Kudos to SLA Government Information Division member Jennifer Boteler for her article Masters of Information published in the current issue of the Federal Highway Administration newsletter Public Roads. The article describes the work of transportation librarians and their collaboration with public and private transportation libraries and information providers. Along the way, Jennifer makes key points about librarians' roles as information filters, innovative researchers, organizers of information for retrieval, and networkers extraordinaire.
Thank you, Peggy, for your post.
The Public Roads editors graciously offered to highlight or devote other sections of the May/June magazine issue to topics related to the article.
Most notably, Leni Oman, Director, Office of Research and Library Services, Washington State Dept. of Transportation
was the guest editorialist and she wrote a piece in support of libraries, librarians, and transportation knowledge networks. See Editor’s Notes, “Using Information Investments Wisely.”
One of the items in the Along the Road section is on the new TRID database.
And although these pages aren’t included in the online edition, one of the full-page advertisements in the print edition is on the upcoming SLA Annual Meeting, and another ad is on FDsys (the new GPO Access) http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
If your library receives the print edition of Public Roads magazine, you might want to take a look at the ads.
Posted by: Jennifer Boteler | May 18, 2011 at 01:27 PM