Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Joseph White, Queen's University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

three were members of the American Chemical Society (ACS). It isimpossible to determine how active engineering librarians were in professional organizationsbecause entries do not include conferences attended or positions held.Only 12 engineering librarians, 18.75 percent, reported published works. Johanna Allerding ofthe University of California, Los Angeles listed several works related to aeronautical engineeringresources [17, 18]. In 1950, Allerding published an article on the role of librarians in engineeringteaching and research [19]. Harold Whitford of Cooper Union wrote articles in the Cooper UnionBulletin on the literature of the history of engineering and the “humanistic-social stem” inengineering education [20, 21]. John O’Farrell of