Call For Papers: Case studies of Information: Management, Organization, and Publication of Transportation Information, Data, and Research

Submitted by klevine on Fri, 05/10/2013 - 11:07

 The TRB Committee on Library and Information Science for Transportation (ABG40) welcomes the submission of papers to be considered for presentation at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board and subsequent publication in the TRB Transportation Research Record. A paper session is proposed to focus on research and current issues regarding the organization, management, and dissemination of transportation information and research. Suggested topics include:

  • Data management and preservation
  • Library and/or Information Management
  • Publication and/or dissemination of technical reports
  • Data and information marketing and distribution

 More information about paper submission can be found here. 

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RDA: Two Transportation-Related Examples

Submitted by pburley on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 07:51

 

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the long-planned successor to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed. RDA was implemented internationally on April 1, 2013. A full description of RDA can be found at the site of its developing body, the Joint Steering Committee (JSC): http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda.html. Two examples of transportation resources in RDA, in MARC format, requested by a member of the LIST Committee, as well as a few more notes on RDA, can be found here.

Committee Member Receives Award

Submitted by rsarmiento on Tue, 03/19/2013 - 11:08

Our own Kendra Levine was recently named one of the five SLA Rising Stars for 2013. Congratulations Kendra!  Read about the award here.

Northwestern Completes Digitization Project

Submitted by rsarmiento on Tue, 03/05/2013 - 08:32

The Northwestern University Transportation Library (NUTL), in partnership with Northwestern University Transportation Center (NU-TC), recently completed the digitization of 86 of the Center’s reports.Read full release and access the titles here.

February TRB Webinars abour RiP and TRID

Submitted by klevine on Tue, 02/12/2013 - 16:37

This month TRB is hosting two free webinars about using the Research in Progress (RiP) and TRID databases. 

On Thursday, February 13th from 2:00-3:00PM ET there will be the RiP Webinar. It will cover recent interface improvements and search functionality. It will also illustrate how to manage records in RiP.

A week later, on February 20th from 2:00-3:00PM ET there will be the TRID Webinar. It will cover search technqiues and new interface developments. 

Both webinars are free, so register now!

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