Category: Resources To Know
Information On The Go: Metro Library Figures Prominently In “Go Metro Los Angeles” Free Mobile App
Nearly half of Americans now own a smartphone, so it is understandable that a tidal wave of information is coming to them through handheld devices — up from just 35% nine months ago. In response to the growing need for anytime, anywhere resources, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro) has just announced [...]
Los Angeles Isn’t Planned, It Just Happens, Right? Not So Fast!
“Call it ugly, call it beautiful, call it dysfunctional — but don’t call Los Angeles unplanned.” So begins a chapter titled “Challenging The Myth Of An Unplanned Los Angeles” in a new book out this week that you’ll definitely want to know about, if not read right away. Hot on the heels of the American [...]
Putting TRB In The Palm Of Your Hand: The Transportation Research Board’s Annual Meeting Online Portal & Research E-Newsletter
The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies (TRB) has rolled out their Annual Meeting Online Portal. In one search, this portal allows users to quickly find all available papers, visual aids, and recordings by session, presentation, author, subject area, and more. If you attended this year’s TRB meeting or are employed by a sponsoring [...]
How Much, How Far, How Many: New Online Tool Puts California & Other State Facts And Figures At Your Fingertips
Have you ever needed to quickly put your finger on statewide transportation statistics? What percentage of Californians use public transit when commuting to work? How many transit fatalities were there in California in 2009? What percentage of California drivers use of safety belts? How many miles of public roads are there in California? What about carpooling and driving [...]
Our “Grand Concourse”: Historic Images Of Wilshire Boulevard’s Double-Decker Buses & Other Forgotten History
We periodically highlight “Resources To Know” which lead you to important information sources for research, as well as the core collection of classic titles in the study of Los Angeles transit and transportation history. One indisputable work is Kevin Roderick’s Wilshire Boulevard: Grand Concourse Of Los Angeles. His fascinating story of what many people regard as [...]
Researching L.A. 101: Step-By-Step Instructions For Finding Historical Information About The Los Angeles Area
This past weekend, the Metro Transportation Library & Archive participated in the 6th Annual LA as Subject Archives Bazaar. The annual event brings together more than 80 exhibitors showcasing their collections, answering questions, networking amongst each other, and attending educational workshops, panel discussions, documentary film screenings and more. The exhibition area, held at USC’s Doheny Memorial [...]
5 Years, 2,000 Posts & 1 Million Emails Later: The Top 5 Reasons You Should Be Following The Los Angeles Transportation Headlines
Our social media outreach consists of numerous online properties ranging from resource sharing to social networking, but five years ago, it all began with our Los Angeles Transportation Headlines Blog. In late 2005, taking a cue from the transportation headlines email published by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission library in the Bay Area and the Chicago [...]
Follow Me: Tweeting Transit News Builds Community, Knowledge & New Information Tools
We hit a milestone today: we acquired our 2,000th follower on the Metro Transportation Library & Archive Twitter account. Earlier today, Thousand Oaks Transit followed us on Twitter, pushing us past the 2,000 mark for the first time. Launched just a few years ago, our Twitter feed has become a central part of our efforts [...]
Announcing The Metro Library Twitter Daily, The Easiest Way To Keep Up With The Transportation Conversation — Without Joining Twitter!
Being immersed in a wealth of data, information and knowledge every day keeps you on your toes — and on the verge of being completely overwhelmed. That’s why we’ve created a daily Twitter newspaper to do the work for you. (Click the screen capture above to see how). Librarians and other “knowledge management” workers realize [...]
Approaching Transportation Research: Our Step-By-Step Guide To Getting Started & Up-To-The-Minute Bibliographies For Hot Transportation Topics
Whether you need answers fast or you are not familiar with a subject or its terminology, a timely and effective quest for knowledge can be challenging. Transit and transportation research can be especially daunting. These fields of study are interdisciplinary in nature, encompassing seemingly diverse aspects of urban planning, engineering, sociology, finance, geology and politics [...]
