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National Meteorological Library
Australia's National Meteorological Library
maintains a pre-eminent collection of key meteorological books and journals published in the English language
aims to archive meteorological books and reports published in Australia
provides a high quality information service to staff of the Bureau of Meteorology, government agencies, universities, others with a particular interest in the science of meteorology, and to the general public
This Web Site provides links to
Meteoric - the catalogue of books, reports, images and videos
Library Databases, including Australian Meteorological Magazine Index, Bureau Abstracts and the Tropical Cyclones Historical Archive
New Books and Journals received in the National Meteorological Library
Other Meteorological sites in Australia and overseas
Other Library sites in Australia and overseas
The National Meteorological Library comprises collections in Head Office in Melbourne and smaller collections in each of the Regional Offices (in Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and Melbourne), the Canberra Meteorological Office, the Townsville Meteorological Office and the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station.
The Head Office Library is located on 9th floor, 700 Collins Street, Docklands
(on the Collins St. bridge), Victoria, Australia and is open from 9:00am to
5:00pm Mondays to Fridays. Bureau staff can gain access at other times by prior
arrangement. Regional Office Libraries are not open to the public except by
appointment.
General Enquiries can be emailed to Library@bom.gov.au
Telephone Enquiries can be made to (03) 9669 4472
Fax can be sent to (03) 9669 4611 (International +61 3 9669 4611)
Other Libraries can contact the Interlibrary Loans and Document Delivery Service by email to Library@bom.gov.au
The postal address is National Meteorological Library, GPO Box 1289, Melbourne, Vic, 3001, Australia.
In the Head Office Library the core of the collection is 500 journal titles in more than 50,000 bound volumes. The Library holds approximately 20,000 books and reports with around 1,500 being added annually. An increasing amount of material is available in electronic formats.
The Library collects material at a detailed research level in the subject areas of: atmosphere, climatology, precipitation, weather, drought, floods, cyclones, greenhouse, agrometeorology, satellite meteorology, forecasting and meteorological instruments. Mathematics, statistics, physics, computing, hydrology and oceanography titles are also acquired to support Bureau operations.
Symbols are used to identify the Head Office Library and the Regional Office Library collections.
These symbols are used in Meteoric (the library catalogue), databases maintained by Head Office Library, the New Books list and the New Journals list.
The following symbols are used:
| VCMB | Head Office Library |
| AMB | Canberra Meteorological Office |
| NMB | New South Wales Regional Office |
| QMB | Queensland Regional Office |
| SMB | South Australian Regional Office |
| TMB | Tasmania/Antarctica Regional Office |
| WMB | Western Australia Regional Office |
| XMB | Northern Territory Regional Office |
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