Implementation of a U.S. Polar Information Network

阿拉斯加大学拉斯穆森图书馆提议，通过将一些主要机构(科罗拉多大学、俄亥俄州立大学、达特茅斯学院、阿拉斯加大学系统、西部图书馆网和研究图书馆信息网)的现有馆藏联网，大大增加研究人员获取北极和极地书目资源的机会。书目记录将每半年合并一次，放在光盘只读存储器(CD-ROM)上。将对四个专门研究图书馆的内部网上馆藏进行比较，并在共同基础上增加独特的记录。将完成并增加一个重要的单独文件--《极地丛书联合名录》。这些活动和成果将与其他专门的北极和极地国际中心进行交流，同时将大大增加社会科学文献的可获得性。该项目的成果将对1984年《北极研究和政策法案》、北极研究委员会、国家科学院的几份报告的反复建议和结论作出回应，并将补充机构间北极研究政策委员会的环境数据活动以及两极信息的检索和传播。

The University of Alaska Rasmuson Library proposes to substantially increase researchers' access to arctic and polar based bibliographic sources through networking of existing library holdings in a number of major institutions (University of Colorado, Ohio State University, Dartmouth College, Alaska University system, the Western Library Network, and the Research Libraries Information Network). Bibliographic records will be merged and made available semi-annually on a compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM). Comparison of in-house on-line holdings of four specialized research libraries will be conducted and unique records added to the common base. An important separate file, "A Union List of Polar Serials," will be completed and added. These activities and results will be exchanged with other specialized arctic and polar international centers and will at the same time greatly increase availability of social science literature. Results of this project will be responsive to repeated recommendations and findings of the Arctic Research and Policy Act of 1984, the Arctic Research Commission, several reports of the National Academy of Sciences, and will complement environmental data activities of the Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee and bipolar information retrieval and dissemination..