NOAA Central Library National Oceanographic Data Center

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NOAA Central LibraryNational Oceanographic Data
Center

• 14 Websites and Counting
• Proposal for Continuation of Task Order L-4
• Climate Database Modernization Program
• November 5-6, 2008
• Task Leaders Doria Grimes, NOAA Central Library
• Diana Abney, NOAA Central
  Library

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New CDMP RecordApril 2008 1,131,076
Imaging Usage FY2008 October 607,389 November
788,602 December 711,876 January
737,142 February 531,835 March 900,323 April
1,131,076 May 947,424 June 948,389 July
946,287 August 808,590 September 794,757
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Library Online Usage

• FY2003 2,525,128
• FY2004 2,794,574
• FY2005 5,492,235
• FY2006 6,639,489
• FY2007 7,337,006
• FY2008 9,853,690

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FY08 Accomplishments

• NOAA Rare Books, 1600-1800, 45,000 images
• Rare Book Treasurers, 1400-1600, 23,000 images
• Polar Exploration (IPY) 23,000 images
• Weather Bureau Documents 8,500 images
• Special Publications 4,000 images
• Hurricanes 2,500 images
• Rare Books Fisheries 1,000 images
• Tornados 300 images

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Website Development Increases Access to Data

• New Digital Documents and Maps Collection web
  page with links to 14 Websites
• 4 New web pages
• US Coast Geodetic Survey Special Publications
  (1898-1956)
• Why the Weather series (1923-1941)
• Weather Bureau Topics Personnel (1915-1961)
• Weather Bureau Circular Letters (1940-1966)

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Continuing L4 Task Order

• Rare Books 1600-1800 - (346 titles) - full text
  online 50,000 pages
• A voyage round the world but more particularly
  to the north-west coast of America, performed in
  1785, 1786, 1787 and 1788, in the King George and
  Queen Charlotte, 1789
• An account of the first aërial voyage in
  England,1784

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Four Additional full text Themes/Collections
online

• TIROS Satellite documents for 50th Anniversary
  (239 titles) 60,000 pages
• ESSA/NOAA Journals - for NOAAs 50th Anniversary
  (43 titles) 14,000 pages
• Tornados (552 titles) from U.S. Weather Bureau
  - 90,000 pages
• Mississippi Flood documents (63 titles) U.S.
  Weather Bureau - 17,000 pages

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Library Goals

• 1. Provide online access to the full text of
  the ESSA Journals and TIROS documents by the end
  of FY09. This will support activities related to
  the 50th Anniversary of TIROS and the 40th
  Anniversary of NOAA in 2010.
• 2. Online access to historical tornados and
  Mississippi flood documents as a result of this
  years record number of storms.