Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC); Volume 7, Issue 5

In this Issue:

1.)  Super Bowl History!
2.)  Microfiche added to the catalog
3.)  34 New Items in ROCS’ Information Center

News

1.)  Super Bowl History!

Yesterday, our Archivist watched her home team win their first ever Super Bowl – in her home town.  Our Librarian watched it with other NSIDC personnel on her giant 27” TV! It was a great game, and if you missed it, here are some highlights from the NFL web site! 

2.)  For those of you who like to follow the newest research deriving from graduate student work, here’s an announcement about a new partnership of European libraries and consortia who provide electronic access to theses and dissertations.

DART-Europe is a partnership of research libraries and library consortia who are working together to improve global access to European research theses. DART-Europe is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche), and it is the European Working Group of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD).

The DART-Europe partners help to provide researchers with a single European Portal for the discovery of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs), and they participate in advocacy to influence future European e-theses developments. DART-Europe offers partners a European networking forum on ETD issues, and may provide the opportunity to submit collaborative funding applications to achieve DART-Europe’s vision for ETDs.

DART-Europe is resourced through partner contributions.

Partners support the following principles:

1. DART-Europe will encourage the creation, discovery and use of European e-theses, and will maintain a central Portal for e-thesis aggregation and access.

2. European libraries and consortia are invited to contribute metadata to the DART-Europe Portal. Contributors will determine the terms and conditions under which their metadata are contributed.

3. DART-Europe welcomes the contribution by partners of resources to support the management, discovery, usability and preservation of e-theses, and to further the aims and objectives of DART-Europe.

4. Partners will designate one representative to act as a contact for DART-Europe, and will nominate at least one representative to participate in the DART-Europe email lists.

5. DART-Europe welcomes offers from partners to host DART-Europe Project Board meetings, as occasion demands.

6. Partners will help to secure DART-Europe’s status as an international network of excellence in information, expertise and resources relating to ETDs.

7. DART-Europe will be administered by UCL (University College London) and governed by a Board consisting of representatives of partner organisations. The constitution and Terms of Reference of the governing Board will be determined and from time to time reviewed by the Board.

Links To Source / DART-Europe Documents Downloads / Participating Institutions / Etc. Available At

[ http://tinyurl.com/yl5n5ec ]

Reminder

If you want to look at a DVD or VHS tape, we have the equipment.  You can use it in the library or check it out to use in your office or a meeting room.  Just contact one of the librarians.

Staff News

Allaina will be out of the office and on vacation through Thursday, the 11th. Gloria will be out of the office the 12^th (Friday).

New Items

Journals & Reports

Polar & Glaciology Abstracts, vol. 20, iss. 3
Australian Antarctic Magazine, #17
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 90, iss. 8, 9, 10, 11
Weather,  vol. 64, iss. 12; vol. 65, iss. 1
EOS, vol. 90, iss. 50; vol. 91, iss. 1, 2, 3, 4
Polar Science, vol. 3, iss. 3
Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 47, iss. 1, 2, 3
Global Change #74
Report of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention, #74, # 75
Polar Times, vol. 3, iss. 16
Journal of Climate , vol. 22, iss. 16 – 24

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats

Earth System Science Data Resources : tapping into a wealth of data, information, and services by NASA
The SWIPA Project: climate change and the cryosphere (Snow, Water, Ice and Permafrost in the Arctic) [DVD]
The Greenland ice sheet in a changing climate [DVD]

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC), vol. 7, iss. 4

In this Issue:

1.)    Archival Haiku collection

2.)    Birdseye data rescue

3.)    4 New Items in ROCS’ Information Center

News

1.)  From the Society of American Archivists news page:

“More than 50 haiku written by archivists about the profession are captured in this clever collection. Haiku—a Japanese poetry form using five syllables, seven syllables, five syllables—was a featured segment in the “Archives After Hours: The Light, Literary, and Lascivious Side of Archives” session at “Sustainable Archives: AUSTIN 2009,” the Joint Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists and the Council of State Archivists in Austin, Texas, in August 2009.”

The Archival Haiku are available here:

http://archivists.org/publications/epubs/ArchivalHaiku.pdf

2.) The Birdseye project data rescue will begin this year using NOAA CDMP funds. Allaina is creating an index for the approximately 100 film canisters in order to ship them off for digitization.  Stay tuned for more details about this interesting project.

Reminder

The Electronic Resources page on our website provides links to numerous journals, reports, and other e-publications.

Staff News

Allaina will be out of the office and on vacation Thursday the 4^th through Wednesday the 10^th.

New Items

Journals & Reports

Science in Cold and Arid Regions, vol. 1, iss. 1, 2, 3

Journal of Glaciology, vol. 55, iss. 193

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Digital Classroom

Terra Antarctica : looking into the emptiest continent by William L. Fox

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC), vol. 7, iss. 3

In this Issue:
1.)    Another Bates Info Internet tip
2.)    6 New Items in ROCS’ Information Center

News

1.)  If you tend to read your headlines online, then this month’s tip from Mary Ellen Bates should be enlightening.

Bates InfoTip
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January 2010
An In-depth Look at the News

Google News has been one of the usual suspects when you want to monitor current news. The challenge of Google News is that the layout and organization of the stories is done by algorithm rather than by a real live human. This sometimes results in stories from less reliable sources being featured, at the expense of providing links to more trustworthy sources. Perhaps the more significant issue is that, in order to read any of the news, you need to click through to the story. Want another perspective? You’ll have to go back to Google News, skim the headlines and decide what other sources offer better coverage.

Google has partnered with The Washington Post and The New York Times to provide a more journalistic approach to providing news. This new offering, called Living Stories and still in Google Labs, provides more in-depth coverage of ongoing stories. Right now, the news items being covered include the war in Afghanistan, H1N1 flu, health care reform, global warming and the debate over executive compensation. Yes, a bit US-centric, but I have hopes that Google will expand to more global issues.

Each story includes an in-depth review of the issues involved, a timeline showing key events, selected news articles and features, videos, slideshows, graphics, profiles of the key players, and links to key resources. Because these “living stories” are maintained by editors rather than generated algorithmically, they offer a way to get a good introduction and perspective on a current issue.

Living Stories may not be the go-to source for late-breaking news stories, but this is an exciting initiative. In fact, I hope that newspapers everywhere look at how Living Stories is received; this is a great way to leverage all the content that newspapers produce and tap into the knowledge of reporters by including links to the key primary sources as well.

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Bates Information Services www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html

Reminder

We accept donations of reprints (not .pdf print-outs or photocopies) of your papers.  If you’re paper is published and the publisher supplied you with reprints or preprints, we would love to add it to our collection.

Staff News

Gloria is out of the office on Friday, the 29^th.

New Items

Journals & Reports
Environmental Studies Research Funds. Reports
#170: Potential effects of seismic airgun discharges on Monkfish eggs  (Lophius americanus) and larvae by Jery F. Payne, Jamie Coady and  David White
#171: Pilot study on the effects of seismic air gun noise on lobster  (Homarus americanus) by J. F. Payne, et al.
Meridian, Fall/Winter 2009
Earth System Monitor, vol. 18, iss. 1

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
Canadian Polar Commission. Annual Report 2008-2009
Sea ice, 2^nd edition edited by David N. Thomas and Gerhard S. Dieckmann

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC), vol. 7, iss. 2

In this Issue:

1.)    NOAA CDMP funding update

4 New Items in ROCS’ Information Center

News

1.)  During the latest NOAA CDMP progress meeting, we learned that funding for our two current digitization projects will remain level for 2010.  Currently, the DAHLI project continues to digitize the IPY2 collections held at the Carnegie Institute.  The Glacier Photograph Collection project continues to digitize the microfilmed Austin Post collection.  You may recall our success of digitizing a collection of 13,600 35mm microfilmed images.  The remainder of the collection is in 16mm microfilm format held on 35 reels.  As of the progress meeting, 21 reels have been scanned for a total of 44,860 images.  In addition to the scanning, our contractors will also attempt to match metadata from the Glacier Photo Index project (ca. 1980) to these images before returning them to NSIDC.  Stay tuned for news about when these images will be available online.  In 2010, we will continue to digitize the Post collection, continue with the metadata to image matching of the Post collection, return to the digitization of the remainder of the print collection (approximately 6,000 photographs), and begin indexing of the Birdseye aerial film for shipment and digitization.

Reminder

The ROCS website can be located under the Programs and Projects menu on the NSIDC home page.  Please visit the Policies page to review the services available.  If you have any questions, just stop by our office in room 259.

Staff News

Both Gloria and Allaina will be in the office all week.

New Items

Journals & Reports

Environmental Studies Research Funds. Reports

#163: Biophysical research requirements for Beaufort Sea hydrocarbon

development. Final

#164: Histopathological assessment of the sub-lethal effects of

instantaneous pressure changes (IPCs) on rainbow trout . . . .

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 90, iss. 12

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats

A World without ice by Henry Pollack

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC), vol. 7, iss. 1

In this Issue:

1.)    Reference and Computer Books have switched places
2.)    18 New Items in ROCS’ Information Center

News

1.)  In order to have enough space for reference books, we have moved them to the wooden book case against the north wall, with the other non-circulating collection.  The Computer Books are now on the shelves where the reference collection resided.

Reminder

If you take an item from the library for any reason, please check it out.  This applies to items you need only long enough to copy a paper or just to sit in your office to peruse.  This also applies to items left in the return basket.  This process helps us keep the number of “missing” items to a minimum. Books, DVD’s, etc. have book cards to sign and leave in the box on the library table, and reprints, journals, and maps have sign-out sheets.  If you need help checking out an item, please let us know.

Staff News

Both librarians are in the office this week.

New Items

Journals & Reports
Polar Research vol. 28, iss. 3
Pages News, vol. 17, iss. 3
Seppyo, vol. 71, iss. 6
Polish Polar Research, vol. 30, iss. 3
Antarctic Science, vol. 21, iss. 6
The Earth Observer, vol. 21, iss. 6
Polar Research in Tromso 2009
Gewex, vol. 19, iss. 4
British Antarctic Survey Annual Report 2008-2009
Arctic, vol. 62, iss. 4
Neige et Avalanches, #127
EOS, vol. 90, issues 49, 51, 52
InFocus, vol. 9, iss. 2

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
Atmospheric science for environmental scientists edited by C. N. Hewitt and A. V. Jackson.

Report to the International Niagara Baord of Control on the 2008-09 operations of the Lake Erie-Niagara River ice boom by the Internaitonal Niagara working Committee.

Proceedings of the 24^th International Symposium on Okhotsk Sea and sea ice.

Generations : a skiers’ and snowboarders’ perspective on climate change by The North Face, Teton Gravity Research, and POW (Protect Our Winters) [DVD]

Field techniques for sea ice research. Hajo Eicken, et al., editors.

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC) vol. 6, issue 47

In this Issue:

1.)    Holiday Schedule

2.)    Glacier Photo Collection update

** Important Reminder**

23 new glacier photos

News

1.) ROCS staff will be available Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week.  Please stop in or send an email to library@nsidc.org if you need any assistance in the information center or the analog archives.

2.)  Last week a small collection of glacier photographs was added to the Glacier Photograph Collection.  These images were donated to ROCS by the University of Colorado Natural History Museum and most were taken by the museum’s first director, Junius Henderson.  Images of Arapaho Glacier from the early 1900s are included in this collection as well as other glaciers.

Reminder

Please do not remove any items from the return baskets in the library without checking with the librarians.  These items can be made available to you but only after the materials are checked in and off the record of the previous user.

Staff

Gloria is on vacation and will return to the office on Tuesday, December 29.

New Items

The newly added glacier photos are listed below.  Use the new search interface to search by image ID.  Check the box on the upper right to open the search.  Copy and paste the image IDs listed below.

arapaho0000000001

arapaho1902000001

arapaho1902090102

arapaho1902090103

arapaho1904000001

arapaho1904090301

arapaho1911090102

arapaho1911090103

arapaho1919090102

arapaho1919090106

arapaho1919090107

arapaho1919090108

arapaho1919090109

arapaho1919090110

arapaho1919090111

arapaho1922090201

arapaho1922090202

arapaho1922090203

fair0000000001

fair1910091701

isabel1910091702

mtbaker1892080001

taku0000000001

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC) vol. 6, issue 46

In this Issue:
1.) BatesInfo Tip for November
2.) 8 New Items in the ROCS Information Center

News
1.) Bates InfoTip November 2009
Google Trends and More Trends
Google has been doing some interesting things with its analyses of what people are while they are on the web. Google Trends, which was rolled out in 2006, lets you see how frequently words or phrases were search for in Google, over time. You can even compare the relative frequency of two different words or phrases. I was curious about how people referred to the H1N1 flu, and when the shift occurred from calling it “swine flu”. I typed in the two phrases, swine flu and H1N1, separated by a comma. [“swine flu”, h1n1] According to the search results, it wasn’t until October that most people shifted over to referring to the flu strain as H1N1. I can also see search trends in specific countries and in specific cities and states or provinces.

The next stop is Google Insights for Search, which gives you all the functionality of Google Trends, along with some interesting features. Running the same search, I can see a map of the world, with highlighted cities where the most queries are coming from. I can also see the most common searches with either swine flu or H1N1, as well as a list of which search queries have recently spiked in frequency. As I write this, the “breakout” search queries include the Chinese characters for H1N1 (a good reminder that, according to comScore, China has more Internet users than any other country) and H1N1 symptoms (“I’ve been hearing about it – now what do I have to do to avoid catching it?”)

Google Domestic Trends, although limited right now to the US, has some interesting features. In essence, it compares specific types of queries to the US stock market and other economic indicators. Want to see whether there is a correlation between an interest in durable goods and the share price of some of the major manufacturers over the last few years? I selected the Durable Goods category, the Standard & Poor’s 500, and the stock symbols for General Electric and Whirlpool. I can see from the results that, whereas interest in durable goods has remained fairly steady, both GE and Whirlpool have done worse than the S&P 500, and GE is still struggling.

Google’s latest analysis tool is Google Trends for Websites. You provide one or more URLs; for each web site, Google displays the number of daily unique visitors, the countries or states/provinces they came from, other web sites that they have also visited, and terms they have also searched for. Just as Google Domestic Trends went beyond search queries to compare financial trends to its information, Google Trends for Websites extends its reach and analyzes information on web traffic from a number of outside sources.

According to the web site, Google “combines information from a variety of sources, such as aggregated Google search data, aggregated opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in consumer panel data, and other third-party market research” — I’d feel happier if I had a better view of what data Google is relying on.

Google Trends for Websites only works for fairly high-traffic sites, but can be a useful tool for seeing the relative popularity of web sites, and for getting ideas on alternative search queries on a topic. Companies can use this as a quick way to see how their web traffic compares to those of its competitors, as well as to see what search words were being used to find them. See, for example, the difference in traffic by geographic region and over time for McKinsey & Co., Deloitte and Accenture, and what other sites people visited. I have also used this as a rough way to gauge the relative influence of organizations. When looking for information on autism, I found a number of autism-related associations. By putting the web site URLs into Google Trends for Websites, I could see which sites had the most traffic — a possible indicator of which association had the most impact in the consumer space.

While they are not traditional research tools, all these Google Trend tools can be useful for analyzing how web searchers think and behave – in the aggregate, of course.

Bates Information Services, www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html
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Reminder

If you need help while at AGU, just send us an instant message, email, or text Gloria at 303.519.2539. We’re in the office from 6:00 am until 4:00 pm California time.

Staff News
Gloria will be working from home Thursday morning, but she will be in the office that afternoon. She will be on vacation from Friday, the 18th, until Tuesday, the 29th.

New ItemsJournals & Reports
Kazakstan Respublikasy ûlttyk Fylym Akademiiasynyn Xabarlary : geologiialyk seriiasy = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan : geological series, 6(418-420).
EOS, vol. 90, iss. 47, 48
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, vol. 41, iss. 4

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
“Atmospheric corrections for improved satellite passive snow cover retrievals over the Tibet Plateau” by Matthew H. Savoie, et al. [reprint]

Mapping sea ice overflood using remote sensing: Smith Bay to Camden Bay by Greg Hearon, et al. [CD-ROM]

Forminovanie I rezhim gruntovykh vod oroshaemykh oazisov na primere doliny reki Chirchik = Formation and regime of ground water on irrigated oasis from the example of the Chirchik River valley by U. M. Akhmedsafin.

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC), Volume 6, Issue 45

In this Issue:

1.)    USGS Topo Map anniversary

2.)    Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database

5 new items

News

1.)  USGS recently celebrated its 125th Anniversary for Topographic Mapping in the United States. With the celebration, USGS announced a new series of digital topographic maps, called US TOPO, which will be produced on a 3-year cycle for the entire conterminous United States. For more information, see the press release at: http://www.doi.gov/news/09_News_Releases/120309.html

The USGS also released a new National Map viewer for viewing and access to the data layers and US Topo products produced by the USGS. You can see the National Map viewer at: http://nationalmap.gov/viewers.html

Also with this anniversary, USGS has published a new publication, Circular 1341, History of the Topographic Branch (Division). The publication is available for download at: http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1341/

2.)  The Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database now describes more than 10,000 publications and research projects about the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (ISR) in Canada’s Northwest Territories and Yukon. The database is available at http://www.aina.ucalgary.ca/isr (you can find this link on our E-Publications page under the E-Databases)

The database covers all subjects, and includes the land and marine areas of the ISR. Publications of all types, especially grey literature, are included. More than 2000 database records have URL or DOI links to PDF files of online publications. The database’s coverage of research projects is based on information from the five territorial and federal agencies that license research in the ISR.

The Inuvialuit Settlement Region Database is maintained by the Joint Secretariat – Inuvialuit Renewable Resource Committees and the Arctic Institute of North America’s Arctic Science and Technology Information System (ASTIS), and is funded by Shell Canada Limited and MGM Energy Corporation.

Reminder

Your librarians are here to help with your AGU needs.  Stop by the office if you need a reference looked up or a citation question answered or with any other information needs.  We will be here all week should you need assistance.

New Items

Journals & Reports

Image issue 31

EOS, vol. 90, iss. 46

Fennia 187:1

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats

WCRP Implementation Plan 2010-2015

The World Climate Research Programme Achievements: scientific knowledge for climate adaptation, mitigation, and risk management

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC), Volume 6, Issue 44

In this Issue:

1.)     UK Royal Society and Trailblazing
2.)     Helping with AGU papers & presentations

News
Rare scientific manuscripts from Britain’s Royal Society go online – 30 Nov 2009

The UK’s Royal Society has announced that historic manuscripts by scientists such as Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and others will be published online for the first time. As part of celebrations to mark its 350th anniversary, the society will make original manuscripts of papers published in its journals available to the public via Trailblazing, a new online resource.

Trailblazing contains 60 articles chosen from among the 60,000 that have appeared in the Royal Society’s journals. Among the highlights from the Trailblazing site are: a 1770 scientific study confirming that composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a genius and, more recently, acclaimed British scientist Stephen Hawking’s early writings on black holes. Also included are Sir Isaac Newton’s landmark research on light and colour, a gruesome account of a 17th century blood transfusion and Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite-flying experiment to identify the electrical nature of lightning in 1752.

The Royal Society hopes that the new interactive site will inspire members of the public to see science as part of everyday life and culture. According to Royal Society president Lord Martin Rees, the scientific papers on Trailblazing represent a ceaseless quest by scientists over the centuries, many of them Fellows of the Royal Society, to test and build on the knowledge of humankind and the universe. [from Knowledgespeak Newsletter]

Reminder

If you need help with citations or last minute research for your AGU paper or presentation, ROCS staff is here to help.  Just email, instant message, call, or stop by, and we will find the information you need.

Staff Report

Gloria will be out of the office Friday, the 4^th.

Frost Byte (Newsletter of ROCS @ NSIDC), volume 6, issue 43

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.