Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J. White, Queen's University

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Engineering Libraries

and pursued a career as aprofessor, teaching at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Joliet Junior College, and DePaulUniversity, and as a visiting professor in Turkey the 1970s and China in the 1980s. He retired in1989 and died in 1998 at the age of 72.[15] Karen Takle was the youngest of the four engineering librarians. A native of Wisconsin, she graduated with a BS degree in zoology from the University of Wisconsin in 1958. After completing a summer institute at the University of Norway in Oslo, she went on to study library science at Rutgers University, graduating with an MLIS

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jill H. Powell, Cornell University

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

gained by merging them into one building. SeeFigure 14.19Cornell University Announcements described various college buildings, including the library inthe yearly publication. A description from 1930 describes the origins and size of two bookendowments, Kuichling for hydraulic and municipal engineering (civil) and Gray for electrical.See Figure 15. BUIL IN S AN E UIPMENT 5 plete commercial radio broadcasting e uipment Laboratory stand ards of inductance, capacity and fre uency are available for

Conference Session

Technical Session 3: History and Future of Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisha Li, Georgia Institute of Technology; Isabel M. Altamirano, Georgia Institute of Technology; Bette M. Finn, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering Libraries

theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Radiation Laboratory, and many other researchinstitutions. In the mid-1940s, the library was also designated as a depository for the Army MapServices. In 1950, the Georgia Tech Library was made a Depository for the Atomic EnergyCommission (AEC), together with fifty or so other research libraries. Reports from AEC weremade available to engineers, scientists, industrialist and others to help foster scientific researchand industrial development in Georgia and the southeast region. Under Crosland’s direction, theLibrary also added reports from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), theOffice of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), which was superseded by the NationalDefense Research