NOAA Miami Regional Library: AOML Location
Introduction: The NOAA Miami Regional Library is a branch of the Library and Information Services Division, Central Library in Silver Spring, Maryland. There are two libraries in the Miami Branch: one located at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the other located at the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The following information concerns the AOML location.
Library Hours: The library doors are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to the NOAA staff. The library is open to the public for reference only Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Library staff are available Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The Collection: The Miami Branch Library collection supports the coastal and open oceans programs, tropical and hurricane meteorology, air-sea interaction, ocean physics, chemistry and acoustics, atmospheric chemistry, marine geology, and other related disciplines in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences. Special collections include:
- NOAA Laboratories Technical Report Series for atmospheric and oceanographic sciences.
- The Harris B. Stewart Collected Papers.
- Foreign and Caribbean meteorological data and reports.
- Handwritten local weather records.
- WHOI technical reports and dissertations.
- U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey collection, 1807-
- U.S. Coast and Pilot charts.
- Film loops of weather.
- Historical weather data of Key West and Miami.
General Information:
- Books: 20, 224
- Uncataloged domestic/foreign technical reports: 6, 500
- Bound journals: 11, 851
- Maps and charts: 2, 200
- Microfilms: 60, 000
- CD's and databases: 110
- Current journal subscriptions and newsletters: 190
Staff:
- Linda Pikula Regional Librarian: Linda.Pikula@.noaa.gov
- Bibliographic searching, reference, acquisitions, cataloging.
Telephone/Telecommunications:
- Reference/Literature Searches:
- (305) 361-4429, Librarian
- Inter-Library Loan:
- (305) 361-4428, Library Technician
- OCLC symbol:
- OAO
Library Services:
- In-depth reference and research, SDI to researchers.
- Computer-based information retrieval of citations,
abstracts, and full text from more than 500 databases.
- Inter-library loan and document delivery to
researchers.
- Public access PC's providing entry to databases
and a gateway to Internet resources. Databases include the Aquatic Sciences
and Fisheries Abstracts,FirstSearch, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical
Abstracts, CARL Uncover, ISI Current Contents, GEOREF, NTIS, climate
data, and a variety of CD-ROMs produced by NOAA, NCDC, NGDC, NODC, and
USGS.
- Microfiche and microfilm reader-printers and
a copy machine.
- In-library and remote access via personal computer
to NOAALINC, our automated catalog. The catalog contains the holdings
of our library, as well as 25 NOAA libraries across the country.
Copyright Information: "Access to the works and information contained therein is provided as a public service by NOAA Miami Regional Library with the understanding that the U.S. Government makes no warranties, either express or implied, concerning the accuracy, completeness, reliability, or suitability of the information. Nor does the U.S. Government warrant that use of the works is free of any claims of copyright infringement".
