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Catalog:
Library
Date of Last Update:
2009-09-03
Name of library or information center:
Information Station
Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Community Transportation Association of America
Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Chris Zeilinger
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)?:
No
Describe any special conditions for accessing your resources or services (e.g. by appointment, affiliations required):
priority is given to staff, then partners, then members
Provide a description of your information collection:
internal research documents, archive of two magazines we publish, transportation research documents, memoranda and grey literature on human services transportation
What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
digital and print copies of human service transportation coordination plans
# Professional Staff:
1
# Support Staff :
0
Special notes or comments about your library or information center:
print library is endangered; digitization is in progress
Contact Information
Name of Primary Contact:
Eileen Boswell
Address:
1341 G. Street NW , 10th Floor
City:
Washington
State:
DC
Zip:
20005
Country:
USA
Mailing Address (if different):
Main phone:
800-527-8279
Fax Number:
Main email:
resources@ctaa.org
Website:
http://www.ctaa.org
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?: human service transportation coordination contacts
What export formats do you offer?: Excel
What types of metadata do you provide to help users locate or interpret data sets?:
Organization Type:Professional Association
Detailed Collection Information:
Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:
Books/monographs:
250
Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
700
Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
500
Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
400
Microfiche/microfilm items:
0
Photographs or image files:
0
Videotapes and CDs:
150
Other items (e.g. schedules, maps, drawings, etc.):
200
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.:
Nexis
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Library Services and Affiliations
In what year was the library first established?:
What days and hours are library services provided?:
M-F 8:30 am - 5 pm Eastern
If your library produces an online newsletter or other form of outreach publication, please provide a link or enter the name of the publication.:
www.ctaa.org/tappygrams Tappy Grams, issued monthly on the 25th
OCLC Code (if applicable):
n/a
What percentage of your collection is cataloged in OCLC with your library’s symbol?:
0
With which OCLC Groups is your library affiliated?:
n/a
Please list names of other library consortia or networks to which your library belongs:
ETKN, Transportation Librarians Roundtable, TRANLIB and SOLODIV list-serves
Do you offer interlibrary loans?:
No
Do you lend through OCLC?:
No
What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
none
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?:
Under $100,000.00
What is your library’s primary funding source?:
federal grants that include a "resource center" as one of the deliverables
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?:
Yes
What specialized software do you have access to? (e.g. web publishing, desktop publishing, multimedia):
Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, Adobe Acrobat
Special Collections
Please list any special collections that you maintain
Human Service Transportation Coordination plans
Community Transportation magazine, complete archive
RAIL magazine, complete archive
Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:
Catalog:
Catalog Name:
n/a
Catalog Type:
Name of software used for catalog (enter “none”, ‘home grown”, or name of commercial package):
Excel, Access, .php-based catalog in development
Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
No
Please provide a link to your catalog:
Staff person name :
Eileen Boswell
Staff person title:
Information Specialist
Staff person phone:
202-415-9650
Staff person email:
boswell@cta.org
Full or Part Time:
Full Time
Expertise:
Web 2.0/3.0
Languages:
French
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