Paper ID #12072Analyzing Data Management Plans: Where Librarians Can Make a Differ-enceSara M. Samuel, University of Michigan Sara is an engineering librarian at the University of Michigan University Library where she is a liai- son to the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences Department. Sara has a bachelor of arts from Hope College and a Master of Science in Information from the University of Michigan.Mr. Paul F. Grochowski, University of Michigan Paul Grochowski is an engineering librarian at the University of Michigan.Ms. Leena N Lalwani, University of
considered strong enough tocapture the vision in the Libraries’ strategic plan. The lab was envisioned as a space withrelevant, current technologies, to ignite creativity in anyone who was a part of the UTAcommunity. Additionally, the opportunity to be one of the MIT-affiliated FabLabs, was seen asnot only good for enhancing students’ experience, but also as a great marketing tool for theuniversity. In short, the Libraries administration decided to build a FabLab because FabLabshave the technology and the educational focus that makerspaces do not.Although such labs are generally associated with Engineering, the Libraries’ leadership decidedthat the vision would be expanded beyond the normal STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,Mathematics
enhancing mentorshipof upcoming librarians, and the mentoring of practicum students. We will also discuss thementoring of new librarians by experienced librarians within UTL, including the creation of the“Mentoring Interest Group”, mentoring for permanent status and promotion, mentoring contractlibrarians and the impact of direct mentoring in a medium sized library from the head librarian.Future mentoring initiatives currently in the planning stages at ECSL for the engineeringlibrarian community at large will also be explored.3. Mentoring at University of Toronto Libraries and the Engineering & Computer ScienceLibrary3.1 The University of Toronto and the Engineering & Computer Science LibraryThe University of Toronto (U of T) consistently
drawbacks could largely be addressed with careful planning and training throughout the process. There are many instances in the literature of modifying information literacy instruction for 14,15,16engineering students after assessment . Modifications are often done in the specific context of the given course, student level, instructor, and institution that the librarian is working within. In addition to modifying our instruction based on our assessment results and our given context, we also took into consideration the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy3 . This document outlines key threshold concepts
building, the James B. Hunt Jr. Library. At this stage of the process,space- and service-model planning was initiated and in support of this work, various user studieswere undertaken. These studies, which were conducted up until the last months before thebuilding opened in January 2013, helped to answer planning questions, as well as build supportand awareness of the library among faculty and students.1 After the building opened, it quicklybecame apparent that assessment of the effectiveness of the new spaces and the service modelwas needed and as a result, more studies were initiated. The resulting body of five years ofresearch provides many practical insights into the needs and preferences of Hunt Library users.The Hunt Library is situated on
project and list them withinthe report section they planned to implement the literature. The efficacy of this pedagogicalchange to contextualize examples followed by immediate application was assessed by measuringthe frequency and type of citations used by all 3 sections of the class. Citation analysis found astatistically insignificant 7% increase in total number of citations used by the test sectionstudents. Although the utilization of engineering standards did not increase, the use of greyliterature in the test section increase 83% compared with the two control sections taught by thesame engineering faculty. Furthermore the test section decreased their use of multimediainformation. Two subsequent sections of the course taught by other
Paper ID #13776Lending a Hand: Supporting the Maker Movement in Academic LibrariesAdam Rogers, North Carolina State University Libraries Adam Rogers is an innovative and user-focused librarian who works at the intersection of public services and new technologies. In his role as Emerging Technology Services Librarian based at NCSU’s new James B. Hunt Jr. Library, he planned for, launched, and currently manages the Hunt Library Makerspace which makes 3D printing, 3D scanning, laser cutting, and electronics prototyping tools accessible to all at NC State. He is also leading the development of a second, larger Makerspace, set
interest related to dam safety.As part of the research related to dams, the archives contained an interesting series ofcorrespondence surrounding a US Army Corps of Engineers flood control dam for whichhydropower had been planned but never constructed. A third discovery in the archives wasGovernor Thornburgh’s college notebooks from Yale University where he studied engineering.Finally, the archives contained materials documenting Governor Thornburgh’s visit to theauthor’s institution as an invited guest speaker for Engineers’ Week. A brief summary of each ofthese discoveries and the potential for scholarship follows.Dams and Dam SafetyPrior to becoming governor, Thornburgh’s transition team identified drinking water quality andsupply as an
studies widely. 3. Educational ContextWPI has long been a leader in project-based STEM education, since the establishment in theearly 1970s of an innovative curriculum that is today called The WPI Plan. Students at WPIenroll in four seven-week terms during each academic year. The Plan allows students openchoice in course work and requires them to complete three significant undergraduaterequirements: the Inquiry Seminar which is a humanities and arts course with a significantwriting requirement, typically completed in the second year, the Interactive Qualifying Project(IQP), which is the subject of our work here, typically completed in the third year, and the MajorQualifying Project (MQP) which is a project completed in the students’ major area
-level 3Dprinting sessions for returning students and/or expanding the program to other middle schools inthe local area.References 1. Gonzalez, S. and D. Bennett. (Fall 2014). Planning a 3D Printing Service in an Academic Library. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship. 78. DOI:10.5062/F4M043CC 2. Partnership for 21st Century Skills. (2009). P21 Framework Definitions. Retrieved from http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_Framework_Definitions.pdf 3. Johnson, M., M.J. Clapp, S.R. Ewing, and A.G. Buhler. (2011). Building a Participatory Culture: Collaborating with Student Organizations for 21st Century Library Instruction. Collaborative Librarianship. 3(1), 2-15
Scotia. It is located on the downtown Sexton Campus, and serves the facultiesof Architecture, Engineering and Planning. A small campus with approximately 2,500 studentswithin those faculties, it makes up about 15% of Dal’s total enrollment of approximately 17,000students. Dal’s Department of Civil and Resource Engineering is comprised of 19 professors and7 adjunct professors, while the Mechanical Engineering Department is comprised of 12professors and 7 adjunct professors.Woodward Library at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, British Columbiaserves the faculties of Applied Science, Dentistry, Forestry, Land & Food Systems, Medicine,and Science. The approximately 6,500 undergraduate and graduate engineering students make
to use for name disambiguation. Inthis case, the co-citation map revealed that local “theses”--used here as a generic term for both theses anddissertations--appear very important, which may demonstrate that the department is more teaching-orientedthan research-oriented. The perceived value of theses published by the department identifies graduate studentsas target group for outreach and library-related educational programs. Similarly, the insight into fundingorganizations gleaned from the publications analyzed points librarians to those which are relevant to thediscipline and should be kept on their radar for resources about data management plans and public accessrequirements.The visualizations of bibliometric networks extracted using Sci2
, and ultimately,help determine whether the core information literacy outcomes have been achieved, in bothtraditional and credentialed instructional settings.Description of CoursesCompetency Based ProgramOverview of ProgramThe Purdue Polytechnic Institute (PPI) houses a recently formulated competency based degreeprogram offered in the College of Technology. One guiding principle of the program is thedevelopment of the whole person as a complete learner, not just teaching skills in a particulartechnical field. This includes intentional integration of traditional technical and humanitiessubjects. The PPI degree plan has information literacy embedded in the outcomes andcompetencies the students are expected to achieve on multiple levels throughout
between the Navajo way of life, which is a holistic cycle of thinking,planning, living, and assuring/testing,119 and an engineering design process (ask, imagine, plan,create, improve120). Thus the structure of the project itself can be described and presented in away that carries cultural meaning for Navajo students.Further, design projects can be structured to blend culture and course material. In engineeringoutreach camps in the Navajo Nation, students were asked to write a story related to their culture(e.g., “Describe a day in the life of a Navajo middle school student”). Students then, learn theengineering design process and build a Rube Goldberg®-style chain reaction machine that tellsthe story they wrote. This not only helps the students
. Page 26.998.5 3.1. Execution The purpose/goal of information literacy instruction is to help students to think like a designer/researcher when they are in the discovery phase. To achieve this goal, the following actions have been planned and executed: • Integrating three librarians into the course to form an instructional team; • Students spending more time in the library; • Out-of-class time for student-librarian face-to-face meetings; • Preparing search strategies; • Completing the plagiarism avoidance online tutorial and quiz; • Completing pre- and post-tests. • Two of the three librarians were WVU Engineering Librarians from Morgantown and third one was from