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Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia; Annette Berndt, University of British Columbia; Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Carla S Paterson, University of British Columbia

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Engineering Libraries

librarians andinstructors would benefit from gaining insight into how best to prepare students for a globalworkplace with unknown constraints and limited information resources.IntroductionSince the mid 1990s, information technologies have become ubiquitous in the workplace, in thehome, and in academe, and the subject of information literacy has become central to discussionsof pedagogy. How information literacy has been variously manifested among the academicdisciplines has, in turn, become the focus of recent research. Kerins, Madden, and Fulton 1, forinstance, compare information-seeking behaviours of Irish engineering students and Irish lawstudents. Ercegovac 2 has gone on to posit that more work needs to be done on ascertaininginformation-seeking

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ELD Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry A. Thompson, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Libraries

. When this occurs, librariansare stretched over too many subject areas and thrust into disciplines in which they have little orno expertise, resulting in a decrease in the quality of reference service. While a smalleruniversity, or one in which the subject matter is more uniform, might be able to provide qualityreference service with one reference desk, Virginia Tech found it impossible to do. The presentconfiguration, consisting of two subject based reference areas, seems to be the ideal model forour situation.1. Meldrem JA, Mardis LA, Johnson C. Redesign Your Reference Desk: Get Rid of It! ACRL Twelfth National Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2005:305-10.2. Nolen DS. Reforming or Rejecting the Reference Desk: Conflict and

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ELD Poster Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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James A. Van Fleet, Bucknell University

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2011-529: THE VISUALIZATION OF DATABASE SEARCH RESULTSJames A. Van Fleet, Bucknell University James A Van Fleet has been Librarian for the Sciences and Engineering at Bucknell University and a member of ASEE ELD since 1989. He has served the Engineering Libraries Division as Membership Directory Editor and Newsletter Editor. Page 22.1515.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 The visualization of database search resultsAbstract:Edward Tufte describes the visual presentation of quantitative data as “envisioninginformation.”1 A number of databases, from Google

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Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michelle Baratta, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto

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Engineering Libraries

poorlyattended. Without the immediacy of an assignment and a specific topic to research, studentsoften fail to acknowledge the relevance of the activities, and are unable to develop transferableskills.To address these issues, engineering faculty and librarians associated with the University ofToronto, a large research-intensive Canadian university, have collaborated on the design of anactivity that integrates information literacy into the curriculum and provides a more rigorousprocess for instruction. Key principles that informed the activity include: 1. Introducing students to the physical library and encouraging alternatives to internet search engines for information discovery; 2. Integrating the library session into the curriculum and tying it to

Conference Session

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

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Parker, University of Manitoba

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Engineering Libraries

: Using the Liaison Librarian Model to Integrate Information Literacy into a Faculty of EngineeringIntroductionThis paper will update our earlier work on an integrated approach to information literacy[1] . Our initial goal was to integrate information literacy into a technical communicationcourse in the Faculty of Engineering and to explore whether two pedagogical outcomeswere achievable within this framework: first, instantiating the benefits of an engineeringresearch report in a field where applications and design exigencies are paramount and,secondly, determining whether engineering research skills – far from being “short-termcompetencies,” as some would suggest [2] – are valuable additions to a student’s learningrepertoire

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Melissa Bowles-Terry, University of Wyoming; Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming

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Engineering Libraries

thelibrary learning outcomes. Page 22.554.2Introduction & BackgroundIn the past decade there has been an increased impetus for assessment of student learningoutcomes in information literacy settings in general and at our institution.1 Because we regularlysee all first-year engineering students in library instruction, we identified the multi-sectionOrientation to Engineering (ES 1000) course as a good place to begin assessing engineeringstudents’ proficiency in information literacy skills. Many engineering faculty know theimportance of information literacy,2 due in part to the inclusion of information literacy andcritical thinking skills in the ABET criteria for

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Engineering Libraries

. Page 22.714.4Tutorial Design OverviewAs one might expect, the tutorial series includes “how to” modules to teach students practicalaspects of library use (e.g., how to connect to full text from a database). But the series isorganized around a central “hub” (see Figure 1), designed to teach students when and why theymight use a particular kind of literature. The hub introduces students to a range of engineeringliterature and provides an entry point to further instruction.Figure 1. Tutorials are organized around general categories of engineering literature.An instance of this hub can be customized for a course or for a research lab. For example, amodule describing the role of conference proceedings uses citations to papers from a conferencein

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Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adriana Popescu, Princeton University, Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

without any prior knowledge of archival processingprinciples and terminology. The client application of AT was installed on computers located atthe Engineering Library and linked to the newly created repository of finding aids designated as“Engineering Technical Reports and Publications”. The repository was created on an existing Page 22.733.5MYSQL backend database on a Windows server (Fig. 1).Fig.1 Finding Aids RepositoriesThe client software facilitates the data entry workflow for creating collection records and itemrecords. For the purpose of the work described in this paper, only the AT client software wasused by the Engineering Library staff

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Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy G. Buhler, University of Florida; Michelle Leonard, University of Florida; Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida; Ben DeVane, University of Florida

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Engineering Libraries

plagiarism problem came from the Directorof Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, who reported an 85% increase in plagiarism casesbetween 2007 and 2009 (88 cases in 2007-08 vs. 163 in 2008-09). For the most current year(July 1, 2009 - February 15, 2010) 125 cases of academic dishonesty were reported, of which64% (n=80) involved plagiarism. It is especially noteworthy that these data indicate (1) themajority of academic dishonesty cases reported on our campus involved plagiarism, and (2) thefrequency was increasing.In early 2009, the library learned of plans for the formation of a university-wide AcademicIntegrity Task Force. The charge of the committee was to determine if there was an issue withacademic integrity on campus; ascertain if there

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jon N. Jeffryes, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Engineering Libraries

engineering program. Based on the similarities between new engineers’ and co-opstudents’ work environments, we hoped to extrapolate how ready the average engineeringstudent is for the information-seeking skills and tasks required in their first post-graduation job.The Association of College and Research Libraries’ Information Literacy Standards shaped ourframework, specifically the standard addressing students’ ability to “[a]ccess the neededinformation effectively and efficiently”.1 Using an online survey to learn more about thenecessary information skills and tasks, we asked students whether they felt adequately preparedfor on-the job information retrieval. This paper details our use of those findings to support thedevelopment of initiatives and

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Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

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Engineering Libraries

): Page 22.254.2 “Assessment requires attention to outcomes but also and equally to the experiences that lead to those outcomes.” In other words, the important aspect to observe here is that one has to move away from ateaching paradigm to learning paradigm. The author takes this philosophy further, and says: “Students should learn using a discovery approach.” Clifford O. Young, Sr., & Laura Howzell Young of California State University, SanBernardino argue that a new paradigm for assessment, a learning paradigm, must be constructedto measure the success of new kinds of educational practices (Young and Young, 1999). 1. The participants should be capable of selecting an assessment plan best suited for

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

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Mark Chrimes, Institution of Civil Engineers

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Engineering Libraries

discarded their heritage.IntroductionHistorical backgroundThe Institution of Civil Engineers’ (ICE) Library, established in 1819, was the firstengineering Library in Britain. ICE, established in 1818, was the first professionalengineering body in the world 1. These dates of foundation are more or less contemporarywith the establishment of early technical universities and associated libraries in continentalEurope, reflecting a British response to a western world development – satisfying the societalneed for trained professional engineers. It was also approximately 30 years prior to anynational technical library collection.When the ICE Library was established there was only a limited published engineeringliterature, and the initial focus was on the

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Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nasser Saleh, Queen's University

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Engineering Libraries

method is a multi-method approach that includes a questionnaire and set of interviewsto collect data on complex phenomena as each individual method would deliver only partialevidence on the phenomena, the multiple methods is expected to cover multiple aspects ofstudents’ experience. Page 22.334.3The research was designed to examine collaborative information behaviour in a naturalisticeducational setting to gain more understanding of how students collaboratively seek informationin an academic course and how students’ information behaviours are affected by the learningtask and its perceived complexity guided by the main research questions: 1

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Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

orstudents. New learning objectives, educational interventions and pedagogy are needed to teachdata curation skills. Librarians need to translate traditional library science skills into a datacuration context in order to forge the partnerships necessary to have a successful datamanagement program.References1 Gold, A. Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1. D-Lib Magazine 13, 9/10, doi:10.1045/september20september-gold-pt1 (2007).2 Gold, A. Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2. D-Lib Magazine 13, 9/10, doi:10.1045/july20september-gold-pt2 (2007).3 Westra, B., Ramirez, M., Parham, S. W. & Scaramozzino, J. M. in Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship no. 63 (Fall 2010). Available

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Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jody T. Hoesly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Anne C. Glorioso, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Libraries

, the shelving facilities were full, funding was not offered, and the timetable was 1 year.By creating Dim and Dark temporary storage, enlisting a student workforce, and benefiting froman ISyE student study of our workflows, we daringly set out to accomplish our goals. Thepurpose of this paper is to share our process so that other libraries facing similar circumstancesmay benefit.FEASIBILITYAs soon as the project was announced, we did a feasibility study to establish a broad brush project plan. Our student organizations had made it very clear that they did not want collection materials to take up

Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Beck, Carnegie Mellon University; G. Berard, Carnegie Mellon University; Bo Baker, University of Tennessee Chattanooga; Nancy George, University of Pittsburgh

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Engineering Libraries

of the literature concerning engineering curriculum for girls reveals some broadtreatments of the subject. Following WWII-era handbooks offering engineering careerguidance to girls by listing vocational options for various science careers, two types ofliterature that inform this paper appear increasingly prominent from the late 1970s.1, 2, 3The first may be characterized as literature concerned with student perceptions and the Page 15.1146.2representation of professional scientists and engineers. The second is more concernedwith pedagogical strategies and programs designed for pre-college girls. Both treatmentsgenerally approach the subject as a way

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New Collaborations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anne Rauh, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Jody Hoesly, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Libraries

). Page 15.821.12x P. E. Sidorko, "Transforming Library and Higher Education Support Services Can Change Models Help?," LibraryManagement 29.4-5 (2008).Appendix A. Student Instructions.Load CV Citations - Students 1. SETUP – Open firefox portable on flash drive (this is the only instance of firefox that can be running). In Zotero, create a CV and a (question) ? folder using the last name and initials of the faculty member such as CV - Allen, MS, ? – Allen, MS. If the faculty member has citations from 2007, there will be a folder in Zotero with those citations. If no 2007 citations available, skip to step 4. 2. DE-DUP 2007 CITATIONS – Remove duplicate records in the 2007 folder. Suggestions for removing duplicates

Conference Session

Technical Papers

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Virginia Baldwin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

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Engineering Libraries

their printsubscriptions in favor of somewhat less costly online only access, where are the assurances tofaculty that back content will be available to them through technology changes, publishermergers, future journal cancellations, and whatever else might transpire to cause loss of access toonline content? Lynch goes on to state “that a primary responsibility of our universities is bothto make these resources available and to preserve them.”1 Touting the advantages of their own IRsoftware platform, the Digital Commons, the Berkeley Electronic Press (BePress) President and Page 15.928.2Director of Journals explains that their product expands

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ELD Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Cameron Patterson, University of Alabama; Nicholas A. Kraft, University of Alabama; Susan Burkett, University of Alabama

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Engineering Libraries

Technology Society, a non-profit organization, has a rich history.Established in 1953 as a Committee on Vacuum Techniques when fifty-six scientists andengineers determined a need for a community of scholars with knowledge centered aroundvacuum technology and corresponding applications.1 Understanding how to create, measure, andmaintain a vacuum became something of a discipline in itself. The first symposium, held in1954, attracted 295 participants from several countries.1 The American Vacuum Society (AVS)evolved from this original group, elected a Board of Directors, and established society by-laws.A unique feature of this initial group, which is still true of the AVS community today, is thatsymposium participants come from a variety of disciplines

Conference Session

New Collaborations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University Libraries -- PHYS

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2010-875: ENGINEERING LIBRARIAN PARTICIPATION IN TECHNOLOGYCURRICULAR REDESIGN: LIFELONG LEARNING, INFORMATIONLITERACY, AND ABET CRITERION 3.Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue UniversityMichael Fosmire, Purdue University Libraries -- PHYS Page 15.490.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Engineering Librarian Participation in Technology Curricular Redesign: Lifelong Learning, Information Literacy, and ABET Criterion 3.The Need for and Definition of Lifelong Learning SkillsThe content knowledge of technical majors has been estimated to have a half-life of less thanfive years.1 Thus, one of the most important skills

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Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jim Miller, University of Maryland; Bob Kackley, University of Maryland, College Park; Nevenka Zdravkovska, University of Maryland

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Engineering Libraries

Libraries are no exception. For example, the very well-run UM Libraries UserEducation Department keeps a detailed log of every instruction class that has been taught from2001-present, by mostly librarians, but also some other library staff (Table 1). It was surprisingto go through the entire nine years of statistics to see the various classes, schools and groupslisted. Granted, the University of Maryland is located in a large metropolitan area, WashingtonDC. More than thirty-five K-12 schools (high school, middle school and elementary) werelisted, and 147 sessions were given to these students alone. UMD UMD Libraries Libraies K-12 EPSL EPSL K-12

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ELD Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Larry Thompson, Virginia Tech

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Engineering Libraries

, 2009, users could access all issues of Volume 46, (2008), andVolume 47, (2009). In January 2010, NASA removed all issues published in Volume 46, (2008),so that only issues from Volume 47, (2009), and those published in Volume 48, (2010), wereavailable. Thus, the availability of issues varies from one to two years, depending upon the pointin the publication year.The purposes of this research are twofold:First, to determine if the online NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) completely indexes allof the NASA generated papers indexed in STAR. Based upon a paper presented at the 2009ASEE Conference, “NACA / NASA Document Indexing: 1915 – 1995,”1 it is expected that theNTRS will duplicate the level of NASA document indexing provided by STAR.The

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ELD Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Nestor Osorio, Northern Illinois University

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Engineering Libraries

time I was a member of the Board of Managers of the Association of Engineering Societies, representing the Engineers Club of St. Louis. At a Board meeting of the Association in 1883, I describe the work that I was doing for myself and offered to do it, somewhat more elaborately and free of charge, for the journal of the Association, if the Board would agree to publish it. This Board consented to do and the Index was begun... all indexing was done by professional engineers of more or less practical experience. The theory of the Index from the start has been: 1. to index only articles of permanent value. 2. to give such a short, concise, but adequate description of the article as would enable to determine

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Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jeff McAdams, University of Texas, San Antonio

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Engineering Libraries

everyone who uses those rooms, to our surprise. It is a very popular feature. The remaininggroup study room is slightly smaller, only holding a table that seats four. All three group studyrooms also feature a large white-board on one of the walls, along with three glass walls whichallow for marker writing (and are also used heavily). The rooms check out for four hours, andwe have students lining up at our door before we open to grab them. They are in constant usethroughout the day until we close. There are ten desktop computers on a high counter that is a comfortable height for walk-up use. However, for each computer there is a comfortable chair that is raised for the counterheight (See Fig. 1). The computers are managed by our campus

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ELD Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sasha Gurke, Knovel Corporation

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Engineering Libraries

Conference Session

New Collaborations

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

any online/video tutorials that would complement it.Since Chem Eng (ChE) 455/456 Chemical Process Design 1 and 2, are taken by senior chemicalengineering students at this institution, one of the professors allowed us to meet with themembers of the senior class. Students were aware that the research information in the guide andtutorials would be of more use to students in successive classes since this would be the designphase of the process. The students’ horizons are expanding because the LibGuide and tutorialsintroduced them to information and resources that they may not have had knowledge been of,making the students more aware of the options available for research in their field. The librarianis gaining knowledge at the same time, learning

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Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kari Kozak, University of Iowa; Darlene Kaskie, The University of Iowa Lichtenberger Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

sessions were the most popular. In the spring 2013 semester, the classes averaged a 4.47in overall usefulness rating on a scale of 1-5 with 5 being most useful. More students attendedthe 2:30 pm afternoon sessions and most of the attendees were graduate students.The classes often had repeat students. In one class on RefWorks, a graduate student noted he hadnever heard of Compendex until it was mentioned in this class. He then went on to sign up for 4more of the sessions offered that semester as soon as he realized how helpful they were.The Xpress Class series has proven to be an overall success. As time goes on the Library willcontinue to make adjustments to the programs so that it will continue to improve its usefulness tostudents, faculty, and

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Engineering Libraries Division Poster Session

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Adeel Khalid, Southern Polytechnic State University ; Mir M. Atiqullah, Kennesaw State University; Rajnish Singh, Southern Polytechnic State University; Beth Stutzmann, Southern Polytechnic State University

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Engineering Libraries

among others. Members are interested andinvolved with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). RLC meetings are held on amonthly basis where topics of interest and discussions regarding ongoing research projectsoccur.The topic of ebooks evolved during meetings of the RLC. For the purpose of this studyterminology clarification of an ebook is “An electronic book (variations: e-book, eBook, e-Book,ebook, digital book, or even e-edition) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting oftext, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices” [1]. As part of thisstudy, various textbook options were explored that were available and student book buyingpatterns were studied. Ebooks emerged as a relatively new aspect

Conference Session

Student-Centered Information Literacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Libraries

Table 1, Strife et al6, (2013) illustrated the type of outcomes that could be accomplished withALA/ACRL/STS Standards.Table 1. Outcomes that can be accomplished with ALA/ACRL/STS standards.ALA/ACRL/STS Standard OutcomeStandard 1. The information literate student  Distinguishes different types of information.determines the nature and extent of theinformation needed.Standard 2. The information literate student  Completes exercises using differentaccesses needed information effectively and information types: books, technical reports,efficiently articles and handbooks.  Learns how to cite in MLA format

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Measuring Impact: Libraries, Librarians, Instruction, and Institutions

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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William H. Mischo, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ivan Favila, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Dana Michelle Tempel, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Elisandro Cabada, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Engineering Libraries

, and 14,550square feet of open study space to establish CARE. The space includes 14 group study rooms, 2instructional classrooms, 2 storage rooms, and 1 office utilized by the CARE ProgramCoordinator -- who is funded by the COE. CARE was initially funded by a combination ofLibrary Student/IT Fee money, COE Student Fee funds, and COE foundation moneys. Thesefunds were used for high-end engineering workstation equipment, projection equipment,furniture, digital signage, glass and whiteboard equipment, collaboration furniture, andcomputing equipment.The total seating capacity for the CARE area in the Grainger Library is 472 with an additional154 seats available for overflow. CARE provides academic learning support that primarilytargets the needs