After the American Meteorological Society (AMS) became a Member Society of AIP in 2013, Niels Bohr Library and Archives (NBL&A) staff began actively building an academic and historical collection of meteorological books and journals. NBL&A holdings previously contained a nominal selection of books related to the physics of the atmosphere and some institutional histories pertaining to AMS. This ongoing project reflects AMS’s new affiliation with AIP and seeks to help preserve the history of meteorology.
Working with Roger Turner (a PhD in History and Sociology of Science as well as a member of AMS), library staff developed a comprehensive bibliography of around 500 historic monographs, weather popularizations, children’s books, and important academic texts. NBL&A sought and gratefully received book and journal donations from NOAA’s Betty Petersen Memorial Library and AMS’s library. NBL&A staff continue to purchase relevant titles and to seek donations of titles that are difficult to find. Although this project is ongoing, more than 200 meteorological titles have been added since October of 2014.
Researchers are welcome to peruse these new additions to NBL&A’s existing and robust book holdings. Although most of NBL&A’s new meteorology holdings are academic texts, pictured here is a selection of children’s meteorology books in the collection.
