Pacific Regional Aquaculture Information Service for Education

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Pacific Regional Aquaculture Information Service
for Education

• Science Technology Reference Department
• Hamilton Library

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The PRAISE Story

• You are here today because you have always
  wondered why I was always talking about PRAISE.
  (and hallelujah)
• I, Kris Anderson, PI, will be offering the sermon
  this morning
• Aquaculture is the cultivation of sea animals and
  plants in a controlled marine environment
  underwater agriculture.

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Topics of Discussion

• History
• Services Offered
• Who Gets Served?
• Benefits to the Library
• Benefits to the PI
• That Stuff That is Too Interesting to Not Share

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History

• There are 5 Regional Aquaculture Centers under
  USDA
• Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture
  (CTSA) established 1986
• 1988 CTSA recognized a need for information
  dissemination to the region

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Services Offered

• Research Aquatic Sciences Fisheries Abstracts
• Document Delivery
• Gray Literature Bibliography

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Who Gets Served

• Farmers, Researchers, and Students in the US
  Affiliated Pacific
• Hawaii
• Guam
• Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Republic of Belau (Palau)
• Republic of the Marshall Islands
• American Samoa
• IAMSLIC

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Statistics for 2003

• Requests 513
• Citations Delivered 3,746
• Documents Delivered 1,095
• Pages Delivered 15,081
• Miscellaneous Requests 275

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Special Projects

• Currently collecting background information on
  200 species of fish for a publication proposed by
  Pacific Aquaculture and Coastal Resources Center
• Ariel ILL software
• Gray Literature Bibliography
• CD-ROM Lan and Remote Sites

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Benefit to the Library

• Total Dollar Amount since inception 318,880
• Equipment
• First online/CD database
• Name Recognition

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Benefits to the PI

• Grant Writing aka Learn patience, grasshopper.
• Travel to interesting places
• Get to meet great people
• Warm and fuzzy for all the assistance

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That Stuff That is Too Interesting to Not Share

• Weird Requests
• Manatees Clownfish in Wisconsin
• Do people pay any attention???
• PRAISE the Lord
• My child is going to Hawaii on a class trip
  what books should s/he read?

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Conclusion

• Weve successfully served the marine science
  community in the Pacific for 15 years.
• Scanning the Gray Literature materials is
  starting TODAY we have 15 signed consent forms
  so far.
• Funding is assured for another 2 years and
  support is strong from the community.