Library
The LPI library contains more than 60,000 cataloged books, documents, maps, films and videos, and print and electronic journals and newsletters. The subject emphasis of the collection is planetary science and geology, with limited collection development extending into the secondary support field of computer science remote sensing. There is an ongoing effort to scan and make available to the scientific community and the general public a number of out-of-print planetary science books, NASA documents and images, and related works. (These publications are copyright-free or made available with permission.)
This collection is a NASA Regional Planetary Image Facility (RPIF) and includes photographs, maps and other data from planetary missions including Apollo, Lunar Orbiter, Clementine, Mars Pathfinder, Voyager 1, Voyager 2, Magellan, Galileo and Mars Global Surveyor.
The library maintains two weblogs--Recent additions to the collection and New and Noteworthy--that feature newly acquired library materials, give tips on using library services and resources, and provide news about what is happening in the library and RPIF at the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
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