For OLR Reports and other materials related to the Transportation Committee’s work, index headings include:
Aeronautics
Boats and Boating
Bridges
Emergency Vehicles
Gasoline
Gasoline Dealers
Highways
Highways-Construction
Highways-Finance
Infrastructure
Mass Transit
Motor Vehicles-(subtopic folders for CT Dept. of, Emission Control Systems, Inspections, Licenses, and Registration)
Motorcycles
Railroads
Schools-Transportation
Ships and Shipping
Tolls
Towing
Transportation
Trucks
The library assigns topical index headings to all OLR Reports and keeps hard copies of the reports organized by these index headings. Reports from 1994 to the present are in the library’s file cabinets (aka the “vertical files”) in the red-tabbed folders, as well as online in full text. Older reports are in two sets of bound volumes (one set for the 1970s, and one for 1980-1993) on the library’s shelves.
The same index headings the library uses for OLR Reports have been used to organize over 600 subject files of materials such as newspaper clippings, court decisions, press releases, pamphlets, and other resources that would be more difficult to locate if they were dispersed throughout the library’s general collection. The subject files are in the blue-tabbed folders in the file cabinets. (Many of the items in these folders have also been digitized by the library, and their electronic versions can be found in the library’s intranet catalog.)