Conference Session

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

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering Libraries

experience in the minerals industry working in Africa and the UK, and teaching experience in the areas of rock mechanics, slope stability, environmental engineering and surveying. For a number of years he has been involved with coordinating and assessing the Part 4 research projects in the Department. His research interests are in the permeability of coal in relation to stress changes due to desorption, the spontaneous combustion of coal and related heating effects, stability issues related to mineral extraction sites mainly subsidence and slope stability. In the last 5 years he has published over 18 papers (5 in refereed journals) and 29 technical reports. He is also actively

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert Heyer-Gray, University of California, Davis; Jean McKenzie, University of California, Berkeley; Lisa Ngo, University of California, Berkeley; Karen Andrews, University of California, Davis; Emily Stambaugh, California Digital Library

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Engineering Libraries

Karen Andrews is the Head of the Physical Sciences & Engineering Library at the University of California, Davis.Emily Stambaugh, California Digital Library Emily Stambaugh is the Manager of the University of California Libraries' Shared Print Collections at the California Digital Library. Page 14.235.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Assembling a "best copy" archival journal collection: Case study of the University of California IEEE ProjectAbstractAs the IEEE digitizes its journals, librarians at two University of California (UC) campusesundertook a project to identify a

Conference Session

Using Information Technology to Create New Information Resources

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Kirkwood, University of Arkansas; Michael Culbertson, Colorado State University; Esther Crawford, Rice University

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2009-925: ROUNDING UP THE COLLECTION: THE STORY OF TRAILDIGITAL CONTENT COLLECTIONPatricia Kirkwood, University of Arkansas Patricia is the Engineering and Mathematics Librarian at the University of Arkansas. A member of the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) TRAIL project since 2006. Currently she is the chairperson of the Collections Group.Michael Culbertson, Colorado State University Mike is the Engineering College Liaison Librarian at Colorado State University's Morgan Library. its implications for libraries." with Allison Mike is currently developing a study to look at how diverse populations use virtual reference services and developing a project to digitize the

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dana Denick, Drexel University; Jameson Detweiler, Drexel University; Cody Ray, Drexel University; Andrew Cebulski, Drexel University; Jay Bhatt, Drexel University

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Engineering Libraries

2006-2007. He is the 2003 recipient of Drexel University's Harold Myers Distinguished Service Award. He is actively involved with the Engineering Libraries Division of the ASEE. Page 14.850.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Library-Smart House Collaboration for Information Literacy DevelopmentAbstractThe Library-Smart House partnership seeks to design and implement a sustainable, virtualenvironment for collaboration that will seamlessly integrate project communication andinformation access. This virtual environment will provide a means for increased

Conference Session

Using Information Technology to Create New Information Resources

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nestor Osorio, Northern Illinois University; Andrew Otieno, Northern Illinois University

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Engineering Libraries

areas of science and engineering. Well known NSDL projects, such as Annals of Researchon Engineering Educations (AREE) or National Engineering Education Delivery System(NEEDS), whether fully or partially funded, are integrated within the NSDL EngineeringPathway (EP). An engineering education database would be a valuable supplement to the robustcollections and services provided by EP. The proposed database would be built utilizing thealready existing and highly-recognized technical infrastructure of the NSDL. This will be acollaborative project where professional organizations such as the Engineering Library Division(ELD) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), the Science and TechnologySection (STS) of the Association of

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara MacAlpine, Trinity University; Mahbub Uddin, Trinity University

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Engineering Libraries

Science in EngineeringScience degree. Engineering students are also awarded a mathematics minor.The multidisciplinary core engineering science courses emphasize critical and creative thinkingand the development of student’s communication skills. Engineering design, specifically Page 14.760.2creative design, is the central focus of the program. An eight-semester design course sequencethat begins in the first semester of the freshman year and terminates with a two-semester seniorcapstone design project forms the backbone of the curriculum.The first design course introduces students to the engineering design process utilizing acompetitive design

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College

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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

“And Other Duties as Assigned”

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Megan Sapp Nelson, Purdue University

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Engineering Libraries

venues for target patron groups and a plan to supervise marketing projects weredesigned. Future plans include evaluating specific marketing venues for their effectiveness inreaching specific target markets.IntroductionLibrarians have been talking (and writing) about marketing for years. For the most part,librarians have accepted that marketing must be done, but marketing is infrequently the primaryjob description of a librarian.1A marketing plan and marketing tools, if well designed, can help tocreate a constant awareness among library staff and faculty for the need to reach out to patrons.Marketing effectively informs and compels patrons to use library services, which in turnproduces positive user experiences as they successfully use library

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary Strife, West Virginia University

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Engineering Libraries

for group discussion and consultation on this floorand expect it to be a more active floor. The carpet on the first floor is the most worn and in needof replacement. This is where this process began. Since the Provost was responsible for thechoice of carpet in 1999, we needed his support and approval to have the carpet replaced. Withhis consent, all was on target for replacement over Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks in 2006.Enter the concept of an information commons with flexible learning spaces and the opportunityto reclaim space in our building from Academic Information Services (AIS), and the process wassuspended. Carpet replacement had not required an approved plan. The anticipated changes inthe project required that we submit a plan to

Conference Session

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

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Popescu, Princeton University; Patricia Gaspari-Bridges, Princeton University

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Engineering Libraries

million books. Historically, the Library has gained from thegenerous support of Princeton donors, and the last decade, in particular, has been a beneficial one,with a number of library building/renovation projects supported by alumni donations. Drivenmostly by the departments’ need to expand lab and office space into areas occupied by smalldepartmental libraries, a concerted effort was made to consolidate smaller libraries in newbuildings or renovate existing library spaces. Just a few impressive library building andrenovation projects of the last decade include the Stokes Library for Public and InternationalAffairs that was established in a newly dedicated building in 2000, the Engineering Librarymoved into a brand new building in 2001, the

Conference Session

Meeting the Needs of Engineering Faculty, Researchers, and Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patricia Kirkwood, University of Arkansas

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Engineering Libraries

on to expound on the importance of research in thisdiverse field he states, “Finally, it must be remembered that all research projects should begin inthe library.” Unfortunately he does not address the types of printed resources used by theengineer; rather, he simply states that recording research and procedures as well as depositingthem in the library for others would be a useful idea. This may be the beginning of the need fortechnical reports and other “unpublished” resources used by civil engineering.In the 1980s and 1990s several articles address the use of journals, books, and conferences inengineering. These articles do not go into any depth about the specific materials used by civilengineers. Though the grey literature is mentioned

Conference Session

“And Other Duties as Assigned”

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2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Amy Kindschi, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Anne Glorioso, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Diana Wheeler, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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Engineering Libraries

, whoresponded to the suggested edits. Initially we thought to run all final drafts by the entirereference staff, but after doing this once found that it was very time consuming, and not worth Page 14.349.4the effort. Staff on both teams who created the competencies found, for the most part, that it waseasier than expected, and very worthwhile. Many staff felt that they learned valuable newreference tools and that our customer service would improve as a result of these competencies.One of the biggest challenges we faced was distinguishing the fine line between the differentlevels of competencies. Another challenge was the large scope of the project

Conference Session

Information Literacy Integration and Assessment

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna Riley, Smith College; Rocco Piccinino, Smith College; Mary Moriarty, Smith College; Linda Jones, Smith College

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Engineering Libraries

, studentportfolios will be reviewed by a team of faculty and other experts after the sophomore year andagain as students near graduation. A librarian or other information literacy expert will serve aspart of this team in order to evaluate the information literacy aspects of student achievement.Elements students might include in their portfolios as evidence of information literacy includethe following: ≠ Certificate of completion of first-year information literacy quiz-tutorials (administered outside the department) which cover among other things, ethics of proper citation; ≠ Annotated bibliographies from a first-year course project on life-cycle assessment that reflect the ability to identify, access and evaluate a variety of resources

Conference Session

ELD Poster Session

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sasha Gurke, Knovel Corporation

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Engineering Libraries

(this number does not include databases.) The collection is growing at a rate of 35-40 new titles per month.Users can browse and simultaneously search all titles via a single interface. Basic and Page 14.866.2advanced searches are fast and optimized for technical users.At the end of 2008, Knovel embarked on a new and exciting project: Mathcad-enablingKnovel content. Our first release is an introductory package for structural and civil engineersthat includes two well known titles partially transcribed into Mathcad worksheets.Knovel Mathcad ProductEngineers across all industries perform engineering calculations and document their designand analysis

Conference Session

“And Other Duties as Assigned”

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott Curtis, Linda Hall Library

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Engineering Libraries

AC 2009-630: READERS' ADVISORY IN THE ENGINEERING LIBRARYScott Curtis, Linda Hall Library Page 14.1007.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2009 Readers’ Advisory in the Engineering LibraryAbstractTraditionally, librarians view readers’ advisory (RA) as a public library function, geared towardrecommending fiction and focused around genre studies. This paper argues that an active RAprogram would provide engineering librarians with a tool to help students broaden theirscientific, technical, and social perspectives beyond their course and project work. Manycolleges and universities require student cohorts to participate in campus reading programs; RAin the

Conference Session

Widgets, Add-ons, Toolbars, and Videos: Web 2.0 Tools for Searching, Managing, and Teaching about Engineering Literature and Information

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

E. Michael Wilson, Ohio University

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Engineering Libraries

the home server), and if anew version of the toolbar is available it makes the update available for automaticinstallation. This functionality ensures that security updates, link repairs, and othernecessary changes are carried out and that the toolbar continues to function.Libraries that are interested in their own toolbar projects will need to address requiredresources as well as plans for continued maintenance. Ongoing support for the OUEngineering Toolbar has been simple to this date; however, the concept, development,deployment, and maintenance are handled by the author of this article. Discussions withother libraries that provide toolbars highlight that this seems to be a unique situation asmost often toolbars are either constructed by

Conference Session

Widgets, Add-ons, Toolbars, and Videos: Web 2.0 Tools for Searching, Managing, and Teaching about Engineering Literature and Information

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yue Xu, Mississippi State University

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Engineering Libraries

online tutorial projects that wereimplemented in engineering libraries would facilitate teaching and learning process if librariansemployed appropriate criteria to design online tutorials.This research was to determine the current status of the implementation of online tutorials inengineering libraries. This was done by proposing research questions, gathering informationregarding requirements for tutorial types, identifying the media types employed by the libraries, Page 14.927.2and determining their active learning capabilities. The purpose of this study was to help with thebuilding of future tutorials in selecting content, proper tools, and

Conference Session

Active Engagement: From the New Engineering Librarian's Perspective

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Fransen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Jon Jeffryes, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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Engineering Libraries

university and its scholars. Building on thework of her predecessor, Jan assisted the Aerospace Engineering department head in submittingmany of his published papers to the UDC. Along the way, she learned about the benefits andpitfalls involved in making published works available to the world through an open institutionalrepository and shared that knowledge with Jon and other librarian colleagues. By helping onefaculty member to create a UDC collection, we have gained a champion who not onlyunderstands the value in having his work more widely—and perpetually—available but also seeshow librarians can facilitate the process.Jan is currently working on another, larger UDC project. It involves moving research reportsfrom a university institute's website

Conference Session

Widgets, Add-ons, Toolbars, and Videos: Web 2.0 Tools for Searching, Managing, and Teaching about Engineering Literature and Information

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Wohrley, Auburn University

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Engineering Libraries

thelibrary tradition of honing one’s database searching skills on the standard tools of the computerworld: hardware, software, and the network.The Firefox Open Source browser allows customization through what it calls add-ons (alsocalled extensions). Mozilla was originally formed from the ruins of Netscape, a pioneeringbrowser that was seen off by Internet Explorer. Before it died, Netscape relicensed its browseras Open Source. It became the Mozilla Project and Firefox was the browser. The bare-bonesnature of the original Firefox led to a virtuous circle where the released browser became popular,the developers took advantage of the easily installable add-ons to create more add-ons andfeatures, and the popularity of the add-ons lead to more people

Conference Session

Meeting the Needs of Engineering Faculty, Researchers, and Students

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charlotte Erdmann, Purdue University

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Engineering Libraries

from a slot planto the current titles plan. They mention the disadvantage of losing older content when the newyear begins.Since the study, Texas A&M has moved from two to four and now six simultaneous users. It isconsidering subscribing to the complete file.Wallace4 (2006) wrote a journal article discussing the use of Safari for selected course reserveswith an existing slot system at the University of North Texas, Denton. He also did a similarconference presentation5 at ASEE in 2005. At the beginning of project, the university libraryhad three simultaneous users and 750 slots. To cover the anticipated use increase, the computerscience department paid for an additional simultaneous user. To avoid access challenges,professors explained to

Conference Session

Active Engagement: From the New Engineering Librarian's Perspective

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Jane Dooley, Dalhousie University

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Engineering Libraries

program.Strive to foster two-way communication.”7 She has successfully improved faculty-libraryrelationships, and increased her number of teaching and research assistance opportunities.Collaborative projects are now initiated by her teaching faculty because they know what toexpect from her. These opportunities have enhanced her career portfolio and were no doubt afactor in her successful reappointment and promotion to Librarian II in the summer of 2007. Theongoing development of her liaison work will strongly support her application for appointmentwithout term, and promotion to Librarian III in the fall of 2009.The author learned most of what she knows about networking and collaboration since she beganworking professionally. Overcoming challenges, and