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

Yale University, he returned to Pratt to become head of thelibrary’s Applied Science Reference Department. The Pratt was a hybrid library, serving as botha public library for residents of Brooklyn and an academic library for the students and faculty ofthe Pratt Institute, which offered courses in, among other things, engineering, architecture, andlibrary science. Stevens had become a SPEE member in 1908, along with ten other Pratt facultyand staff, probably in anticipation of the 1909 meeting, which was held at Columbia University,the Pratt Institute and the United Engineering Societies Building. Stevens was the firstprofessional librarian to join SPEE.The reaction of Stevens and other SPEE members to the committee’s report was not positive