National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering

该奖项为国家地震工程信息服务（NISEE）提供了新的支持。NISEE的宗旨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。NISEE项目位于加州大学伯克利分校地震工程研究中心，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》完成了软件向内部出版系统的转换。向用户提供了NISEE数据库。《计算机应用》继续以与近几年相同的水平分发微型计算机和大型计算机软件。该项目为美国国家科学基金会和其他赞助的研究报告以及地震工程的其他发展提供了一个中心收集点。NISEE将继续利用新的信息处理技术来提高当前业务的效率，扩大提供的服务范围并扩大服务的受众。摘要期刊和NISEE数据库将继续扩大其受众，并将摘要期刊纳入当前的出版计划。EERC图书馆将开始把现有的手工记录转换成机器可读的形式。计算机应用程序将扩展在386级机器上运行的软件的功能。NISEE的这个分支补充了加州理工学院第二个分支的活动。

This award provides renewed support for the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE). The purpose of NISEE 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 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 completed the conversion of its software to an in-house publication system. The NISEE database was made available to users. Computer Applications continued its distribution of microcomputer and mainframe computer software at the same level as recent years. The program provides a central collection point for reports on NSF and other sponsored research as well as other developments in earthquake engineering. NISEE will continue to take advantage of new information handling technology to increase the efficiency of current operations, to broaden the spectrum of services provided and to expand the audience served. The Abstract Journal and NISEE database will continue to expand their audience and bring the Abstract Journal to a current publication schedule. The EERC Library will begin to convert existing manual records into machine-readable form. Computer Applications will expand capabilities for software which runs on a 386 class machine. This branch of NISEE complements the activity of a second branch at the California Institute of Technology.