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- description: FUNCTION: NRL's Ruth H. Hooker Research Library offers a full range of traditional and digital library
services to enhance and support the research program of the Naval Research Laboratory. Traditional library services include
a physical facility for study and research, staffed with subject specialists and information professionals to assist researchers
in locating and retrieving published information. A rich and extensive journal, technical report, and book collection has
been created and maintained over the80+-year history of the library. To enhance traditional services, the library isactively
expanding the NRLDigital Library (http://library.nrl.navy.mil), which provides access to thousands of journals, books, and
reference sources at desktops at NRL-DC, NRL-Stennis, NRL-Monterey, and the Office of Naval Research.DESCRIPTION: The Library
collections focus on physics, chemistry, electronics, and space sciences. They include 150,000 books and journal volumes,
4,000 current journal subscriptions, and over 2 million technical reports in paper, microfiche, or electronic format. The
collections are regularly analyzed, organized, and updated to provide quick and easy retrieval of the most appropriate items.
Services include the following: reference assistance in using the collections and locating information from external sources;
mediated literature searches of several hundred online databases, including classified databases, to produce on-demand subject
bibliographies; circulation of materials from the collection including classified literature up to the SECRET level; interlibrary
loan and document delivery to obtain needed items from other scientific and research libraries or from commercial document
providers; ordering all journals for office retention; and user education and outreach to help researchers improve productivity
through effective use of both the physical library and the Digital Library resources available through TORPEDO Ultra and the
World Wide Web.TheTORPEDO Ultra digital repository providesdesktop access to more than 8 million full content items; thousands
of research journals; hundreds of technical databases; and reference tools including Web of Science, SCOPUS, and INSPEC. EEQUIPMENT:
Public access computers, photocopiers, color printer, microform reader/printers, and self-service digital sender.; abstract:
FUNCTION: NRL's Ruth H. Hooker Research Library offers a full range of traditional and digital library services to
enhance and support the research program of the Naval Research Laboratory. Traditional library services include a physical
facility for study and research, staffed with subject specialists and information professionals to assist researchers in locating
and retrieving published information. A rich and extensive journal, technical report, and book collection has been created
and maintained over the80+-year history of the library. To enhance traditional services, the library isactively expanding
the NRLDigital Library (http://library.nrl.navy.mil), which provides access to thousands of journals, books, and reference
sources at desktops at NRL-DC, NRL-Stennis, NRL-Monterey, and the Office of Naval Research.DESCRIPTION: The Library collections
focus on physics, chemistry, electronics, and space sciences. They include 150,000 books and journal volumes, 4,000 current
journal subscriptions, and over 2 million technical reports in paper, microfiche, or electronic format. The collections are
regularly analyzed, organized, and updated to provide quick and easy retrieval of the most appropriate items. Services include
the following: reference assistance in using the collections and locating information from external sources; mediated literature
searches of several hundred online databases, including classified databases, to produce on-demand subject bibliographies;
circulation of materials from the collection including classified literature up to the SECRET level; interlibrary loan and
document delivery to obtain needed items from other scientific and research libraries or from commercial document providers;
ordering all journals for office retention; and user education and outreach to help researchers improve productivity through
effective use of both the physical library and the Digital Library resources available through TORPEDO Ultra and the World
Wide Web.TheTORPEDO Ultra digital repository providesdesktop access to more than 8 million full content items; thousands of
research journals; hundreds of technical databases; and reference tools including Web of Science, SCOPUS, and INSPEC. EEQUIPMENT:
Public access computers, photocopiers, color printer, microform reader/printers, and self-service digital sender.
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- Title Ruth H. Hooker Research Library.
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2017-03-08T15:37:48.364910
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