Library Hi Tech: Volume 13 Issue 1/2

The challenge of global change: Responding through research, education, and data and information management

The Earth is a place of change. The geological record testifies that the Earth's environment has been subject to change over eons—much of it occurring slowly over many millennia…

The U.S. Global Change Research Program: History and organization

Berna L. Heyman, James C. French, Glen L. Bull, Francis P. Bretherton

The U.S. government has been proactively seeking solutions to the growing concern with issues relating to global change through several initiatives. A major global change…

Libraries, global change data, and information management

Carol Watts, Cheryl J. Burley, Roberta Y. Rand, David R. Lide, Julia Blixrud, Stanley Elswick, Gary McCone, Paul M. Kuin

A primary role of libraries is to organize, manage, and store collections of information and data resources. Librarians and information professionals, serving as facilitators in…

U.S. Federal Agency implementation overviews

Each of the agencies participating in GCDIS will play a role appropriate to its agency mission and consistent with the funds available to it. Descriptions of each agency's…

Global change resources, projects, and tools

Fred Stoss, John Scialdone, Lola Olsen, Anne O'Donnell, Janet Wright, Eliot Christian, Roberta Balstad Miller, Gerald S. Barton, Walter Bogan, Barbara Rodes, Diane Harvey

What follows is a small sampling of activities that are underway. All of them are working toward contributing to the understanding of the Earth system.

Storm Warning

Paul E. Filmer

Most everyone has heard the rumblings on the horizon of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). To some, it is the sound of traffic: a steady roar of bytes rushing by over…

The future of global change: A challenge to librarians

Kathleen M. Eisenbeis

It is critical that agencies know who their users are and how to evaluate the usefulness of their data and information systems. Accomplishing this task is within the intellectual…

A target of opportunity: Creation of the louis network

Jennifer Cargill, Sammie W. Cosper, C. Landon Greaves, Carolyn Hooper Hargrave, Ronald D. Hay, Nancy Nuckles, D.M. Schneider, Jill Fatzer

Three different governing boards of higher education in Louisiana joined together to create the Louisiana Online University Information System (LOUIS). Key players in this…

Technology for the deaf: Remembering to accommodate an invisible disability

Susan Gilbert Beck

Beck discusses the need to improve library and information services for the deaf community. The technological support available to libraries to serve the deaf is identified and…