NOAA Miami Library General Information: AOML Location

NOAA Miami Regional Library at AOML

General Library Information

Introduction:

The NOAA Miami Regional Library is a branch of the Library and Information Services Division NOAA Central Library in Silver Spring, Maryland. There are two libraries that comprise the Miami branch: one located at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) and the other located at the National Hurricane Center (NHC). The following information concerns the AOML location.

Library Hours:

Library staff are available Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Collection:

The NOAA Miami Regional Library collection supports the coastal and open oceans programs, tropical and hurricane meteorology, air-sea interaction, ocean physics, chemistry and acoustics, atmospheric chemistry, marine geology, and other related disciplines in the atmospheric and oceanographic sciences. Special collections include:

The Harris B. Stewart Collected Papers
Foreign and Caribbean meteorological data and reports
Handwritten local weather records - "NHC Library"
WHOI technical reports and dissertations
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey collection
AOML History Collection
Biscayne Bay online bibliography
Dry Tortugas online bibliography
Coral Literature

General Information:

Bound Journals: 21,766
Books: 22,258
Maps and charts: available online
CD's and databases: 110
Current journal subscriptions: 81
Journal titles: 1,109 titles

Staff:

Gloria Aversano, Librarian
305-361-4428

Library Services:

In-depth reference and research, SDI to researchers, bibliometrics, research data.
Computer-based information retrieval of citations, abstracts, and full text from more than 500 databases
Inter-library loan and document delivery to researchers
Public access PC's providing entry to databases and a gateway to Internet resources (databases include the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, OCLC FirstSearch, Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts, Uncover, CARL, ISI Current Contents, ISI Web of Knowledge, GEOREF, NTIS, climate data, and a variety of CD-ROMs produced by NOAA, NCDC, NGDC, NCEI, and USGS)
Microfiche / microfilm readers are available at NHC Library. Printers, fax machine, photocopier
In-library and remote access via personal computer to NOAALINC, our automated catalog. The online catalog contains the holdings of our library, as well as 26 NOAA libraries across the country.

Location:

4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Phone: (305) 361-4428
Fax: (305) 361-4552