LISNews: Librarian News

Daniel writes "The NOAA Central Library has recently digitized and posted a number of historic weather products:1. U.S. Daily Weather Maps at:http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/dwm/data_rescue_da ily_weather_maps.htmlThis site provides access to historical daily weather maps from 1871 through 2001. To see weather maps for 2002-present go to:http://www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov/dailywxmap/frame.html 2. Monthly Weather Review at:http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/mwr/data_rescue_mo nthly_weather_review.htmlThe site provides access to issues of the Monthly weather review prior to 1973 for free, when it was produced by National Weather Service and Dept. of Commerce. Access to issues from 1973 onwards requires a subscription from AMS.3. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Annual Reports at:http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/cgs/data_rescue_cg s_annual_reports.htmlThis site provides access to the annual reports of the Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1852 to 1892 in PDF format. The Library may in the future provide access to more of these reports.4. Climatic data of the world (Non U.S.) can be found at:http://docs.lib.noaa.gov/rescue/data_rescue_home.h tml.Under this project thousand of international climatic observations from all over the world have been imaged. They are continue being added. The images are provided in PDF and multi-page TIFF formats."

Daniel writes "Secrecy News reports on the study Predicting Nuclear Proliferation: A Declassified Documentary Record. This report asserts"the declassification of several Cold War-era Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) estimates of nuclear proliferation trends offers interesting insights into what previous U.S. governments believed—and ultimately did—about the international spread of nuclear weapons."This looks like some pretty even-handed research which wouldn't be possible under the current administration's secrecy policies."

Daniel writes "Information Today reports that Elsevier will close three end user science portals: BioMedNet, ChemWeb, and ElsevierEngineering.com because "the contribution of this form of marketing to S&T's [science and technology] current business is not sufficient to continue the associated high investments.� Information Today reported that BioMedNet had over a 1,000,000 registered users. The full story can be read at Info Today . -- Read More

Anonymous Patron writes "The Huron County Genealogical Society may pursue legal action against the Huron County General Health District for confiscating about 20 rolls of microfilm containing vital statistics from the Norwalk Public Library, according to local historian Henry Timman. Coverage in the Morning Journal from Loraine, OH, can be found here and here."
The article says The Ohio Department of Health will pursue every collection of state vital statistic records outside its control on the grounds that local health districts never had the authority to make available mass reproductions of the records, according to Jay Carey and Dr. Sandra McGuire, of the Ohio Department of Health.