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Allerton Park Institute Proceedings 020.715 A434 no. 18 INFORMATION RESOURCES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN 020.715- v A434 no. 18 cop. 3 The person charging this material is re- sponsible for its return to the library from which it was withdrawn on or before the Latest Date stamped below. Theft, mutilation, and underlining of books are reasons for disciplinary action and may result in dismissal from the University. To renew call Telephone Center, 333-84OO UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN L161 O-1096 ALLERTON PARK INSTITUTE NUMBER 18 Edited by GEORGE S. BONN Papers Presented at the 1 8th Allerton Park Institute November 12-15, 1972 University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science Champaign-Urbana, Illinois Copyright 1973 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois LC Card Number: 73-75784 ISBN: 0-87845-037-8 '.7/6 4?3? TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD 1 GEORGE S. BONN LIBRARIANS AS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS 4 MICHAEL SCHNEIDERMAN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 12 SARAH M. THOMAS INFORMATION RESOURCES IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES: AN ACADEMIC VIEWPOINT 63 ROBERT L. METCALF AND ELISABETH B. DAVIS ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS 76 VIRGINIA BRODINE SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITY IN THE ENVIRONMENT SCIENCES 97 STEPHEN T. QUIGLEY GETTING DOWN TO EARTH: THE CALL OF STOCKHOM UPON THE INFORMATION SERVICES Ill MARY ANGLEMYER A GUIDE TO ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION SERVICES OF THE PRIVATE SECTOR 126 JAMES G. KOLLEGGER NATIONAL INFORMATION CENTERS, FACILITIES AND SERVICES FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 142 JOHN H. VEYETTE, Jr. REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LIBRARIES 159 KAY COLLINS STATE AND LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION CENTERS, FACILITIES, AND SERVICES 164 ANGELA IMBERMAN FEDERAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMS 169 DENNY STEPHENS THE SCHOOL MEDIA SPECIALIST AS ACTIVIST 176 SELMA K. RICHARDSON SELECTING AND EVALUATING ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION RESOURCES IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES 193 GERALD ZIMMERMAN COPING WITH ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION RESOURCES ... 203 JANET FRIEDLANDER DURKHEIM AND WEBER IN WONDERLAND; OR, BUILDING ENVIRONMENTAL COLLECTIONS FOR THE REAL WORLD 213 MELVIN R. GEORGE A SUMMARY AND OVERVIEW OF THE CONFERENCE 224 HERBERT GOLDHOR INDEX OF APPENDICES 231 INDEX OF AGENCIES, SERVICES AND PERIODICALS 232 LIST OF ACRONYMS . 235 Foreword Each fall the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library Science, in cooperation with the Division of University Extension, holds a three -day Institute at Allerton Park, the University's conference center near Monticello, Illinois, about twenty-five miles southwest of Champaign-Urbana. The 1972 Institute on Information Resources in the Environmental Sciences is the eighteenth in the series and was cosponsored by the Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality. While the environment, broadly defined, has long been a concern of many writers, it has only been since the middle 1960s that the environment has become the concern of almost everybody in the United States and of many people in other countries as well. The resulting proliferation of diverse points of view and of diverse agencies, organizations, and spokesmen in the broad field of the environmental sciences has further resulted in the prolifera- tion of all kinds of publications and of other sources of environmental information. It is to these information resources their production, their development, and their use -that the 1972 Allerton Park Institute directed its attention. It was singularly appropriate that a conference on the environment should have been held at Allerton Park in 1972. Allerton Park, a 1,500-acre tract of native Illinois river bottomland, was given to the University of Illinois in 1946 by Robert Allerton to be used by the University as an educational and research center, as a forest and wildlife and plantlife reserve, as an example of landscape architecture, and as a public park. In recognition of its uniqueness as a large tract of fast-disappearing native river bottomland, the U.S. Department of the Interior declared it a national landmark in 1970. For several years now Allerton Park has been the center of a controversy between the Army Corps of Engineers which plans to create a water supply reservoir by building a dam ten miles downstream on the Sangamon River which flows through the park, and a committee of concerned citizens who say that, under 2 INFORMA TION RESO UR CES IN THE EN VIRONMENTA L SCIENCES periodic flood conditions, some 1,100 acres of Allerton Park bottomland would be ruined in course of time as both nature reserve and public park. As a state institution the University is caught in the middle, but some sort of compromise is likely to be worked out. It was also appropriate that the Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality (IIEQ) should have been a cosponsor of this Allerton Park Institute. The IIEQ was one of three state agencies set up by the Environmental Protection Act passed by the Illinois General Assembly in 1970. The multiple purpose of the IIEQ is to support and to do research, to propose regulations, to provide expert witnesses and advice, and to insure that all relevant data and points of view are heard and considered by the other two agencies (Environ- mental Protection Agency and Pollution Control Board). Obviously informa- tion is one of the IIEQ's major concerns, and its information services are accordingly well organized and highly developed. It was noteworthy that almost every paper in this volume echoed the appeal of the keynote speaker -that librarians be activists, that they pay as much or more attention to the dissemination and the use of their collections as they do to the acquisition, organization, and control of their collections. It is good to be reminded occasionally about what librarians really ought to be and ought to be doing, but it is a little sad that so many people, both librarians and nonlibrarians, seemed to think it necessary to bring the matter up at all. The keynote speaker also suggested a rather provocative aim, function, or perhaps description of a library, particularly a public library that it be a "credible threat to bureaucracy." I like that: a credible threat to bureaucracy! The implications, the challenge, the virtue in those four words give librarians something to think about. In the final prepared paper for the Institute the speaker pointed out, quite rightly, that no social change, no matter how timely, beneficial, or necessary for the public good, can be brought about unless and until the public is willing to accept it as an alternative to existing conditions. It is generally agreed that our environment, broadly defined, needs to be cleaned up, protected, and preserved for ourselves and for future generations, but it is still uncertain that society is ready and willing to do the needful. All the information resources in the environmental sciences that can be mustered will be needed to help society make up its mind. Between the keynote address and the final paper were informational papers on the work (and works) of various interested agencies, institutions, and organizations in the field; descriptive papers on information centers and services with emphasis on the environmental sciences; and practical papers on the development of environmental information collections for different kinds of libraries. An expert summary and outlook paper brought the Institute to a close. (For the record, the paper by James G. Kollegger was presented at the FOREWORD 3 Institute by Arthur D. Kramer of Microfiche Publications, an associate com- pany of Kollegger's.) The members of the planning committee for the 1972 Allerton Park Institute included Winifred Ladley, F. Wilfrid Lancaster, and George S. Bonn from the Graduate School of Library Science, and Angela Imberman from the Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality whose firsthand knowledge of persons, organizations, activities, and publications in the field proved in- valuable in arranging the program. Other members of the faculty and a number of students from the library school helped in various ways to make the Institute a success. Business details of the Institute were in the experi- enced hands of Leonard E. Sigler and his staff in the Division of University Extension and of Joseph Devorak and his staff at Allerton House. To the distinguished speakers who gave so much of themselves and of their time and to all others who participated in any way in the Institute, the Planning Committee is indeed grateful. Especial thanks must go to Barbara DiNovo and her staff in the Publications Office of the Graduate School of Library Science for their part in getting these papers published so promptly. George S. Bonn Chairman, Planning Committee January 1973 MICHAEL SCHNEIDERMAN Director Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality Librarians As Environmental Activists Librarians are sometimes thought to be classic passive resources-seen and not heard peacefully waiting for their clientele to approach. Incentive is supposed to come from users while librarians wait to serve. Therefore much librarianship seems devoted to preparing to satisfy people who may show up on their own. Whatever degree of validity this view has for most libraries, it is unacceptable for environmental libraries and for environmental collections in general li- braries. These libraries and collections cannot be wallflowers. The passive view makes too little of them. The rest of the papers for this conference deal with the passive functions of environmental libraries; I will deal with some of the important active functions. THE SETTING Environmental quality is a creature, and occasionally a victim, of decisions made at many levels of government and in the private sector. These include decisions to do things, and to not do things. Virtually everything that government does affects the environment: such major activities as highway and dam construction, and some less visible functions such as purchasing. The vast regulatory functions of governments affect many private activities which in turn affect the environment.
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