Caltrans

Transportation Library

&

History Center

Caltrans

12 District Offices

23,000 Personnel Statewide _____________________________________

Population - 35,600,000

170,000 Miles of Roads 15,265 Miles of State Highways

9% Of Total Roads 54% Of Daily Traffic

Caltrans Library History

• 1940’s – Began under Traffic & later moved to Planning

• 1970 – Became Department-wide research library under Administration

• 1984 – Started library online catalog• 1984 – History Program established & made

responsibility of Library• 1998 – Created first library website • 2002 – Redesigned website

Library Staffing

5 Full-Time Positions: Supervising Librarian Technical Reference Librarian History Librarian Cataloging Librarian Assistant Caltrans Administrator (formerly Library Technical Assistant)

2 Student Assistants

Library Operating Budget

5 Staff (full-time permanent) - $398,0002 Student assistants - $24,000Journals (250 paid subscriptions) - $26,000Books, CD-ROMs, Dialog - $20,000OCLC - $ 8,000SydneyPlus (on-line catalog) - $ 7,500Supplies (general & archival) - $ 6,500Misc. (equip.repair, training, etc.) - $ 4,500

TOTAL $494,500

Library Budget

Library Collection

• Books & reports (70,000)

• Journal subscriptions (350)

• Photographs (100,000)

• Maps, Department (20,000)

• Maps, USGS (12,000)

Library Collection

Collection Organization

Transportation Library: Yale Classification Schedule (A-P & R-S)

Library of Congress Schedule

(Q & T)

History Center: Biographical files

County/Route files Subject files

Databases Accessed

CD-ROM:TRANSPORTEarthquake & the Built Environment - Quakeline - Earthquake Engineering Abstracts - Newcastle (Australia) Earthquake Database

Fee-Based Research Databases:SAE WebdexOCLCDialog

DIALOG

• TRIS (file 63) - Transportation• Compendex (file 8) – Engineering• ABI Inform (file 15) – Business, management• Biosis (file 5) – Biological sciences• Environment (files 68,40) – Pollution, etc.• Georef (file 89) – Geology, geophysics• Inspec (file 2,3,4) – Elect. Eng., computers• NTIS (file 6) – Science, tech. (govt. reports)

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