As Randy noted recently, we’re seeing Baruch College Campus High School students working on an assignment about bridges. Here are some book sources to use:
- Run a “keyword in subject” search in the catalog for “bridge” to find books. There will be a lot of ebooks and online government docs in that search, but there will also be print books like:
- Browse the architecture books on the 4th floor (call numbers beginning with NA)
- Browse the bridge engineering section on the 5th floor (call numbers beginning with TG 20)
- Look in the The Encyclopedia of New York City for entries on various bridges (available in print and as an ebook)
- Gale Virtual Reference Center
- A search for bridges yields entries from the Gale Encyclopedia of Science, the Historical Encyclopedia of American Business, West Encyclopedia of American Law, etc.
If anyone else has further ideas about this assignment and sources to recommend, please add them as comments on the original blog post so that chat reference staff at other colleges have access to these suggestions as well. I found some suggestions from last year after searching the archives of the LIBSDL list. If anyone wants to post that info here as a comment, that would be awesome and make the info more accessible to all.
If the students are open to other formats of information, here are some web sources which may be of use:
National Bridge Inventory. US Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/bridge/britab.cfm
NYC DOT Bridges Data
Lists bridges by county. Reports include location, ownership, construction and inspection data.
https://www.dot.ny.gov/main/bridgedata
2013 Inventory Location Maps from NYC DOT
This document includes maps of NYC boroughs with bridge identifiers.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/dot_bridgereport13_part4.pdf