Conference Session

Outreach and Beyond: New Roles for Librarians

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

AC 2010-623: SUMMER ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE FOR GIRLS (SEE): ANEVOLVING HANDS-ON ROLE FOR THE ENGINEERING LIBRARIANDonna Beck, Carnegie Mellon University Donna Beck is the Engineering librarian at the Engineering and Science Library of Carnegie Mellon University. She received her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. In 2009, she served as President of the SLA Pittsburgh Chapter. She was the winner of the 2007 IEEE Continuing Education Stipend, administered by the SLA Engineering Division.G. Berard, Carnegie Mellon University G. Lynn Berard is Principal Librarian at the Engineering & Science Library at Carnegie Mellon University, where she managed the science libraries for 20+ years. She

Conference Session

New Collaborations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

tutorials.However, we do not have the kind of technical support or the amount of time needed to doanything like that. We needed to use a product that we had easy access to and required littlesupport from our systems people. The Evansdale Library Instruction Coordinator worked to Page 15.839.3come up with some alternate ideas that would work for the project we had in mind. She viewedthe Penn State video and decided we could use Adobe Captivate to do a tutorial for our students.The libraries have access to and experience with Captivate but not Camtasia. This was a newlearning opportunity for the engineering librarian since there had never been a reason for her

Conference Session

New Collaborations

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Libraries

students capable of lifelong learning.With these guidelines in mind, the library faculty member prepared a document that comparedthe missions of the university, the College of Technology, and the ECET department, as well asthe ABET Technology Accreditation standards Section 3 and the ACRL Standards forInformation Literacy for Science and Technology3, 23, 24. This document served as a baseline andguide for skills and characteristics required or desired in graduates of the ECET department andgave a picture of possible standardized outcomes. (See Appendix 1.) It was inspired by the workof Riley et al, which described the redesign of Smith College’s engineering curriculum.20The document demonstrated that information literacy skills supported not only