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          The Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library welcomes
          the data to be provided by NASA's Office of Mission to
          Planet Earth (EOSDIS).  The subject matter certainly falls
          into our realm of interests.
 
          Dr. Eisenbeis, Universities Space Research Association,
          seeks to know the "reasonable number of users that might be
          expected to use these data ... at and through libraries."
          At the SIO Library we've never sought to quantify public use
          of the data bases we already have loaded up.  We just look
          at the potential users based on the subject matter and put
          it out there.  The library advertises all these sources of
          data available either at our public computer work stations
          or from remote offices here at Scripps (& some off campus
          locations). We don't have meters mounted on our computers so
          we don't know what the volume of traffic is from remote
          locations.  Our goal is to provide data for people at their
          own offices so they don't have to come to the library.  Our
          computers POINT TO RESOURCES (such as EOSDIS) using our
          World Wide Web Home Page.  There are likely hundreds of
          potential users of EOSDIS here at Scripps but since there is
          a satellite facility in operation here I'm not sure if users
          would derive data thru the Internet or just walk up the hill
          to those rusty trailers housing the Satellite machinery and
          get to it from there.  It's a very complicated scenario here
          at Scripps and no easy way to determine how much this data
          will be used from here.
 
          I'd recommend that NASA just make this stuff available, let
          the libraries point to it, and wait and see what happens.
          If no one calls up it won't be because the libraries didn't
          at least tell their clientele about it.
 
          - Paul Leverenz
            Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library
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