Information Center
The Information Center at NSIDC supports our
mission to "make
fundamental contributions to cryospheric science and excel in managing
data and disseminating information in order to advance understanding of the
Earth system." The Information Center serves as a resource for cryospheric
information, and provides research materials and reference services for
researchers at NSIDC and the University of Colorado, Boulder, and for
the general public.
The Information Center acquires and catalogs both published and unpublished
analog materials on glaciology, snow, ice, climate, and permafrost, as well
as digital data such as CD-ROMs and Web resources. It contains over 44,000
monographs, serials, journal articles, reprints, videos, maps, atlases and
CD-ROMs. We currently receive over 100 periodicals and newsletters relating
to the cryosphere and to remote sensing of ice and snow. The Information Center
catalog contains records for approximately 19,700 items, and you can search
it in-house, Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The catalog is also available
on the Web, as part of the Arctic and Antarctic Regions Database published
by NISC (National Information Services Corporation). Material check-out is
limited to NSIDC and University of Colorado, Boulder personnel, but items may
be obtained by NOAA personnel through Interlibrary Loan. All others may visit
the Center to use materials.
The Information Center collection is maintained at NSIDC as part of the World
Data Center for Glaciology, Boulder, with support from NOAA's National Environmental
Satellite, Data, and Information Service. It is located in Room 258 at the
National Snow and Ice Data Center.
Information Center librarians provide reference services to all users of
the Information Center materials, handling over 600 reference requests per
year. For help, please contact Gloria Hicks or Allaina Howard at Library@nsidc.org.
