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 12th (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]
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