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2008 Spotlights Archive
2007 | 2008
| November 1, 2008 |
First
National Transportation Knowledge Network cooperative project underway
The three regional TKNs have partnered under the coordination of NTL
to establish an resource sharing network among transportation
libraries with funding from the Transportation Library Connectivity
Pooled Fund Study.
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| September 11, 2008 |
Wikipedia
Celebrates 750 Years of American Independence: The Transportation
Librarian and Information Literacy
Bob Cullen (AASHTO) discussed how to help technically savy users
evaluate the information they find online for accuracy and
completeness.
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| August 14, 2008 |
Building
Value Through User Advisory Committees
Kathy Szolomayer, Leni Oman and Nancy Boyd (WSDOT Library Advisory
Board member) discussed how they are using their Library Advisory
Board to promoting and create library services.
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| June 11, 2008 |
VDOT OneSearch
Released!
VDOT releases new federated search tool for transportation information
called VDOT OneSearch, enabling one search across TRIS Online, TRB's
Research in Progress, NTL's Digital Repository, transportation library
catalogs and more.
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| July 10, 2008 |
Smart Marketing
Strategies
Outsell, Inc. (provided by the Transportation Library Connectivity
Pooled Fund) discussed the importance and fundamental principals of
promoting library services.
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| June 12, 2008 |
Welcoming the
Millennials!
Bob Cullen (AASHTO) discussed the latest generation of users, the
Millennials, and how librarians can reach out to this technically savy
group.
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| May 13, 2008 |
Theses and Dissertations now available in TRIS Online
Theses from Northwestern University Transportation Library and Harmer
E. Davis Transportation Library at the Institute of Transportation
Studies, University of California, Berkeley are now available in TRIS
Online, a cooperative product of the Transportation Research Board and
the National Transportation Library.
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| May 8, 2008 |
Electronic
Resources in Transportation
Bonnie Osif (Pennsylvania State University) discussed what electronic
resources are available in the field of transportation and how to find
them. She also presented new tools that allows users to manage the
tools more efficiently.
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| April 10, 2008 |
TRIS Users
Survey: Results and Next Steps
Ken Winter (VDOT Research Library) discussed the TRIS user survey, its
results, and what they mean to the transportation community.
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| March 18, 2008 |
Early Eno Foundation documents digitized and available in the NTL
Digital Repository
38 early Eno Transportation Foundation publications now available in
NTL Digital repository.
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| March 13, 2008 |
SecondLife
for Librarians
Lisa Pogue and Joyce Koeneman (National Transportation Library)
discussed second life and how the environment can be used by
libarians.
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| February 14, 2008 |
Transportation
Research Thesaurus: Taxonomy Development and Use Cases
Jay Ven Eman (Access Innovations, Inc.), Andy Everett (Washington
State DOT), and Rita Evans and Seyem Petrites (UC Berkeley Institute
for Transportation Studies Library) discussed the development of
Transportation Research Thesaurus and its uses.
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| January 10, 2008 |
Special
Collections in Transportation : Northwestern Airline Menu Collection
In the first presentation in the TLR series of 2008, Paul Burley
discussed the process of creating the Transportation Menu project.
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