The Observer, May 2008

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Council reports are now widely available online

Looking for a council report? You now have multiple options for finding it online.
As always, reports and other important documents are posted on our website at www.pwsrcac.org/resources/reportsavail.html, where they are grouped chronologically by program.

But our reports are also available on other, easily searchable, websites. Links to these sites reside on the web page mentioned above.

The nerve center for all of this is ARLIS, or Alaska Resources Library and Information Services. ARLIS was created by merging the staff and collections of nine Anchorage natural resources libraries. Additional organizations support the library financially as contributors.

The council has recently partnered with ARLIS as a contributing organization. This means we have access to some of the technical and professional databases and journals to which the library subscribes, and our reports are entered into the ARLIS collection faster.

The ARLIS collections are available through their own website, www.arlis.org, as well as through the Anchorage Municipal Library and the University of Alaska Library. ARLIS is also part of the Online Computer Library Center, which connects hundreds of libraries around the world. The center’s online catalog is called WorldCat.

Try this: visit www.worldcat.org and, in the search box, type “Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council.” More than 100 council reports appear in WorldCat’s list.
Since many university and public libraries around the world tie into WorldCat, researchers and students interested in oil transportation and related environmental issues in Alaska have a good chance of discovering our reports.