Conference Session

Engineering Librarians: Impacting the Past, Present, and Future

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael J White, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

librarians who were members of SPEE/ASEE in the 1940s and 1950s have written littleabout their experiences. Johanna E. Tallman, head of the Engineering Library at the Universityof California, Los Angeles, joined ASEE in 1948 and was an active member through the mid-1950s. Her autobiography3, which she published in 1985 following her retirement from theCalifornia Institute of Technology, mentions ASEE only in passing.The primary sources consulted for this paper include the Proceedings of the SPEE, whichprovide a record of the society’s meetings, governance, organization, membership anddiscussions from 1893 to the present. The early volumes are rich sources of information becausethey contain lists of members, correspondence, meeting minutes and