Transportation Libraries and Information Centers


NAME:SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research

Catalog:
Library

Date of Last Update:
2009-09-11

Name of library or information center:
SWOV Institute for Road Safety Research

Name of parent organization (if applicable):
SWOV

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

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)?:
10:00-16:00

Describe any special conditions for accessing your resources or services (e.g. by appointment, affiliations required):
show some official identification (an ID) during visit.

Provide a description of your information collection:
The SWOV library is the national centre for road safety literature. It also has a great deal of literature on traffic, transport, and other related subjects.

What are the particular subject strengths of your collection?:
Traffic safety and transport.

# Professional Staff:
1.8

# Support Staff :
0

Special notes or comments about your library or information center:


Contact Information

Name of Primary Contact:
Ms. C. D. van den Braak

Address:

Duindoorn 32 ,

City:
Leidschendam

State:

Zip:
2262 AR

Country:
Netherlands

Mailing Address (if different):
P.O. Box 1090, NL-2260 BB Leidschendam, Netherlands

Main phone:
(+31)70-317 33 07

Fax Number:
(+31)70-320 12 61

Main email:
library@swov.nl; c.d.van.den.braak@swov.nl

Website:
http://www.swov.nl/UK/Research/bibliotheek/bibliotheek.htm


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?: ascii, xml, endnote, procite, etc.

What types of metadata do you provide to help users locate or interpret data sets?:

Organization Type:Federal or National Agency


Detailed Collection Information:

Please estimate the number of items in your information collection:

Books/monographs:
150.000

Journal, magazine and newspaper titles (print or digital, current or discontinued):
350

Printed technical reports, plans, manuals, standards:

Digital documents (e.g. PDF's or e-books):
5000

Microfiche/microfilm items:
500 (but all also digitalised)

Photographs or image files:

Videotapes and CDs:
700 CD-ROM/DVD + 150 videos (but all also digitalised)

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?:
Yes

Please list the major commercial information databases to which your library subscribes.:
EINS, Dialog, ITRD

Library Services and Affiliations

In what year was the library first established?:
1962

What days and hours are library services provided?:
10:00-15:00

If your library produces an online newsletter or other form of outreach publication, please provide a link or enter the name of the publication.:
http://www.swov.nl/UK/Research/bibliotheek/recent_acquisitions.htm

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?:
Yes

Do you lend through OCLC?:
No

What is your lending policy (briefly describe or provide a link)?:
http://www.swov.nl/UK/Research/bibliotheek/opening_hours_and_contact.htm

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?:

What is your library’s primary funding source?:
government funding

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):
yes and whatever needed or wanted


Special Collections

Please list any special collections that you maintain

http://cardweb.swov.nl/swov/Website_uk.html


Catalogs: Please list any online catalogs that you maintain:

Catalog:

Catalog Name:
Cardbox

Catalog Type:

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

Is your catalog accessible outside of your organization?:
Yes

Please provide a link to your catalog:
http://cardweb.swov.nl/swov/website_uk.html

Staff person name :
Ms. C. D. van den Braak

Staff person title:
Senior Librarian/ Literature Information Specialist

Staff person phone:
(+31) 70-317 33 07

Staff person email:
c.d.van.den.braak@swov.nl

Full or Part Time:


Expertise:

Reference
Information Architecture
Physical or Digital Preservation
Circulation/ILL
Acquisitions
Collection Development
Cataloging
Systems/Network Management
Database Management
Web 2.0/3.0
Taxonomy/Thesaurus/Ontology
Archives/Special Collections
Imaging
Administration/Management
Federated Search/Enterprise Search


Languages:

French
German
Dutch