Transcript Researching Sustainable Transportation What Would the Librarian

Researching Sustainable
Transportation
What Would the Librarian Do?
Fred O’Bryant
Applied Sciences Librarian
Brown Science and Engineering Library
October 2007
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Researching Sustainable Transportation –
What Would the Librarian Do?
Fred O’Bryant
Applied Sciences Librarian
Brown Science and Engineering Library
924–6836
[email protected]
October 2007