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Mission:
The mission of the Mineta Transportation Institute
Library Collection is to support the administrative, academic,
and research functions of the Institute. The library seeks to
provide access to information for research, education, and
technology transfer in various aspects of surface transportation
issues and policies.
The
library’s clientele consists of the Institute’s faculty,
research associates, students, and other authorized individuals
and agencies. Research Associates working on projects and
students have borrowing privileges. Other individuals may use
materials in the library.
| Hours: |
Monday –
Thursday |
8 a.m. – 10
p.m. |
Reference
Desk: |
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Zone) |
Friday |
8 a.m. –
5 p.m. |
(408)
924-2730 |
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Saturday |
11 a.m.–
6 p.m. |
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Sunday |
12 p.m. –
9 p.m. |
libref@email.sjsu.edu |
About
the Collection
Subject
Area: The theme of the institute is "Transportation
Systems Policy and Management." The collection
includes materials related to national and international surface
transportation policy studies, transportation management, and
transportation management education.
Relationship
to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library: All Mineta Transportation Library
materials are physically located in the Martin Luther King, Jr.
Library. In addition to the collection items identified in
the catalog, the Institute supports the purchase of numerous
periodicals for the Library (see link: Periodicals in the MTI
Library and on the Internet). The collection can be searched by
using Mineta Transportation Institute as the key word on the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Library search engine. http://www.sjlibrary.org.
Materials
Included: Materials generally suitable are monographs,
periodicals, reports, serials, handbooks, dictionaries,
directories, encyclopedias, bibliographies, case studies,
audio-visual materials, dissertations, theses, technical
reports, pamphlets, prints, professional level materials,
programmed materials, unpublished reports, working papers,
publications of the Institute itself, electronic resources like
electronically mounted files and bibliographies, in-house and/or
on-line databases, and access to resources available through the
Internet.
Materials
Excluded: Materials not collected by the library are
artifacts, books below college level, clippings, globes,
laboratory manuals, language manuals, manuscripts, study guides
and newspapers.
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