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Hong Yu

Hong Yu

Research Librarian
Publication Services - Gilchrist, Room 265
Texas Transportation Institute
The Texas A&M University System
3135 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3135
ph. (979) 845-5770 · fax (979) 845-0568
hong-yu@tamu.edu
Homepage: http://ttiresearch.tamu.edu/h-yu

Short Biography

Hong Yu joined TTI as a research librarian in 1998. She has operated and supervised the operation of the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse since then. As the clearinghouse coordinator, she is responsible for gathering information, responding to information requests, developing the clearinghouse databases and maintaining the clearinghouse web site. The Clearinghouse has received numerous national awards, the most recent being the 2008 International Road Federation's Global Road Achievement Awards, and it is considered by many to be the world's largest resource on roadway construction safety. She has also been involved in the development of databases and web sites for several transportation research and technology transfer projects. Currently, in addition to her Work Zone Clearinghouse responsibilities, she is the team leader for TTI Communications' Library Services group, overseeing the library's operation and providing research support to TTI researchers through literature searches and acquisition. She is also responsible for maintenance of the library portion of TTI's Intranet.

Prior to her experience at TTI, she was the Staff Instruction Librarian in Sterling C. Evans Library at the Texas A&M University. She developed a new employee orientation program, coordinated with subject specialists and database vendors for specialized training, and provided regular training sessions to librarians and staff on electronic resources. She also served as a faculty liaison to the Department of Recreation, Parks & Tourism.

Professional Interests

Information retrieval

Information management

Information organization

Databases

Information services

Information technology

Information systems

Library operations

Database management systems

Websites (Information retrieval)

Education

M.L.S., Library and Information Management, Emporia State University, 1993.

B.A., English, Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute, 1987.

Experience

Research Librarian, Publication Services, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2006 - Present.

Associate Research Librarian, Library Services, Texas Transportation Institute, September 2003 - August 2006.

Assistant Research Librarian, Library & Information Services, Texas Transportation Institute, September 1998 - August 2003.

Staff Instruction Librarian, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, May 1996 - August 1998.

Reference Librarian, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University, September 1995 - May 1996.

Reference Librarian, Northwest Branch, Harris County Public Library, April 1994 - August 1995.

Affiliations

Member, Special Libraries Association, 1998 - Present.

Member, American Library Association, 1992 - 1998.

Honors/Awards

Administrative Technical Support Award, Texas Transportation Institute, 2004.

Selected Publications

J.L. Hart, V. Coleman, H. Yu. Marketing Electronic Resources and Services: Surveying Faculty Use as a First Step. The Reference Librarian, No. 67/68, 1999, pp. 41-55.

Selected Presentations

National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse, Presented at 2009 Special Libraries Association Annual Conference, GTRIC Program, Washington, DC, June 2009.

Literature Searches, Presented at Texas Transportation Institute, College Station, Texas, February 2008.

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