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A National Resource
The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a premier Earth and space science education resource. Funded by the National Science Foundation, it is a community-based digital library project that supports inquiry-based learning in Earth science education at all levels, from K-12 to graduate to informal education.
DLESE enables educators and learners to locate and use effective online educational tools, applications, information and data. It also provides an innovative "virtual community center" that offers collaborative networking, news, and opportunities for both teachers and students. DLESE supports resource discovery across a diverse and growing federated network of holdings and collections, including the Alexandria Digital Library Earth Prototype, NASA education collections, multiple peer-reviewed collections, and community-created resources that have been contributed, cataloged, and indexed as part of the overall collections.
As a digital library, DLESE is unique because of its distributed, participatory community design-its "users-as-contributors" approach-engaging Earth science educators from its inception. Critical components of its governance include: working and interest groups; committees on collections, services, technology, and users; and a steering committee that guides policy development and strategic planning.
www.dlese.org
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