NOAA Central Library is excited to announce a pilot program, Read with NOAA. By selecting a book and offering a book club experience, the Library encourages all NOAA to read one book, together!
Want to start a book club? We can help! Reach out to your local librarian for support or email library.reference@noaa.gov.
Our inaugural book is Uncharted: How scientists navigate their own health, research, and experiences of bias, edited by Skylar Bayer and co-editor Gabi Serrato Marks.
“[A] collection of powerful first-person stories by current and former scientists with disabilities or chronic conditions who have faced changes in their careers, including both successes and challenges, because of their health.”
Access the book via our Ebook Central platform
How to use Ebook Central video (5 mins)
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/pnu-sgzn-rrj
Or dial: (US) +1 609-429-5794 PIN: 311 814 771#
Thursday, February 29 · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Thursday, April 25 · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Thursday, June 27 · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Thursday, August 29 · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Thursday, October 24 · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Thursday, December 19 · 12:00 – 1:00pm
Join the email list! Add your name to the spreadsheet here (NOAA only): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-3A1zpKg-prD8CU7cN3Zm9WWMSM6wq23qV1Ii9HKY5g/edit?usp=sharing
When asked over the Summer of 2023, NOAA leadership recommended the following books:
Dr. Richard W. Spinrad - Good to Great by Jim C. Collins
Dr. Michael C. Morgan - Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
Dr. Sarah Kapnick - Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Janet Coit - The Plover by Brian Doyle
Dr. Kelly Kryc - Silent Spring by Rachel Carson or Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
Makeda Okolo - Pout Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen; Clear De Road by Roger Hill; The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz; A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
Lori Arguelles - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer or How to Be an Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
Dr. Vankita Brown - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson; When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago ; Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen; The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones, The New York Times Magazine, et al.
Adena Leibman, J.D. - The Bees by Laline Paul
Dr. Zach Penney - An Indigenous Peoples' HIstory of the United States by Rozanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Dr. Lauren Gibson- Uncharted: How scientists navigate their own health, research, and experiences of bias, edited by Skylar Bayer and Gabi Serrato Marks
Dr. Steve Thur - The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Nicole LeBoeuf - The Cruise of the Cachalot by Frank T. Bullen
Ken Graham - Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History by Erik Larson
RADM Nancy Hann - A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
