Paper ID #25604Board 79: Engineering Source: how robust is the coverage of the engineeringliterature?Prof. Amy S. Van Epps, Harvard University Amy S. Van Epps is Director of Sciences and Engineering Services in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Li- braries at Harvard University. She was recently an associate professor of Library Science and Engineering Librarian at Purdue University. She has extensive experience providing instruction for engineering and technology students, including Purdue’s first-year engineering program. Her research interests include finding effective methods for integrating information literacy
Civil and Environmental Engineering Researchers at Two Canadian UniversitiesIntroductionIn the fall of 2017 and winter of 2018, librarians from the University of Toronto (U of T) andUniversity of Waterloo (Waterloo) interviewed civil and environmental engineering researchersat their respective institutions to learn about their research practices and needs [1], [2]. All of theresearchers interviewed are tenured or tenure stream faculty with the title of Assistant, Associate,or full Professor. The interviewees will be referred to as “researchers” for the most partthroughout this paper because that is the preferred term in the contexts described. The interviewswere part of a larger study facilitated by Ithaka S+R, a not-for
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research questions driving this project are “What are the research supports neededby CEE researchers during the whole research lifecycle?” and “What can academic libraries do toimprove services to meet these needs?” We specifically focus on the faculty members who areconducting research in the Civil and Environmental Engineering field at a private university. Thisresearch is part of a larger series of studies coordinated by Ithaka S+R1 on the research supportneeds of scholars by discipline.This study used a grounded theory guided approach consisting of the initial and focused codingsteps. Grounded theory is defined by Corbin and Strauss [10] as “a specific methodologydeveloped by Glaser, Strauss and Strutzel [11] for the purpose of building theory
theirresearch, as evidenced in Respondent 3’s wording, “Believing in an idea and bringing it to life.” Finally, we asked participants to tell us what they would like us to change about thecontest if we to run it again. Two of the respondents gave us no feedback and one wrote “Notsure.” However, two of the respondents gave us helpful advice. Respondent 3 indicated that weneeded to provide more opportunities to find teammates. While the contest was open to bothindividuals and teams, in a semester-long project which requires research, a well-organized teamhas an advantage over an individual. Moreover, learning to work effectively within a team onproject management is an important skill for engineering students to learn. Respondent 5 wantedmore
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faculty onlineprofiles, are great sources for research interests, courses taught and awarded grants. Interviewing facultymembers is also a great way to learn more about faculty research and teaching needs while buildingfaculty-librarian relationships. Although course syllabi can provide a great snapshot of course informationand types of assignments and even reveal information-seeking behavior which faculty require for theirstudents, accessing course syllabi may need permission and assistance from the departments [1]. Large-scale surveys of faculty may be a great option as they can provide rich information on faculty’sperspectives. For example, the University of Iowa participated in the Ithaka S+R Faculty Survey in 2015and the survey results
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toprofessionally classification (Gruber, 2005). Critics view (Peterson 2006; Lee & Neal 2010;Weinberger 2005) folksonomies as unsophisticated, unsystematic, interpretive, and subjective,but those in favor of social tagging point out the value of collaborative indexing and groupintelligence (Avery 2010). Language, cultural, intellectual, and experiential barriers maycomplicate the understanding of the Library of Congress classification system for ESL studentsbecause even if they understood the search terms, they may not understand their association withthe resource(s) they are looking for. Academic libraries in the United States now have a uniqueopportunity to serve as mediators between knowledge organization systems andESL/international students, but