# Presentation: 309785

## NOAA CENTRAL LIBRARY 

**NOAA CENTRAL LIBRARY **

**SPECIAL PROJECTS**
**By **
**Dottie Anderson**
**Mary Lou Cumberpatch**
**Skip Theberge**

## VIRTUAL LIBRARIES

**VIRTUAL LIBRARIES**

**MARINE PROTECTED AREAS (MPAs)**
**OCEAN EXPLORATION (OE)**
**CoRIS (Coral Reef Information System)**

## VIRTUAL LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

**Request by office setting up the NOAA initiative**
**Work closely with NOS Special Projects office**

**Meet to develop**
**    ****storyboard**
**Decide workflow**
**Get to work**

**This is a ****TEAM**** Effort**

## Development Process 

**Information Overload **
**Decide priorities**
**Ensure all offices covered**
**Stress NOAA**

## MPA LIBRARY BACKGROUND

- Executive Order #13158 on Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), May 2000
- 	“This Executive Order will help protect the significant natural and cultural resources within the marine environment for the benefit of present and future generations by strengthening and expanding the nation’s systems of marine protected areas (MPAs).
- MPA Website and List
- 	“Section (8) (d) The Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary of the  Interior shall establish and jointly manage a website for information on MPAs and Federal agency reports required by this order. They shall also publish and maintain a list of MPAs that meet the definition of MPA for the purposes of this order.”

## Background, cont.

- NOS Special Projects Office
- 	Spearheaded development of “list” and website
- Mission of the MPA Library
- 	The purpose of the MPA Library is to serve those working with the nation’s MPAs, as well as educators, researchers, and the public.
- 	http://mpa.gov
- What is a Marine Protected Area?
- 	Defined in the Executive Order; an “umbrella” term
- 	Range from wildlife refuges to national marine sanctuaries

## MPA PARTICIPANTS

- NOAA Central Library Staff
- Coastal Services Center Library staff
- NOS Special Projects Office staff
- National Marine Protected Areas Center and affiliated Institutes

## MPA LIBRARY ORGANIZATION

**MPA LIBRARY ORGANIZATION**

**Notable Additions**
**Bibliography**
**Institutions and Organizations**
**MPA Web sites**
**Conferences and Workshops**
**Search Function**

## MPA ACQUISITIONS

- Suggested Contributions
- Bibliographic Databases
- Web Searches
- Listservs
- Online News Sources

## MPA COLLECTION CRITERIA

- Intended Users
- Subject content
- Timeliness
- Authority
- Accuracy
- Maintenance

## MPA LIBRARY SEARCH 

- Procite Database Exported to File Maker Pro
- Lasso – Web Database Publishing
- Many Abstracts and Keywords from CSA

- Full-Text Resources
- 	http://www.pewoceans.org/oceanfacts/2003/01/13/fact_31395.asp

## COPYRIGHT OPPORTUNITIES

- Need to Expand Full-Text Resources
- Permission Process (Lisc Lott)
- PDF/Scanning Process
- http://unicorn.csc.noaa.gov/mpa/agardy.pdf
- Copyright/Linking Policies
- Need to develop and place on web site
- Benefits and Challenges
- 	Easier access for non-researchers to full-text sources
- 	Time-consuming
- 	Archiving and persistent URLs

## OCEAN EXPLORATION

- Systematic search and investigation of the ocean for the purpose of discovery

## OE OBJECTIVES

**OE OBJECTIVES**

**Explore Ocean Frontiers**
**Find New Resources**
**Understand Sound in the Ocean**
**Protect America’s Maritime Heritage**

## OCEAN EXPLORATION BACKGROUND

- Oceans Act of 2000 (Exploration part of mandate)
- Exploration of the Seas Act of 2000
- NOAA 2002 Ocean Exploration Initiative
- Single agency leadership for this multi-agency program (NOAA, Navy, NASA, USGS, MMS, DOE, NSF)

## NOAA Exploration Offices

**NOAA Exploration Offices**

**Office of Ocean Exploration**
**National Undersea Research Program (NURP)**
**Vents Program**
**Sustainable Seas Expeditions**

## OCEAN EXPLORATION

- Launched June 1, 2001
- Principle vehicle to provide the public with information on NOAA’s major undersea ocean exploration
**oceanexplorer.noaa.gov**

## OCEAN EXPLORATION SITE	

- Up-to-date mission logs from 2002 and 2001
- History of ocean exploration
- Gallery of photos and video, some with audio
- Showcase of ocean exploration modern technologies

**Notes:**
Technology – ROVs, AUVs, sensors
Living and working under the sea
Acoustics

Improve real time observations in underwater environments

## OCEAN EXPLORATION HISTORY

**History Essays**
**Quotes for Ocean Explorers**
**Historic Photos  **
**    ****& Graphics**

## OE LIBRARY

- Staff asked by Ocean Exploration office to construct a Virtual Library for the OE homepage
- Effort by the reference team
- Prototype being developed

- Welcome to the Ocean Explorer Library, a selection of resources significant to NOAA's historical and current ocean exploration activities. Resources include Web sites, historical books and documents, expedition reports, and journal articles. The library is composed of three collections: Publications, Historical Documents, and NOAA Exploration Offices. _[Publications](http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/library/publications.html)_ features selected citations from papers and reports published as a result of NOAA or NOAA-sponsored ocean exploration activities. On-line access is available for a limited number of these publications._[Historical Documents](http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/library/historicaldocs.html)_ features books, documents, and reports from NOAA's rare book collection that are significant to the history of ocean exploration._[NOAA Exploration Offices](http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/library/noaaoffices.html)_ describes the main NOAA programs and offices engaged in ocean exploration activities.

**OE LIBRARY**
**COLLECTIONS**

**Notes:**
Publications – go back to 1996
NOAA offices – Office of Ocean Exploration, NURP, Vents, Sustainable Seas
Need to add other NOAA offices that are involved in the programs.  All line offices are involved except the NWS. 
Historical Documents – need to add more and have documents since 1945 that are significant

## OE LIBRARY INDEVELOPMENT

- Readings of Ocean Explorers – this section is about to be made public

## DATA MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR OE

- Purpose to collect data and information from ocean exploration activities
- Share data and information with all stakeholders and the general public
- Integrated Process Team putting together this strategy for NOAA

## MULTIMEDIA IPT WORKING GROUP

- Video, Images, and Audio
- Members from many NOAA offices, including NURP and U of Charleston
- Techies and non-techies

- Complicated process – many ways to do this
- Which is right way for NOAA?
- Pilot project this year
- Hope to eventually expand to all of NOAA

## CoRISCoral Reef Data andInformation System

- Began in March 2001
- Workshop in June 2001
- Weekly meetings
- Site public September 2002

## GOALS of CoRIS

- Develop single point of discovery for NOAA data and information of direct relevance to the management and preservation of the nation’s coral reefs
- Make NOAA the “One place to go for coral reef data and information”
- Provide “One Stop Shopping” for external and internal users
- NOAA support For U.S. Coral Reef Task Force National Action Plan
- Archive and preserve NOAA’s Coral Reef Data and Information.

## CoRIS VIRTUAL LIBRARY

**Centralize in one place NOAA’s major publications, Web sites, and organizations on coral reef work**
**Patterned on libraries developed for MPAs and Ocean Exploration**
**www.coris.noaa.gov**

## CoRIS LIBRARY

**Notable Additions**
**NOAA Coral Reef Web Sites**
**Other Coral Reef Web Sites**
**Publications**
**Virtual Library Search**

## CoRIS LIBRARY

- First to use Procite
- NOAA wide site license with ISI Researchsoft for bibliographic management tools
- Now doing all updates for the three sites in Procite

## CoRIS METADATA

- Important for  data search and discovery mechanism
- Important for longevity of project and effective, long-term use of the data being served
- Library relies on existing MARC metadata standards

## CoRIS – Z39.50 Compatibility

- Parallel search strategy to simultaneously search NOAA Library documents in MARC/Dublin Core format as well as FGDC metadata within CoRIS
- Avoid redundancy and allow users to discover potential data sources and applicable literature within one search

## CoRIS General Principles

- One stop shopping
- Rich content, best of NOAA’s culture
- Factual
- Final data, clear audit for operational data

- Candid and realistic
- NOAA site
- Complement, not replace, existing NOAA site

## VIRTUALLIBRARY ISSUES

## FUNDING

**MPAS**
**OCEAN EXPLORATION**
**CoRIS**

## FUNDS ALLOCATION

**FY01**
**Labor**
**Benefits**
**Equipment**
**Supplies**
**Collection Development**

**FY02**
**Library staff support**
**Photo/slide scanning/duplication**
**Collection Development**
**Travel**

## LIBRARY OPPORTUNITIES

**Increase visibility **
**Attendance at national meetings**
**Work on future initiatives for the Agency**

## CHALLENGES

**Time**
**Staff Shortage**
**Never “Done”**
**Shared control**
**Funding**
**Information Technology**

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