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Transportation Librarians Roundtable Debut
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bob Cullen, AASHTO
September 4, 2007 202-624-8918
Transportation Librarians Roundtable
Makes Its Debut on October 11, 2007
The first presentation of the Transportation Librarians
Roundtable (TLR), a monthly webconference series, will take place on
Thursday, October 11, 2007, at 2:00 p.m. EDT.
The topic for the presentation is Engineering a Transportation
Information Infrastructure: The Landscape of Information Activities and
the scheduled speaker is Amanda J. Wilson, Director of the National
Transportation Library (NTL) of the U.S. Department of
Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics. She will
discuss the new “Networking Information” section on
NTL’s website and also provide an overview of all the
transportation information/library coordination efforts currently
underway.
The newly established TLR is co-sponsored by NTL, the American
Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), the
Transportation Research Board, and the Special Libraries
Association’s Transportation Division.
The TLR’s purpose will be to provide transportation
librarians with opportunities to learn more about issues of mutual
concern and interest, and also to have a new means of regular
communication among members of that community.
The TLR will be held the second Thursday of each month for one
hour starting at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Those wishing to participate on October
11 as well as in subsequent TLR sessions can do so by accessing
http://fhwa.acrobat.com/translibrarian/. Please visit
http://admin.acrobat.com/common/help/en/support/meeting_test.htm to help
ensure that your system is properly configured for participation in the
webconference. In addition, the teleconference number for accessing the
audio portion of each month’s session will be distributed in
October.
The following presentations have been confirmed for other future
TLR sessions:
- November 8, 2007
TOPIC: WisDOT iCommons: Creating User-Friendly Spaces on a Budget
SPEAKER: John Cherney, Head Librarian, Wisconsin Department of
Transportation
- December 13, 2007
TOPIC: Performance Measurements for Transportation Libraries
SPEAKERS: Hank Zaletel, Librarian, Iowa Department of Transportation;
and Maggie Sacco, Library Services Consultant, Transportation Library
Connectivity Pooled Fund Study
- January 8, 2008
TOPIC: Special Collections in Transportation: Northwestern Airline Menu
Collection (an Encoded Archival description project)
SPEAKER: Paul Burley, Technical Services Librarian, Northwestern
University Transportation Library
For further information on the TLR, or to suggest possible future
topics, please contact Amanda J. Wilson, NTL Director, at
Amanda.Wilson@dot.gov or 202-366-2480; or Bob Cullen, AASHTO Information
Resource Manager, at bobc@aashto.org or 202-624-8918.
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