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

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