Transportation Division Program
97th Annual Meeting
Special Libraries Association
Baltimore, MD
June 11-14, 2006
Program Coordinator: Send
mail to: Bob Sweet,
University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute
Saturday
- June 10
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No-Host
Dinner
We’ll come together for a no-host
(that means everyone pays for his or her own) dinner
at yet-to-be-determined nearby restaurant.
We’ll be holding it on Saturday evening this year,
because of a change in the conference scheduling
that will make Sunday unavailable for such an event.
Location: To be announced
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Sunday
- June 11
8:15
am -
3:00 pm
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Government Transportation Research Information Committee (GTRIC) Program
GTRIC is a forum for government transportation librarians and other information professionals who rely on state and federal government information. Presentations are designed to educate librarians in changes in legislation and policy that affect the free flow of information. Speakers from government, academia and the private sector will share information on initiatives in library and information sciences that affect our work in transportation.
Audience:
All attendees
Moderator:
Nelda Bravo, Head, National Transportation
Library, U.S. Department of Transportation
Agenda:
Welcome
Nelda Bravo, Head, U.S. National Transportation Library
Self Introductions
Iowa DOT Library's Transportation Enhancement Grant for Historical Preservation
Hank Zaletel, Librarian, Iowa DOT
MTKN & Pooled Funds consortia, how the two benefit the library community
Janet Bix, Library Administrator, Ohio DOT
Steve Cochran, Librarian, Washington State DOT
TRIS Update
Barbara Post, Information Services Manager, TRB
Update on AASHTO Publications and Information
Bob Cullen, AASHTO
Break--Bring your own coffee and snacks!
Knowledge Management at PA DOT
Marleen Steele, Pennsylvania DOT
Cheryl Bodan, Librarian, PennDOT Library and Research Center
TRB Special Report 284, Transportation Knowledge Networks: A Management Strategy for the 21st Century
Barbara Post, Information Services Manager, TRB
FHWA Research Library
Martha Soneira, Team Leader, FHWA
Box Lunch (served in meeting room)
NCHRP Synthesis 37-02 "Preservation and Use of Institutional Memory"
Nelda Bravo, Program Analyst, FHWA
The connection between Open WorldCat and Google and Yahoo
Andy Bush, OCLC
Demo of the new NTL Integrated Search
Tracey Schut, NTL
NTL Update
Rosalyn Alleman, NTL
NTL Reference Services
Conclude Meeting
Sponsored by:
Ticketed event No. 410: $55.00
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Monday - June 12
9:30 am -
11:00 am
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Free Agency: From Athletes to Librarians
When sports stars become free agents, they are able to shop their talents to a number of teams, evaluating their worth to their potential employer, enhancing their assets during the off-season, and deciding what salary they should ask for. While we librarians don't need steroids to do our jobs, we need that same attitude that we're all free agents in the workplace. Mary Ellen Bates will give her thoughts on how to implement this strategy in the information marketplace.
If you’ve seen Mary Ellen at SLA before, you know that she really packs the room, and then some. This one is not to be missed.
Audience:
All attendees
Speaker:
Ms. Mary Ellen Bates, Principal, Bates Information Services
SLA Units: Transportation Division, Environment & Resources Management
Division, Social Science Division
Sponsored by: PRENAX, Inc and Dialog
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12:00 pm -
1:00 pm
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Transportation
Division Business Meeting and Brown Bag Luncheon
Our annual business meeting. Bring a brown-bag (or any color) lunch.
Unit members only
Moderator:
Bob Sweet,
University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute
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Tuesday - June 13
7:30 am -
9:00 am
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Transportation Division Board Meeting
Annual board meeting of the Transportation Division.
Audience:
Board members only
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11:30
am -
1:00 pm
Room 205C
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International Update on Transportation Information
The most elusive information resources in the field of transportation are those originating in Asia, Africa, South America, and the smaller countries of Europe. This program will allow transportation librarians to get up to date on the progress that librarians in these regions have made toward increasing accessibility of their countries’ transportation information. Ideally, we will have librarians from those parts of the world at the conference to make their own presentations. When not feasible, we will have U.S. colleagues undertake a study of the situation in various countries and make presentations by proxy.
Audience:
All attendees
Moderator:
Speaker:
Bonnie Osif, Librarian, Pennsylvania State University
Bob Sweet, University of Michigan, Transportation Research Institute, "Travelogue"
SLA Units: Transportation Division
Sponsored by:
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7:00 pm -
9:00 pm
American Visionary Art Museum |
Transportation
Division Open House
Come meet and socialize with other Transportation Division members in an informal gathering at the American Visionary Art Museum.
Audience:
Unit members only
SLA Units: Transportation Division
Sponsored by: American
Society of Civil Engineers
Ticketed event No. 750: $10.00
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Thursday
- June 15
10:00 am -
2:00 pm
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Tour of Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
Download tour invitation
Martha Soneira of the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center is arranging a tour of the facility. Transportation to this facility is on your own (directions at http://www.tfhrc.gov/about/tfdirect.htm) if traveling by car. If you care to travel by train to Union Station in Washington, DC, Martha will have a van pickup at that location, upon prior arrangement, about an hour before the tour. Transportation back to Union Station will be provided as well after the tour.
Tour reservation deadline is Thursday, June 1, 2006.
To make reservations, or for more information, contact Martha Soneira by email at
martha.soneira@fhwa.dot.gov, or phone at 202-493-3468
Audience:
Unit members only
Host:
Martha Soneira, Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
SLA Units: Transportation Division
Sponsored by:
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