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