Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melissa Bowles-Terry, University of Wyoming; Larry Schmidt, University of Wyoming

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

databases in order to select the most appropriate database and maximize relevancy of search results. 2. Students will be able to develop topic-related vocabulary in order to search databases with maximum flexibility and effectiveness. 3. Students will be able to describe the difference between a peer-reviewed article and a popular article in order to select appropriate resources for use in an academic research project.Once we identified the most important learning outcomes for the session, we identified ways inwhich students could learn those skills, practice them, and then demonstrate (for assessmentpurposes) their proficiency.Constructivist learning theory tells us that starting with what students already know

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jay J. Bhatt, Drexel University; Larry Milliken, Drexel University; Lloyd Ackert, Drexel University; Eleanor J. Goldberg, Drexel University Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

Milliken, MA., MLIS is Liaison Librarian for the Humanities and Social Sciences at Drexel Uni- versity. Prior to becoming a librarian, he earned a Masters Degree in Medieval Studies and was a doctoral student in Medieval European History. He is particularly interested in partnerships between librarians and historians, especially in digital humanities projects.Lloyd Ackert, Drexel University I am an assistant teaching professor in the Department of History & Politics, and specialize in the history of science. My research focuses on Russian and European ecology and microbiology in the 19th-20th century, and am writing two books: a biography of Sergei Winogradsky, and a history of the concept of the ’cycle of life.’ I

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia; Annette Berndt, University of British Columbia; Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Carla S Paterson, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

choice”, especially inscience and engineering 4, 5 . 83% of students use GS – an additional 13% had not used it butwant to 4 .Some benefits for students of using GS are: • GS searches citation metadata (and millions of fulltext books in Google Print) • GS searches well into the fulltext of documents • Though GS is not an index in the traditional sense due to the absence of a controlled • vocabulary or thesaurus, it does point to scholarly and peer-reviewed information Page 22.1682.3We believe that introducing students to advanced Google searching techniques enhances theirreal-world searching experience not only for academic

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Amy G. Buhler, University of Florida; Michelle Leonard, University of Florida; Margeaux Johnson, University of Florida; Ben DeVane, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

, Rogers, and Harris 12 and Belter and du Pré 13, who reportsignificantly lower levels of plagiarism after students were given awareness training. McCuen 14argues that: …education about plagiarism cannot wait until the student is starting to write the thesis or dissertation. The education should begin when the student begins his or her graduate program, if not before…and mentors should have high writing standards from the beginning, not waiting until the student is writing the final draft. (p. 155)Why a game? Page 22.734.4Gaming is universal among college-aged students. A 2003 Pew Institute study 15 of gamingtechnology

Conference Session

To Boldly Go... Engineering Librarians Explore New Connections with Users

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qing Li, IEEE

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Engineering Libraries

Let’s Get Students More Involved! -- Experiences from the Collaboration between the IEEE University Partnership Program and Chinese LibrariesAbstractInvolving students is not uncommon in university libraries. Students can greatly reducelibrarians’ workload, provide peer reference services, and change the image of librarians to thepublic. With the prevalence of e-resources, more users choose to work from their ownworkplaces and reduce their visits to physical libraries. To understand actual needs of end usersand offer better services in this digital era, it is very important for librarians to reach out tostudents and work with them closely in their routine work. However, it is quite challenging toidentify student

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Popescu, Princeton University, Engineering Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

evolution is reflected inthe departmental affiliation noted for each publication in the collection. Many of the centers,departments or laboratories that issued reports during that period of time are no longer inexistence, either due to consolidations or due to completion of projects. SEAS reports wereproduced mainly as a record of publicly funded research undertaken at the University. Whileresults of the research were often published in peer-reviewed literature, the reports frequentlycontain results of experiments, computations and primary data that are not included in thepublished literature. Some reports, especially those in high demand, have been catalogedindividually and holdings information has been accurately maintained for retrieval purposes

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

a senior member of IEEE and is a member of ASME, SIAM, ASEE and AGU. He is actively involved in CELT activities and regularly participates and presents at the Lilly Conference. He has been the recipient of several Faculty Learning Community awards. He is also very active in assessment activities and has presented dozens of papers at various Assessment Institutes. His posters in the areas of Bloom’s Taxonomy and Socratic Inquisition have received widespread acclaim from several scholars in the area of Cognitive Science and Educational Methodologies. He has received the Assessment of Critical Thinking Award twice and is currently working towards incorporating writing assignments that enhance students’ critical

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

overview resources available to librarians and researchers to quickly grasp themajor issues of this new discipline.A webliography of digital data curation resources, written by Westra et al, 3 is primarily consistsof organizational reports, and as such, gives an excellent broad overview of current issues in theentire field of digital data curation. It was written to provide easy reference to the seminal reportsin the past decade that have shaped the current practices of digital curation. It also includesreferences to listservs, standards, software and open-source journals.The Digital Curation Centre is in the process of creating a Curation Reference Manual.4 At thistime, twelve chapters are written, peer reviewed and published. Another ten are

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

librarians at theUniversity of Minnesota. But this series differs from others because it is written for students inengineering, using engineering terminology for keywords and engineering journals, conferenceproceedings, books, and databases for every example. Still, how literature is used varies fromone engineering discipline to another. Some areas, for example, place conference papers on parwith peer-reviewed journal articles while others do not. Focus groups conducted by Hoffmann etal. confirm that engineering students prefer subject-specific instruction that is relevant to theirwork.1Inspired by the citation analysis work Patricia Kirkwood presented at ASEE 200912, the author

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michelle Baratta, University of Toronto; Alan Chong, University of Toronto; Jason A. Foster, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

be mapped to the ACRL Information LiteracyStandards for Science and Technology1, specifically meeting Standard Two, PerformanceIndicator 5, Outcome (d), and working towards Standard 4, Performance Indicator 3, Outcome(a). The learning outcomes of this station also map to Standard Three, Performance Indicator 1,Outcome (b).Additional peer-reviewed journals were also on hand so the students could compare thedescriptive journals articles from Structural Engineering International to a peer-reviewed article,and introduce the peer-review process. This helps students to work towards Standard 1,Performance Indicator 1, Outcome (a). A complete explanation of the ACRL Standards,Performance Indicators and Outcomes that are associated with this station