Transportation Libraries and Information Centers

Address:
500 Burwood Highway
Vermont South, VIC 3133
Australia

Collection Information

Description:
The MG lay Library is recognised as the leading transport library in Australia. Strong Australian and New Zealand holdings with large holdings from other OECD countries, chiefly the UK, USA and Canada. Comprehensive collection of items published by the ARRB Group ( formerly ARRB Transport Research & the Australian Road Research Board), National Association of Australian State Road Authorities (NAASRA), and Austroads.

Subject Strengths:
Land transport; road pavements; pavement materials; transport economics; transport and the environment; transport safety; geotechnical engineering; planning and land use; transport management; vehicle design and safety; traffic engineering.

Hours: 08:30-17:00 Mon-Fri

Open to the Public: yes

Any Conditions: by appointment

Interlibrary Loan Policies: No overseas loans. Loans within Australia to other libraries and to subscribers

Loan Fees: AUD$22.00 (incl.GST) per item

Photocopy Fees: AUD$22.00 (incl.GST) per item

Service Fees: Literature searches from AUD$100

Cataloging System: In-house database using Inmagic DB/TextWorks software (in-house thesaurus and in-house classification system based on UDC)

OCLC/RLIN Code: Australian library code: VARR

Online Catalog Internet Address: n/a

Online Database/CD-ROM services:The MG Lay library produces the Australian Transport Index (ATRI) database. ATRI contains over 155,000 records and is available for subscription from Informit (http://www.informit.com.au). The library is also the Australian contributor to OECD's ITRD database.

Library Publications:
Transport and Road Update (monthly current awareness bulletin)

Library Network Affiliations:
Tranzinfo  (transport libraries in Australia & NZ); ACCESS, Inmagic Users Group, ALIA organizational member, ITRD, World Interchange Network (WIN) – Australian Relay