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Catalog:
Library
Date of Last Update:
2009-07-31
Name of library or information center:
Regional Information Center
Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Baltimore Metropolitan Council
Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Executive Director
Is your information center a member of a Transportation Knowledge Network?:
Not an 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)?:
Yes
Describe any special conditions for accessing your resources or services (e.g. by appointment, affiliations required):
By appointment only.
Provide a description of your information collection:
The Regional Information Center is a library operated as a partnership between the Baltimore Metropolitan Council and the Enoch Pratt Free Library (Baltimore City's public library system).
What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
The collection includes regional and urban planning materials with a focus on local demographic information, economic development, transportation planning, land use and environmental issues. It also serves as an archive of reports published by the BMC and its predecessor agencies.
# Professional Staff:
1
# Support Staff :
0
Special notes or comments about your library or information center:
Contact Information
Name of Primary Contact:
Mary Logan
Address:
Baltimore Metropolitan Council , 2700 Lighthouse Point E, Suite 310
City:
Baltimore
State:
MD
Zip:
21224
Country:
USA
Mailing Address (if different):
Main phone:
410-732-9570
Fax Number:
Main email:
ric@baltometro.org
Website:
www.baltometro.org/content/view/43/86/
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?: Customized demographic profiles within Maryland, building permit data within the Baltimore region
What export formats do you offer?: spreadsheet, pdf
What types of metadata do you provide to help users locate or interpret data sets?:
Organization Type:MPO/Planning Agency
Detailed Collection Information:
Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:
Books/monographs:
10,000
Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
170
Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
included in books
Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
Microfiche/microfilm items:
350
Photographs or image files:
Videotapes and CDs:
400
Other items (e.g. schedules, maps, drawings, etc.):
80
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.:
Access to databases through relationship with public library: General Proquest, various Gale databases, National Newspapers, Reference USA, others
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Library Services and Affiliations
In what year was the library first established?:
1970
What days and hours are library services provided?:
Monday-Friday, 8:30 am-4:30 pm
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):
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:
Maryland Interlibrary Loan Organization
Do you offer interlibrary loans?:
Yes
Do you lend through OCLC?:
No
What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
Loans outside the agency available on a case by case basis.
What fees do you charge for lending?:
$1.00 per item per month for the public plus any shipping fees; no fees to other libraries.
What fees do you charge for supplying photocopies?:
$.20 per page
What fees do you charge for research or other services?:
Generally none, though with some exceptions, e.g. customized demographic profiles and building permit data system queries
Library Resources and Facilities
What is your library’s approximate annual budget – excluding staffing and facilities costs?:
Under $100,000.00
What is your library’s primary funding source?:
Local and state government
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?:
No
What specialized software do you have access to? (e.g. web publishing, desktop publishing, multimedia):
GIS, PCensus
Special Collections
Please list any special collections that you maintain
Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:
Catalog:
Catalog Name:
Regional Information Center Catalog
Catalog Type:
Data Catalog
Name of software used for catalog (enter “none”, ‘home grown”, or name of commercial package):
askSam
Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
Yes
Please provide a link to your catalog:
http://bmc.baltometro.org/RICCatalog
Staff person name :
Mary Logan
Staff person title:
Regional Information Center Manager
Staff person phone:
410-732-9570
Staff person email:
mlogan@baltometro.org
Full or Part Time:
Full Time
Expertise:
Reference
Information Architecture
Circulation/ILL
Acquisitions
Collection Development
Cataloging
Database Management
Administration/Management
Languages:
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