Wednesday, February 12

Diane Rabson – NCAR – Open since 1986, they manage the AMS tape recorded interview project. This project interviewed imminent scientists. A new project will involve collecting instrumentation used at NCAR since 1962.

Jean Phillips – University of Wisconsin at Madison – Jean mentioned the image database of photomicrographs of ice crystals that is now available (see the complete minutes for more information). She is also working on a history of instruments and satellite photos project.

Madeleine Needles – MIT Haystack Observatory – Madeleine mentioned a new project, Digitizing the Millstone Hill Ionospheric Profiles, which she will talk about in more detail tomorrow (see the complete minutes for more information). Her library is a small independent research library.

Doria Grimes – NOAA Central Library – Doria mentioned two new web sites available on the NOAA Central Library site. Digitized versions of the Monthly Weather Review and the Daily Weather Maps from 1871 forward are now available. Also the Foreign Climate Data site now includes data from 65 countries.

Bob Britter – NOAA Miami Regional Library and National Hurricane Center – He has worked on digitizing the NHC technical memos and putting them on the web site. Last year they digitized the annual summaries.

Dorothy McGarry – UCLA – Dorothy works as a part-time cataloger at UCLA.

Evelyn Poole-Kober – NERL-Atmospheric Sciences Modeling Division Library – Evelyn works in a small specialized library focusing on atmospheric chemistry. She works for NOAA but is on assignment to a division of the EPA which works on air quality models. During the last year her library moved and is now co-located with another library. Half of the collection is now in storage.

Patty Carey – Natural Sciences Library at the University of Washington Seattle – The main library went through a large renovation project recently.

Maria A. Latyszewskyj – Head, Environment Canada Library, Downsview – The last two years have been eventful. They have been going through major reorganization of space in the organization and the library was used as temporary swing space which created some cramping. They have had some designers in to redesign the library space.
Canadian websites have disappeared due to new requirements for a common look and feel and the need to be bilingual. Their new site should be up by the end of March. Their catalog is still up but the information in the catalog is not updated for the last half of the year for patrons outside their firewall. Please e-mail her if you don’t see something or need assistance. Eventually a more updated catalog will be available to the public.

Judie Triplehorn – Keith B. Mather Library/Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks – Judie described her library’s areas of specialization including auroral activity, solid earth sciences (volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.) and now global change. Judie has been involved in several database projects. One involved remote sensing data and the other is related to Barrow, Alaska and global change.

Stephen Cole – AGU – Steve is attending to better understand our perspective and to answer questions related to AGU publications. A new section of JGR, Earth Surface, has been added. If you currently receive all sections of JGR, the new section will come with the others.

Teresa Mullins – National Snow and Ice Data Center – Teresa is a librarian and archivist at NSIDC. They work a lot with analog data sets. This year she received funding for compact shelving. The installation has been held up due to asbestos in the floor. An online database of digitized glacier photos is now available from their site. The Bibliography on Frozen Ground is produced as part of the International Arctic Center and is available in print and online.

Katherine Day – DOC/Boulder Labs Library – Jane Waterson retired and Katherine is now the senior public services librarian. She has been with the library since 1985.

Heather McCullough – DOC/Boulder Labs Library – Heather has been working on outreach (talking about their research and research needs) to each of the labs served by the library. They also serve NIST and the research arm of the telecommunications group. She has also been working on a new website. The site has been reorganized and now has a new URL. Renovations to the main library are needed but they must also deal with asbestos under the carpeting. Compact shelving is planned for the future as well.

Jenny Dean – Weather.com – She uses information from some of our libraries on a daily basis and frequently points people to our sites.

Jean-Pierre Javelle – Météo-France – He is in charge of the publications division which will soon be in charge of the library in Paris. The library is open to the public. A majority of the collection begins with publications from the end of the 19th century. They have approximately 19,000 books and 9,000 serial titles. They have climate data for France and other countries. They also have close to 200 ancient and rare books from the 15th to 18th centuries. Their collection also includes 25,000 photographs. They are currently working on digitizing a large portion of the photo collection.

Louise Breinholt – Wiley – Louise mentioned several new publications from Wiley that might be of interest. The two volume Handbook of Weather, Climate and Water and the Encyclopedia of Global and Environmental Change are available to browse at their exhibit booth. Also she encouraged everyone to take a look at Wiley Interscience to see the recent changes made to the interface.

Jim Fleming – Colby College – Jim is a friend of ASLI and a user of libraries. He is also the BAMS history editor.

Hilary Thomson – RSMAS Library/University of Miami – During the last year, Hillary moved to Miami and took a position at the RSMAS Library. She continues to transition into her new position in an academic library.

Kristi Jensen – Earth Sciences Library/Penn State University – Linda Musser, the head of the EMS library, is on sabbatical for the first six months of this year so if you need assistance, please direct your inquiries to Kristi. Kristi will serve as the interim Acting Head of the library.

Jinny Nathans – American Meteorological Society – The AMS Library has been in storage this year. A renovation project is currently in progress. Last summer she touched every single volume in her collection as she prepared materials for storage. The new library will have an area for archival materials with climate control. Next year at this time she may have pictures of the new library to share.