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The challenge of global change: Responding through research, education, and data and information management
The Earth is a place of change. The geological record testifies that the Earth's environment has been subject to change over eons—much of it occurring slowly over many millennia…
The U.S. Global Change Research Program: History and organization
Berna L. Heyman, James C. French, Glen L. Bull, Francis P. BrethertonThe U.S. government has been proactively seeking solutions to the growing concern with issues relating to global change through several initiatives. A major global change…
Libraries, global change data, and information management
Carol Watts, Cheryl J. Burley, Roberta Y. Rand, David R. Lide, Julia Blixrud, Stanley Elswick, Gary McCone, Paul M. KuinA primary role of libraries is to organize, manage, and store collections of information and data resources. Librarians and information professionals, serving as facilitators in…
U.S. Federal Agency implementation overviews
Each of the agencies participating in GCDIS will play a role appropriate to its agency mission and consistent with the funds available to it. Descriptions of each agency's…
Global change resources, projects, and tools
Fred Stoss, John Scialdone, Lola Olsen, Anne O'Donnell, Janet Wright, Eliot Christian, Roberta Balstad Miller, Gerald S. Barton, Walter Bogan, Barbara Rodes, Diane HarveyWhat follows is a small sampling of activities that are underway. All of them are working toward contributing to the understanding of the Earth system.
Storm Warning
Paul E. FilmerMost everyone has heard the rumblings on the horizon of the National Information Infrastructure (NII). To some, it is the sound of traffic: a steady roar of bytes rushing by over…
The future of global change: A challenge to librarians
Kathleen M. EisenbeisIt is critical that agencies know who their users are and how to evaluate the usefulness of their data and information systems. Accomplishing this task is within the intellectual…
A target of opportunity: Creation of the louis network
Jennifer Cargill, Sammie W. Cosper, C. Landon Greaves, Carolyn Hooper Hargrave, Ronald D. Hay, Nancy Nuckles, D.M. Schneider, Jill FatzerThree different governing boards of higher education in Louisiana joined together to create the Louisiana Online University Information System (LOUIS). Key players in this…
Technology for the deaf: Remembering to accommodate an invisible disability
Susan Gilbert BeckBeck discusses the need to improve library and information services for the deaf community. The technological support available to libraries to serve the deaf is identified and…
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- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho