Welcome to the Silent Spring Institute Library Website. The Library website was made possible through a grant from the National Library of Medicine's 'Internet Access to Digital Libraries' grant program. The grant enabled us to purchase our own web server, and develop interactive applications for the public in order to facilitate user-retrieval of health-related data and information.

You'll find several electronic resources in this section, and for that reason we've called it 'e-resourses'. We've included our publications, a glossary, an internet links database, an interactive tool for looking at Cape Cod's public water supply, and a site-wide search mechanism. All of these applications were designed with you in mind, and we would very much value your feedback!

Future enhancements to the e-resources section might include expanding the glossary to include more words, and linking to external libraries, dictionaries and other external resources, or sorting results alphabetically, by keyword or by popularity. We would also like to allow users to create their ‘own’ personal list of glossary items or internet links they use the most - thereby creating your own 'portal' to health related information via our site.

We also have plans to provide a more interactive way to use our GIS data resources - including the Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Atlas, and the Cape Cod Public Water Supply data. We'll post more details about this as they become available.

Meanwhile, please let us know if you like our e-resources, or have problems accessing any part of the site. We really want these applications to be useful, so all feedback helps!

The e-resources team.