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

, which begins with knowing your users’ behaviors and aspirations. As a result, librariansare increasingly adopting methods for learning about and understanding our users. A growingnumber of libraries are undertaking projects to study users’ behaviors by leveraging qualitativemethodologies, ethnographic strategies, and participatory design processes such as thosedescribed in the University of Rochester Libraries’ studies of researchers and students. Theirwork to understand faculty’s research practices and behaviors 1 and “what students really dowhen they write their research papers” 2 have inspired many other libraries to employ ananthropological approach to learning more about library users. Some of these projects arenoteworthy for their size

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

(2010).4. Stec, E. Using best practices: librarians, graduate students and instruction - ProQuest. Reference Services Review 34, 97-116 (2006).5. Jacobs, H.L.M. & Jacobs, D. Transforming the One-Shot Library Session into Pedagogical Collaboration: Information Literacy and the English Composition Class. Reference & User Services Quarterly 49, 72-82 (2009).6. Badke, W. Ramping up the One-Shot. Online 33, 47-49 (2009).7. Martin, J. The Information Seeking Behavior of Undergraduate Education Majors: Does Library Instruction Play a Role? Evidence Based Library and Information Practice 3, 4-17 (2008).8. Riggs, D.E. What’s in Store for Academic Libraries? Leadership and Management Issues. Journal of

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Page 25.874.7reaches the end of its life-cycle (recycling or re-use, for example).4.4 Phase 4: What will it be like?Initially in this phase, the conceptual designs are evaluated to determine which solution will finallybe selected for implementation. This selection process requires the ideas generated previously befleshed in the form of basic configurations that can be evaluated, for instance, as a computer modelto determine whether these preliminary designs are feasible and practical. Often this is a hands-onphase of design, where the team makes simple or more sophisticated prototypes and conduct teststo see if they meet the design specifications. To facilitate testing of the ideas, an overall systemmight be decomposed into a series of sub