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SEFSC Library

The Southeast Fisheries Science Center Library is located at 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami , FL. Our field libraries are located at the Panama City, FL, and Pascagoula, MS Laboratories. With more than 3,200 books, 300 Journals, and 1,500 reprints, and CD-ROMS the library provides information services, literature searches, and interlibrary loans as well as Computer-based information retrieval of citations, abstracts and full text, and databases including Aquatic Sciences And Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA)Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) and Ingenta.

SEFSC Library Mission

The NOAA SEFSC Library is a Federal Library. According to the Federal Library and Information Center Committee Library of Congress, the mission of federal libraries and information centers is to contribute to the public good in the following areas:

Information Management

Identifying, selecting, acquiring, analyzing, organizing, preserving and delivering authoritative information content, regardless of physical format
Providing efficient, timely access to information wherever it resides
Optimizing effective use of information resources through expert assistance to end-users
Sharing information resources electronically through national and international networks
Managing the transition to new formats and media

Public Access

Providing leadership in development of policies and procedures that advance dissemination of government information
Serving US citizens on behalf of their agencies
Serving the information needs of other government agencies--local, state and federal
Promoting open, democratic access to information
Comprising the federal node in the "national digital library"

Agency Mission

Advocating development, maintenance and use of high quality information resources, systems and services to support agency mission
Improving cost-effectiveness and reducing redundancy by consolidating information resources
Serving as the agency's institutional memory, providing continuity and archiving of program information, ensuring access for future generations
Partnering within and outside the agency for coordinated, targeted information delivery
Nurturing and developing a competent, service-oriented, diverse staff who are committed to the agency mission and are current with the rapidly changing information environment.

The Miami Science Center Library Collection includes the following topics: