WelcomeThe Transportation Library Connectivity Pooled Fund Study is a grassroots effort by librarians and information professionals in 19 state departments of transportation, two university transportation centers and a metropolitan transportation authority. Since 2005 members have been pooling their talents, energy and resources to develop better ways to serve practitioners in transportation agencies. A full-time consultant provides technical assistance to member libraries and carries out a ten-point annual work plan aimed at improving information access throughout the transportation community. See our Year Three Report "Link to the Future" for a review of pooled fund initiatives and joint activities with the National Transportation Library and regional Transportation Knowledge Networks. |
News & UpdatesJune 2009 Have you seen the SLA Transportation Division Wiki? Division members can post and keep up with developments in transportation information and libraries. The first Joint TKN meeting will be held at the US DOT in Washington, DC on June 18. See you there or see you online at http://fhwa.acrobat.com/translibrarian. Agenda.
The Eastern Transportation Knowledge Network has launched their new web site. Please visit and see pooled fund member-ETKN chair-Webmaster Sandy Brady's excellent design and content! May 2009 The March-April 2009 edition of TRNews features articles about libraries and information in transportation. Some of our members' success stories are featured in a sidebar as well as articles about libraries in the digital age, the evolution of TRIS, why agencies should support libraries, TKNs and more! Rita Evans presented a poster at TRB demonstrating the Many Eyes visualization system in use at UC Berkeley ITS. See it here. Lance Warren is an Embedded Librarian in the FHWA Exploratory Advanced Research program. Learn more from Lance's TRB poster about the EAR program (146.7 MB). February 2009 WisDOT Head Libraran, John Cherney authored and presented a fantastic poster at the 2009 TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. His poster, Creating an Information Commons on a Budget clearly illustrated that space and functionality can be enhanced with creative design ideas and making library and information services front and center in a DOT library. The pooled fund organized a poster session at the 2009 TRB meeting, "Developments and Innovations in Transportation Libraries and Information Services". The LIST Committee sponsored the session, which had 8 spectacular posters presented by authors from DOTs, federal agencies and UTC libraries. The first poster we would like to highlight from the session is The Transportation Librarians' Toolkit. A product of the pooled fund study, the Toolkit has been useful to new and experienced transportation librarians alike. Maggie Sacco authored and presented the poster at TRB. January 2009 |
Countdown to SLA 100th Annual Conference June 14-17, 2009 in DC! Check out the SLA wiki with the