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Catalog:
Library
Date of Last Update:
2009-09-29
Name of library or information center:
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation Library
Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Is your information center a member of a Transportation Knowledge Network?:
ETKN
Do you provide access to your information collection to the general public (either on-site or on-line, with or without a fee)?:
Yes
Describe any special conditions for accessing your resources or services (e.g. by appointment, affiliations required):
by appointment, as research needs to relate to transportation
Provide a description of your information collection:
The collection is primarily intended to serve the needs of PennDOT employees and programs. 20, 000 print titles; 1500+ multimedia programs; 230 transportation and business-focused subscriptions.
What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
transportation
# Professional Staff:
1
# Support Staff :
0
Special notes or comments about your library or information center:
Contact Information
Name of Primary Contact:
Bonnie Fields
Address:
Commonwealth Keystone Building, 6th floor , 400 North Street
City:
Harrisburg
State:
PA
Zip:
0
Country:
USA
Mailing Address (if different):
400 North Street
6th Floor East
Main phone:
717-214-8686
Fax Number:
717-783-9152
Main email:
PennDOT Library@state.pa.us; bfields@state.pa.us
Website:
www.dot.state.pa.us
Do you provide online training courses?:
Do you provide onsite training courses?:
Do you maintain a knowledge base of lessons learned or best practices?:
Do you maintain a directory of experts or provide referrals to experts as part of your services?:
Are any of your training materials catalogued into OCLC?:
If you are affiliated with a library, please provide its name:
What types of data sets do you provide?:
What export formats do you offer?:
What types of metadata do you provide to help users locate or interpret data sets?:
Organization Type:State DOT
Detailed Collection Information:
Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:
Books/monographs:
1,000
Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
100
Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
5,000
Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
2,500
Microfiche/microfilm items:
Photographs or image files:
Videotapes and CDs:
Dialog; On-line databases; PennDOT Research Reports 1950 to present
Other items (e.g. schedules, maps, drawings, etc.):
Does your staff have access to commercial (for fee) information databases – either directly or through your parent organization?:
No
Do you offer your patrons access to commercial (for fee) information databases – either remotely or within your library?:
No
Please list the major commercial information databases to which your library subscribes.:
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Library Services and Affiliations
In what year was the library first established?:
1979
What days and hours are library services provided?:
7:30 - 4:00 M-F
If your library produces an online newsletter or other form of outreach publication, please provide a link or enter the name of the publication.:
OCLC Code (if applicable):
P3T
What percentage of your collection is cataloged in OCLC with your library’s symbol?:
2
With which OCLC Groups is your library affiliated?:
OCLC, Capital Area Librarians Consortium
Please list names of other library consortia or networks to which your library belongs:
Do you offer interlibrary loans?:
Yes
Do you lend through OCLC?:
Yes
What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
no restriction on digital; 1 month lending for print
What fees do you charge for lending?:
n/a
What fees do you charge for supplying photocopies?:
n/a
What fees do you charge for research or other services?:
n/a
Library Resources and Facilities
What is your library’s approximate annual budget – excluding staffing and facilities costs?:
What is your library’s primary funding source?:
Motor License Fund
Does your library have access to conference/meeting space?:
Yes
Do you offer use of computers with internet access to your users?:
No
Do you have access to digitization and OCR hardware/software?:
No
What specialized software do you have access to? (e.g. web publishing, desktop publishing, multimedia):
Special Collections
Please list any special collections that you maintain
video
Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:
Catalog:
Catalog Name:
Catalog Type:
Name of software used for catalog (enter “none”, ‘home grown”, or name of commercial package):
Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
Please provide a link to your catalog:
Staff person name :
BONNIE FIELDS
Staff person title:
Librarian
Staff person phone:
717-787-6527
Staff person email:
bfields@state.pa.us
Full or Part Time:
Expertise:
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