[Texgreen] DOT NHSTA reading room downsizing & possible closure

[Margaret]

[from misc.activism.progressive ]

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From: "Bernadine Abbott Hoduski" <b...@initco.net>
To: ALA Council List <alac...@ala.org>
Subject: [ALACOUN:19054] DOT NHSTA reading room downsizing and possible closure
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:05:41 -0700

Hi Council,

Please share the following message about the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration reading room. The message about
the FAA library simply reflects a DOT wide trend to downsize its libraries.

Bernadine Abbott Hoduski, Councilor at Large, 312 N. Howie, Helena,
Montana 59601  b...@initco.net
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the DOT reading
room is being downsized and threatened with closure

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of
the Department of Transportation reading room located at 400 7th St.
SW in Washington, D.C. is being downsized and threatened with closure.
Regular researchers report that documents that they have used for
years are suddenly not there. They have been told that older material
is being sent to NARA storage center in Suitland even though that
information is not available on the NHTSA web site. Access at Suitland
is difficult for the public.

The reading room includes the following kinds of information in its
collection:
1) Technical Information Services (TIS) information, 2) dockets and NHTSA
comments to dockets, 3) research note books that help users find
Federal Register notices and identify dockets relevant to their research,
4) papers from the Society of Automotive Engineers, 5) service bulletins
for vehicles, 6) NHTSA news releases, 7) motor vehicle recalls, defects
investigations, 8) NHTSA sponsored research, 9) presentations to
1988-89 series of meetings on roll over prevention and much more.

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