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:
- Marine fisheries
- Marine biology
- Endangered species
- Cooperative gamefish and billfish tagging programs
- Fisheries stock assessments
- Ecology
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Our Library is open
from 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM (EST) Mon - Fri. For assistance contact:
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