(NSDL) Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library (ATEEL)

该收藏项目正在开发高级技术环境教育图书馆(ATEEL)，以满足环境技术学生、教育工作者和技术人员以及对环境问题感兴趣或有知识需求的个人的环境信息需求。项目合作伙伴包括高级技术环境教育中心(ATEEC)、麻省理工学院(MIT)、环境技术教育伙伴关系(PETE)和达文波特公共图书馆。环境技术教育需要获得可靠和最新的信息，需求集中在两个不同的领域：1)提供环境技术各个方面的学位的大学课程(例如，危险材料、自然资源管理、污染预防、能源管理等)；以及2)几乎所有技术领域都需要的环境教育(例如，医疗保健人员、制造技术人员、计算机/电子维修技术人员、农业等)。联邦和州的法规经常发生变化，新的发现和技术改变了技术人员所需技能和知识的性质。在环境领域，通过联邦和州政府机构以及数以千计对环境问题感兴趣的非营利性机构，可以在互联网上获得大量非专有材料。然而，许多学生、教师和技术人员访问这一网络时，往往会发现他们迷失在数据的海洋中--其中大部分与他们的工作职能或技能发展无关。数字图书馆技术是提供对这些丰富信息源的访问和管理的理想之选。该ATEEL项目通过建立基础设施来服务于环境社区，以支持全面的、交互式的环境技术员教育数字图书馆，该数字图书馆服务于社区学院学生、教师、技术员和公民在广泛的技术领域的环境教育需求。ATEEL正在创建专门的资源，专注于提供全面、最新的监管信息的链接。它还与麻省理工学院合作，创建了环境研究扫描功能，以支持将环境技术研究整合到课堂和社区中。

This Collections project is developing the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library (ATEEL) to serve the environmental information needs of environmental technology students, educators, and technicians as well as individuals with an interest in or a knowledge requirement of environmental issues. Project partners include the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Center (ATEEC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Partnership for Environmental Technology Education (PETE), and the Davenport Public Library.Environmental technology education requires access to reliable and up-to-date information with the demand focused in two distinct areas: 1) college programs that offer degrees in various aspects of environmental technology (e.g., hazardous materials, natural resources management, pollution prevention, energy management, etc.); and 2) environmental education required across nearly all technical fields (e.g., health care workers, manufacturing technicians, computer/electronics repair technicians, agriculture, etc.). Federal and state regulations change routinely and often, and there are new discoveries and technologies that change the nature of the skills and knowledge required of technicians. In the environmental area, large amounts of non-proprietary materials are available on the Internet through federal and state government agencies, as well as thousands of non-profit agencies with an interest in environment issues. However, access to this network for many students, teachers and technicians often finds them lost in an ocean of data - much of which has no relevance to their job function or skill development. Digital library technologies are ideal for providing access to and managing these rich sources of information.This ATEEL project is serving the environmental community by establishing an infrastructure to support a comprehensive, interactive environmental technician education digital library that is serving the environmental education needs of community college students, instructors, technicians, and citizens across a broad range of technical fields. ATEEL is creating specific resources focused on providing links to comprehensive, up-to-date regulatory information. In partnership with MIT, it is also creating an environmental research-scanning function to support the integration of environmental technology research into the classroom and community.