1. “A Library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people.” --Andrew Carnegie

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Building New Scholarly Communities • 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...

6. www.dlese.org

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. For Users: www.nsdl.org

14. BEOn Biology Education Online An interactive, peer-reviewed, online journal for teaching and learning biology Access Excellence and National Association of Biology Teachers

15. 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

16. http://serc.carleton.edu

17. “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