# Presentation: 227607

## NOAA Central LibraryNational Oceanographic Data Center

- Proposal for Continuation of Task Order L-4
-      Proposal for New Task for 2007; Film Transfer to Digital Media
- Climate Database Modernization Program
- November 15, 2006
- Task Leaders: Doria Grimes, NOAA Central Library
-                         Diana Abney, NOAA Central Library

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## NEW CDMP RecordJan. 2006 = 752,432/mo.

- NEW CDMP RecordJan. 2006 = 752,432/mo.

## Library Online Usage

- FY2003 = 2,525,128
- FY2004 = 2,794,574
- FY2005 = 5,492,235
- FY2006 = 6,639,489

## Current Imaging Projects  

- Synoptic Weather Maps – The Daily Series
- (1899 - 1945) – imaged; QA’d up to 1922; CD’s to NCDC
- Collaboration with NCDC
- 120,000 images, more years to do - to 1971
- U.S. Daily Weather Maps (1871 – current)
- Reformatted to DVD’s for NCDC & imaging missing data in 2006
- Coast & Geodetic Survey Annual Reports
- (1852 - 1892) Completed in 2005
- (1837- 1850) and (1893 - 1965) Imaging required
- Foreign Climate Data (54 countries and regions)
- Completed
- Repertorium fur Meteorologie (1870 – 1895) Imaging required

## Current Imaging Projects

- U.S. Fish Commission Annual Reports
-  (1871 - 1940) Completed
-  (1940 - present) Not yet completed
- U.S. Signal Office/Weather Bureau  Annual Reports
-  (1861 - 1891) Completed
-  (1892 - 1942) Completed in 2006
- C & GS Special Pubs. Series – 344 docs for 200th anniversary
- Imaging completed; QA and re-work to do
- Not yet linked

## Current Imaging Projects

- 200th historical documents – 20 doc
- 10,000 pages imaged in 2006
- QA’d; re-working
- International Polar Year Bibliography
- Completed in 2006; presented at AMS 2006
- Contains full text of 200 publications; loaded and linked
- George Washington Carver – Co-op Data
- (1899 – 1954) Completed
- Web site created and linked

## International Polar Year 2007-2008 : Historical Resources on Polar Research 

**Library and Information Services Division**
**Current References 2005-1**

**Prepared by Anna Fiolek**
**Doria Grimes, Editor**
**NOAA Central Library**

*Leffingwell's Flaxman Island Base - in use 1909-1911*

- U. S. Department of Commerce
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service
- National Oceanographic Data Center
- NOAA Central Library
**January 2006**

**International Polar Year 2007-2008 : Historical Resources on Polar Research **
**in the NOAA Central Library**
**A Selected Bibliography**

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## Other Collaborations

- Meteorological Register for the years 1826 - 1830 from observations made by the surgeons of the Army at military posts ...
- Plus Meteorological register for ...1831 - 1842
- Plus Army Meteorological Register from 1843 - 1854
- With NCDC
- Explanations and Sailing Directions to accompany*** the ****wind and current charts..* (1851, 1854, 1855, 1858)
- With NCDC
- WMO Publications Series – No.47
- 12 documents for NGDC scanned
- Copies of everything to NCDC for WSSRD

## New Titles in Task 4 for 2007

***Why the Weather*** Series – 16 volumes
- Three minute essays for radio broadcast by the Science Service
- Example: Thunder storms do not sour milk.
**NOAA Rare Book Treasures** – 1485 - 1800
- 1400 - 1500	2 incunabula
- 1501 - 1600	33 titles
- 1601 - 1700	96 titles
- 1701 - 1800	372 titles
- 100,000+ pages

## Monthly Weather ReviewJoint Venture with American Meteorological Society

- Online on NODC server – 1973 back to 1871
- Indexed by AMS/Allen Press 1973 back to 1892
- AMS to complete the indexing back to 1871
- Imaged MWR Supplements (No.1-48) in 2006
-  Will be retrievable directly from server
-  Pull-down menu; loaded and linked
- Complimentary universal online access

## FY07 New CDMP Request

- Film Transfer/Preservation of 226 motion pictures of Coast and Geodetic Survey films
- 8 and 16 mm films
- Audio tapes
- Create in High Definition (HD DVC) format master
- 2 HD tape for NOS 200th anniversary film
- 2 DVD copies for collection and loan