Catalog:
Library
Date of Last Update:
2009-07-30
Name of library or information center:
MTC-ABAG Library
Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Metropolitan Transportation Commission
Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Director of Legislation and Public Affairs
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):
none
Provide a description of your information collection:
This special Library, managed by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) and also sponsored in part by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), has an extensive collection of reports, books, and magazines, covering transportation planning, demographics, economic analysis, public policy issues and regional planning in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is designed to meet the information needs of government agencies, researchers, students, the media and anyone else who is interested in transportation, regional planning and related fields.
What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
California and federal government documents, all MTC and ABAG publications, city and county general plans and environmental reports, traffic counts and forecasts, demographic data including U.S. Census reports for 1960-1990, earthquake maps, transportation and urban planning, construction reports for bridges, tunnels and roads, housing, public policy, economics and regional planning
# Professional Staff:
2
# Support Staff :
1
Special notes or comments about your library or information center:
Contact Information
Name of Primary Contact:
Julie Tunnell
Address:
101 8th Street ,
City:
Oakland
State:
CA
Zip:
94607
Country:
USA
Mailing Address (if different):
Main phone:
510-817-5836
Fax Number:
Main email:
library@mtc.ca.gov
Website:
http://www.mtc.ca.gov
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:MPO/Planning Agency
Detailed Collection Information:
Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:
Books/monographs:
23,000
Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
1,000
Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
Microfiche/microfilm items:
Photographs or image files:
Videotapes and CDs:
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?:
No
Please list the major commercial information databases to which your library subscribes.:
Dialog
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Library Services and Affiliations
In what year was the library first established?:
1984
What days and hours are library services provided?:
M-F 8:30-5:00
If your library produces an online newsletter or other form of outreach publication, please provide a link or enter the name of the publication.:
OCLC Code (if applicable):
MTP
What percentage of your collection is cataloged in OCLC with your library’s symbol?:
18
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?:
Yes
What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
1 month
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?:
Under $100,000.00
What is your library’s primary funding source?:
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):
Special Collections
Please list any special collections that you maintain
Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:
Catalog:
Catalog Name:
Catalog Type:
General Intergrated Library System(ILS)
Name of software used for catalog (enter “none”, ‘home grown”, or name of commercial package):
Softlink
Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
Yes
Please provide a link to your catalog:
http://slk060.liberty3.net/mtc/opac.htm
Staff person name :
Julie Tunnell
Staff person title:
Head Librarian
Staff person phone:
510-817-5836
Staff person email:
library@mtc.ca.gov
Full or Part Time:
Full Time
Expertise:
Reference
Collection Development Cataloging
Archives/Special Collections Administration/Management
Languages:
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