NOS PUBLICATIONS PROJECT

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• NOS PUBLICATIONS PROJECT
• Background
• NOAA Administrative Order 205-17
• NOAA Information Access and Dissemination,
  issued September 994
• Section 6 Responsibilities, Subsection c, 1-3
• c. The NOAA Central Library, as the official
  repository of NOAA publications, shall
• Serve as the information repository for all NOAA
  scientific and technical publications
• Provide access to and preserve the published
  results of environmental research
• Facilitate the access, dissemination, and
  transfer of scientific and technical publications
  and information

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BACKGROUND, cont. 1998 onwards Opportunity
for Library Outreach Collaborative effort NOS
Web Team, NOS Programs, NOAA Central
Library NOS Team responsibilities Library
Team responsibilities
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PAM RUBIN, NOS LEAD Project Origins and
Purpose Project Process Project Challenges
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Decentralized Architecture Procite
Databases NOS Office Databases gt NOS
Database Procite gt Filemaker Pro gt
Lasso Procite gt Library Team
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ACQUISITIONS Opportunity to provide
comprehensive coverage of NOS publications,
1998- (NAO 205-17) Online only need for
preservation copy Print or other tangible format
only time to acquire Need for Resources
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CATALOGING Records in NOAALINC and OCLC 856
tag - Link from record to actual online
resource 793 tag allows user to search on NOAA
Electronic Document (NOS) and NOAA Document
(NOS)
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ACCESS and DISSEMINATION NTIS GPO Future
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts FirstGov.Gov Ex
panded Access in FDLP? Others?
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FUTURE Authentication issues Electronic
Archiving XML for NOAA Publications Suggestions,
comments welcome