Transportation Libraries and Information Centers


NAME:Chittenden County MPO Transportation Studies & Reports

Catalog:
Library

Date of Last Update:
2008-08-07

Name of library or information center:
Chittenden County MPO Transportation Studies & Reports

Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization (CCMPO)

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):
None.

Provide a description of your information collection:
Transportation Studies & Reports

What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
A repository of Scoping, Environmental, Transportation & Engineering Studies, and Plans covering the Region of Chittenden County as well the State of Vermont

# Professional Staff:
1

# Support Staff :
0

Special notes or comments about your library or information center:
Check it out online at: http://www.ccmpo.us/library/


Contact Information

Name of Primary Contact:
Daryl Benoit

Address:

110 West Canal St. , Suite 202

City:
Winooski

State:
VT

Zip:
5404

Country:
USA

Mailing Address (if different):
N/A

Main phone:
8026604071

Fax Number:
8026604079

Main email:
dbenoit@ccmpo.org

Website:
http://www.ccmpo.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?: Traffic Data & GIS datalayers

What export formats do you offer?: GIS, Excell, PDF

What types of metadata do you provide to help users locate or interpret data sets?:FGDC Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata (FGDC-STD-001-1998)

Organization Type:MPO/Planning Agency


Detailed Collection Information:

Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:

Books/monographs:
2000

Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
N/A

Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
Unknown

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

Microfiche/microfilm items:
N/A

Photographs or image files:
Small collection not yet formally added to the "Library"

Videotapes and CDs:
400

Other items (e.g. schedules, maps, drawings, etc.):
50

Does your staff have access to commercial (for fee) information databases – either directly or through your parent organization?:
No

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.:
INFO USA, Transearch Database

Library Services and Affiliations

In what year was the library first established?:
1983

What days and hours are library services provided?:
9-5 Plus online 24 hours...

If your library produces an online newsletter or other form of outreach publication, please provide a link or enter the name of the publication.:
no

OCLC Code (if applicable):

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:
N/A

Do you offer interlibrary loans?:
Yes

Do you lend through OCLC?:
No

What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
signing out documents

What fees do you charge for lending?:
No

What fees do you charge for supplying photocopies?:
We try to scan them ourselves and add them to the collection and absorb the cost.

What fees do you charge for research or other services?:
None, we a public-sector/Gov't organisation


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?:
N/A

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):


Special Collections

Please list any special collections that you maintain

Scorping Studies

EIS

General Studies

Plans

Traffic Data

Glossary


Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:

Catalog:

Catalog Name:

Catalog Type:

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

Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:

Please provide a link to your catalog:

Staff person name :
Daryl Benoit

Staff person title:
Transportation Planner

Staff person phone:
802.660.4071 x12

Staff person email:
dbenoit@ccmpo.org

Full or Part Time:
Full Time


Expertise:

Information Architecture
Systems/Network Management
Database Management
Web 2.0/3.0


Languages:

Spanish