This message is from Kathleen Eisenbeis.-------------------Johnnie --------------------------------- Wed, 27 Apr 94 14:41:29 EDT [log in to unmask] (Kathleen Eisenbeis) Library users of the EOSDIS NASA's Office of Mission to Planet Earth is a program designed to understand global environmental change. The program will collect data from satellites, aircraft and ground studies and provide these data and information to scientists and other users around the world through the Earth Observing Data and Information System (EOSDIS) over the Internet. NASA has a number of operating satellites currently collecting data on radiation, ozone, aerosols, ocean circulation, stratospheric and mesospheric chemistry. Future satellites in the Earth Observing System era will provide new types of data for expanded science objectives. To encourage wide use of the data and information NASA is now developing the EOSDIS. The goal is to enable quick and easy access to these resources for a broad range of users. NASA would like to involve the library community as users and and intermediaries to the public. The question that needs answering now is: What is a reasonable number of users that might be expected to use these data and information at and through libraries? As an adviser to the MTPE on the role of libraries in providing these data to the public, I am asking for a response to this question from working librarians. If you can make an estimate (in hundreds or thousands) of anticipated use in libraries of all types of digital Earth science data that will be freely available over the Internet, I welcome your input. I can assure the readers that this is a serious and nontrivial question which reflects an attempt by NASA management to plan for a real user need that they have never before considered in their deliberations. Responses need to be made by May 6 directly to: Dr. Kathleen Eisenbeis, USRA, Washington, DC. [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Kathleen M. Eisenbeis Visiting Scientist, Universities Earth Sciences Program Universities Space Research Association 300 D. St. SW Suite 801 Washington, DC 20024 PH: 202-479-2609 FAX: 202-479-2613 [log in to unmask]