Conference Session

Collaboration, A Cool Tool: Librarians/Faculty/Students Work Together for Quality Results

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; John St George, University of Auckland; Li Wang, University of Auckland

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

expertise in engineering resources and services; and the SLCadvisors provided study skills, writing skills, oral presentation skills and learning support tostudents.As a result of a number of meetings of this team, it was agreed that a formal lectureprogramme of ten lectures backed up by coursework, peer feedback and hands-on tutorialwork would provide a good balance for students during their research.The first lectures covered an introduction to research and the development of objectives andresearch methodology. This was followed up by the various forms of literature review andsome guidance with preparation. Further lectures on writing styles, reporting results,referencing and formatting the final report were delivered at key times during the

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

substantive introduction to information literacy, building on first-semester writing intensive courses and a college-wide online quiz-tutorial to offer discipline-specific instruction in information literacy. This course lays the groundwork for additionalinformation literacy instruction throughout the engineering core curriculum and in the capstonedesign clinic.Information literacy topics are integrated with course material in mass and energy balances usingthe organizing vehicle of a semester-long project on Life-Cycle Assessment. The engineeringlibrarian taught a class that was tailored to the course and the LCA projects; developed a course-specific web site to direct students to relevant library resources they would use in completing theproject

Conference Session

Using Information Technology to Create New Information Resources

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Haymwantee Singh, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Richard Sweeney, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Page 14.234.7divide fractions?) or processed based (What percentage of my grade is for the final exam?). Theanswers given do not have to be just text and may incorporate short videos and other graphics.The future of natural language knowledge bases could include peer-to-peer questions andanswers as well as student-to-teacher questions and answers. If students ask questions and otherstudents answer those questions, the faculty members could appoint teaching assistants to editand add the responses without having to write answers individually to every question asked. Thefuture will certainly include empowering end-users to answer questions for other end-users withor without review by authorized editors and having those answers included (as many

Conference Session

Meeting the Needs of Engineering Faculty, Researchers, and Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Kirkwood, University of Arkansas

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

, few details are provided until Thompson[5]wrote an article in 2001 that defined the types of unique resources used by engineers. Theseinclude standards, specifications, technical reports (both governmental and non-governmental),government documents (local, state, and federal), patents, and manufacturers’ resources (nowlargely available on the Web). His article does not address the specific organizations andresources used by civil engineers. While discussing building a new collection, Brin[6] mentions afew specific resources of use to civil engineers. Another civil engineer, Chanson,[7] writes aboutissues relating to publish or perish for the civil engineering researcher. He makes the point that“[t]he cost of traditional libraries and