Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Popescu, Princeton University, Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

collection was transferred to the new facility.The FDLP print reports have been moved to an off-site remote storage with retrieval capabilitiesfor on campus use; the FDLP microform reports have been partly incorporated with theGovernment Documents collection and partly moved to an on-campus storage facility. The onlyunit of the reports collection retained at the library was the departmental technical reports.The library has collected departmental reports issued by departments, laboratories and centersaffiliated with the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) from the late 1940s to thelate 1990s. Today, SEAS at Princeton University consists of 6 departments and 6interdisciplinary centers but the school evolved over the years and that

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia

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Engineering Libraries

courses for inner city residents are certainly not anew idea. However, the majority of these courses have been focused on preparing highschool students for science courses 1-3 and on resources to support the teachers thatinstruct these students 4. Usually, these courses focus on introducing basic scientificconcepts and laboratory skills. Many formal adult education programs exist (i.e.continuing education) that are committed to a formal agenda (i.e. a diploma or degree). Ifthere are programs offered that provide access to the academic institutional approach toteaching and learning for underprivileged/disadvantaged/inner city adults they are notwell advertised.BackgroundThe Science 101 course at the University of British Columbia provides an

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

that individual librarians “who are actively working to increase theirown data literacy and awareness, and equipping themselves to provide educational andconsultative services related to data management and curation” are engaging faculty andstudents, as well as other information professionals, in research and instruction. 20 Outreach haslong been part of the librarian’s toolkit. It is particularly useful in the context of data curation ande-science. 8Researchers generally do not realize that library and information science skills may alleviatepractical problems in their own laboratory. It does not occur to researchers to come to a librarianfor help with managing data. In the author’s experience, data projects often come about due to asituation

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff McAdams, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Engineering Libraries

collectiondevelopment goals will be to grow our electronic collections.The New Science and Engineering Building Our university is a new campus, relative to many universities in the state. However, it isgrowing rapidly, especially in the sciences. In the last five years, our university opened twomulti-disciplinary science and engineering buildings. The newest building, the AppliedEngineering and Technology Building, opened for occupancy in Fall 2009 and officially inSpring 2010; our library opened few months later, in May. In the original plans for the building, a laboratory space was built where our library isnow. The architects and builders outfitted the room with various lab specifications, including aneye-wash station, a multitude of power

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Mark Chrimes, Institution of Civil Engineers

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Engineering Libraries

laboratories – BuildingResearch (BRE), Road Research (now TRL) , Water Pollution Research (Now WRc). Thelatter bodies had considerably more resources than ICE. A little later the Ministry of PublicBuildings and Works, later the Property Services Agency (PSA), introduced ConstructionReferences. All of the above services developed online versions – INSPEC, BRIX, IRRD,Aqualine. BRE and PSA later briefly contributed to ICONDA. ICE briefly entered the frayagain with ICE Abstracts in the 1970s. The competition remained stiff and poor financialreturns led to its sale. It survives as International civil engineering abstracts published byEmerald.The Library also came under internal pressure within ICE. As other functions expanded itsspace was challenged. The