The Library of the Swedish National Road Administration: its Roles, Tasks and Networks

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The Library of the Swedish National Road
Administration its Roles, Tasks and Networks

• Presentation at
• The SLA Annual Conference, June 7-12, 2003, New
  York
• by
• Anna Maria Magnusson
• Librarian at Swedish National Road Administration
  (www.vv.se)
• E-mail anna-maria.magnusson_at_vv.se

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Contents

• Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA)
• SNRA Library
• Transportation information networks in Europe
• Library networks in Sweden
• Nordic and European library initiatives

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Swedish National Road Administration(SNRA)

• Four main tasks within the Swedish road transport
  system
• Sectorial responsibilities
• for road traffic safety, environmental impact,
  public transport, ITS etc
• Exercise of public authority
• drawing up an applying regulations for vehicles,
  driving licences, commercial traffic, maximum
  speed etc
• National road management
• developing and managing the state road network
  in the role of a client
• Contracted works
• planning and design, construction, operation and
  maintainance as contracted by the SNRA and others

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The role of the SNRA library

• Primary
• to add value to SNRA by providing efficient and
  effective
• information sources and services
• Secondary
• to be one of the providers of information from
  SNRA to external
• customers (students, researchers, other
  libraries, the general
• public etc)

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Library staff

• Anna Maria Magnusson
• Anna Hultqvist
• Inga-Maj Östlin

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Library activities and services

• For internal customers
• Provide a relevant collection of literature
  searchable through a library database
• Provide a relevant collection of electronic
  information sources through the library intranet
  pages (databases, dictionaries, Internet link
  collection)
• Promote effective use of information sources
  through acting as consultants and through
  training courses in information searching
• Lending and acquisition, routing of periodicals,
  reference service, information searches, alerts
• Library experitise in projects (intranet,
  document management)

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Library activities and services

• For external customers
• Provide a collection of mainly transportation
  literature searchable through the library
  database on Internet
• Provide a relevant collection of road transport
  links through the library Internet pages
• Loans directly to external customers
• Reference service mainly concerning the SNRA and
  its publications

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Library webb-pages

• Internet library webb-pages
• http//www.vv.se/biblio/english/index.htm
• Search form for the library database (in English)
• Road transport links
• http//www.vv.se/for_lang/english/links/index.htm
• Road safety links

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Transportation information networks in Europe

• The Nordic-Baltic Library Circle
• mainly road transportation libraries from
  Finland, Denmark, Norway,
• Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden
• Transtopic http//listserv.vti.se/cgi-bin/wa.exe/
  
• a discusssion list, hosted at VTI, for European
  transportation
• libraries and information centres
• Network of ITRD centers in OECD member countries

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Library networks in Sweden

• The Swedish Association for Information
  Specialists (TLS)
• the Swedish equivalent to SLA
• http//www.tls.se
• The Swedish Library Association
• http//www.biblioteksforeningen.org
• Libris
• the union catalogue of Swedish research
  libraries (about 300 libraries)
• http//www.libris.kb.se/english/home.html
• BIBSAM
• National resource libraries

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Nordic and European library initiativessome
examples

• NORDINFO (Nordic Council for Scientific
  Information)
• NORDINFOlit (information literacy)
• Mobility scolarships
• Nord ID Conferences
• in Denmark 2004 Knowledge and Change
• http//www2.db.dk/NIOD
• RENARDUS
• A European Union project providing integrated
  access to subject gateways
• http//www.renardus.org

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Thank you for inviting me!

• Making our networks widen