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The Transportation Division of SLA has received a generous $5000 donation from the University of California Berkeley Transportation Center to support the efforts of libraries to facilitate the transfer of information and research results from universities and other sources to practitioners in state DOT's, transit agencies, metropolitan planning organizations and private industry.
A five-member Division task force has been created to recommend to the Division Board how best to use this gift. The task force has come up with some possible ideas for using the funds and is seeking additional suggestions from SLA TD members and friends.
Suggested criteria for initiatives include:
- An innovative project, technique, tool or practical solution that improves or would improve access/ dissemination/ retrieval of transportation research and would benefit the transformation information community
- Topics may include but are not limited to cooperative collection development, outreach, metadata, knowledge management, technical services, Web 2.0, etc.
- Initiatives can be for a single year or cover multiple years
- Funds will not be used for travel
- Ideas should be submitted by Friday, October 2, 2009 to: Jane Minotti, Treasurer, SLA Transportation Division jminotti@dot.state.ny.us
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