Transportation Libraries and Information Centers


NAME:Biblioteca del Departamento de Ingenieria de Transporte y Logistica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Catalog:
Library

Date of Last Update:
2009-09-14

Name of library or information center:
Biblioteca del Departamento de Ingenieria de Transporte y Logistica, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Engineer

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)?:
yes

Describe any special conditions for accessing your resources or services (e.g. by appointment, affiliations required):
Affilation to Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Provide a description of your information collection:
100 digital journals, 350 books, 800 technical reports, 140 thesis, 370 student's works.

What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
Transportation engineering, logistics, traffic engineering, public transport, transport policy, transport economy

# Professional Staff:
1

# Support Staff :
0

Special notes or comments about your library or information center:


Contact Information

Name of Primary Contact:
Ms. Alejandra Bravo B.

Address:

Vicuna Mackenna 4860, Macul ,

City:
Santiago

State:

Zip:
6904411

Country:
Chile

Mailing Address (if different):

Main phone:
(56-2)3545957

Fax Number:
(56-2)5530281

Main email:
alebravo@ing.puc.cl

Website:


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:Academic/Research Institution


Detailed Collection Information:

Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:

Books/monographs:
353 books

Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
149

Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
818 reports

Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):

Microfiche/microfilm items:

Photographs or image files:

Videotapes and CDs:
9 CDs

Other items (e.g. schedules, maps, drawings, etc.):
138 thesis, 373 student's works

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?:
No

Please list the major commercial information databases to which your library subscribes.:
Science Direct, JStore, ProQuest, Engineering Village

Library Services and Affiliations

In what year was the library first established?:
1974

What days and hours are library services provided?:
16 hours weekly

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:
Alerta al Conocimiento S.A.

Do you offer interlibrary loans?:
Yes

Do you lend through OCLC?:
No

What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
We accept interlibrary loan with all libraries.

What fees do you charge for lending?:
none

What fees do you charge for supplying photocopies?:
US$8.00 for up to 10 pages per article; US$0.15 each additional page

What fees do you charge for research or other services?:
US $13.20


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?:
University funds.

Does your library have access to conference/meeting space?:
No

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):
Mac OS X


Special Collections

Please list any special collections that you maintain


Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:

Catalog:

Catalog Name:
Base de Datos

Catalog Type:
Bibliographic Index

Name of software used for catalog (enter “none”, ‘home grown”, or name of commercial package):
FileMaker Pro

Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
No

Please provide a link to your catalog:

Staff person name :
Ms. Alejandra Bravo B.

Staff person title:
Librarian

Staff person phone:
(56-2)3545957

Staff person email:
alebravo@ing.puc.cl

Full or Part Time:
Part Time


Expertise:

Reference
Circulation/ILL
Acquisitions
Cataloging
Database Management


Languages:

Spanish




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