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Catalog:
Library
Date of Last Update:
2009-09-11
Name of library or information center:
SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research
Name of parent organization (if applicable):
SWOV
Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Is your information center a member of a Transportation Knowledge Network?:
Not a TKN Member
Do you provide access to your information collection to the general public (either on-site or on-line, with or without a fee)?:
10:00-16:00
Describe any special conditions for accessing your resources or services (e.g. by appointment, affiliations required):
show some official identification (an ID) during visit.
Provide a description of your information collection:
The SWOV library is the national centre for road safety literature. It also has a great deal of literature on traffic, transport, and other related subjects.
What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
Traffic safety and transport.
# Professional Staff:
1.8
# Support Staff :
0
Special notes or comments about your library or information center:
Contact Information
Name of Primary Contact:
Ms. C. D. van den Braak
Address:
Duindoorn 32 ,
City:
Leidschendam
State:
Zip:
2262 AR
Country:
Netherlands
Mailing Address (if different):
P.O. Box 1090, NL-2260 BB Leidschendam, Netherlands
Main phone:
(+31)70-317 33 07
Fax Number:
(+31)70-320 12 61
Main email:
library@swov.nl; c.d.van.den.braak@swov.nl
Website:
http://www.swov.nl/UK/Research/bibliotheek/bibliotheek.htm
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?: ascii, xml, endnote, procite, etc.
What types of metadata do you provide to help users locate or interpret data sets?:
Organization Type:Federal or National Agency
Detailed Collection Information:
Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:
Books/monographs:
150.000
Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
350
Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
5000
Microfiche/microfilm items:
500 (but all also digitalised)
Photographs or image files:
Videotapes and CDs:
700 CD-ROM/DVD + 150 videos (but all also digitalised)
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?:
Yes
Do you offer your patrons access to commercial (for fee) information databases – either remotely or within your library?:
Yes
Please list the major commercial information databases to which your library subscribes.:
EINS, Dialog, ITRD
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Library Services and Affiliations
In what year was the library first established?:
1962
What days and hours are library services provided?:
10:00-15:00
If your library produces an online newsletter or other form of outreach publication, please provide a link or enter the name of the publication.:
http://www.swov.nl/UK/Research/bibliotheek/recent_acquisitions.htm
OCLC Code (if applicable):
What percentage of your collection is cataloged in OCLC with your library’s symbol?:
With which OCLC Groups is your library affiliated?:
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?:
No
What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
http://www.swov.nl/UK/Research/bibliotheek/opening_hours_and_contact.htm
What fees do you charge for lending?:
None
What fees do you charge for supplying photocopies?:
None
What fees do you charge for research or other services?:
None
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?:
government funding
Does your library have access to conference/meeting space?:
Yes
Do you offer use of computers with internet access to your users?:
Yes
Do you have access to digitization and OCR hardware/software?:
Yes
What specialized software do you have access to? (e.g. web publishing, desktop publishing, multimedia):
yes and whatever needed or wanted
Special Collections
Please list any special collections that you maintain
http://cardweb.swov.nl/swov/Website_uk.html
Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:
Catalog:
Catalog Name:
Cardbox
Catalog Type:
Name of software used for catalog (enter “none”, ‘home grown”, or name of commercial package):
cardbox
Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
Yes
Please provide a link to your catalog:
http://cardweb.swov.nl/swov/website_uk.html
Staff person name :
Ms. C. D. van den Braak
Staff person title:
Senior Librarian/ Literature Information Specialist
Staff person phone:
(+31) 70-317 33 07
Staff person email:
c.d.van.den.braak@swov.nl
Full or Part Time:
Expertise:
Reference
Information Architecture
Physical or Digital Preservation
Circulation/ILL
Acquisitions
Collection Development
Cataloging
Systems/Network Management
Database Management
Web 2.0/3.0
Taxonomy/Thesaurus/Ontology
Archives/Special Collections
Imaging
Administration/Management
Federated Search/Enterprise Search
Languages:
French
German
Dutch
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