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

set. Thefourth is to perform a data audit for the entire department or academic unit. Each of the methodshas its positive and negative attributes, which may influence which type of interview is best for agiven department or researcher. Each of these tools simultaneously allow the librarian to get toknow the researcher’s individual scientific process and help the researcher to learn the breadthand depth of the issues involved in curating scientific data. They also provide openings for thedevelopment of relationships, both with the individual and with the department as a whole.In the wake of the NSF data management requirement, speaking to a department faculty meetingabout data management plan requirements and the contribution information

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

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Engineering Libraries

plagiarism problem came from the Directorof Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution, who reported an 85% increase in plagiarism casesbetween 2007 and 2009 (88 cases in 2007-08 vs. 163 in 2008-09). For the most current year(July 1, 2009 - February 15, 2010) 125 cases of academic dishonesty were reported, of which64% (n=80) involved plagiarism. It is especially noteworthy that these data indicate (1) themajority of academic dishonesty cases reported on our campus involved plagiarism, and (2) thefrequency was increasing.In early 2009, the library learned of plans for the formation of a university-wide AcademicIntegrity Task Force. The charge of the committee was to determine if there was an issue withacademic integrity on campus; ascertain if there

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

. For the last twodeliveries, the instructors have invited an engineering librarian to offer information literacysessions to help guide the students. While the librarians and instructors feel that it is importantfor students to become familiar with and know how to use specialized engineering researchdatabases, e.g. Compendex, Web of Science, ASCE Digital Library and others, we wonder whatinformation sources students actually use. And why? These questions have puzzled us and havemotivated this study.MethodologyIn this study, we used three sets of questions to obtain predominantly qualitative data: first, weasked the students to identify in writing the information tools or sources they plan to use toconduct their research. Then an engineering

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Qing Li, IEEE

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

UPP to engage students in more interesting and interactiveways, such as planning a campus-wide library campaign. After the IEEE UPP launch, theconnection between the library and the Peking IEEE Student Branch was officially initiated. Thelibrarians, the SB and the author had several kick-off meetings and decided the SB would play amajor role throughout the campaign.The library campaign, under the theme of “Robots, Us”, aimed to make advanced technologiesand developments understandable for everyone, not just science and engineering students. Thegoal was to attract more users into the library, thus promoting library resources and serviceseffectively. The event was planned in three phases: exhibition, interaction and presentation.About 20

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

before they come to the library for an instruction session. With a simple web formwe find out which library databases students have used before, how confident they are withacademic research, their working definition of scholarly resources, and what search conceptsthey have heard of before. With this information in hand, we have a better idea of what weshould focus on in the library session. Having the results of the background knowledge checkalso provides us with a jumping-off point for questions to actively engage students in theclassroom.Active learning in the classroom Page 22.554.3In Fall 2009 we began jointly revising the lesson plan for the

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mysore Narayanan, Miami University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

): Page 22.254.2 “Assessment requires attention to outcomes but also and equally to the experiences that lead to those outcomes.” In other words, the important aspect to observe here is that one has to move away from ateaching paradigm to learning paradigm. The author takes this philosophy further, and says: “Students should learn using a discovery approach.” Clifford O. Young, Sr., & Laura Howzell Young of California State University, SanBernardino argue that a new paradigm for assessment, a learning paradigm, must be constructedto measure the success of new kinds of educational practices (Young and Young, 1999). 1. The participants should be capable of selecting an assessment plan best suited for

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patsy Hulse, University of Auckland; Dahlia Dantang Han, University Auckland, Engineering Library; Emil Melnichenko, University of Auckland; Susan Brookes, University of Auckland, Engineering Library

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

planning began. The time frame was tight - from October Page 22.981.22009 to the first week in March, 2010.The University uses Coursebuilder for its online tutorials. Designed and built by CAD, this is awebsite creation tool for online tutorials. CAD staff trained the subject librarians, and shared theirexperiences of developing online tutorials. These included the Library’s Business Information Skillstutorial (http://www.flexiblelearning.auckland/business_information skills/), which was developedby subject librarians in that discipline. Throughout the development of the tutorial the CAD staffassisted with the more complicated technical issues

Conference Session

Information Literacy Programs for First-Year Engineering Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Meagan C. Ross, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Fosmire, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth Wertz P.E., Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica E. Cardella, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Senay Purzer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering Libraries

skills and how to assess them. Shuman et al suggest thatstudents be able to • Demonstrate Reading, Writing, Listening, and Speaking Skills • Demonstrate an Awareness of What Needs to be Learned • Follow a Learning Plan • Identify, Retrieve, and Organize Information • Demonstrate Critical Thinking Skills • Reflect on One’s Own Understanding iiiShuman’s outcomes correlate well iv with the ACRL Information Literacy standards for Science andTechnology, which briefly are • Determine the extent of information needed • Access the needed information effectively and efficiently • Evaluate information and its sources critically • Incorporate selected information into one’s knowledge base

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeff McAdams, University of Texas, San Antonio

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

collectiondevelopment goals will be to grow our electronic collections.The New Science and Engineering Building Our university is a new campus, relative to many universities in the state. However, it isgrowing rapidly, especially in the sciences. In the last five years, our university opened twomulti-disciplinary science and engineering buildings. The newest building, the AppliedEngineering and Technology Building, opened for occupancy in Fall 2009 and officially inSpring 2010; our library opened few months later, in May. In the original plans for the building, a laboratory space was built where our library isnow. The architects and builders outfitted the room with various lab specifications, including aneye-wash station, a multitude of power

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jody T. Hoesly, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Anne C. Glorioso, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

, the shelving facilities were full, funding was not offered, and the timetable was 1 year.By creating Dim and Dark temporary storage, enlisting a student workforce, and benefiting froman ISyE student study of our workflows, we daringly set out to accomplish our goals. Thepurpose of this paper is to share our process so that other libraries facing similar circumstancesmay benefit.FEASIBILITYAs soon as the project was announced, we did a feasibility study to establish a broad brush project plan. Our student organizations had made it very clear that they did not want collection materials to take up

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Theory and Practice

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nasser Saleh, Queen's University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

collaboratively identify their information needs and then seek and use informationsources from different channels as a group. The study plans to analyse the interaction of theproject as the learning with learners’ information-related activities as students try to identify theirinformation needs, seek information, and then use information for their project during a group-based course. The paper represents the first case study where data were collected through a web-based survey at the end of a senior multidisciplinary design engineering course along with apreliminary descriptive analysis of the collected data that are related to the practice of bothacademic engineering librarians and engineering educators who are involved in these

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

Block C!– 15:25-15:50 – Station 6 Block C!– 15:25-15:50 – Station 2 After 15:50 rejoin your group members, compare notes, and develop a plan for After 15:50 rejoin your group members, compare notes, and develop a plan for After 15:50 rejoin your group members, compare notes, and develop a plan for completing the Bridge Targeting Worksheet over the next few days. completing the Bridge Targeting Worksheet over the next few days. completing the Bridge Targeting Worksheet over the next few days. You do not have to submit your bridges and criteria today. You do not have to submit your bridges and criteria today. You

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Anne Parker, University of Manitoba

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

, which more nearly reflects the environment in which a professionalengineer will have to work; students must learn how to function as a team by planning theteam’s activities and the tasks associated with a project, all within the framework ofmilestones and the deliverables.As we have discussed in our earlier paper [1], one of the major assignments has been theresearch-based final report – a necessity in a course where the students come fromdifferent disciplines and represent different levels of experience within an engineeringprogram. While some, like Irish, might argue that such an assignment is an academicrather than an engineering genre, the final report is far more than just an exercise in“knowledge assembly” [17]. “Staged” assignments are

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Aleteia Greenwood, University of British Columbia; Eugene Barsky, University of British Columbia

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

volunteer coordinator who changes each year, the librarians, andtheir particular knowledge and skill strengths, and the ever-changing access to resources.Developing Library InstructionFrom the very beginning the librarians worked with course coordinators to decide howmuch and what kind of information the students needed. They knew some students wouldbe familiar with public libraries and some could be familiar with the UBC Library systemif they had previously taken Humanities 101. The 2nd year coordinator’s initial passionand interest in making an accessible course helped to shape the approach the librarianstook with each subsequent class as the years passed. In meetings to plan the library’spresentation each coordinator has brought their own

Conference Session

Information Literacy: Preparing Students for the Real World

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jon N. Jeffryes, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

to the presentation was positive, and we will keep them abreast of ourprogress as part of our plan to gain endorsement of the program at the College level.Teamwork WorkshopOur literature review on engineering students’ workplace readiness identified explicit instructionin teamwork skills as an unfulfilled need.9, 10 Although our survey did not specifically ask aboutteamwork, we acted on this trend in the literature. One of the survey authors worked with theScience and Engineering Library’s instruction coordinator to develop a workshop, Team Skills:Library Tools for Collaboration, to address this deficit.The workshop covers “soft” team skills like meeting facilitation (e.g., effective and energizingice breakers and brainstorming); project and

Conference Session

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

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Mark Chrimes, Institution of Civil Engineers

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Engineering Libraries

Civil Engineers as Audio-Visual Librarian. In 1978, following the retirement of H C Richardson, the Librarian, Mike became Deputy Librarian and for the best part of a decade worked with Doreen Bayley, the Librarian, in improving services, notably retrospectively converting the Library Catalogues to one online catalogue (the first unified catalogue since 1895). This project was continued after Doreen’s retirement in 1987 with a single computerised index of all ICE publications, and the digitisation of all ICE journals the first engineering institution in the world to carry out such a project. When the ICE building was refurbished c.1990 he planned the Library accommodation. Early in his career at ICE Mike became

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

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Engineering Libraries

members teaching the course, involves a combination ofactivities, some already in place and some that may be implemented in future terms. In mostsections of the course, each student is required to write a paper on a project exploring the historyof a particular technology. A unique approach to integrate group learning among students isenvisioned even though students are not required to work in a group setting. Other sections of thecourse have an assignment involving group work, and a different mix of library learningactivities may be chosen for those sections. Below are brief descriptions of the planned activities.Current activitiesDirect instruction by librariansDuring each quarter when the course is taught, the humanities and social sciences

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

fairlysophisticated tutorials. Captivate meets all of the criteria outlined above and was already used bysome staff when this project began.As with any even moderately complex software application, learning Captivate does require aninvestment in time. Rather than develop tutorials by trial and error, the author used a set oftraining manuals for Captivate 5.8,9 Working through every exercise in the books took severaldays, but taking the time up front easily saved twice the time invested. On the advice of acolleague with recent Captivate experience, the author also invested time up front in creating atemplate project so that every tutorial in the set would share colors and other “skin” elements andhave common beginning and ending screens. The current plan

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

Page 22.733.4allows researchers access to the collection through a variety of means. After processing iscomplete, a better sense of what is contained in the collection is conveyed to the user.Describing the contents of a collection is the most important aspect of processing, as descriptionprovides information on the context in which materials were created, as well as relating thephysical characteristics and the intellectual contents. Accurate description allows researchers todetermine whether the materials are relevant to their research.As a result of the consultations and discussions that took place, the following Technical ReportsProcessing Plan has emerged:  A separate Engineering Library Finding Aids repository, named Technical and

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Larry A. Thompson, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

patrons entering the building, but thehigh traffic flow made it difficult to answer reference questions. To deal with this, at peak traffictimes the desk was staffed by both a librarian and a staff member or graduate student. For awhile, the reference desk was located behind a “welcome” desk, (an attempt at tiered service),and for one semester the reference desk was relocated to the 2nd floor, (another attempt at tieredservice).In 2006, a new Director of Research and Instructional Services was hired for Newman Library.Upon review of the reference services being offered, she began making plans for the reopeningof the science reference desk. Librarians were divided into two teams: BHSS (Business,Humanities, and Social Sciences); and SciTech