SLA Annual Conference June 13, 2006 Transportation Division Update on International Transportation Information

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SLA Annual ConferenceJune 13, 2006Transportation
DivisionUpdate on International Transportation
InformationTravelogue

• Bob Sweet
• Information Resources Manager
• University of Michigan
• Transportation Research Institute
• bsweet_at_umich.edu

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Planning My Trip

• Why do you want to go so far?
• Wholl go with you?

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Washington, D.C. a good place to start

• Prime contacts from travel agent extraordinaire

Germany Austria
Denmark Finland
Sweden Mexico
Saudi Arabia Africa
England
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The Request

• What are the greatest challenges facing your
  library? Or, what are the greatest challenges
  that your country faces, relative to the
  management and dissemination of transportation
  information?
• What are some of the recent developments that
  have been beneficial to you in carrying out your
  work as a transportation-information manger and
  provider?
• What are some of the tools or resources that
  might be of interest to librarians in North
  America who wish to gain access to your country's
  transportation information?
• Are there any issues in your country that you
  would like North American librarians to be aware
  of that could affect the worldwide transfer of
  transportation information?

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The Replies

• Its good to hear from old friends.

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Sweden

• Birgitta Sandstedt
• Head of Library and Information Centre
• VTI / Olaus Magnus väg 35 / SE-581 95 Linköping /
  Sweden
• Tel [phone]
• Direct 46-13-20 42 14
• E-mail birgitta.sandstedt_at_vti.se /
  www.vti.se/bic
• VTI is an independent, internationally
  established research institute which is engaged
  in the transport sector. Our core competence is
  in the fields of safety, economy, environment,
  traffic and transport analysis, behaviour and the
  man-vehicle-transport system interaction, and in
  road design, operation and maintenance. VTI is a
  world leader in several areas, for instance in
  simulator technology.
• www.vti.se
• www.transguide.org
• www.transtopic.se
• www.itrd.org

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Sweden

• What are the greatest challenges facing your
  library? Or, what are the greatest challenges
  that your country faces, relative to the
  management and dissemination of transportation
  information?
• Fund raising (a never ending issue it seems).
• Sponsors verify customer satisfaction before
  renewing contracts ISO 9001 assures that
  customers are in focus
• Intensified co-operation with the researchers as
  proposals are written to ensure enough money for
  information services
• Its necessary to consult with researchers at the
  start of large rather than reacting to
  literature requests
• New competence/ research centers developing
  present opportunities, but tax limited resources

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Sweden

• What are some of the recent developments that
  have been beneficial to you in carrying out your
  work as a transportation-information manger and
  provider?
• National study Future Provision of Information
  to the Transportation Research Community, 2005
  was carried out in 2005.
• Recommends stronger support for VTI
• Recommends increased funding
• Recommends working group be formed to plan for
  future demands
• Invited talks
• Largest Swedish annual conference in the
  traffic and transport research area
• Swedish Telematics Valley http//www.telematicsv
  alley.org, The trend is certainly positive.
• The Swedish Road Administration has announced
  that they intend to set up a Swedish technical
  transfer centre where we will be the engine

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Sweden

• What are some of the tools or resources that
  might be of interest to librarians in North
  America who wish to gain access to your country's
  transportation information?
• Transguide www.transguide.org
• Transguide is a portal where our catalogue is
  searchable (about 125 000 references, all
  described with English keywords and many with
  English as original language). The e-publications
  (about 7 000) can be searched separately and in
  full text as well.
• Databases containing links to upcoming
  conferences worldwide, websites, libraries,
  databanks and bibliographic databases are also
  available.
• We also have a directory with our periodicals.

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Sweden

• Are there any issues in your country that you
  would like North American librarians to be aware
  of that could affect the worldwide transfer of
  transportation information?
• A closer and formalised co-operation between the
  Nordic Baltic Transportation Libraries and the
  Nordic Road Association/Baltic Road Association
  starting from this year.
• The formation of a Swedish T2C (still at an early
  planning stage).

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Finland

• Sirpa Haapamaki
• Library, Finnish Road Administration (Finnra)
• P.O. Box 33, FIN-00521 Helsinki
• FINLAND
• tel [phone]
• fax [phone]
• http//www.tiehallinto.fi
• mailtosirpa.haapamaki_at_tiehallinto.fi

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Finland

• Council of State working to rationalize and
  synergize the R D activities between all civil
  service Within the Ministry of Transport and
  Communications a task force was named in 2005 to
  synergize the R D activities in transportation
• Task force is planning a portal to display our
  research programs, projects, and reports Sirpa
  is a member.
• Portal will connect and cover the library
  collections of all our transportation libraries
  targeted for spring 2007
• Similarities to MTKN

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Germany

• Helga Trantes
• Bundesanstalt fuer Strassenwesen (BASt)/Federal
  Highway Research Institute
• Bruederstr. 53, D-51427 Bergisch Gladbach,
  Germany
• http//www.bast.de
• Phone [phone] Fax [phone]
• trantes_at_bast.deAsdas

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Germany

• Problems / Challenges
• Budget restrictions, staff reductions
• Convince management that quality information
  needs resources
• Offer the best possible information (quality) at
  the lowest possible price
• Keep up with the pace of technical development
  and new information sources
• Convince staff (experts) that not all information
  can be found on the
• internet (Google)

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Germany

• Resources
• ITRD database, containing additional abstracts
  for a lot of non-English records
• BASt website (publications and research projects
  also in ITRD and indexed with keywords from the
  ITRD thesaurus)
• National and international databases (for
  example, TRIS Online) and websites
• Participation in national licenses for charged
  (archive) databases
• BASt specific intranet portal (not open to
  external users), offering one single interface
  for the retrieval of very different information
  resources (databases, library catalogues,
  websites, ordering systems, etc.)
• Networking and listservs
• Information exchange on the national and
  international level
• Test runs with automatic indexing (planned)

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Austria

• Karin Haid
• Head of Library and Documentation
• Kuratorium fuer Verkehrssicherheit
• (Austrian Road Safety Board)
• Vienna, Austria
• E-Mail karin.haid_at_kfv.at

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Austria

• What are the greatest challenges facing your
  library? Or, what are the greatest challenges
  that your country faces, relative to the
  management and dissemination of transportation
  information?
• Sever staff reductions from 420 hours per month
  to 285 hours per month
• Budget cuts all departments and branch offices of
  the organisation. Many staff members were
  dismissed, got part-time contracts or were
  replaced by cheaper free-lance staff.
• Must maintain high quality services research
  demands it
• Could not alter acquisition policy
• What did we do?
• Cancelled all direct-to-publisher
  subscriptions placed orders via two booksellers
• More efficient invoicing
• Answer general questions on the intranet.
• Promote end-user searches in the librarys
  bibliographic database
• (We do not promote our services to external
  users but if we are contacted we also provide
  services for this user group.)

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Austria

• What are some of the tools or resources that
  might be of interest to librarians in North
  America who wish to gain access to your countrys
  transportation information?
• ITRD
• Most Austrian universities and research
  institutions research results are published in
  about 10 different series and also in some
  serials. The KfV library has subscribed to all of
  them and inputs this information into the ITRD.
  In this way, the international dissemination of
  Austrian transportation information is
  safeguarded.

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Austria

• What are some of the recent developments that
  have been beneficial to you in carrying out your
  work as a transportation-information manager and
  provider?
• ITRD membership (not a recent development)
• See Karins article Why it Pays to Be an ITRD
  Member (http//www.itrd.org under the heading
  Membership)

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Austria

• Are there any issues in your country that you
  would like North American librarians to be aware
  of that could affect the worldwide transfer of
  transportation information?
• Perhaps it is helpful for North American
  colleagues to know the URL of the Austrian union
  catalogue of scientific libraries
  http//aleph.onb.ac.at

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Asia

• Jane Macoustra
• Tel. [phone]
• Mob. [phone]
• Surrey England
• Email jane_at_tai-panresearch.com
• President SLA Asia Chapter

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Asia

• Have you tried Aardvark? http//www.aardvarknet.in
  fo/user/aardvarkwelcome/
• You could put out some messages to the consortia
  or associations that are listed.
• Or Google Librarian www.googlelibrarian.com You
  can sign up and then post a message to the list.

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Asia
Asian Development Bank http//www.adb.org Headquarters 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines Mailing Address P. O. Box 789, 0980 Manila, Philippines Tel [phone] Fax [phone] E-mail information_at_adb.org Website www.adb.org Fact Sheets http//www.adb.org/Countries/default.asp Tsuen Wan Public Library Janice Yuen, Librarian 38 Sai Lau Kok Road Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong
Chinese University of Hong Kong , Colin Storey, University Librarian Sha Tin, New Territories Hong Kong University of Hong Kong Libraries Betty Tam/Gayle Chan, Serials Section, Acquisitions Services Department Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
Hong Kong Central Reference Library Agnes Lee, Senior Librarian Central Reference Library 66 Causeway Road, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong University of Macau Helen H.K. Leong P.O. Box 3001 Macau
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China

• Through Roberto Sarmiento
• Beijing JiaoTong (Transportation) University
• http//lib.njtu.edu.cn/english/index.htm
• Shanghai JiaoTong (Transportation) University
• http//www.lib.sjtu.edu.cn/english/index.htm

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World Bank
Public Information Centers 102 countries
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The Request

• We'd like to know
• What is your best source for transportation
  information?
• Are there established transportation libraries
  that are available to serve you?
• What is the biggest challenge you face in
  bringing transportation information to your
  clients?
• What would you like transportation librarians in
  North America to know about your country, that
  might help us all to improve the free flow of
  transportation information globally?

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The Responders

• Argentina (McCleod influence)
• Bolivia
• India (McCleod influence)
• Mongolia
• Philippines
• Turkey
• Uzbekistan

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Argentina
Susana Guppy World Bank Argentina, Chile,
Paraguay Uruguay http//www.bancomundial.org.ar
http//www.worldbank.org In Argentina our WB
Depository Library is in the Ministry of Economy
and they are a specialized transport library.
Araceli Gonzalez (Director of the Center of
Information and Documentation,Ministry of
Economy, Argentina) agacos_at_mecon.gov.ar Stella
Maris Zoppi (WB Depository Library Program)
Szoppi_at_mecon.gov.ar
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Bolivia
Claudia Encinas World Bank - Bolivia CENTRO
BOLIVIANO DE ESTUDIOS MULTICIPLINARIOS Contact
Maria Renee Rivero email. cebem_at_cebem.com
CENTRO DE INFORMACION DE LA SUPERINTENDENCIA
GENERAL DEL SIRESE Contact Miriam Agramont
sg_at_sirese.gov.bo CENTRO DE DOCUMENTACION UDAPE
Contact Maria del carmen Vargas email
mvargas_at_udape.gov.bo
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Bolivia

• What is your best source for transportation
  information?
• Don't have one
• Are there established transportation libraries
  that are available to serve you?
• Not a specific transportation library.
• What is the biggest challenge you face in
  bringing transportation
• information to your clients?
• What would you like transportation librarians in
  North America to know about your country, that
  might help us all to improve the free flow of
  transportation information globally?
• That here in Bolivia the people prefers to read
  materials in Spanish, to improve the free flow
  of information in any topic, we would request to
  have the information in our official language
  Spanish

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India

• Hema Balasubramanian
• Public Information Center
• The World Bank, New Delhi Office
• 70 Lodi Estate, New Delhi - 110 003
• Tel [phone] Fax [phone]
• email hbalasubramanian_at_worldbank.org
• http//www.worldbank.org.in
• Central Road Research Institute -
  http//www.crridom.org/
• Asian Institute of Transport Development -
  http//www.aitd.net/
• Central Institute of Road Transport -
  http//www.cirtindia.com/
• Planning Commission, Govt. of India
  http//planningcommission.nic.in/
• 
  
• Indian Roads Congress- http//www.irc.org.in/hrb/m
  embers.htm
• IRC Publication- http//www.mahapwd.com/irc/resear
  ch.htm
• 
  

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Mongolia
Sunjidmaa Jamba Communications DLC Officer The
World Bank Ulaanbaatar Office 5F, MCS Plaza
Building, Seoul Street-4, Ulaanbaatar-210644
Mongolia (976 11) 312647 ext. 207 7 (976-11)
312645 sjamba_at_worldbank.org


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Mongolia

• What is your best source for transportation
  information? The most of cases we use our own
  sources of information within the bank group,
  which could be for instance, publications,
  studies and some background information in each
  country, etc.
• Are there established transportation libraries
  that are available to serve you?
• No
• What is the biggest challenge you face in
  bringing transportation information to your
  clients?
• As Mongolia has been sgifting to a market
  economy, to change habits and understanding of
  our clients about transportation sector like any
  other infrastructure sectors, as public services
  based on commercial principles but not services
  just depending on state support, so on.

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Mongolia

• What would you like transportation librarians in
  North America to know about your country, that
  might help us all to improve the free flow of
  transportation information globally?
• Huge country with less density of population, the
  sector is being shifted into commercial based
  principle operation, partly privatized.

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Philippines
Cheerly Rosal KDC Assistant Knowledge for
Development Center World Bank Office Manila G/F
The Taipan Place, F. Ortigas Jr. Ave Ortigas
Center, Pasig City Tel [phone] Fax 636
2866
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Philippines

• What is your best source for transportation
  information?
• Internet
• Are there established transportation libraries
  that are available to serve you?
• None that I know of.
• What is the biggest challenge you face in
  bringing transportation information to your
  clients?
• Limited resources and access.

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Philippines

• What would you like transportation librarians in
  North America to know about your country, that
  might help us all to improve the free flow of
  transportation information globally?
• Find out if there is a linkage between my country
  and yours in terms of sharing information on
  transportation. And if there is, how best to make
  the resources available to the widest possible
  audience/clients. If there is none, try to
  establish a link to better share information on
  transportation globally. Make the available
  resources on transformation and the sharing of
  such resources be known to all librarians,
  information officers and other information
  managers for widest dissemination.

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Turkey
Arsev Umur Aydinoglu Public Information
Assistant World Bank Turkey Office Tel 90 (312)
459 8337 Fax [phone] E-mail
aaydinoglu_at_worldbank.org www.worldbank.org.tr Dea
r Mr. Sweet, Thank you for your e-mail sent on
May 2. Unfortunately, there is a little portfolio
in Turkey in transport sector at the moment and
we do not have much requests on publications
related to transportation. Therefore, we are not
interested in being a member of your
organization. I have saved your coordinates in
case we will need to contact you in future. Thank
you.
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Uzbekistan
Matluba Mukhamedova PIC/Communications
Officer World Bank Country Office in
Tashkent Tel [phone] Fax (998 71)
138-59-51/52 e-mail mmukhamedova_at_worldbank.org
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Uzbekistan

• What is your best source for transportation
  information?
• a) ads published and circulated by transportation
  companies
• b) information/inquiry offices of the
  transportation companies
• c) magazines
• d) Internet resources
• Are there established transportation libraries
  that are available to serve you?
• In my country I don't know whether we have such
  libraries
• What is the biggest challenge you face in
  bringing transportation information to your
  clients?
• To define proper channels to address target
  audiences. Not obviously library resources.

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Uzbekistan

• What would you like transportation librarians in
  North America to know about your country, that
  might help us all to improve the free flow of
  transportation information globally?
• The capital of Uzbekistan is a bridge from West
  to East. Air transportation is quite safe and can
  connect you with such countries as South Korea,
  United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Japan, Malaysia,
  India, China, and others.
• Railway and automobile transportation covers the
  whole country transportation from the capital
  city to historical tourist centers is good.
  Information can be obtained in tourist or
  transportation companies, Internet resources.

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Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

• Its good to be back.
• Thank you for your attention