IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

The book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert reviews the five previous mass extinction events on Earth and warns that we are currently faced with another, this time driven largely by man-made causes. Providing members of the public, conservation organizations, and government officials with reliable information and generating awareness about those species in danger of potential extinction is one step in countering … Continue reading IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection

I have been thinking a lot lately about how science librarians can partner with Special Collections and Archives Librarians to teach students about scientific sources and data that are in special collections and archival collections. A cool digital archive is the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s (NSIDC) Glacier Photograph Collection. This database contains over 16,600 digital (or digitized) photographs of glaciers from around the … Continue reading NSIDC Glacier Photograph Collection