1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2300 USA
Roberto Sarmiento
Head Librarian
(847) 491-2913

Hours: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM, M-F. Hours of access: 8:30 AM - 11:45PM, M-Sat, 12:00-11:45 PM, Sun.
Open to the Public: yes
Web site:  www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation 
Online Catalog: http://nucat.library.northwestern.edu/
Date Established: 1955

Staff Overview
Number of Professional Staff: 3
Number of Support Staff: 4

Collection Information

• Descripton: One of the largest transportation libraries in the world, the Northwestern University Transportation Library has information on transportation (air, rail, highway, water, pipeline), law enforcement and police management, and environmental impact assessment. The transportation collection emphasizes current socioeconomic aspects, particularly management, operations, finance, planning, regulation and safety. All transportation modes--air, rail, water, highway, and pipeline--are represented; both U.S. and international publications are collected. Other aspects, such as technology and history, are covered selectively. The law enforcement collection focuses on police administration and training, and traffic law enforcement. The environmental impact statement collection (nearly 40,000 volumes) includes most of the EIS's prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. These resources support education programs and research of the Transportation Center and the Traffic Institute at Northwestern, as well as the worldwide transportation and law enforcement research communities.
• Subject Strengths: Collection depth in transportation topics (all modes), and environmental impact statements.
• Special Collections: Annual reports of carriers, back into 1800's American Society of Transportation & Logistics depository (2300 papers) H.H. Copeland maps produced 1930-1950 showing railroad traffic density and financial information.
• Conditions: The University Library has restricted access hours after 5:00 PM Mon- FRI , and after 12 noon on SAT and SUN. Users need to declare intention to use the Transportation Library to obtain access to the building. Please refer to our Web site for current information.
• Interlibrary Loan Policies:  Requests accepted by phone, fax, e-mail, letter, ALA request or OCLC. Materials shipped library rate or UPS ground at n/c, or priority shipping (priority mail/FedEx/UPS next-day/fax) at cost plus $10 surcharge for rush handling. Books, government reports, theses/dissertations, annual reports, environmental impact statements, audiovisual materials, computer materials, and microforms may be borrowed. Periodicals, reference/high-use materials, archival or fragile materials may not be borrowed. Journal articles and conference papers are copied within copyright guidelines. Large photocopying requests may also be billed for time. Please visit http://www.library.northwestern.edu/transportation/services.html
• Loan Fees: $10.00 for not-for-profit organizations; $20.00 for for-profit organizations. Loan charges do not apply to SLA Transportation Division members; Transportation Knowledge Network (TKN) members; transportation and transit agencies and libraries; federal, state, and local government agencies and libraries; and organizations which deposit their reports with the Transportation Library. Contact the Transportation Library for more information trans@northwestern.edu.
• Photocopy Fees:  $15.00 per article up to 50 pages, for not-for-profit organization; $22.00 per article up to 50 pages, for for-profit organization. Contact the Transportation Library for more information at trans@northwestern.edu
• Cataloging System: Endeavor Information System (Voyager)
• OCLC/RLIN Code: JCR (OCLC); ILNX (RLIN)
• Online Database/CD-ROM services: TRAN Article File, http://tran.library.northwestern.edu/ our locally-produced journal article / conference paper file; Transport from SilverPlatter; through Northwestern University Library Electronic Resources http://er.library.northwestern.edu/  numerous business, social science and engineering databases and Web sites are available both onsite and remotely.
• Additional Information: Contributor, with University of California Berkeley Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library, to the TLIB subfile of TRIS (DIALOG file 63, SilverPlatter's TRANSPORT CD-ROM and TRIS Online. Depository for US Dept of Transportation sponsored research Library.
• Library Publications:
• Library Network Affiliations:  ILLINET; thru the University Library: CIC, MTKN