Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Paul McMonigle, Pennsylvania State University; Denise Amanda Wetzel, Pennsylvania State University; Sara C. Kern, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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27.8% oftotal graduates, even though members of these groups account for almost 35% of all collegestudents [1], [2]. Although all these percentages are higher than they were in 2012, there is still along road to travel before full equity in these fields is reached.Inclusivity in InstructionInclusivity can be defined as “an intentional practice of recognizing and working to mitigatebiases that lead to marginalization or exclusion of some people” [3]. Students’ social identitiesdo have effects on how they learn and whether they stay the course in their major throughgraduation [4]. Unfortunately, many students from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM canfeel alone or unwelcomed and eventually change their major to one where they believe they

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dawson, Northern Arizona University; Susan Wainscott, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Diversity

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instructors.We add the voices of these instructors to the literature on how science, engineering, andtechnology college instructors are selecting resources. We discuss what engineering and otherSTEM librarians can do to increase resources from diverse perspectives, OER, and other OAresources used in these courses, which may make the coursework more accessible to additionalstudents.IntroductionMany college courses require students to use a textbook [1] or other instructional materials (IM),and the selection of these is a key component for the design of college courses [2]. Some coursesmay rely on committees to select core IM, and some pre-professional curricula may be quiteprescribed, while other course instructors may have the discretion to select

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth C. Novosel, University of Colorado Boulder

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howindividuals experience disability. This paper will present a disability justice-informedperspective in hopes of allowing librarians who work with disabled STEM student to gain a morenuanced understanding of ableism and the many barriers disabled people encounter in STEMfields as well as more broadly in higher education. IntroductionIn recent years, there has been a significant and much needed focus on diversity, equity, andinclusion (DEI) in academia. Although some progress has been made regarding DEI policies,programs, and awareness [1], [2], critics have pointed out there is still much to be done, notingthat many students and scholars continue to regularly experience oppression and discriminationon

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 1: Engineering Librarianship

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Joseph White, Queen's University

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Diversity

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Engineering Education (ASEE) [1]. World War II curtailed the activities of bothgroups. After the war, however, the engineering librarian communities in ACRL and ASEE grewquickly, offering new opportunities for professional development, networking, informationsharing, research, and advocacy.This paper seeks a deeper understanding of the academic engineering librarian community in the1940s and early 1950s through the analysis of data compiled from the Directory of CollegeEngineering Library Personnel [2], published in 1949 by the Engineering School LibrariesSection of ACRL and supplemented by data from other sources such as Who’s Who in LibraryService [3]. The Directory is a rich source of data that includes details such as position titles,degrees

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3: Instruction & Information Literacy

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bridget M. Smyser, Northeastern University; Jodi Bolognese, Northeastern University

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Diversity

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that are expected in professional publications. This study aims to identify remaininggaps and opportunities for the instructor and librarian to provide additional scaffolding andsupport for IL skills.Literature ReviewAssessment of engineering students’ information literacy (IL) skills has to date focused more onthe undergraduate than graduate level [1]–[3]. Much of the research focused on theundergraduate level has focused on first-year courses and design-oriented courses such asCapstone [4]. Generally, in these types of courses, students are acting more as consumers ofinformation (in order to learn new concepts, inform decisions, etc.), rather than as producers ofinformation, as would be expected at the graduate level or in upper-level

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 4: Outreach & Collaboration

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Over, Virginia Tech; Connie Stovall, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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Engineering Collections & Research Analyst to spend timedirectly interfacing with departments to complete analysis and assessments, enhancing liaisonrelationships, and using subject-specific knowledge to support RII.To meet demands, strengthen human resources, and leverage skill sets the Research Impact &Intelligence department was formed and the Provost’s Office is funding an additional positionfor the team. RII collaborates with principal investigators and delivers competitive intelligencereports on several grant proposals, and has already collaborated across many campus units as canbe seen in Figure 1. The Research Impact & Intelligence department represents a relatively newtype of department for academic libraries and presents

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Wynn Tranfield, University of California, Santa Cruz

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Diversity

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research so much as they design. This pathway begins at the undergraduate levelwhere engineering students are expected to devote their time to theory and problem sets.Information retrieval leans heavily on textbooks. Emphasis on efficiency means students aretaught to find answers quickly, and potentially compromise the fit of a resource in order toquickly move forward to the next task [1]. A Listening First approach utilizes the basic tenets of user-centered research, or user-centered design. User-centered research is the process of gathering information about the users ofa product or service in order to inform the design and development of future products or services.Typically, this process includes interviews, surveys, usability testing

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Weiss, University of Maryland- College Park

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Diversity

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steps include developing library support that wouldallow graduate students in the department of CEE to meet a requirement for diversity in theircitation practices that will serve as concrete and practical applications of citation justice that willbe applicable in their post-academia careers.IntroductionIncreasingly in recent years, librarians have taken up the task of improving the level of diversity,equity, and inclusion, referred to commonly as DEI, in their work. Academic libraries, as anintegral part of colleges and universities have a responsibility to provide equitable access toknowledge and information [1]. In some areas such as education, where equity and inclusion hasbeen a conversation for over 70 years, it is easier to discern where

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2: Understanding Our Users

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Parker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

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Diversity

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deposittheir research data into a repository at the time of publication to fulfill funding obligations. Thispaper describes the survey results conducted at a U15 research institution in Canada askingengineering faculty about their research data sharing practices and preferences. The purpose ofthe survey was to answer the following questions: 1. How well prepared are engineeringresearchers for data deposit, 2. Are engineering researchers willing to share their data, and 3.What barriers exist for sharing engineering data? Results demonstrate knowledge of andacceptance of open access (OA) practices but when it comes to data, engineering researchers aremore reluctant and less prepared to share their data widely and may need guidance on RDM bestpractices

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 5: Collections & Spaces

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanette M. Mueller-Alexander, Arizona State University Library; Alexander Soto, Labriola National American Indian Data Center; Bethany Maureen Leonardi

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Diversity

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developed and implemented culturally informed library services, expanded its personnel four-fold, and re-established its physical locations as culturally safe spaces for Indigenous library users. Alex co-authored ASU Li- brary’s first land acknowledgement statement, is the recipient of the Society of American Archivists 2022 Archival Innovator Award, and recently was awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for ”Firekeepers: Building Archival Data Sovereignty through Indigenous Memory Keeping,” a three-year project to preserve Indigenous knowledge through community-based participatory archival partnerships with Arizona’s Tribal communities. Alex’s journey to librarianship comes after years of

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise Amanda Wetzel, Pennsylvania State University; Sara C. Kern, Pennsylvania State University

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Diversity

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humanities and social sciences have increasingly used quantitative textualanalysis to gain a high-level understanding of language and themes in texts. These studies aredesigned to investigate a corpus, or collections of words from selected texts, and usemathematical principles to look for high level connections and concepts not always apparentthrough individual reads [1], [2]. By moving beyond the standard literature review, the authorscan examine the content of published material to explore themes and future research directions tounderstand belonging in STEM libraries. This methodology allowed the authors the opportunityto examine details in language and trends in texts in a corpus in a novel way that would besignificantly more difficult and time

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Hannah Rempel, Oregon State University; Adam Lindsley, Oregon State University; Taylor Ralph, Oregon State University

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Diversity

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sources, our participant pool was made up of current tenure-track engineering facultyand graduate students from our institution. As we also wanted to better understand the impact ofthe suspension of our Elsevier contract, which came into effect on January 1, 2023, we onlyincluded graduate students and faculty who had been at our institution for at least a term beforethe suspension began.We began our study in mid-October 2023. An email distribution list of faculty and graduatestudents across the six disciplinary schools within our College of Engineering was compiled.Faculty and graduate student names were randomized, and participants were contacted by emailon a rolling basis until we reached saturation in the number of participant observations

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanette M. Mueller-Alexander, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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an O'odham thesaurus and classification systems currentlyunder investigation and development at Arizona State University. kiva, n. A chamber, built wholly or partly underground, used by the Pueblo men for religious rites, etc.; estufa, n. Also attributive and transferred. [1]IntroductionEngineers always want to know how something works. If that means taking it apart to reverseengineer it, they are quite happy to do that. They are also always looking to make improvementsand have a whole list of “what if…?” for every one of them. This is especially true when theyencounter an unknown structure from another civilization or lost arts of Western Europeancolonial cultures. With little documentation available, they need to explore

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth C. Novosel, University of Colorado Boulder; Savannah Paige Crowl

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Diversity

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the factors that help and hinder librarians’ ability to provide disability inclusionand support. This paper focuses specifically on data from STEM librarians who participated inthe survey.IntroductionIt is well-documented that disabled people are substantially underrepresented in STEM (science,technology, engineering, math) fields and that they face significant barriers in STEM degreeprograms and professions [1], [2], [3], especially those with multiply-minoritized identities [4].Across all fields of employment, the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) (2025)reported a stark disparity between disabled and non-disabled workers: in March 2025, 41% ofdisabled people in the United States were employed compared with 71% of non-disabled

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Woods, University of Sheffield

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Diversity

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sharing via shared Google or Word documents also emerged as a commonbehaviour.Data collection for the study is underway from January to April 2025, with the pilot studyhaving proved a successful test of the methodology.IntroductionThis work-in-progress paper outlines the methodology and preliminary findings of aphenomenological study into the information experiences of women engineeringundergraduates at UK universities.Women make up 20% of undergraduate engineering and technology students in the UK [1],and 24.8% in the US [2]. Being in a numerical minority of any kind can include negativeexperiences, and the effect is greater when the numerical minority also has less societalpower; for example ethnic minorities in predominantly white spaces, or

Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seth Vuletich, Colorado School of Mines; Brianna B Buljung, Colorado School of Mines; Adeline Greene, Colorado School of Mines

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criticalevaluation of the terminology used in resource description and access.IntroductionTo begin, it is important to contextualize the education transition literature within the history ofUnited States federal legislation. In the US, the first notable piece of federal legislationaddressing disabilities was the Smith-Sears Act or, as it is better known, the “VeteransRehabilitation Act” of 1918 [1], [2]. The purpose of this legislation was to rehabilitate andreintegrate veterans with permanent disabilities1 returning from World War I [1]. This wasfollowed two years later by the Smith-Fess Act or the “National Civilian VocationalRehabilitation Act” [2], [4]. These early acts of legislation largely focused on physicaldisabilities [2]. Legislation was revised