Transportation Libraries and Information Centers


NAME:American Honda Motor Co., Inc. Library & Information Services

Catalog:
Library

Date of Last Update:
2009-07-30

Name of library or information center:
AMATS Library

Name of parent organization (if applicable):
AMATS

Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
None

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):
None

Provide a description of your information collection:
Planning documents related to transportation planning since the early 1980s.

What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:

# Professional Staff:
4

# Support Staff :
1

Special notes or comments about your library or information center:


Contact Information

Name of Primary Contact:
Craig Lyon

Address:

PO Box 196650

City:
Anchorage

State:
AK

Zip:
99519-6650

Country:
USA

Mailing Address (if different):

Main phone:
9073437996

Fax Number:
9073437998

Main email:
lyonch@muni.org

Website:
http://www.muni.org/transplan/index.cfm


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:
100

Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
50

Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:
1000

Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
100

Microfiche/microfilm items:
0

Photographs or image files:
0

Videotapes and CDs:
25

Other items (e.g. schedules, maps, drawings, etc.):
25

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.:

Library Services and Affiliations

In what year was the library first established?:
1976

What days and hours are library services provided?:
5-Aug

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:

Do you offer interlibrary loans?:
No

Do you lend through OCLC?:
No

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

What fees do you charge for lending?:

What fees do you charge for supplying photocopies?:

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


Library Resources and Facilities

What is your library’s approximate annual budget – excluding staffing and facilities costs?:
Under $100,000

What is your library’s primary funding source?:
federal grant

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?:
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:
N/A

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 :

Staff person title:

Staff person phone:

Staff person email:

Full or Part Time:


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