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:

The library doors are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to the NOAA staff. The library is open to the public for reference only Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Library staff are available Monday through Friday from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The Collection:

The Miami Branch 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:

NOAA Laboratories Technical Report Series for atmospheric and oceanographic sciences
The Harris B. Stewart Collected Papers
Foreign and Caribbean meteorological data and reports
Handwritten local weather records
WHOI technical reports and dissertations
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey collection
U.S. Coast and Pilot charts
Film loops of weather
Historical weather data of Key West and Miami

General Information:

Books: 20,776
Uncataloged domestic/foreign technical reports: 6,500
Bound journals: 11,598
Maps and charts: 2,200
Microfilms: 60,000
CD's and databases: 110
Current journal subscriptions and newsletters: 190

Staff:

Linda Pikula, NOAA Miami Regional Librarian:
   305-361-4429

AOML Librarian:
   Inter-library loans, reference, periodical control, cataloging, web design.
     305-361-4428

Christie Wiley, Librarian:
     Inter-library loans, circulation, Database Maintenance and Web Design.
     305-361-4428

Gloria Aversano, Librarian:
     Reference, bibliographic searching, circulation, cataloging.
     305-361-4428

Telephone/Telecommunications

(305) 361-4428, Librarian

Interlibrary Loan:

(305) 361-4428, Librarian
: OCLC symbol: OAO

Library Services:

In-depth reference and research, SDI to researchers
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, NODC, and USGS)
Microfiche / microfilm readers / 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 30 NOAA libraries across the country.

Location:

4301 Rickenbacker Causeway
Miami, FL 33149
Phone: (305) 361-4428
Fax: (305) 361-4448

Last updated August 22, 2007