1. The Knowledge Centre
A comprehensive source of transport, logistics and supply-chain information delivering knowledge to you

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3. The Knowledge Centre The Knowledge Centre
Houses one of the largest specialist collections and most comprehensive sources of logistics and transport information in Europe!
The Knowledge Centre offers:
Traditional resources
Online information provision
In-house electronic resources
One-to-one services
The Knowledge Centre (TKC) is considered one of the most beneficial services available to CILT(UK) members
TKC houses one of the largest specialist collections and most comprehensive sources of logistics, supply-chain and transport information in Europe.
Most importantly it is free to all members
But what is TKC?
It is really four resources in one.
TKC Centre offers:
Traditional resources
Online information provision
In-house database resources
One-to-one services/human resources
What I would like to do now is provide a brief overview of each of the resources in turn…

4. Traditional Resources
The John Williams Library
A physical library based in Corby, UK
Opening times: to Monday to Friday
Our Knowledge Centre Team are based here and are happy to help.
Firstly, there is a physical library at the CILT offices in Corby in Northamptonshire.
Members are free to visit whenever they want (see opening hours).
Library has largest collection of paper material – books, journals, pamphlets, reference material – related to logistics, supply-chain and transport (passenger and freight) anywhere we know of in Europe.
We welcome any of our members to visit - embers from Poland would be most welcome if ever they are in the U.K. – but most of our members find it difficult to visit either because of time or living/working too far away.
So, how can they access the stock/information in the Library if they do not visit?
That takes us on to the second set of resources TKC offers – the online database resources – move on to next slide.

5. Online Resources
Information delivery to your desktop 24 hours a day, 365 days a year through The Knowledge Bank
We currently host three online databases:
TKC provides members with online database access .
There are three databases that members can access – see slide.
How can a member gain access to these online resources? – move to next slide

6. Online Library Catalogue
An online portal connecting you to the printed stock in The John Williams Library:
Over 50,000+ journal articles
Over 12,000 books, pamphlets and reference materials
This is a manual service available during office hours.
The Online Library Catalogue provides members with remote viewing access to the paper collection held in the Library at Corby in the U.K.
Think of the Catalogue as an electronic filing cabinet with a number of drawers. In the drawers are about 48,000 separate item records. An item could be a book, a journal article, a pamphlet.
Every book in the library , for example, has a separate record made out for it that is held in the Catalogue. Over 36,000 separate journal articles also.
And new records are being added every day as new books and journal article content are catalogued by the staff. So the collection is growing on a daily basis.

7. Business Intelligence Service
The world's largest, abstract and full-text, business periodical database.
6,700 = Total number of journals & magazines indexed and abstracted
5,000 = Total number of journals & magazines in full text
PLUS
10,000 Company profiles
3,000 country economic reports
5,000 industry reports
Personal search and journal alert facility for every user
BUT as large as the physical collection is, it still only touches the surface of the material that members might want to access. So, CILT provides a second online resource for members to use – The Business Intelligence Service (BIS).
The slide provides an insight in to what the BIS provides.
This is the largest database of business-related journal information anywhere. Not just logistics, supply-chain or transport related material but all business-related disciplines such as management, marketing, finance, economics, human resources.
The key information point within the database are the 6,700 electronic journals - the majority of which provide full-text access to their articles – e.g. The Harvard Business Review can be searched, full text results, going back to 1922 – 91 years of authoritative articles. Also country information, company profiles with detailed SWOT analyses, industry reports.
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8. World Newspapers Today
Instant online access to today’s newspapers from around the world – full text!
4000+ newspapers
100 countries
60 languages
Searchable 90 day archive
There is access to most UK national papers as well as an
ever-growing regional content.
One source of information always overlooked but which is very relevant, both to students and working professionals, is newspapers. CILT provides access to “World Newspapers Today” (WNT).
The slide highlights some basic statistics about WNT.
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9. In-House Electronic Resources
Available for personal use in the John Williams Library
Or you can contact Knowledge Centre Staff to search on your behalf:
Corporate Business Review:- A UK financial company database
Market Intelligence:- Access to UK Market Intelligence reports
Legal and Compliance Service:- Looking at UK legislation and compliance information.
The Knowledge Centre also have a series of database resources that are only available to members that visit the Library. They are not online.
These resources supply U.K. specific information relating to companies and legislation. If any Polish member is interested in these resources and the U.K. content they only have to contact a member of The Knowledge Centre staff and we would be happy to help.
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10. One – To – One Services T: +44 (0)1536 740167
The Knowledge Centre’s staff are available to provide a personal and professional service on basic enquiries.
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The last resource The Knowledge Centre offers members is the human resource – probably the most important resource of all.
The team of three staff are all information professionals whose job is to help you find the information you want.
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