Transportation Libraries and Information Centers


NAME:Ohio Department of Transportation Library

Catalog:
Library

Date of Last Update:
2009-09-15

Name of library or information center:
Ohio Department of Transportation Library

Name of parent organization (if applicable):
Ohio Department of Transportation

Title of person to which library or information center director reports:
Office of Transportation Systems Development

Is your information center a member of a Transportation Knowledge Network?:
MTKN

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):

Provide a description of your information collection:
Transportation and transportation-related resources; Ohio transportation; Ohio law

What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
Ohio transportation

# Professional Staff:
1

# Support Staff :
2

Special notes or comments about your library or information center:


Contact Information

Name of Primary Contact:
Jerry Garrison

Address:

Ohio LTAP - Mail Stop 1240, Ohio Department of Transportation, 1980 W. Broad St.

City:
Columbus

State:
OH

Zip:
43223

Country:
USA

Mailing Address (if different):

Main phone:
614-387-7359

Fax Number:
614-728-6694

Main email:
ltap@dot.state.oh.us

Website:
http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/LocalPrograms/LTAP/Pages/default.aspx


Do you provide online training courses?:
Yes

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:
State Library of Ohio - http://library.ohio.gov/

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:State DOT


Detailed Collection Information:

Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:

Books/monographs:

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

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.:

Library Services and Affiliations

In what year was the library first established?:
1977

What days and hours are library services provided?:
7:30 am-4:30 pm

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):
OHDOT

What percentage of your collection is cataloged in OCLC with your library’s symbol?:

With which OCLC Groups is your library affiliated?:
Access to OhioLink via State Library of Ohio

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?:
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?:

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

Ohio LTAP has a Video/DVD Lending library. The Video Catalog is available from the Ohio LTAP website, at: http://www.dot.state.oh.us/Divisions/Planning/LocalPrograms/LTAP/Pages/VideoCatalog.aspx


Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:

Catalog:

Catalog Name:
State Library of Ohio

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?:
Yes

Please provide a link to your catalog:

Staff person name :
Zona Kahkonen Keppler

Staff person title:
Library Administrator

Staff person phone:
614-466-2882

Staff person email:
zona.kahkonen.keppler@dot.state.oh.us

Full or Part Time:


Expertise:

Reference
Acquisitions
Collection Development
Cataloging
Taxonomy/Thesaurus/Ontology
Administration/Management


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