Services to the U.S. Transportation Knowledge Network

The Transportation Library is pleased to serve as the facilitating library for the OCLC Group, Libraries Sharing Transportation Resources (LSTR). Following is the text of the LSTR agreement, with a downloadable pdf participant agreement, and a list of current participants by name, OCLC symbol, and state.

1. Be a transportation library.
2. Subscribe to OCLC services as either a Governing Member or Member.
3. Commit to resource sharing with all LSTR members.
4. Provide loans of all circulating monographic (returnable) items to LSTR members at no charge.
5. Provide photocopies for a maximum of 50 pages per bibliographic citation to LSTR members at no charge (a cost recovery charge for photocopies exceeding the 50 page limit is permissible and may be determined by the library).
6. Provide a complete and accurate citation for requested items.
7. Clearly identify request as being from a LSTR member library.
8. Understand that LSTR member libraries retain the right to fill or deny requests for any reason and at their discretion.
9. Only request items from the University of California, Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies Library (OCLC symbol CBT) if no other LSTR library has the item.
10. If you've searched TLCat and the Internet and have not found the item full-text online or a transportation library you can contact directly for the item, you then may request the item through the TRANLIB listserv as a last resort.
11. Consent to utilizing OCLC Statistics to view LSTR resource sharing activities, i.e. other libraries will be able to see statistics on what you've lent and/or borrowed through LSTR.

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