The library at the University of Oklahoma’s National Weather Center launched a new Web site this month titled “All Weather Is Good,” which provides useful weather and climate Web sites and books, a webliography, for high school students and adults.
“Most weather bibliographies are aimed at either meteorology students, faculty and researchers, or elementary students and teachers,” said Ginny Dietrich, NWC librarian. “Our goal was to satisfy the curiosities of high school students and adults who are fascinated by the weather. A webliography was a unique approach to present these resources.”
Dietrich collaborated with experts throughout the NWC to compile sources on all aspects of the weather, ranging from hurricanes to climate change, forecasting to folklore, tornadoes to world climates, and weather history to cloud formations.
“The NWC Library is the premiere facility for bringing weather information to people in an easy to understand way,” said Kevin Kloesel, OU College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences’ associate dean for public service and outreach. “This webliography will allow high school students to access important information for science, history and social studies projects, and provide a resource for all of us to learn more about how weather affects the decisions we make every single day.”
The project was mainly funded by a 2008 Carnegie‐Whitney Award from the American Library Association. The grant provides support for the preparation and publication of popular or scholarly guides to library resources that will be of interest to users of all types of libraries in the United States.
“All Weather Is Good” can be found at http://awig.nwc.ou.edu/index.html. For more information or library presentation requests, please contact Ginny Dietrich at (405) 325‐1072 or gdietrich@ou.edu.