Environmental Protection Agency Library Network

Environmental Protection Agency Library Network
Author: Bernard T. Vellios
Publisher:
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) library network provides staff and the public with access to environmental information. Its 26 libraries contain a wide range of information and resources and are located at headquarters, regional offices, research centres, and laboratories nation-wide. In 2006, EPA issued a plan to reorganise the network beginning in fiscal year 2007. The plan proposed closing libraries and dispersing, disposing of, and digitising library materials. GAO was asked to assess (1) the status of, and plans for, the network reorganisation; (2) EPA's rationale for reorganising the network; (3) the extent to which EPA has communicated with and solicited the views of EPA staff and external stakeholders in, conducting the reorganisation; (4) EPA's steps to maintain the quality of library services after the reorganisation; and (5) how EPA is funding the network and its reorganisation. For this study, GAO reviewed pertinent EPA documents and interviewed EPA officials and staff from each of the libraries.

Relation of Sci-Tech Information to Environmental Studies

Relation of Sci-Tech Information to Environmental Studies
Author: Ellis Mount
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000758958

This book, first published in 1990, illustrates the nature and use of sci-tech information in relation to the environment. Sci-tech librarians, government researchers, and compilers and editors of noted indexing/abstracting services describe the efforts of their organizations to compile, maintain, and disseminate the large body of sci-tech information devoted to environmental concerns. It includes informative chapters on: a description of the Environmental Protection Agency's network of 25 libraries throughout the country, including details of the services offered by the network and the collections of the ten regional libraries and 15 specialized or scientific libraries; a review of the growth of the non-profit, non-advocacy Center for Environmental Information, Inc., with a look at its library and its programs such as the Acid Rain Information Clearinghouse; an examination of the American Chemical Society's journals, books, newsletters, meeting abstracts, and other publications devoted to environmental matters; a look at the Adirondack Research Center and its contributions to furthering the efforts of researchers who study conservation topics as they relate to this important area; and an acknowledgement of the important role played by commercial bibliographies and databases in the quest to rapidly disseminate new information on environmental issues.