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In 1959, The Traffic Institute (now The Center for Public Safety) merged its library holdings with those of Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Today, The Transportation Library has the largest private collection of transportation, highway traffic control, highway safety, and criminal justice literature in the country. Increasing by approximately 6,000 items every year, the Transportation Library's collection now includes over 155,000 books, technical reports, pamphlets, government documents, doctoral dissertations, newsletters, journals, and current periodicals; over 85,000 documents are stored on microform. The Transportation Library is also a regional center in the national network of transportation research information services (TRISNET).
A staff of professional librarians is available to assist Center for Public Safety faculty and students in literature searches, bibliographic studies, and acquisition of hard-to-locate materials and documents. The library is a routine subscriber to abstracting services, CD-ROM distributors, and electronic bibliographic retrieval services. The librarians' daily familiarity with such services, and specialized knowledge of the subject matter, greatly facilitates the acquisition of writings that have had a very limited distribution. Such library capabilities are vital to the Center's research and publication programs, providing essential information regarding police training, police administration, criminal justice, and traffic engineering.