Technical Report Archive & Image Library

TRAIL started as a pilot project to digitize, preserve and make accessible a small collection of government agency technical reports, both as proof of concept and to work through technical and logistical issues. The University of Arizona submitted a proposal to Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) for a technical report digitization pilot and received funding in early 2006 to begin the project in collaboration with CRL.{{cite web |first=Daureen |last=Nesdill |title=How the Agility of Librarians Led to the Development of TRAIL |publisher=University of Utah |url=https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/SLAContributedPaper-Nesdill-2012.pdf |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124041611/https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/d6/attachments/pages/SLAContributedPaper-Nesdill-2012.pdf |archive-date=January 24, 2022}} Led by Maliaca Oxnam of the University of Arizona, the GWLA/CRL Federal Technical Reports Task Force created the appropriate metadata schema, established a pilot search interface at the University of Hawaii and scanned the first complete series, the Monograph Series of the National Bureau of Standards."Providing OA to pre-1975 govt tech reports", Open Access News. http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2006/12/providing-oa-to-pre-1975-govt-tech.html{{cite journal |last1=Nesdill |first1=Daureen |last2=Sare |first2=Laura |last3=Trussell |first3=Alice |last4=Von Seggern |first4=Marilyn |date=2016 |title=Ten Years of TRAIL |journal=DTTP |volume=44 |issue=2 |pages=14–18 |doi=10.5860/dttp.v44i2.6070 |doi-access=free }}

TRAIL is now part of the Global Resource Network (GRN) within CRL.{{Cite web|url=http://www.crl.edu/grn/trail/about-trail/history-trail|title=History of TRAIL | CRL}}

The list of digitized series also includes decisions on series not digitized or considered. Decisions are current and subject to future reviews.

Completely digitized series include:

• National Bureau of Standards Applied Mathematic Series
• National Bureau of Standards Building Materials and Structures Reports (C 13.9:)
• National Bureau of Standard Building Science Series
• United States Bureau of Mines Economic Papers
• United States Bureau of Mines Mineral Issues
• United States Bureau of Mines Miners' Circular
• United States Bureau of Mines Technical Progress Reports

Many other series are in progress, for example:

• United States Coast and Geodetic Survey United States Earthquakes [1928–62] [1963-68] (C 4.25/2:)
• National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics Aircraft Circulars
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service Technical Papers

The search interface{{Cite web|url=http://www.technicalreports.org/trail/search/|title=TRAIL - Technical Report Archive and Image Library - Search}} is hosted by the University of Washington and searches all TRAIL content found at HathiTrust and UNT.

2012

• John B. Phillips won GODORT's James Bennett Childs Award and his involvement with TRAIL was mentioned among his contributions to the field."Announcing the 2012 GODORT Awards Winners" http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2012-award-winners
• Maliaca Oxnam won the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award for creating, crafting, and successfully launching the TRAIL project among her other professional achievements.{{Cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/englib/eld/awards.php#homer|title = ASEE Engineering Libraries Division – Promoting the role of the library as an integral part of engineering education}}
• Maliaca Oxnam won the first annual Elsevier Library Connect Charleston Conference Award for first time presenters. Oxnam presented on TRAIL at the 2012 Charleston Conference at a session entitled "Moving Technical Reports Forward: New Roles for Libraries & Librarians"."Maliaca Oxnam wins 2012 Library Connect Charleston Conference Award" http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/articles/supporting-users-organizations/2012-10/maliaca-oxnam-wins-2012-library-connect-charleston

2011

• Tim Byrne won the American Library Association GODORT's James Bennett Childs Award and his involvement with TRAIL was mentioned among his contributions to the field.{{cite web |title=2011 GODORT Awards Winners |url=http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2011-award-winners |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612220328/http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2011-award-winners |archive-date=June 12, 2020}}

2010

• Maliaca Oxnam was honored with the University of Arizona Outstanding University Achievement Award "...for her leadership of the Libraries' TRAIL, or Technical Report Archive & Image Library, Project."{{cite web |url=http://lqp.arizona.edu/node/2355 |title=Oxnam Honored With Outstanding University Achievement Award |last=Blue |first=Alexis |website=The University of Arizona |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429053440/http://lqp.arizona.edu/node/2355 |archive-date=April 29, 2011}}
• Maliaca Oxnam won the LexisNexis/GODORT/ALA Documents to the People Award for her role in directing TRAIL.{{cite web |title=2010 GODORT Awards Winners |url=http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2010-award-winners |website=GODORT |access-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612220215/http://www.ala.org/rt/godort/2010-award-winners |archive-date=June 12, 2020}}

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• [http://www.technicalreports.org/trail/search/ Technical Report Archive & Image Library (TRAIL) search](searches TRAIL content at HathiTrust and UNT)
• [http://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Digital Library]
• [https://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/collections UNT Digital Library]
• [http://www.gwla.org/ Greater Western Library Alliance]
• [http://traildb.library.arizona.edu/collections TRAIL Collection Processing Database]

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