Conference Session

Thinking Ahead: Supporting New Technologies in Engineering Libraries

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Reid, Pennsylvania State University-Wilkes-Barre; Francis Derby, Pennsylvania State University-Lehman

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

State University. He has extensive international experience in cadastre and Land Information Systems and GIS. His current interests include land tenure issues, implementation of Cadastral, Land and Geographic Information Systems. Page 12.1291.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Spatial Data (GIS) Support for Multiple Disciplines with Land Surveying Engineering as the Lead Element: A Work in Progress at the Penn State Wilkes-Barre CampusAbstractGeographic Information Systems GIS) technology has been suitable for applications that maketheir attainment not only useful, but

Conference Session

Scientific Literature and Data: Proliferation, Storage, and Open Access

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy Stout, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Anne Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

AC 2007-155: THE DATA DILEMMAAmy Stout, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyAnne Graham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Page 12.1402.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 The Data Dilemma There’s a famous allegory about a map of the world that grows in detail until every point in reality has its counterpoint on paper; the twist being that such a map is at once ideally accurate and entirely useless, since it’s the same size as the thing it’s meant to represent 1.IntroductionThe proliferation of scientific data is inspiring a paradigm shift in the way we manageinformation. Scientists frequently use other

Conference Session

Business & Entrepreneurial Information for Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christine Drew, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

2005 the Gordon Library began a renewed effort to promote information literacy atWorcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).1 Worcester Polytechnic Institute, located in centralMassachusetts, offers more than 50 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science,engineering, technology, management, the social sciences, and the humanities and arts, leadingto the B.A., B.S., M.S., M.E., MBA and Ph.D. The Gordon Library serves all members of thecampus community as the main library on campus. Our information literacy program ideas andgoals include aligning the library’s educational programs with the university mission to remain“true to the founders' directive to create, to discover, and to convey knowledge at the frontiers ofacademic inquiry for the

Conference Session

Engaging Uses of Course Management Systems, Blogs, and Open Source and a Database as Tools for Library Instruction

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson; Michael Fosmire; Amy Van Epps, Purdue University; Bruce Harding, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

find. The educationalportion falls primarily to librarians and staff, and not even the best of reference librarians cangive adequate information literacy instruction to an individual patron in the face of a line of 7-8students who also need help.In the fall of 2005, the librarians of the Siegesmund Engineering Library decided to write a grantto create an educational tool that would not only direct students to the appropriate sources, but Page 12.1106.2would also give them an understanding of the kinds of sources available and what their uses are.The librarians wrote a grant for the Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) programfunded by