National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering

该奖项为国家地震工程信息服务机构(NISEE)提供了新的支持。国家地震工程信息服务的目的是向执业工程师和相关专业人员、学术研究人员、政府机构和公众传播地震工程和相关领域的信息。该计划提供了一个中心收集点，收集关于NSF赞助的研究以及地震工程其他发展的报告。加州大学伯克利分校地震工程研究中心的NISEE项目包括EERC图书馆、地震工程摘要和计算机应用。在过去两年的赠款周期中，EERC图书馆的采购和公共服务交易继续增加。《地震工程文摘》开发了CAUS-CURCE摘要更新服务和CCIS定制当前信息服务两项新服务，以提高其服务的利用率。计算机应用继续以最近几年的年度水平分发微型计算机和大型计算机软件。NISEE将继续利用新的信息处理技术，以提高当前业务的效率，拓宽提供的服务范围，并扩大服务对象。计划包括扩大CAU和CCIS服务，并利用光学字符识别设备将所有卷的《摘要期刊》转换成电子媒体。EERC图书馆将加入OCLC并将现有记录转换为图书馆标准格式。计算机应用程序将通过转换用于在PC上运行的程序来扩展其微型计算机软件库。

This award provides renewed support for the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE). The purpose of the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering is to disseminate information on earthquake engineering and allied fields to practicing engineers and related professionals, academic researchers, government agencies and the general public. The program provides a central collection point for reports on NSF-sponsored research as well as other developments in earthquake engineering. The NISEE program at the Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, includes the EERC Library, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts and Computer Applications. During the last two year grant cycle, the EERC Library acquisitions and public service transactions continued to increase. Earthquake Engineering Abstracts developed two new services, CAUS- Current Abstract Update Service and CCIS-Customized Current Information Service, to improve the utility of its services. Computer Applications continued its distribution of microcomputer and mainframe computer software at its annual level of recent years. NISEE will continue to take advantage of new information handling technology to increase the efficiency of current operations, to broaden the spectrum of service provided and to expand the audience served. Plans include expansion of CAUS and CCIS services and conversion of all volumes of the Abstract Journal into electronic media using optical character recognition equipment. The EERC Library will join OCLC and convert existing records into library standard format. Computer Applications will expand its microcomputer software library by converting programs for operation on the PC.