Cold Regions: Pivot Points, Focal Points Proceedings of the 24th Polar Libraries Colloquy June 11–14, 2012 Boulder, Colorado, United States edited by Shelly Sommer and Ann Windnagel colloquy organized by Gloria Hicks and Allaina Wallace, National Snow and Ice Data Center Shelly Sommer, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research December 2012 Table of Contents Photo of participants .................................................................................................. 4 Opening and closing speakers ..................................................................................... 5 Keynote speaker: Dr. James W. C. White “Climate is changing faster and faster” ........................ 5 Closing speaker: Leilani Henry “We are all Antarctica” ............................................................................. 6 Session 1: Arctic higher education and library networks .............................................. 7 University of the Arctic Digital Library: Update 2012 ..................................................................................... 8 Sandy Campbell University of Lapland going to be really Arctic university – challenges for the library ..................... 15 Susanna Parikka Session 2: Best practices in collecting, searching, and using digital resources ............. 21 The network surrounding the Library of the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) .............. 22 Yoriko Hayakawa All you can get (?): Finding (full-text) information using a discovery service ...................................... 39 Marcel Brannemann Breaking the ice: integrating information literacy into Antarctic Studies ............................................. 49 Alison Hicks Session 3: Indigenous peoples and libraries ............................................................... 62 Entendre et communiquer les voix du Nunavik/Hearing and sharing the voices of Nunavik (IPY 2008-2011): A report on our creations. ........................................................................................................... 63 Sharon Rankin Archiving local and traditional knowledge of the Arctic: Managing data and information in partnership with indigenous communities and earth scientists .............................................................. 79 Heidi McCann, Chris McNeave, Julia Collins, Peter L. Pulsifer, Mark A. Parsons, Shari Gearheard, and Henry Huntington Finding Canadian polar Indigenous studies in Medline .............................................................................. 88 Sandy Campbell, Lisa Tjosvold, Marlene Dorgan, and Danièle Behn-Smith Session 4: Arctic and Antarctic Regions: History, status, moving forward ................... 96 Panel discussion: Arctic and Antarctic Regions .............................................................................................. 97 Sharon Tahirkheli, Martha Andrews, Ross Goodwin, and Craig Brandt Session 5: Trials by fire .............................................................................................. 99 Asking for trouble: Preparing for emergency to prevent the disaster ................................................ 100 Allaina M. Wallace Information Services in Canada’s Arctic: Successes and Challenges ................................................... 107 Erin Palmer Antarctic resources at the USGS ...................................................................................................................... 117 Lisa Adamo Session 6: International Polar Year .......................................................................... 121 The IPY Publications Database: Slow progress ............................................................................................ 122 Ross Goodwin, Sharon Tahirkheli, Heather Lane, Ruth Duerr, Allaina Wallace, P.T. Dheerendra, and Igor Krupnik Putting DAHLI to Bed: Preservation tactics for managing collections with limited means .......... 135 Liz Schlagel 2 Session 7: Developments in data ............................................................................. 156 Nimbus satellite data recovery from visible film archive: 1964, 1966, 1969 .................................... 157 G. Garrett Campbell, Dave Gallaher, Carl Gallaher and Alex Calder Session 8: Transforming libraries: New services and structures ................................ 162 Models for the EU Arctic Information Centre – engaging the Polar Libraries Colloquy ................ 163 Heather Lane Is there a future for specialized libraries? .................................................................................................... 174 Vibeke Sloth Jakobsen EU Arctic Information Centre ........................................................................................................................... 178 Liisa Hallikainen Session 9: Open access and institutional repositories .............................................. 186 Promoting open access publishing to scientists using library funds to pay author fees: Part 1 . 187 Flora Grabowska The Canadian Circumpolar Institute community in the University of Alberta’s institutional repository ................................................................................................................................................................ 199 Elaine Maloney Index of authors...................................................................................................... 210 3 Photo of participants 24th Polar Libraries Colloquy In front of the ATLAS Center on the University of Colorado campus, where the Colloquy was held. Front row: Yoriko Hayakawa, Sue Olmsted, Lisa Adamo, Erin Palmer, Shannon Vossepoel, Sandy Campbell, Hilary Shibata, Gloria Hicks, Susanna Parikka, Jo Milton. Middle row: Elaine Maloney, Heidi McCann, Flora Grabowska, Ron Inouye, Chris McNeave, Suzanne Larsen, Laura Kissel, Katherine Arndt, Daria Carle, Sharon Rankin, David Ongley, Bolethe Olsen, Lynn Yarmey. Back row: Shelly Sommer, Liisa Hallikainen, Vibeke Jakobsen, Charlotte Andersen, Berit Jakobsen, Marcel Brannemann, Ivar Stokkeland, Ross Goodwin, Garrett Campbell. (Photo credit: Peter Gibbons, NSIDC.) 4 Opening and closing speakers 24th Polar Libraries Colloquy Keynote speaker: Dr. James W. C. White “Climate is changing faster and faster” “Every generation faces fantastic challenges. Sustainability is our challenge.” Dr. James White is a noted climate scientist working on abrupt climate change, sea ice and sea-level changes, and carbon cycles. At the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. White is Professor of Geological Sciences, a Professor in the Environmental Studies Program, and Fellow and Director of INSTAAR. He is one of Web of Science’s most highly cited scientists (one of the top 1% most highly cited authors in his field). He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1983. Dr. White’s research interests are broad but revolve around the use of environmental stable isotope ratios that tell us about paleoclimate, biogeochemistry, and global change. His research includes modeling the global carbon cycle, reconstructing past environments using ice cores and isotopes in organic materials, and tracing groundwater flow and recharge. Since the 1980s, his research has helped to show that large climate changes tend to occur as abrupt shifts in mode probably driven by internal adjustments in the Earth climate system (rather than gradual adjustments to changing external conditions like energy received from the sun). Shifts of more than 10˚C in mean temperature in less than a human lifetime are common in the paleoclimate record, and serve as a warning that adaptation to future climate changes may not be easy. In his keynote talk, Dr. White showed the basic science behind climate change. He explained clearly and succinctly how the climate system works at the global scale and outlined what changes are imminent. We’ve reached a point of dominance on the planet and are at a moment of reckoning: will we deal well or ill with the changing shape of our world? Jim challenged us to create a sustainable world in the face of global change: 1) by bringing ethics – not just economics – into the picture and 2) by being nicer to each other (through empowering women, etc.) He framed the issue of sustainability as one of human responsibility. See more online instaar.colorado.edu 5 Closing speaker: Leilani Henry “We are all Antarctica” “What I learned from this is that we’re all in the same boat, literally.” We are All Antarctica is a story about Ms. Henry’s father, George W. Gibbs, Jr., and his adventures as the first person of African descent to set foot on the continent of Antarctica. He sailed on the USS Bear from 1939–1941 on Admiral Byrd’s third expedition to the South Pole. Gibbs went on to a life of strong community service, paving the way for not only people of color in the community of Rochester, Minnesota, but for all people to become more human, serve their community, and appreciate differences. As the lowest ranked person on the ship, he was honored for his contribution at a time when people with dark skin were considered less than human. We are All Antarctica is also the story of Ms. Henry’s own exploration, following along with the entries Mr. Gibbs left in his journals. It took her across the country and around the world, to the Byrd Polar Center, the Smithsonian, the homes of explorers, and eventually to Antarctica in a tangled web of connections and community. Ms. Henry’s talk was sponsored by Hollinger/MetalEdge. See more online http://southcontinent.blogspot.com/