Frost Byte, vol. 5, iss. 40

News
Jack Frost is definitely nipping at our noses, and there is snow on the peaks of the Front Range! Fall is a beautiful time of year!

The Glacier Photograph Collection has doubled in size! Since 2004, we've added about 1,000 to 2,000 images per year. This year, with the help of OPS students, we've actually doubled the number of images that we had at the end of January 2008. This brings the grand total to 9,834 images online! Many thanks to all who contribute to this project including, but not limited to, the NOAA team, I-Pin, and especially Michael Russell who has spent many hours on quality control and metadata for the digital images. And of course, we want to thank our funders, the NOAA Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP), and our contractor for the project HOV Services.

Last week, we displayed various configurations for ROCS’ logo and door sign, and we asked for your opinions. Thanks so much for your input, and as soon as we make the final decision, we will let you know.

Staff Report
Allaina is out of the office Monday and Tuesday. If you need to access archival materials, Gloria is available to help.

Reminders
Please don’t re-shelve the books you are perusing in the library. Just leave them on a shelf or in the return baskets, and we’ll put them up for you. This goes for the new acquisitions – journals and books too.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the candy basket!!!

New ROCS Items
Journals and Reports
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 41, 42
In Focus, vol. 8, iss. 2
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), vol. 89, iss. 6, 7, 9
International Journal of Climatology, vol. 28, iss. 5, 6, 8, 11, 12
Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 46, iss. 2
Cold Regions Science and Technology, vol. 54, iss. 1
Antarctic Science, vol. 20, iss. 5
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 134, nos. 633, 634, 635
Journal of Climate, vol. 21, iss. 12, 18, 19, 20

Books & Reprints
Geology of Bathurst Island Group and Byam Martin Island, Arctic Canada (Operation Bathurst Island) by J. Wm. Kerr

Frost Byte, Volume 5, Issue 39

News
As everyone knows (at least those who read the library blog), the new short name for the Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies is ROCS! Thanks to everyone who submitted suggestions and special thanks to all who voted.

Since the librarians suggested the winning name, we have brought goodies for everyone! Stop by around noon for your ‘prize!’

Gloria is awaiting approval for several purchases, so there aren’t many new items in the library at the moment. Once she receives approval, the shelves will be filled with new items for your research needs.

Staff Report

Allaina will be out of the office Thursday afternoon.

Reminders

We have a new student employee helping us in the library. Mike is working on several projects for us, so say hello when you pop in for that piece of candy. As with all of our student help, he is not available to answer your library-related questions. Please contact one of the librarians to help you with your research requests.

New Items in the Library
Journals and Reports
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 40
VAW Mitteilungen #206: Rutscherzeugte Impulswellen in Stauseen : Grundlagen
und Berechnumg by Valentin Heller, Willi H. Hager and Hans-Erwin Minor

Books & Reprints
Global Glacier Changes : facts and figures published by the World Glacier Monitoring Service

WAIS The West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative Fifteenth Annual Workshop, October 8-10, 2008, Algonkian Meeting Center, Sterling, Virginia : Agenda & Abstracts.

And the winner is.....

And the winner is..... ROCS!

Thanks to everyone for participating in our contest! Since ROCS was actually suggested by the staff of the Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies, we thought we'd share the prize with everyone. So, join us on Monday for some sweet treats that we'll bring in to share.

Keep an eye out for a new logo and a new sign to promote the collections! We will also be planning an open house some time in the future to promote our new identity and collections to NSIDC and other supporters.

Frost Byte - Volume 5, Issue 38

News

Ok folks. Today is the day. You have until NOON TODAY to get your suggestions in. After noon, we will post the list of names and open the polls for voting. Voting will end on Wednesday at 5:00pm. We will announce the winner and their prize on Thursday. Your suggested name could be immortalized forever within the halls of NSIDC and perhaps even beyond!

Send your suggestions to library@nsidc.org. If you've told us your suggestions in passing, be sure to email us as well just in case we didn't write it down. In the case of duplicate suggestions, the first to make the suggestion will get the credit. Past naming prize winners (Frost Byte) are still eligible.

Here is the official name once again:

Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies

If you made suggestions for the old name, you might want to revisit your suggestions. :-)

Staff Report

This weekend, Allaina attended the Emporia Diversity Initiative Leadership Institute, here in Denver. As stated on their web site:

“The Emporia Diversity Initiative (EDI), is a 3-year long (2006-2009), multi-partner project led by Emporia State University's (ESU) School of Library and Information Management (SLIM), to recruit and educate local minority library staff in Kansas, Colorado and Oregon. The EDI is funded with $857,754 dollars as a part of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program Awards of 2006.”

15 students (Ph.D., MLS, and undergraduates) are participants in the EDI program. This was the 2^nd Institute, the first being held in Kansas. As one of 6 invited speakers, Allaina was honored to be asked to speak to the attendees about her experiences as a SLIM student and as an archivist here at NSIDC.

The welcome address was given by Dr. James Williams, Dean of CU Libraries. Dean Williams introduced CU as a campus active in science research and as a magnet for students who wish to pursue careers in research and science. He touched on the library’s position to support this type of research and their efforts to move forward to expand their abilities to provide support now and into the future as more and more digital collections come to the library.

The keynote speaker was Dr. Mark Winston, Assistant Chancellor and Director of the John Cotton Dana Library at Rutgers University. He spoke about Leadership and Organizational Change. He also addressed the topic of “being the only one” which inspired the audience to discuss this topic in detail in the Q & A afterwards. Dr. Winston is the author of Opportunity for Leadership: Full and Informed Participation (2008) and Leadership in the Library and Information Science Professions: Theory and Practice (2002). He is also the editor of Managing Multiculturalism and Diversity in the Library: principles and issues for administrators (1999).

Reminders

If you have recommended titles for the library collection, you may use the request form located on the intranet. You may also email us at library@nsidc.org. Gloria maintains a running list of all suggestions. Keeping in mind our limited budget, please also include any available options for funds to pay for any requested materials.

New Library Materials

Journals and Reports

Boreal Environment Research, vol. 13, iss. 4

Arctic, vol. 61, iss. 3

Physics Today, vol. 61, iss. 10

Cold Regions Science & Technology, vol. 53, iss. 3

Breaking News!!

The library and analog archives is now officially the "Roger G. Barry Resource Office for Cryospheric Studies". So, we now need your help to come up with a short acronym or nickname. Please submit your ideas to library@nsidc.org by this Friday, October 10th. On Monday the 13th we will compile the suggestions and the voting will begin. So, get those suggestions in soon!

Oh, and we will add the obvious to the list - RGBROCS!

Thanks in advance!

Frost Byte, vol. 5, iss. 37

News
The “short name” contest is still on hold, but hopefully, it will be back on track later this week. Stay tuned for updates.

As you might know, Google has entered the forum of mapping, and our favorite information specialist has a list of the cool functions Google has included in their mapping product. Read on for her tips . . . .

Bates Info Tip
________________________________________________________________________Cool
Uses for Google Maps
I can't remember how long ago it was that I switched my
default map searching from Mapquest to Google Maps, but it's been a long time.
Google has been improving its map search fairly regularly, but I have been so
focused on finding out how to get from here to there that I haven't noticed.
Here are a few of the ways I have been using Google Maps recently.

• To find the number and locations of a type of business in an area. By pulling up the map of Washington DC and searching for "printing", and then selecting the "Copying & Duplicating Services" category, I can see how many copy shops there are within three miles of where my client is considering locating his business.
• To find out what companies are located in a building. Type in the street
  address, and Google Maps will show all the businesses listed in the telephone
  directory for that address. Click on any of the businesses and you will see
  detailed information on the business.
• To see how the distribution of cosmetic surgeons in a city correlates to population density. Are most of the cosmetic surgeons in downtown Seattle or out in the suburbs? How does that compare to the distribution in San Antonio? How did I do this? Click the "My Maps" tab on the left side of the screen, then click "Browse the directory". Here you'll see an amazing collection of user-generated overlays to Google Maps -- everything from how much light pollution there is at night in a particular area to US Census Bureau population information to a little clock you can drag to any point and see what time it is at whatever location you are currently viewing -- a great tool for everyone who can't remember what time zone Colorado
  is in (Mountain Time - otherwise known as the "flyover-country" time zone).
• To find out more information about a particular company, without leaving
  Google Maps. For each of those cosmetic surgeons that I found, I can click the "More info" link and find all kinds of other information. I can see user reviews ("From beauty to beast - beware!"), links to the surgeon's web site, information on the surgeon's educational background, board certification, years of experience, and other information. The information gathered together on each company comes from sites designed to help consumers select a business. For healthcare, that includes Vimo.com, Vitals.com and HealthGrades.com. For hotels, you may see links to reviews from Orbitz.com and TripAdvisor.com. If nothing else, there will usually be links to the Better Business Bureau and SuperPages. And you'll see the company's address and phone number, links to the company's web site, and even an image of the front of the building, if there is a Street View for the company's location.
• To find out what I don't know that I want to know. One of the features of the My Maps area of Google Maps is the ability to see user-generated overlays for whatever area you are currently viewing. I am heading out to Seattle and have some free time, but I am too time-crunched [or] lazy to find out what I should see while I am there. So I pull up Seattle in Google Maps and zoom in so that I am just viewing my hotel and about 5 miles in any direction. Then I click the My Maps tab, click "Popular user-created maps" and I see the overlays for Seattle that have been created by others. I can now get pointers to what I should see for a "Seattle Mini-vacation", the best Seattle photography locations, and even "Directions to the places donating cake to the Social Justice Fund's Annual Dinner." How did we ever manage before the web?
  Bates Information Services www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html
  

Staff Report
We will be in the office all week.

Reminder
The library and archives are open from 7 a.m. until 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. The archives are available upon request during that time. The library catalog and the electronic pubs page are available any time via the intranet.

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

New Items in the Library
Journals & Reports
Materialy Gliatsiologicheskikh Issledovanit [Data of Glaciological Studies], vol. 103
EOS, vol. 89, iss. 39
Data Catalogue. World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto, #28

Books, Reprints, & Other Formats
Version Control with Subversion by C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman and Brian W. Fitzpatrick