National nodes in an EU network for Arctic information: the United Kingdom perspective Heather Lane Librarian & Keeper of Collections SPRI, University of Cambridge, UK Barents Library Congress Rovaniemi, Finland – August 2011

Outline Introduction to the Institute Research environment The SPRI Information Service Resource sharing in EUAIC Network models Working together Standard and needs Outline

The 1934 Building

History The Institute is the oldest and largest international centre for polar research within a university. Founded in 1920, as a memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, RN, and his four companions, who died returning from the South Pole in History

Aims to provide a place where polar travellers and explorers can meet, and where material of polar interest might be collected and made accessible for future research to provide an international centre for research and reference in a variety of fields related to polar environments, historical, scientific and social to provide a focus for cutting edge polar science for the United Kingdom higher education community Aims

The Shackleton Memorial Library

The Friends Room

Special Collections

Research In 2010, Institute staff held competitively won grants of over £3.5 million, £2 million of which came from the UK Research Councils Research

Research groups Circumpolar History and Public Policy Research Group Glacimarine Environments Group Glaciology and Climate Change Group Polar Landscape and Remote Sensing Group Polar Social Science and Humanities Group NERC Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling Research groups

British Antarctic Survey Cambridge Arctic Shelf Programme International Glaciological Society International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research World Data Centre for Glaciology, Cambridge Partners based in Cambridge

The Information Service Library –150,000+ books and pamphlets –3,000 periodicals (800 current titles) –350 linear metres of special collections (pre-1880) –3,500 maps Archives –3,500 linear metres Museum –10,000 objects Picture Library –120,000 images The Information Service

Reader profile postgraduate members of the Institute undergraduates, reading Geography, Engineering or Anthropology visiting scholars government agencies (Met Office, Royal Navy) commercial oil and shipping companies picture, film and media researchers scientists and explorers members of the public Reader profile

43,500+ museum visitors 1250 research enquiries –by telephone –by –by fax –in person 475 archives readers 4,206,585 requests for website pages Picture Library information and sales External services

SPRILIB web catalogues Cambridge University Newton catalogue BiblioLine Arctic & Antarctic Regions (NISC) International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) within the Institute –Muscat in-house catalogue –Card catalogue (60,000+ items) Polar and Glaciological Abstracts (journal) Access to library collections

Resource Sharing International resource sharing National resource sharing Cambridge University Library

Polar Libraries Colloquy (PolarPac) Barents Library Congress (barentsinfo.org) IAMSLIC (z39.50) Distributed Library NAROS Network models

Library coordination (SPRI) The EU Arctic Information Centre will be a “one stop shop” which aims to disseminate information and activities importance of the network in this initiative strengths of working with, and coordinating the expertise of, existing partner organisations Working together

common frameworks for metadata access to metadata harvesting tools open access to existing catalogues (z39.50) Standards

Needs funding technical expertise unified access to relevant, high-quality information assessment of volume of likely requests from the centre to the nodes Needs

Questions? web Questions?