2008 annual conference was held in San Francisco on August 24th – 30th. Allaina spent 8 days attending two pre-conference workshops, presenting as part of a panel, and attending several meetings and conference sessions of interest. The workshops were both about processing and describing archives collections, building on previous workshops Allaina attended at the 2005 conference. Her goal is to use the information learned at these workshops to jump start the arrangement and description of the materials held at NSIDC, add these descriptions to the open source Archivists Toolkit software, and make the collections more accessible to interested researchers at NSIDC and elsewhere. The presentation panel (Leveraging Outreach to Further Your Goals: Tips for Small Repositories) consisted of 3 speakers. Allaina’s part was titled: Creating an Archives Web Presence at NSIDC. Archivists are always intrigued by the collection at NSIDC and the way that the materials are managed. The audience seemed quite interested in being able to access the holdings online.

Most of the sessions Allaina attended were also about creating access to the collection. They mostly revolved around the topic of creating finding aids, which are tools similar to NSIDC’s data documentation pages or catalog pages. Another session, The Reluctant Administrator, or How I Learned to Love Management, sponsored by the Lone Arrangers Round Table, was also very interesting and helpful. This was also a panel discussion that allowed attendees to share their problem solving techniques and encourage other “lone arrangers” (i.e., solo archivists) to tackle their day to day tasks that non-lone arrangers have staffs to assist with. One of the last sessions was Old Movies, New Audiences: Archival Films as Public Outreach Tools. Allaina attended this session to pick up some ideas that might be useful for the Good Days on the Trail film. In addition, she also picked up some potential grant sources for film preservation.

In her second week away from the office, Allaina trekked to Estes Park for her annual week of Archives in the Park. This is a graduate course offered by the School of Library and Information Management (SLIM) at Emporia State University. Allaina attended this course as a student and has returned every year since to assist. This was her 5th year with the program and the 10th year of the program. This year her task was to assist the curator of collections at the Estes Park Museum with a historic photograph project. The students were tasked to organize this large collection so that the curator could later weed extra copies and better manage the collection and the space it fills in their storage space. See this article for a write up about this year’s course activities.

Reminder
Keep your eye on this blog for more announcements concerning our next steps.

Thanks to everyone who donates to the library’s candy fund!

New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, v. 89, iss. 36, 37
Polar Geography, v. 31, iss. 1-2
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, v. 89, iss. 8
Alberta Water Supply Outlook Overview, Sep. 12, 2008
Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, v. 25, iss. 5
Nimbus, v. 14, iss. 1-2, 47-48
Journal of Climate, v. 21, iss. 15, 16, 17
Earth System Monitor, v. 17, iss. 1

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
"Observational analysis of the variability of the sea surface heat flux near the temperature front in the Kuroshio Extension region." M. H. Konda, et al. (Reprint)

Nares Strait : Radarsat Ice Animation (March 2006 - February 2007) produced by Laboratory for Applied Geomatics and GIS Science (LAGGISS); Canadian Ice Service (DVD)

Materialien zur Kenntniss des unvergänglichen Boden-Eises in Sibirien = Materials on the understanding of permafrost in Siberia by Erki Tammiksaar and Karl Ernst von Baer

EUMETSAT Annual Report 2007

Oledenenie severnoi evrazii v nedavnem proshlom i blizhaishem budushchem = Glaciation in North Eurasia in the recent past and immediate future. Editor-in-Chief, V. M. Kotlykov

An Assessment of contemporary glacier fluctuations in Nepal’s Khumbu Himal using repeat photography by Alton C. Byers

Frost Byte, v. 5, iss. 34

News

We do hope that everyone is enjoying the fall-ish weather! I know that I love sleeping without the noise of fans trying to bring in some cooler night air.

In the last two weeks, the librarians’ office has undergone a small transformation! In other words, those piles of issues and repairs are no longer towering over Gloria’s head, threatening her with concussion and contusions. We have repaired books, researched problems, and cleaned up many of the issues. It is good to feel safe from falling stacks of paper!

We do have one request to ask of you. If you would please check the shelves in your office and at home for any of the Information Center’s books, we would sincerely appreciate it. We have ~30 missing items; some of these were last seen before we joined NSIDC. Later this week, Gloria will post a list of the missing items to the Bulletin Board. Thanks in advance for any help you can give.

Staff Report

Allaina is out of the office this week and will return on the 15th. Gloria will be out of the office for a few days the following week.

Reminder

Please don’t loan any library item to someone else. If someone needs it, return it and let them check it out. Remember, according to policy, if an item you checked out is lost, you have to replace it. Check here for our policies on replacing lost or damaged items, as well as who can check out books.

Thanks to everyone who donates to the library’s candy fund!

New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, v. 89, iss. 34, 35
Geografisk Tidssdrift, v. 108, iss. 1
Geophysical Research Letters, v. 35, iss. 12, 13
Journal of Glaciology, v. 54, no. 186
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, v. 40, iss. 3
Polar Science v. 2, iss. 2
Neige et Avalanches, no. 122
Pages News, v. 16, iss. 3

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
Methodology of extracting sea ice motion vectors . . . . by Takanori Matsumoto and Takahito Imai (Reprint)

Nares Strait : Radarsat Ice Animation (March 2006 - February 2007) produced by Laboratory for Applied Geomatics and GIS Science (LAGGISS); Canadian Ice Service (DVD)

Materialien zur Kenntniss des unvergänglichen Boden-Eises in Sibirien = Materials on the understanding of permafrost in Siberia by Erki Tammiksaar and Karl Ernst von Baer

EUMETSAT Annual Report 2007

Oledenenie severnoi evrazii v nedavnem proshlom i blizhaishem budushchem = Glaciation in North Eurasia in the recent past and immediate future. Editor-in-Chief, V. M. Kotlykov

An Assessment of contemporary glacier fluctuations in Nepal’s Khumbu Himal using repeat photography by Alton C. Byers