News
1.)     Bates Info Tip
Getting Educated Before You Search

I’m sure that I’m not the only person who experiences that deer-in-the-headlights moment when I get a call from a client who asks me to give him an analysis of, say, industrial waste treatment. Like me, you’ve probably given no thought to the subject but like me, you know that you’re soon going to know and love industrial waste.

Yes, I can always just Google it, and I’ll find sites of waste management companies, as well as books on the topic. But I need to know what organizations are most involved in this industry, what the key magazines are, what trade shows focus on this industry — none of which I can learn from the first couple of pages of Google search results.

Instead, I take advantage of a secret weapon that librarians use — other librarians! Most large university libraries create resource guides or “pathfinders” to help students find information on frequently-requested topics. Business libraries are great sources for tools for conducting research in a specific industry. While they often include links to resources only available to enrolled students, we have other ways to get to the content — through a value-added information service like Dialog or Factiva, through association web sites, and even by going to our own local library.

For starters, check with your local university or college library; if they have pathfinders on industries and if they allow public access, you may be able to use the library’s resources right there. Otherwise, tap into some of the resource guides from other business school libraries. Some of my favorites include:

• Harvard Business School’s Baker Library has a collection of Research Guides on topics ranging from Agribusiness to Venture Capital & Private Equity. As you can tell from the first and last entry, the focus is on industries of interest to Harvard Business School students. A good starting place for information on hot industries, for which getting the most current information is particularly difficult.
• Thunderbird School of Global Management maintains a collection of LibGuides — industry-specific guides as well as business topics such as corporate social responsibility and global marketing.
• Penn State’s Business Library has Industry Guides for just over 30 industries. While it doesn’t offer comprehensive coverage of the business world, the guides are in-depth and easy to use.
• And finally, the SUNY Albany libraries have a nice overview for business researchers — Finding Industry Information: a research guide.

Is your university library a good source for research guides? If so, let me know and I’ll add them to the web version of this newsletter.

Staff News
Gloria will be working from home on Friday.

Reminder
Checking out items is easy.  For books, CD-ROM’s, and DVD’s, just fill in the required information on the book card and drop it in the box labeled “Book Cards’ on the library table.  For journals and reprints, provide the required information on the sign-out sheets found on the library table.  To borrow maps, use the sign-out sheet in the Archives Room (269).

New Items
Journals & Reports

Il Polo, vol. 64, iss. 4
EOS, vol. 91, iss. 7
Polar Science, vol.3, iss. 4
Reviews of Geophysics, vol. 47, iss. 4

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats
The principles of project management by Meri Williams
Project management : 24 lessons to help you master any project by Gary Heerkens
Proceedings [of the]  2009 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference Bath, United Kingdom, 21 – 25 September 2009
Status og utviklingstrekk for klimaindikatorer i norsk del av Arktis : MOSJ tolkingsrapport – klima by John Richard Hansen
Tilpasning og avbotende : klimaendringer i norsk Arktis : NorACIA delutredning 5 by Arild Buanes; Jan Age Riseth; Eirik Mikkelsen
Effekter på folk og samfunn : klimaendringer i norsk Arktis : NorACIA delutredning 4 by Arild Buanes; Jan Age Riseth; Eirik Mikkelsen
Swedish environmental Monitoring north of 60° N by Harald Grip and Harald; Hakan Olsson

1.)    CU Women’s Succeeding Symposium

2.)    More Birdseye data found

3.)    12  New Items in ROCS’ Information Center

News

1.)   Allaina attended the 7^th Annual CU Women Succeeding Symposium at CU’s Anschutz Medical Campus on Friday.  It was well attended by all campuses and many of the sessions were standing room only.  There was a variety of sessions offered, 20 in all, including topics about social networking, self-defense in the classroom, workplace bullying, assertive communication, working with students with disabilities, promoting women of color faculty, and even a yoga session, among others.  The morning keynote was “Of Budgets and Branding: New Realities for Higher Ed in Colorado” by Kathleen Bollard, Associate Vice President and Academic Affairs Officer.  The future didn’t look so bright but rays of hope were offered.  Unfortunately, I was unable to stay for lunch and the closing keynote.  It was a worthwhile event that has been growing every year.  I would encourage participation in the next symposium.

2.)  More Birdseye data, including flight maps and charts, log books and photo prints have been located in the Analog Archives.  These materials are being evaluated in order to determine which sets should be sent to our contractor for digitization.  There are approximately 5 cubic feet of materials, mostly photo prints, to be evaluated and organized.

Staff News

Gloria is working part-time this week.

Reminder

You can reach both ROCS librarians at:

Email: library@nsidc.org

Phone: 303-492-5171

Or stop in our office in room 259

Our door is always open!

New Items

Journals & Reports

Antarctic Science, vol. 22, iss. 1

Seppyo, vol. 72, iss. 1

EOS, vol. 91, iss. 6

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats

Ajax on Rails by Scott Raymond

Data Manipulation With R by Phil Spector

Beginning Ruby on Rails by Steve Holzner

PostgreSQL : the comprehensive guide to building, programming, and administering PostgreSQL databases by Karry Douglas and Susan Douglas

Designing Web navigation by James Kalbach

Information technology Project Management by Kathy Schwalbe

The complete idiot’s guide to project management by G. Michael Campbell and Sunny Baker

A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) by Project Management Institute

Workflow modeling : tools for process improvement and applications development by Alec Sharp and Patrick McDermott

1.)    Introduction to Archives taught at ROCS

2.)    Birdseye film shipped

3.)    Duke iPhone app for libraries

4.)    12 New Items in ROCS’ Information Center

News

1.)   Over the weekend, Allaina conducted a class for library students from Emporia State University here at ROCS.  11 students, 2 guests, and the student coordinator were in attendance.  A tour of the NCAR archives collection was conducted in the morning.  In the afternoon, guest speaker Karen Jones, preservation and conservation librarian for Jefferson County Public Library, spoke to the class about preservation.  This class introduces library students to the basic concepts of archival practices and their importance.  Not only does this activity provide these new students with a solid background in an important aspect of information management, but is also an excellent outreach opportunity for ROCS and NSIDC.

2.)  47 cans of Birdseye film were packaged into 13 boxes and will soon be on their way to the contractor for digitization.  13 boxes down, several more to go!  Please keep an eye out for any boxes that can be used for shipping and drop them off in the library.

3.)  Duke University Libraries has created an iPhone app to enable their users to view their library collections on their mobile device.

“Scholars and students who once had to travel to museums or libraries to view collections of historic images can now do so by clicking on their mobile device instead.

With the launch of DukeMobile 1.1, the Duke University Libraries now offers the most comprehensive university digital image collection specifically formatted for an iPhone or iTouch device. It includes thousands of photos and other artifacts that range from early beer advertisements to materials on San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene in the 1960s. Although a growing number of scholarly institutions offer images and other material online, Duke is the first to offer collections that take advantage of the iPhone’s design, navigation and other features.”

For the full article click here.

Staff News

Gloria is working part-time this week and perhaps next week as well.  Please send any requests, as always, to library@nsidc.org.

New Items

Journals & Reports

Nimbus, #53 / 54

International Journal of Climatology, vol. 31, iss. 1

Geografica Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria, vol. 32, iss. 2

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society,  vol. 135, #638, 639, 640, 641, 642

International Journal of Climatology , vol. 29, iss. 1-8

Mariners Weather Log, vol. 53, iss. 3

Books, Reprints, and Other Formats

Izmeneniia Klimata I ikh Posledstviia v Zone Mnogoletnei MThe SWIPA Project: climate change and the cryosphere (Snow, Water, Ice and Perzloty Rossii by A. B. Sherstiukov.

1.)  Birdseye indexing

2.)  Gloria out of the office

News

Allaina continues to index the collection of Birdseye film.  Soon, boxes will be needed to ship these large and heavy materials to our contractor for digitization.  If you have any sturdy boxes that you would like to donate to the cause, please drop them by the office.

Staff News

Gloria will be out of the office all week.  If you need library assistance, please stop by or send an email to library@nsidc.org.

New Items

New items will be posted when Gloria returns to the office.

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]

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

News

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

Bates InfoTip
________________________________________________________________
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.

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

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

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.

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.

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arapaho1919090107

arapaho1919090108

arapaho1919090109

arapaho1919090110

arapaho1919090111

arapaho1922090201

arapaho1922090202

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