In this Issue:
1.) Cultural Collections Meeting
2.) IMLS Connecting to Collections visit
3.) Thanksgiving hours
16 new items
News
Last week, ROCS staff was very busy!
On Monday, we hosted a meeting of the managers of campus cultural collections. Special guests for this meeting were representatives of Hunntington T. Block, the company who provides insurance coverage for fine arts and other collections held at CU. They spoke to the group for about an hour, presenting the key points to their coverage and answering any questions. The second hour of the meeting was devoted to business issues including, where to find large freezers in an emergency, establishing an official emergency campus network, and formalizing the group within CU. Mariko Kageyama, Zoology curator at the Natural History Museum, is the freezer point person for the group. Freezers are important in a disaster that involves water, either from a leak, a flood, or from fire prevention. For most paper-based materials, it is very important to freeze the wet items within 48 hours. Fortunately for us, almost all of the large freezers are located on Marine Street. Should we need them, we won’t have far to travel!
On Wednesday, ROCS was paid a visit by Leigh Grinstead and Laura Douglas, grant representatives of the Connecting to Collections IMLS project. In this second phase of the IMLS award, Leigh and Laura are conduting13 site visits at select institutions. The representatives are trying to view a real world picture painted by a survey that was completed by institutions across the state of Colorado. The site visit focused on preservation issues. We answered questions for the first 45 minutes of the interview, gave a tour of the three collection rooms, as well as rooms 260 & 261, where we hope to relocate the analog archives collections. Environmental readings were taken in all of the spaces. Leigh and Laura were both very supportive of and impressed with the work we have done since the initial Connecting to Collections workshop. They also praised our efforts to consolidate the collections into an environmentally-controlled archives space. Ms. Grinstead offered to write a letter of support for the NEH grant. The 13 site visits will provide information for their final report to IMLS.
Reminder
If you need to access the ROCS Information Center after hours, please use your keypad code on the library door to gain access. Don’t forget to log off the computer. It gets backed up and updated just like the rest of the computers at NSIDC. And of course, turn off the lights and close the door when you leave.
Staff Report
ROCS will be closed this Thursday and Friday for the Thanksgiving Holidays.
New Items
Journals and Reports
EOS, vol. 90, issues 20, 36-38, 41-45
Earth Observer, vol. 21, iss. 5
Exchanges, vol. 14, iss. 4
Weather, vol. 64, issues 9, 11
Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
Swiss Glaciers 2003/2004 and 2004/2005 edited by Andreas Bauder & Roger Rüegg.
Climate and Water Resources in South Asia: Vulnerability and Adaptation edited by Amir Muhammed, M. Monirul Qader Mirza, and Bonnie A. Stewart.
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