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Oak Ridge: DOE Information Center and Office of Scientific and Technical Information

IIa Wins DOEIC Contract

In June, IIa learned that it was awarded the much coveted contract to operate the Department of Energy's new Information Center (DOEIC) in Oak Ridge. The DOEIC is a combination of two former DOE facilities in Oak Ridge, the Information Resource Center (IRC) and the Public Reading Room. (IIa had worked as a subcontractor at the IRC for four years.)

The new DOEIC is being referred to as a centralized "one-stop-shop" for public access to information on DOE programs. At the July 24th dedication ceremony, Lori Fritz, Deputy Manager for DOE's Office of Environmental Management said the Center was the fulfillment of stakeholders' desire to consolidate documents and location.

IIa staff at the site are Karen Valentine, Project Manager, and Eva Butler and Carol Morrison, Information Specialists, under the home office direction of Pat Powell, with June Crowe assisting on technical matters. The staff is charged not only with records management and document access, but also with being a public information source for DOE's Oak Ridge Operations.

The contract tasks IIa with establishing a uniform database for the combined collections of the two former facilities. IIa's staff will also develop and maintain the DOEIC website, which will link to electronic copies of DOE documents for public access.

The facility boasts a large central meeting room and smaller meeting rooms for DOE and public meetings for DOE personnel and stakeholders. IIa staff is responsible for scheduling and preparing the rooms for public meetings.

OSTI Information Technology Services

IIa will soon celebrate the one-year anniversary of its five-year contract with the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). IIa has a long history with OSTI. Bonnie Carroll has a long history with OSTI, where she worked as a DOE federal employee from 1981 to 1987. IIa had a contract for many years to provide abstracting and indexing services to OSTI. More recently, IIa had a subcontract at OSTI to provide support to the international program and computer operations.

Chief among our responsibilities (teamed with NCI Inc.) is managing DOE information products and providing access to international information. These tools represent a virtual library of scientific and technical information: Information Bridge, Energy Citations Database, PrePrints Network, PubScience (all from www.osti.gov), and the IEA Energy Technology Data Exchange's ETDEWEB (www.etde.org/ETDEWEB/). In addition, our staff manage OSTI's telecommunications infrastructure, ensuring that systems are available 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Our 13 staff members at OSTI include information, classification, dissemination, and production control specialists; systems analysts and administrators; software and web developers; and administrative support.

As a vital part of homeland security, IIa provides control of classified information for OSTI. Our staff provide expert program/policy analysis, consultation, document declassification, and special projects support in the document classification area.