Conference Session

Orienting Students for Lifelong Learning Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary L. Strife, West Virginia University; Robin A. M. Hensel Ed.D., West Virginia University; Marian G. Armour-Gemmen, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

excellent time to include information literacy. The librarians and course coordinatorwere at all meetings. Various instructors joined in as time permitted. After determining whatwould be taught in the course each week and how information modules would enhance theteaching, it was agreed that three 50-minute sessions would be placed in weeks two, five, andeleven. While there was much IL content to teach, faculty were very sensitive to the alreadyoverloaded content of this course and were reluctant to give up more than three class sessions.Each module was timed within the course sequence to be presented “just-in-time” for the contentto be applied in a regularly-scheduled course project. The course management system choicewas debated between the campus

Conference Session

Information Literacy in Context: Enabling Real World Problem Solving

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David F. Radcliffe, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

creative act than is captured in more analytical“problem solving,” even where this is understood to include problem identification andformulation.2 More recently the term “design thinking”3 has caught hold as way to encapsulate themany cognitive and social dimensions of what is involved in the act of design in the context ofnew product development, with an emphasis on user-centered design.In the educational process, design projects provide an opportunity to integrate and apply contentknowledge, but perhaps more importantly, practice using the professional skills, often erroneouslyreferred to as ‘soft skills’ that are key to success according to the Engineer of 2020 report.4 Therole of information in design has been investigated by many groups over

Conference Session

Empowering the User Learning Experience: Evolution in Library Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University; Kim Duckett, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Libraries

. Page 25.1234.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Tapping the User Experience to Design a Better Library for Engineering and Textiles Students and FacultyI. IntroductionIn recent years many academic libraries have embraced methodologies for learning more aboutthe totality of users’ experiences, including attitudes, motivations, and emotions in order toinform decisions. A growing number of libraries are undertaking projects to study users’behaviors by leveraging ethnographic methods such as those described in the University ofRochester’s studies of researchers and students.1, 2 Librarians are also leveraging research toolsand design processes from the user experience (UX

Conference Session

Information Literacy in Context: Enabling Real World Problem Solving

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Popescu, Princeton University

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Engineering Libraries

proficient working in or directing a team of ethnic and cultural diversity.3. Are able to communicate across cultures.4. Have had a chance to practice engineering in a global context, whether through an international internship, a service-learning opportunity, a virtual global engineering project or some other form of experience.5. Can effectively deal with ethical issues arising from cultural or national differences.Grandin & Hedderich summarize all the nuances of describing global competence in theirchapter “Global Competence for Engineers” as follows: “In sum, an interculturally competentperson understands that all individuals’ views of the world have been unknowingly shaped by

Conference Session

Information Literacy in Context: Enabling Real World Problem Solving

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. White, Queen's University

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2012-3002: PATENT CLASSIFICATION REFORM: IMPLICATIONSFOR TEACHING, LEARNING, AND USING THE PATENT LITERATUREMr. Michael J. White, Queen’s University Page 25.1029.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012Patent Classification Reform: Implications for Teaching, Learning and Using the Patent LiteratureIntroductionIn early 2011 the European Patent Office (EPO) and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)announced a project to create a joint classification system called the Cooperative PatentClassification (CPC). The CPC will be based on the European Classification (ECLA) and theInternational Patent

Conference Session

Considerations for the Collection Conscious Librarian

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia E. Kirkwood, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Libraries

database description, the item would be “expected” to appear inthat database. For example: publications at regional ASEE conference would not be expected inINSPEC or Compendex. The general description of the subject content of database wasconsulted to determine if a published item could be “expected.” The list of journals andconferences indexed in a specific database was not consulted.It was impossible to code items as expected or not expected with CiteSeerX. There was not, atthe time, a description about the types of materials collected by the Web crawler only a generalstatement about what subject content might be expected in the CiteSeerX database. Dr. Giles, thedirector of the CiteSeerX project, was contacted and his email responses were used

Conference Session

Considerations for the Collection Conscious Librarian

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theresa M. Calcagno, George Mason University; Jessica Bowdoin, George Mason University

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2012-5576: MEETING THE TEXTBOOK NEEDS OF ENGINEERINGSTUDENTSMs. Theresa M. Calcagno, George Mason University Theresa Calcagno is the Liaison Librarian to the Volgenau School of Engineering at George Mason Uni- versity in Fairfax, Va. Prior to that, Calcagno was a Research Librarian for an engineering project con- sulting firm.Mrs. Jessica Bowdoin, George Mason University Jessica Bowdoin is currently the Head of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery at George Mason Uni- versity. She has served in this role since June 2008. She was previously the Distance Education Librarian and Head of Interlibrary Loan at East Carolina University, and a Reference Librarian at the College of William and Mary. She obtained

Conference Session

Orienting Students for Lifelong Learning Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Spence, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto; Robert Irish, University of Toronto; Patricia Kristine Sheridan, University of Toronto; Geoffrey Samuel Frost, University of Toronto

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Engineering Libraries

learning indirectly from their teammates didnot give them sufficient understanding to be able to use the skills.Second, students found that having Stations at specific physical locations constrained teams fromexploring the spectrum of resources available in the library. For example some students mightspend the entire activity at a computer terminal or in the book stacks, and never visit physicaljournals or the reference desk. Having the students restricted to a given physical location did notpromote exploration and serendipity.Third, despite that the activities were intended to link to the students’ upcoming design projects,the students did not always see the relevance of the Stations. The Station that received the mostnegative student response

Conference Session

Orienting Students for Lifelong Learning Success

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Megan R. Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

the other in the web resources classification, appeared to bedistinguishing between print and electronic formats and was applied differently in this project.The authors coded any newspaper publication as NWSP in the periodicals classification,regardless of format, which opened a discussion of what would be included in the e-newscategory. The e-news designation used for this project includes those sources which are justelectronic and non-print, including television, radio and web. Examples of what qualify as e-news sources are CNN and NPR, but would not include the web version of the New York Timesor the Wall Street Journal.Codes for statistical or factual information and product sheets seemed to be missing during initialuse of the framework

Conference Session

Empowering the User Learning Experience: Evolution in Library Design

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill H. Powell, Cornell University

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Engineering Libraries

– consult with them before making final decisions. They may have special requirements (such as shelving by oversize) to follow or will need to make space to receive the books. 7) Google Books – Google scanned some 30,000 items from the Engineering Library collection for the Google Books project. In order to move books only once, the decision was made to move books immediately to the Library Annex after the scanning. 8) Reference books – are often handled individually by reference and collections staff, see below. 9) Theses – these were identified and moved together early to the Annex since they are high use, and doing so would minimize delays for patrons requesting them.27The collection development and reference