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==Location== | ==Location== | ||
The NOAA Library is located on the second floor of NOAA Building III on the Silver Spring Metro Center campus, near the Silver Spring | The NOAA Library is located on the second floor of NOAA Building III on the Silver Spring Metro Center campus, near the Silver Spring Metro station. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
In 1970, with the formation of NOAA, the libraries of the [[National Weather Service]], [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey]], and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]] (which became NOAA's [[National Marine Fisheries Service]] (NMFS)) merged to become the NOAA Central library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/research-programs/climate-database-modernization-program|title=Climate Database Modernization Program {{!}} National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) formerly known as National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)|website=www.ncdc.noaa.gov|access-date=2016-09-30}}</ref> | In 1970, with the formation of NOAA, the libraries of the [[National Weather Service]], [[United States Coast and Geodetic Survey]], and Bureau of Commercial Fisheries of the [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service]] (which became NOAA's [[National Marine Fisheries Service]] (NMFS)) merged to become the NOAA Central library.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/climate-information/research-programs/climate-database-modernization-program|title=Climate Database Modernization Program {{!}} National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) formerly known as National Climatic Data Center (NCDC)|website=www.ncdc.noaa.gov|access-date=2016-09-30}}</ref> | ||
Part of the NOAA Central library collection is from the former | Part of the NOAA Central library collection is from the former United States Weather Bureau library, itself descended from the United States Signal Corps library. | ||
The library was previously located in Rockville, Maryland just northwest of | The library was previously located in Rockville, Maryland just northwest of Old Georgetown Road until 1993, when it moved to its current location in Silver Spring, Maryland. Its website was established in 1995. | ||
==Patrons== | ==Patrons== | ||
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==Contents== | ==Contents== | ||
The library subscribes to over one thousand peer-reviewed journals in print and electronic formats,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.noaa.gov/E-Resources/Journals|title=Journals {{!}} NOAA Central Library|website=library.noaa.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref> and is the official repository of all NOAA publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/|title=NOAA Institutional Repository|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref> It also holds works and artifacts pertaining to the history of NOAA. Its microfilm collection includes decades of | The library subscribes to over one thousand peer-reviewed journals in print and electronic formats,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://library.noaa.gov/E-Resources/Journals|title=Journals {{!}} NOAA Central Library|website=library.noaa.gov|language=en-US|access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref> and is the official repository of all NOAA publications.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://repository.library.noaa.gov/|title=NOAA Institutional Repository|last=|first=|date=|website=|access-date=2017-07-27}}</ref> It also holds works and artifacts pertaining to the history of NOAA. Its microfilm collection includes decades of surface weather observations and surface weather analyses from the United States and Japan. | ||
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NOAA Central Library Stacks 3.jpg|NOAA Central Library stacks | NOAA Central Library Stacks 3.jpg|NOAA Central Library stacks | ||
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==Role within data digitization== | ==Role within data digitization== | ||
The NOAA Library has been active within the Climate Digital Modernization Program (CDMP), which is headquartered at the [[National Climatic Data Center]] (NCDC) in | The NOAA Library has been active within the [[Climate Digital Modernization Program]] (CDMP), which is headquartered at the [[National Climatic Data Center]] (NCDC) in Asheville, North Carolina. Projects have included digitizing foreign climate data books, the United States Daily Weather Map series, and ''[[Monthly Weather Review]]'' articles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/cdmp/noaa-tasks.html|title=CDMP NOAA Tasks|author=National Climatic Data Center|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|date=2008-08-22|accessdate=2012-04-26}}</ref> | ||
Researchers at the library from the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center (HPC, now the [[Weather Prediction Center]] or WPC) are digitizing the library's microfilm North American and Northern Hemispheric map collections, originally created by the National Meteorological Center (NMC).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ncep.noaa.gov/newsletter/|title=HPC Scanning|author=National Centers for Environmental Prediction|author-link=National Centers for Environmental Prediction|newspaper=NCEP Quarterly Newsletter|date=January 2012|accessdate=2012-04-26|issue=4|publisher=[[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]}}</ref> | |||
==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||