ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


Ju n e  1997 /  407

• W orld Food P rogram m e (WFP). The 
WFP Em ergency Reports provides weekly up­
dates on WFP emergency operations. The site 
also includes historic food aid statistics, trans­
portation and logistics statistics, and vulnerabil­
ity assessment maps for crisis areas. Access: 
http://www.wfp.org/.

• M igratory Pests. This site tracks infor­
mation about migratory pests such as the desert 

locust. It maintains situation 
reports and maps of infes­
ta tio n s . A c c e s s : http:// 
fa o w fs 0 a.fao.org / w w w . 
f a o . o r g / W A I C E N T /  
FA O IN FO /A G R IC U LT/ 
AG P / AGP P / L o c u s t s /  
Default.htm.

Technological disasters
A ccid en ts

• N a ti o n a l  T r a n s p o r t a t i o n  S a fe ty  
Board. This offers data on accidents in the U.S., 
current and historic, by transportation mode—  
aviation, highway, marine, rail, pipeline— and 
hazardous materials. Access: http://www.ntsb. 
gov/.

Other sites of note related to transportation 
disasters include Major Airline Disasters for 
information on worldwide events ( access: http: 
//www.infosites.net/dnet/dnetGOjg/Disasters. 
htm), and the Aviation Accident Site which 
contains radar images and cockpit voice record­

in gs ( a c c e s s : h ttp :/ / m em b ers.ao l.com /  
chrisk747/index.html).

• E m e r g e n c y  R e sp o n se  N o tifica tio n  
System. This site, maintained by the U.S. En­
vironmental Protection Agency, features a da­
tabase of hazardous substance releases in the 
United States. It contains information and facts 
on types of spills, where spills occurred, the 
top ten spills, numbers of spills by location, 
and so on. Access: http://www.epa.gov/ERNS/ 
index.html.

• U n ited  States F ire  A d m in istra tio n . 
This site maintains detailed statistics on urban 
fires in the U.S. from 1985 to the present. A c­
cess: http://www.usfa.fema.gov/who.htm.

T e r r o r is m  a n d  w a r
• The T errorism  R esearch  Center. This 

site contains terrorist profiles, a calendar of sig­
nificant dates for terrorist activities, and links 
to sites containing descriptions of terrorist inci­
dents and travel advisories. A ccess: http: 
//www.terrorism.com/terrorism/index.html.

• Bom b Data Center. The FBI maintains 
a repository of bomb incident data which are 
summarized here with data on U.S. incidents 
since 1990. Access: http://www.fbi.gov/lab/ 
bomsum/eubdc.htm.

.  United Nations High C om m ission er 
fo r Refugees. This site offers various data on 
refugee populations from 1985 onward. Access: 
http://www.unhcr.ch. ■

C&RL N ew s 30th anniversary quiz

Here is the next install­
ment of the C&RL News 

30th anniversary quiz. Test your recollection 
of events that have been reported in the News 
since 1966.
1. How m an y  books did th e earthquake 

which hit Guam on August 9, 1993 (mea
suring 8.2 on the Richter scale) knock off 
the shelves at the University of Guam li­
brary?

2. W hat is o n e  often un ap preciated  ro le o f 
an academic librarian?

3 . W hat is o n e d raw back o f  co m p a ct shelv
ing?

4 . W hen did th e ERIC Clearinghouse on 
Information Resources move to Syracuse 
University?

5. W hat w as th e title o f  th e b ook  w ith  the 
earliest imprint to go into space? What 
book was the first to orbit the earth?

Answers: 1. 90,000 books (90% of the collection) (October 1993). 2. Student retention (December 1995). 
3. Com pact shelving limits accessibility, especially in heavily used parts of the collection (January 1993). 4. 
January 1, 1977 (April 1977). 5. Aphorisms (March 1985) and The Deserted Village (July/August 1985).

http://www.wfp.org/
http://www.ntsb
http://www.infosites.net/dnet/dnetGOjg/Disasters
http://members.aol.com/
http://www.epa.gov/ERNS/
http://www.usfa.fema.gov/who.htm
http://www.fbi.gov/lab/
http://www.unhcr.ch