Conference Session

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 2

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Laura Woods, University of Sheffield

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries Division (ELD)

have been published while Mercer et al.wrote their review, plus any published since then. Some older papers may also be includedwhere they provide useful context. The themes identified by Mercer et al. will be used as aframework for discussing the literature, along with the additional themes of measurement ofinformation literacy, and gender balance and differences.Student information behaviour mirrors that of professional engineersHistorically, LIS research into the information behaviour of engineering students has castthem into a deficit role, identifying their behaviours as inadequate when compared toinformation literacy standards [18]. Madden et al. [19] take a different view, arguing thatstudents with a preference for “hard” disciplines