STATION LIBRARY
Table of Contents:
1. Purpose
Appendices:
B. Aviation
C. Marine
D. Agriculture
E. Forestry
G. Hydrology
H. Climatology
1. Purpose. An important part of an employee's general responsibilities is to insure that his or her talents, skills, and abilities are constantly sharpened or renewed in order to serve with the greatest proficiency. One way to do this is by reading which requires access to books, periodicals, reports, etc. A station's library is the primary source of these materials.
This chapter describes the NOAA library system and the interrelationship of the station library; assigns organizational responsibility; makes suggestions on the use of library space and facilities; tells how to borrow, obtain for retention, and dispose of library material; and presents guidelines for the selection of material for station libraries.
2. Description of the NOAA Library System. The library system is composed of all the scientific libraries throughout NOAA. The Libraries Branch of NOAA operates the scientific libraries in the Washington area and provides functional supervision for the entire system. The purpose of the system is to support the management, research, and operational needs of NOAA with appropriate and compatible library literature and facilities.
Libraries maintained (usually, but not necessarily, by the Scientific Services Division) in regional headquarters are functionally under the NOAA Libraries Branch which is assisted by:
a. The Technical Procedures Branch, Weather Analysis and Prediction Division, MO, WSH.
b. The Hydrologic Service Division, O/H, WSH.
c. Field Services, Environmental Data Service, NOAA.
Other individuals or organizational elements may be consulted from time to time. These offices assist in the determination of the best books and technical reference materials for regional headquarters and station libraries.
Station libraries are overseen by regional headquarters (usually, but not necessarily, the Scientific Services Division), but the on-site responsibility for a station library resides with the MIC or OIC, who may delegate the responsibility.
3. Space and Facilities. About 50 square feet of floor space should be allowed for a useable station library. A larger area may be required for those stations with diversified programs and a larger staff.
Facilities should consist of:
a. For readers--table, chairs, and a display facility for new material being routed through the station.
b. Shelving or bookcases and vertical files.
c. Index system and loan facility.
4. Borrowing, Station Library Material. All material should be available for loan to station personnel for a reasonable period with simple, but effective, control; exceptions should be publications that need to be kept at the library at all times (e.g., dictionaries, atlases, glossaries, etc.)
The length of the loan period should be governed by the need and nature of the item. For example, someone taking a correspondence course may need a textbook for a few months. On the other hand, a journal article of interest to many at the station should be loaned for a few days.
A simple, but effective, control means a record to show what was borrowed (author and title), name of borrower, date borrowed, and the date returned. An important reason for this control is to help in the prompt recall of a given item for urgent use by someone at, or occasionally outside, the station.
5. Borrowing from Other NOAA Libraries. When temporary need of a library item arises, the regional headquarters should be contacted first as the regional headquarters library may have the item available for loan. In the case of an item of relatively few pages, a photocopy may be furnished in lieu of a loan.
If the regional headquarters library does not have the needed item, a memorandum should be sent to the Atmospheric Sciences Library (AD711) requesting the loan of the item. Loan requests for material from the Atmospheric Sciences Library Accessions List should include the pertinent issue number and item number.
6. Obtaining Publications for Retention. Regional headquarters has responsibility for obtaining U.S. Government publications (including subscriptions), atlases, dictionaries, handbooks, and so-called administrative library materials such as airlines guides, shipping news, etc.
The Atmospheric Sciences Library, Silver Spring, Maryland, arranges for purchase of books and subscriptions for Journals in scientific and related fields. Organization code(s) and project numbers should be furnished by regional headquarters.
All literature received for retention at the station should be stamped with the following information:
| NOAA
National Weather Service (name of station) LIBRARY |
7. Disposing of Library Material. Periodic examination and discarding of materials is needed to maintain an up-to-date library. When library materials become obsolete and/or are no longer needed at a station, regional headquarters should be contacted to find out if the material is needed there or at some other station.
After clearance with regional headquarters, books and other material that are no longer needed may be offered to a local college or public library. Ownership marks must be cancelled, and the materials transferred without expense to the Government.
Materials not wanted by anyone should be destroyed as waste paper.
No notification to the Atmospheric Sciences Library is needed for materials transferred or discarded.
8. Guidelines for the Selection of Library Materials. Appendix A is a list of library materials for WSFOs and the larger WSOs, e.g., those with extensive programs. Smaller WSOs, RFCs, RDOs, WSMOs and state climatologist offices will need fewer materials from Appendix A. The selection of material must be validated by regional headquarters. Stations receiving NOAA and WS Technical Memoranda, etc., should file these by series. Appendices B through H are lists of supplementary materials to support specialized program areas for aviation, marine, agriculture, forestry, air pollution, hydrology, and climatology, respectively. Station libraries may contain all or parts of these listings depending on the strength of the stations program in these areas.
All listings are intended as guidelines for the selection of materials and are not intended to imply that a station should immediately order materials it does not have or that texts and other materials not listed should not be in a station's library.
METEOROLOGY AND RELATED SUBJECTS
List of Library Materials for WSFOs and the larger WSOs. Other libraries in WSOs, RFCs, ROs, State Climatologist Offices, and WSMOs, May Contain a Portion of the Material From This Listing. (See Paragraph 8.)
Air Ministry, Meteorological Office Tables of Temperature, Relative Humidity and Precipitation for the World. Six parts. New York, British Information Services, 845 Third Ave., 1958.
Battan, L. J., Cloud Physics and Cloud Seeding. New York, Anchor Books - Doubleday and Co., 1962. 144 p.
Battan, L. J., The Nature of Violent Storms. New York, Anchor Books - Doubleday and Co., 1961. 158 p.
Battan, L. J., Radar Meteorology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1959. 161 p.
Battan, L. J., Radar Observes the Weather. New York, Anchor Books Doubleday and Co., 1962. 153 p.
Battan, L. J., The Unclean Sky. New York, Anchor Books Doubleday and Co. 1966. 141 p.
Blumenstock, D. I., The Ocean of Air. New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1959. 457 p.
Byers, H. R., General Meteorology. 3rd ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1959. 540 p.
Chang, Jen-hu, Climate and Agriculture: An Ecological Survey. Chicago, Aldine PubLishing Co., 1968. 304 p.
Critchfield, H. J., General Climatology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall. 1960. 465 p.
Dunn, G. E. and B. I. Miller, Atlantic Hurricanes. Rev. ed. Baton Rouge, La., Louisiana State Univ. Press. 1964 377 p.
Flora, S. D., Hailstorms of the United States. Norman, Okla., University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. 201 p.
Flora, S. D., Tornadoes of the United States. Norman, Okla., Oklahoma Press, 1954. 221 p.
Geiger, R., The Climate Near the Ground. Rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1957 494 p.
George, J. J., Weather Forecasting for Aeronautics. New York, Academic Press, 1960. 673 p.
Glasstone, S., Source Book on Space Sciences. Princeton, N. J., D. Van Nostrand, 1965. 937 p.
Hess, S. L., Introduction to Theoretical Meteorology. New York, Holt, 1959. 362 p.
Hirschleifer, J., DeHaven, J. C., and J. W. Milliman, Water Supply, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1960. 378 p.
Humphreys, W. J., Physics of the Air New York, Dover Publications, 1964 676 p.
Jacobs, J. J., Russell, R. D., and J. T. Wilson, Physics and Geology. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1959. 424 p.
Jarett, H. ed., Perspectives on Conservation. Baltimore, John Hopkins Press, 1958. 260 p.
Kendrew, W. G., The Climates of the Continents, 5th ed. New York, Oxford University Press, 1961. 608 p.
Landsberg, H., Physical Climatology. 2d ed. Dubois, Pa., Gray Printing Co., 1958. 446 p.
Lehr., P. E., Burnett, W.R., and H. S. Zim, Weather: A Guide to Phenomena and Forecasts. Rev. ed. New York, Golden Press, 1965. (Golden Nature Guide) 160 p.
Linsley, R. K., Kohler, M.A., and J. L. H. Paulhus, Applied Hydrology, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1949. 689 p.
Malone T., ed., Compendium of Meteorology. Boston, American Meteorological Society, 1951. 1334 p.
Mason, B. J., Clouds, Rain, and Rainmaking. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1962. 145 p.
Meetham, A. R., Atmospheric Pollution, London, Pergamon Press, 1952. 268 p.
Middleton, W.E.K. and A. J. Spilhaus, Meteorological Instruments. 3d ed. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1953. 286 p.
Neuberger, H., Introduction to Physical Meteorology. University Park, Penna. State University, 1951. 271 p.
Petterssen, S., Weather Analysis and Forecasting. 2d ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1956. 2v. v. 1 Motion & Motion Systems. 446 p. v. 2 Weather & Weather Systems. 284 p.
Panofsky, H., Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology. University Park, Penna. State University, 1951. 271 p.
Reiter, E. R., Jet Streams, New York, Anchor Books - Doubleday and Co., 1967. 240 p.
Saucier, W. J., Principles of Meteorological Analysis. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1955. 438 p.
Scientific American, The Planet Earth. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1957. 168 p.
Sellers, W. D., Physical Climatology. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1965. 272 p.
Spar, J., Earth, Sea and Air. A Survey of Geophysical Sciences. 2d ed. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1965. 156 p.
Sutton, O G., Micrometeorology. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1953. 333 p.
Sverdrup, H. I., Oceanography for Meteorologists. New York, Prentice-Hall, 1942. 246 p.
Sverdrup, H. I., Johnson, M. W. and M. W. Fleming, The Oceans, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1942. 1087 p.
Tannehill, I. R., Hurricanes. 9th ed., Princeton, Princeton University Press. 1956, 308 p.
Thompson, P.D., Numerical Weather Analysis and Prediction. New York, The MacMillan Co., 1961. 170 p.
Thompson, P. D. and Robert O'Brien, Weather. New York, Life Science Library, Time Inc., 1965. 200 p.
Trewartha, G, T., The Earth's Problem Climates. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. 340 p.
Vaeth, J. G., Weather Eyes in the Sky - America's Meteorological Satellites. New York, The Ronald Press Co., 1965. 124 p.
Von Arx, W. S., An Introduction to Physical Oceanography. Reading, Mass., Addison--Wesley Publishing Co., 1962. 422 p.
Wang, Jen-Yu, Agricultural Meteorology. Palo Alto, Omega Interprizes, 1967.693 p.
Willett, H. C. and F. Sanders, Descriptive Meteorology. 2d ed. New York, Academic Press, 1959. 355 p.
PHYSICS
Van der Merwe, C., College Physics. 6th ed. New York, Schaum Publishing Co., 1966. (Schaum Outline Series) 270 p.
White, H. E., Modern College Physics. 5th ed., Princeton, N.J., D. Van Nostrand Co., 1966. 765 p.
MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
Ayers, F., Calculus. New York Schaum Publishing Co., 1964. (Schaum Outline Series) 345 p.
Brooks, C.E.P., and N. Carruthers, Handbook of Statistical Methods in Meteorology. New York, British Information Services, 845 Third Ave., 1953. 412 p.
Panofsky, H. and G. Brier, Some Applications of Statistics to Meteorology. University Park, Penna. State University, 1958, 224 p.
Rice, H. S. and R. M. Knight, Technical Mathematics with Calculus. 2d ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1966, 908 p.
Snedecor, G. W. and W. G. Cochran, Statistical Methods. 6th ed. Ames, Iowa, Iowa State University Press, 1967. 593 p.
Spiegel, M. R., Statistics. New York, Schaum Publishing Co., 1961. (Schaum Outline Series) 359 p.
Spiegel, M. R., Vector Analysis. New York, Schaum Publishing Co., 1959.(Schaum Outline Series) 225 p.
MISCELLANEOUS
A dictionary.
An adequate and recent Atlas.
A scientific encyclopedia.
Forrester, F. H., 1001 Questions Answered About the Weather. New York, Dodd Mead, 1957. 419 p.
Hughes, P., A Century of Weather Service. New York, Gordon and Breach, Science Publishers, Inc., 1970. 212 p.
Huschke, R. E., ed. Glossary of Meteorology. Boston, American Meteorological Society, 1959. 638 p.
List, R., Smithsonian Meteorological Tables. 6th ed., Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution, 1951. 527 p.
Whitnah, D. R., A History of the United States Weather Bureau. Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 1961. 267 p.
AVIATION
List of Supplementary Library Materials for Stations With Aviation Weather Service Programs
Federal Aviation Agency, Aviation Weather. Office of Personnel and Training Division, FAA Academy Oklahoma City, April 1970. 186 p.
Federal Aviation Agency, Flight Weather: Special Hazards and Characteristics. Office of Personnel and Training Division, FAA Academy, Oklahoma City, July 1965. 108 p.
Guerny, G. and J. A. Skiers, Private Pilots Handbook of Weather. Los Angeles, Aero Publishers, 1964. 177 p.
Nash, W. P. et al., Aviation Weather. Washington, D. C., Weather Bureau and Federal Aviation Agency, Government Printing Office, 1965. 300 p.
U.S. Weather Bureau, Pilot Weather Briefer Course. Rev. ed. 1969.
MARINE
List of Supplementary Library Materials for Stations with Marine Weather Service Programs
Beach Erosion Board, Shore Protection and Planning. Technical Report No. 4. Government Printing Office, 1961. 401 p.
Bowditch, N., American Practical Navigator, H. O. Pub. No. 9, Navy Hydrographic Office, 1962. 1524 p.
Coker, R. E., This Great and Wide Sea. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1947.(Harper Torchbooks) 325 p.
Dietrich, G., General Oceanography. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1963. 588 p.
Fairbridge, R., ed., The Encyclopedia of Oceanography. v. 1, New York, Reinhold Publishing Co., 1021 p.
Hill, M. N., ed., The Sea. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1962. v. 1, Physical Oceanography. 864 p.
Kinsman, B., Wind Waves Englewood Cliffs, N. J., Prentice-Hall, 1965. 676 p.
Meteorological Office, Meteorology for Mariners. London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1967. 304 p.
Roll, H. U., Physics of the Marine Atmosphere. New York, Academic Press, 1965. 426 p.
AGRICULTURE
List of Supplementary Library Materials for Stations With Agricultural Weather Service Programs
Agricultural Meteorology. Published monthly by Elsevier Publishing Co. Amsterdam.
Brooks, F., An Introduction to Physical Microclimatology. Davis, Calif., University of California, 1957. 2 v.
Gates, D. M., Energy Exchange in the Biosphere. New York. Harper and Row, 1962. (Harper and Row Biological Monographs, 151 p.)
Molga, M., Agricultural Meteorology. Pt. 2. Outline of Aerometeorological Problems, Warszawa. Published for the National Science Foundation and the Dept. of Agriculture by Centralny Instytut Informacji Naukowo-Technicznej i Ekonomicznej, 1962. Available from Office of Technical Services. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Wash., D. C. 350 p.
Munn, R. E., Descriptive Micrometeorology. New York, Academic Press, 1966, 245 p. (Advances in Geophysics, Supplement 1).
Penman, H. L., Humidity. London, The Institute of Physics, 1955. 71 p.
Pierre, W. H., ed., Plant Environment and Efficient Water Use. Madison, American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America, 1965. 295 p.
Plant Disease Reporter, Published monthly by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.
Priestley, C. H. B., Turbulent Transfer in the Lower Atmosphere. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1959, 130 p.
Tanner, C., Basic Instrumentation and Measurements for Plant Environment and Micrometeorology. Madison, Wisc., University of Wisconsin Press, 1963. (various pagings).
Vitkevich, V. I., Agricultural Meteorology. Translated from Russian by IPST staff Jerusalem. Published by the National Science Foundation, Washington, D. C., by the Israel Program for Scientific Publications, 1963. 320 p.
Waggoner, P. E., and others, Agricultural Meteorology. Meteor Monogr., Vol. 6, No. 28, 1965. 188 p.
Wang, Jen-Yu, ed., Bibliography of Agricultural Meteorology. Madison, Wisc., University of Wisconsin Press, 1962. 673 p.
Wilsie, C. P., Crop Adaptation and Distribution. San Francisco, W. H. Freeman and Co., 1962. 448 p.
FORESTRY
List of Supplementary Library Materials for Stations with Forestry Weather Service Programs
Byram, G. M., Atmospheric Conditions Related to Blowup Fires. Rev. July 1954. Station Paper No. 35, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service.
Clar, R. C. and L. R. Chatten, Principles of Forest Fire Management. Office of Procurement, Documents Section P. O. Box 1612, Sacramento, California, 95807.
Davis, K. P., Forest Fire - Control Use. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1959. 584 p.
Fire Control Notes. Published bimonthly by U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.
Hull, M., et al., Critical Fire Weather Patterns - Their Frequency and Levels of Fire Danger. With 13 supplements. 1966. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, California.
Mercer, J. M., ed, Synoptic Methods for Developing Forest Techniques. May 1963 (NWRF 38-0563-073) U.S. Navy Research Facility, Norfolk, Va.
Myrup, L. O., The Structure of Thermal Convection in the Lower Atmosphere. Los Angeles, University of California, Feb. 1965. 76 p.
Schroeder, M., et al., Synoptic Weather Types Associated with Critical Fire Weather. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley, Calif. 492 p.
Turner, J. A., et al., Forecasting for Forest Fire Services. Tech. Note 42, WMO, No. 110, T.P. 48. 56 p.
U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Winds Over Wildlands - A Guide for Forest Management. Agriculture Handbook No. 272. Nov. 1964. Washington, D. C., Government Printing Office, 32 p.
AIR POLLUTION
List of Supplementary Library Materials for Stations with Air Pollution Weather Service Programs
Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, Published monthly by the Air Pollution Control Association.
Panofsky, H. and J. L. Lumley, The Structure of Atmospheric Turbulence. New York, John Wiley and Sons, 1964. 239 p.
Pasquill, F., Atmospheric Diffusion. Princeton, N. J., D. Van Nostrand, 1962. 297 p.
Scorer, R. S., Air Pollution. New York, Pergamon Press, 1968. 151 p.
Slade, D. ed., Meteorology and Atomic Energy. Available as TID24190 from Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va. 22151.
Stern, A., ed., Air Pollution. New York, Academic Press, 1962. v. I, 656 p., v. II, 586 p.
U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution. (Training Course Manual in Air Pollution) Oct. 1967.
HYDROLOGY
List of Supplementary Library Materials for Stations with Hydrologic Service Programs
Johnstone, D. and W. P. Cross, Elements or Applied Hydrology. New York, Ronald Press, 1949. 276 p.
King, H. W., Handbook of Hydraulics. 4th ed. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1954. (various pagings),
Langbein, W. B. and W. G. Hoyt, Water Facts for the Nation's Future. New York, Ronald Press Co., 1959. 288 p.
Linsley, R. K. and J. B. Franzini, Elements of Hydraulic Engineering. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1955. 582 p.
Linsley, R. K., Kohler, M. A. and J. L. H. Paulhus, Hydrology for Engineers. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1958. 340 p.
Price, W. T., Elements of IBM 1130 Programming. New York, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1968. 475 p.
Wisler, C. O., and E. F. Brater, Hydrology. 2d ed. New York, Wiley and Sons, 1959. 408 p.
CLIMATOLOGY
List of Supplementary Library Materials for State Climatologist Offices
Akademiianauk, U.S.S.R., Sukhoveis and Drought Control. B. L. Dzerdzeevskii, Chief Editor, Jerusalem, Israel Program for Scientific Translations; available from Office of Technical Services, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Washington, D. C. 1963. 366 p.
Andur, E. J., ed., Humidity and Moisture - Measurement and Control in Science and Industry. New York, Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1965. v. 2. Applications.
Aronin, J. E., Climate and Architecture. New York, Reinhold, 1953. 304 p.
Brooks, C. E. P., Climate in Everyday Life. New York, Philosophical Library, 1951. 314 p.
Budyko, M. I., ed. Problems in Climatology. Leningrad, 1956. Published for the National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. by Israel Program for Scientific Publications, Jerusalem, 1963. 92 p.
Chang, Jen-hu, Climate and Agriculture: An Ecological Survey. Chicago, Aldine Publishing Co., 1968. 304 p.
Conrad, V. and L. W. Pollak, Methods in Climatology. 2d ed. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1950. 459 p.
Dixon, W. J. and F. J. Massey, Jr., Introduction to Statistical Analysis, 2d ed., New York, McGraw Hill. 1957, 488 p.
Fairbridge, R. W., ed. Solar Variations, Climatic Change, and Related Geophysical Problems. New York, The Academy, 1961. 739 p. (New York Academy of Sciences. Annals, v. 95, Art. 1).
Haurwitz B. and J. M. Austin, Climatology, New York, McGraw-Hill, 1944. 410 p.
Hoyt, W. G. and W. B. Langbein, Floods. Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1955. 469 p.
Landsberg, H. et al., World Maps of Climatology. Berlin, SpringerVarlag, 1963. 28 p.
Light, S. H., Medical Climatology. New Haven, E. Light Publisher, 1964. 753 p.
Lowry, W. P., Weather and Life. Corvallis, Or., O. S. U. Book Stores, 1968 (various pagings).
Mitchell, J. M. ed., Causes of Climatic Change. Meteor Mongr., Vol. 8, No. 30, 1968. 159 p.
Shapley, H., ed., Climatic Change. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1953. 318 p.
Shaw, R. H., ed., Ground Level Climatology. Washington, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1967. 395 p.
Snedecor, W. G., Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology. 5th ed. Ames, Iowa, Iowa State College Press, 1956. 534 p.
Tromp, S. W., Medical Biometeorology. New York, Elsevier Publishing Co., 1963. 991 p.
U.S. Air Weather Service, Pamphlet 105-2. Guide for Applied Climatology. Scott Air Force Base, Ill. Dept. of Air Force, Hdqrs. Air Weather Service (MAC), Nov. 1968. 1 v. (loose leaf).
U.S. Office of Naval Operations, Marine Climatic Atlas of the World. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956. v. 1 North Atlantic, v. 2 North Pacific Ocean.
U.S. Weather Bureau, Climatological and Oceanographic Atlas for Mariners. Washington, D. C., U.S Government Printing Office, 1961. v. 1 North Atlantic Area 1959. v. 2 North Pacific Area.
World Weather Records 1951-60, v. 1 North America, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965. 535 p (and earlier volumes).
WSOM Issuance
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