“A Library outranks any other one thing a community can do to

benefit its people.”

--Andrew Carnegie

Digital Libraries

• Building on the tradition of libraries as a community resource– Collecting, organizing, preserving– Sharing – Services for Users– A Community Center– Providing a Meeting Place

A Digital Library Supporting Learning about the Earth-

• Integrated, multidisciplinary approach to Earth system education

• Natural connections to the physical, life and social sciences, and engineering disciplines

• Central facility in support of Earth system education for all

The DLESE VisionA consensus view, developed in a broadly

representative community forum.

• Rapid, sophisticated access to collections of peer-reviewed teaching & learning resources

• Interfaces and tools to enable student exploration of Earth data sets

• Services to help users effectively create and use materials

• A community center to facilitate sharing and collaboration

• Good libraries help institutions & communities– Change patterns of information flow & learning– Establish an “intellectual commons”

• Libraries built with digital technologies can– Foster new (geography-independent)

communities– Offer fundamentally new types of information– Organize information in radically new ways– Engage users as creators, reviewers...

Building New Scholarly Communities

www.dlese.org

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NSDL Purpose

To catalyze & support continual improvements in science education– A network of learning environments &

high-quality resources

– For all settings & levels • Individual, collaborative, formal, informal

• All levels: K-12, undergraduate, graduate, lifelong

– Collaborative development & operation• Resource users are resource providers

• Distributed, autonomous components

NSDL Is• A modern digital information environment

– Distributed network of collections & services– Immense variety of multi-media materials– Computer-aided discovery, utilizing

• Metadata created by experts• Content analysis• Inference

• A library– Foundation for community advancement– Starting point for anyone who’s curious– Locus of intellectual discourse– Quality materials

NSDL Is Not

• A centralized, top-down endeavor– NSF (in the past 2 yrs) has award 64 NSDL grants

totaling about $38M– One grant (shared by Columbia, Cornell, & UCAR) is

for “core integration,” including coordination of all funded projects

• A gigantic repository for digital materials– NSDL/core points to collections maintained

by others, rather than holding them directly– NSDL/core holds metadata records

Key Concepts & Principles(as proposed for year 1 by the CI team)

• NSDL is an “Education Layer” over the Web• NSDL will be seen by

– Users, as one library with many portals– Builders, as offering a spectrum of interoperability

• NSDL soon must exhibit– Diverse collections– Appropriate user interfaces & library services– Means for access & content management– A framework for technical evolution– Educational excellence

Note: NSDL embraces much more than the NSDL-funded projects

For Creators and Contributors: http://comm.nsdlib.org/

For Users: www.nsdl.org

BEOnBiology Education Online

An interactive, peer-reviewed, online journal for teaching and learning biology

Access Excellence

and

National Association of Biology Teachers

Serc.carleton.edu

• Integrating services and collections– Support “On the Cutting Edge” professional

development workshops– Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences– Community Issues and Groups– NSDL Portal for Using Data in the Classroom– Research on Learning in the Geosciences– “Starting Point” resources for introductory

courses

http://serc.carleton.edu

“Criterion II”: Broader Impacts

• Digital Libraries can substantially help projects to address Broader Impacts

• Consider Partnering with– Math Science Partnership– Course, Curriculum, Laboratory Improvement

• Integrating Education and Research in Biocomplexity site– Serc.carleton.edu