VDOT Research Library staffer Gil Kenner recently received the Harriet S. and Samuel K. Nash Endowed Scholarship at Drexel University.

Gil has worked at the VDOT Research Library since 2014, during which time he has been enrolled as a distance education student in Drexel University's College of Computing and Informatics. He expects to receive a Master's degree in Library Science from that program in early 2017. 

At the library, Gil is responsible for managing the records in the library's EOS Library Catalog. In addition to maintenance of the catalog and original cataloging of VTRC research reports, he recently imported tens of thousands of bibliographic records for books in the Books24x7, EngineeringCore and BusinessCore eBooks databases.

Harriet S. Nash, who created the scholarship, was an educator who went back for a master’s degree in library and information science at Drexel’s School of Library and Information Science—known today as the College of Computing & Informatics. When she became a professor at Drexel in the library science program in 1987. Her husband Samuel K. Nash was a mettalurgist who taught in Drexel University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering Colleges.

“Education supported us—it gave us opportunity to earn a living and have a decent life,” Nash said. “It was very important to us to give something like that back to Drexel. When we could afford it, the best thing we could do with our money was to provide for somebody else’s education, because it gave so much to us.”

In recognition of National Bicycle Month, VDOT will hold a Bike to Work Day (BTWD) celebration on May 20. Curious? Learn about the Laws Regulating Bicycling on Virginia highways, and don't forget to check out VDOT's awesome Bike Map for biking routes. If your work for VDOT touches on bicycling as a mode the VDOT Library can help you find authoritative transportation research, including sources like: 

Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities by American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Task Force on Geometric Design Staff (Contribution by)

Call Number: ONLINE TE 301 .G84 2012eb

Publication Date: 2012

Information on how to accommodate bicycle travel and operations in most riding environments. Intended to present guidelines that result in facilities that meet the needs of bicyclists and other highway users. Sufficient flexibility is permitted to encourage designs that are sensitive to local context and incorporate the needs of bicyclists, pedestrians, and motorists.

 

Bicycles, 2013 : planning, design, operations, and infrastructure.

Call Number: TA 1001.5 .T71 no.2387

Publication Date: 2013

17 papers exploring bicycle-​specific traffic signals; automated collection of cyclist data; passing events in mixed bicycle traffic; driver and cyclist education materials; and station-level forecasting of bikesharing ridership; bicycle infrastructure quality-​of-​service metrics; bicyclist acceleration and speed distributions at intersections; commuter-​cyclist travel behavior; public bikesharing in North America; multimodal conflicts, and more.

 

Estimating bicycling and walking for planning and project development: a guidebook. by J. Richard Kuzmyak

Call Number: TA 1001.5 .N3 no.770

Publication Date: 2014

Methods and tools for practitioners to estimate bicycling and walking demand as part of regional-, corridor-, or project-level analyses. Includes a guidebook for practitioners on a range of methods for estimating bicycling and walking activity and a CD-ROM containing a GIS Walk Accessibility Model, spreadsheets, and the final report, which documents the research and tools that operationalize the methods described.
 

 

Ken Winter, MLIS
VDOT Research Library
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