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Uta Grothkopf
European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 2,
D-85748
Garching, Germany, e-mail: esolib@eso.org
The directory of astronomy librarians and libraries was created shortly after the LISA II (Library and Information Services in Astronomy II) conference held at the European Southern Observatory in May 1995. Based on the list of participants, a directory of approx. 100 names and addresses of astronomy librarians was created. The list has been available on the World Wide Web from the very beginning, although some features, for instance clickable links to homepages and a convenient search function, were added later.
The address list was created in order to foster information exchange and collaboration among astronomy librarians.
Librarians need to provide information requested by users very quickly. As more and more observatory publications, newsletters and other information material issued by astronomical institutes become available on the World Wide Web, librarians often succeed in finding requested information directly on a library's or institute's Web page. However, the majority of information resources is not yet available electronically, and contacting a colleague at a library that might be able to fulfill our users' information requests is often the most efficient route. Today, the Internet allows us to contact colleagues almost instantaneously, regardless of different continents or time zones so that the information retrieval process can be accelerated remarkably.
The directory is available on the World Wide Web at
It is maintained by the ESO Library; updates are incorporated upon receipt of new or corrected information. As of April 1998, the directory contained 159 addresses of astronomy librarians and libraries worldwide. On average, the database was accessed 165 times per month during the past year.
The directory does not serve any commercial purpose, nor is it designed to serve as a mailing list, since there are other astronomical distribution lists, for instance ``Astrolib'', moderated by Ellen Bouton from NRAO (library@nrao.edu ) and the ``EGAL Bulletin'', maintained by Peter Hingley from the Royal Astronomical Society London (pdh@ras.org.uk ).
Typically, entries in the directory consist of the following details:
the librarian's name
the institution's name and full postal address
the library's telephone and fax number and its e-mail address
the URL of the library's WWW page, if available
The directory is ordered alphabetically according to the last name of the librarian. The side bar of the Web browser can be used to scroll through the entire list. Alternatively, a search function is available. Any name or part of an address can be entered in the search field. Searches result in a list of addresses that match the query.
Approximately one third of the addresses in this compilation point to the library's (or, exceptionally, the institute's) Web page; the number is increasing. E-mail and World Wide Web addresses are active links. Clicking on e-mail addresses will activate the browser's mail program so that messages can be composed and sent instantaneously; Web pages of libraries can be accessed by clicking on the WWW address.
In order to provide up-to-date and complete information, we ask you to help us. If your name and address are not yet included in this database or if the details of your entry have changed, please use the form at
to submit the correct data, or just send a message to Uta Grothkopf
at
esolib@eso.org
. Please don't hesitate to submit details of a
colleague's address who is not yet included in this compilation; we will ask
him or her for permission before actually
including the name and address in the directory.
A big thank you to Ed Janssen, ESO Graphic Designer, for providing so much help with producing the poster displayed at the LISA III conference.
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