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Using the Transportation Research Thesaurus

Using the Transportation Research Thesaurus. Transportation Librarians Roundtable February 14, 2008 Rita Evans and Seyem Petrites Institute of Transportation Studies Library University of California, Berkeley. How ITS Library Uses the TRT. Supplement LC Subject Headings

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Using the Transportation Research Thesaurus

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  1. Using the Transportation Research Thesaurus Transportation Librarians Roundtable February 14, 2008 Rita Evans and Seyem Petrites Institute of Transportation Studies Library University of California, Berkeley

  2. How ITS Library Uses the TRT • Supplement LC Subject Headings • Initiate searches in TRIS Online and TRB databases • Index journal articles, reports and TRB Annual Meeting papers for TRIS

  3. TRT from TRB’s Homepage…

  4. …or from NTL’s Homepage

  5. TRT to supplement LC headings • LC lags in adopting terminology • TRT reflects actual usage • TRT contain more specific terminology

  6. LC Subject Headings may be outdated

  7. Put LCSH into TRT to find term

  8. Catalog record can include both LCSH and TRT

  9. More specific terms

  10. Structured LC headings and TRT term

  11. MARC record showing TRT term

  12. Using the TRT to search • From NTL’s website, search TRIS Online • From TRB’s website, search RiP, RNS or TRB Publications Index

  13. Looking for highway construction

  14. Identifying TRT term

  15. Hierarchical display – can lead to TRIS Online search

  16. Search results from TRIS Online

  17. Using TRT from TRB’s website

  18. Hierarchical view of TRT term

  19. Find TRB Publications using TRT term

  20. Results from TRB Publications search

  21. TRT for TRIS indexing • Journal articles • TRB annual meeting papers

  22. Indexing records for TRIS

  23. Look-up table showing term

  24. TRT showing term

  25. TRB meeting paper – completed indexing

  26. Using the TRT provides: • Structured view of transportation terms • Controlled vocabulary for indexing • A starting point for searching TRIS Online and TRB databases • More specific terminology used by practitioners

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