May 1996 Centennial Science & Engineering Library University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87 131-1 466 [email protected] (Until July 1996)

May 1996 Centennial Science & Engineering Library University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87 131-1 466 Dthornas@Tcd.Ie (Until July 1996)

for Engineering Education

Editor: Dena Thomas May 1996 Centennial Science & Engineering Library University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87 131-1 466 [email protected] (until July 1996)

Message from the Chair

Well, after three years in the secretary-treasurerlprogram 3) To promote ELD to engrneering educators and librarians. chaidchair rotation my stint on the ELD executive committee Throughout the year you have heard about the various is co~niiigici a &sz. it haj Lceii .II~p~ivikge tu serve ELD pr c~eiitiad~~iad r~bl;i&r;a~t~ kji ELC nteiilkis. These during this exciting time of transition for the profession. I efforts are increasingly bringing our profession to the want to thank you for the contidence you demonstrated by anention of the engineers and engineering educators with electing me to this position and for the creativity and hard whom we work. With this summer's ELD-sponsored work that you have put into ELD. mini-plenary session on electronic publishing, we break new ground in promoting ELD to ASEE and to the engineering In keeping with the spirit of our conference location of community. Washington, D.C., I would like to report back on the progress made on the four objectives I stated at the 4) Tofacilitate access to ELD to new information beginning of my "term of office." professionals. As you will read later in this issue, the Ford Motor Company 1 ) To ensure the continued qualiry of our conferences by will provide funding to enable a new librarian to anend the providing support for our program chair. ASEE conference this year. It is my hope that we can This year we asked the ELD Directors to participate in conference planning throughout the year. Coupled with Message continues on p.2 greater involvement by the Extended Executive Committee in conference planning, this approach has lessened some of Inside this Issue the burden on the Program Chair. Andy Stewart, our 1996 ...... Program Chair affirms that this approach has been New Award ...... 2 productive. Incredible Interdependence ...... 2 More Conference Information ...... 2 2) To es~ablishan ELD WWW Homepage. People & Places ...... 3 Thanks to the fine work of David Carter and Jim Ottaviani New Member Profile, New Publication ...... 3 we now have a web page which is accessible fiom the ASEE Annual Reports ...... 4-6 Homepage. Go to http://www.asee.org/asee/ Ei Village @ UMaine ...... 6 and look under "ASEE Divisions." Membership Directory Changes...... 7-9 Message continued ... Incredible Interdependence

continue this award as an annual event. The importance of Nearly all program arrangements for ASEE 1996- technical innovation, professional networking idthe Washington are complete. (Whew!!) I hope you have made exchange of ideas compels us to work harder to bring new . . . . ------. - . * + - - - - , . . . , . . - , - . . .arrangements10 takc full advantage of ,this year5 ronfe.rense. . librarians into ELD. Keep in mind for planning purposes that there isn't very much ffee time between ELD-sponsored or ELD-related Success on these objectives has been possible because of the sessions. Most of your sightseeing or touring will be done teamwork and commitment of our officers, committee either before Sunday or after Wednesday. members and general membership. We have done great things in the last year and our work has created the I want to highlight the ELD Annual Banquet. Session #274 1, opportunity for even more significant accomplishments. I one more time. The location, the Old Ebbia Grill, comes am very optimistic about the future when I consider the highly recommended. Be sure to register for this event, the increasing membership of the division and the fine group of social highlight of the ELD year. I am most appreciative of individuals who are currently active in ELD governance. It Sheila Curl's work with the restaurant to make our evening a has been a real honor to have held this position and a great memorable one! ! Thank you, Sheila! ! pleasure to have worked with all of you. I don't have sufficient space to list everyone here, but please Sincerely, also take a minute in Washington to thank your session Bob Schwanwalder, Chair, ASEEELD chairs and presenters for their efforts in preparing this year's Supervisor, Research Library & lnformation Services program. It is a lot of work with "fifteen minutes of fame" at Ford Motor Company the conference itself. Rest assured, everyone has worked diligently to bring **YOU** the best program possible. New Award Provides Conference Sponsorship I'm proud to let you know the May-June ASEE Prlsm contains an article about electronic publishing, along with a The Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society tie-in to the ELD Mini-Plenary Session. Moderator John for Engineering Education is pleased to announce that the Saylor has lined up three outstanding speakers. We hope to Ford Motor Company is sponsoring a new engineering attract many ASEE members from other divisions and librarian for attendance at the ASEE Annual Conference in increase awareness of the implications of shifts away from Washington D.C. June 23 (Sunday) - 26 (Wednesday): 1996. traditional print publication. Please talk this session up to ASEE members of other divisions from your campus. The sponsorship provides: conference registration, ASEE (Here's a panic-inducing factoid for program chairs: ASEE picnic, ELD dinner, PIC IV awards luncheon, and four nights staff is planning for 300 attendees at this session.) lodging in a University of Maryland--College Park dormitory Travel is not included. From the minimalist scratchings on poster paper to the pickiest details of room arrangements or hardware cabling, I The award will be judged based on the clarity and consistently receive positive responses both from ASEE originality of a two-hundred word essay describing the Headquarters staff and from you as ELD members. Steven mission and vision of librarianship in engineering education. Covey writes of three sequential levels of human interaction: Eligibility and application requirements were announced on dependence-- independence-- interdependence. As my year ELDNET-L and on the ELD Home page. as ELD Program Chair draws to a close, I want to emphasize this point: I have received an incredibly high level of The award winner will be expected to write a brief report of cooperation from everyone!! impressions and experiences of the conference. This report will be printed in the ELD newsletter and sent to the Ford This has been an invigorating, productive, and positive year. Motor Company. It has been an exhilarating ride, and I look forward to serving you as Division Chair The award will be announced on May 2 1 Sincerely, Paige Gibbs, Chair, Awards Committee Andy Stewart, Program Chair University of Missouri--Rolla I See D.C. and My Boss Thinks I'm Working More Conference Information (Ed. note--The following is an excerpt from a message lnformation for planning your free time at Conference in originally posted to ELDNET-L, not that recurring problem Washington D.C. and surrounds is available at with deja-vu!) http://poe.virginia.edu/-jfo/eIdmeet.htmI Thanks to Fred O'Bryant, our fun-loving and fearless 1 recently returned from an ACM Digital Librarias Membership Directory Editor! conference trip to D.C., during which I took the opportunity to scout our June ASEE conference location. I'd like to share . developent in engineering, computer and environmental my notes with you, in the hopes of giving you a glimpse of science. Jacqueline received her MLS from the University of what to expect, in addition to what you may have already Washington. read in the advance conference program and on our Web ,pages for ASEEFLD---- conference- -. info.- . Please . d~n't~forget- . -.to visit the I&& ASAP! 1) Conference locationhotel commentary People & Places The Sheraton Washington has more verbiage about it in the advance conference program than does the Omni Shoreham, Nancy Schiller, Engineering Librarian at the State so I thought I'd elaborate on the Omni. Both are older, University of New York at Buffalo, has received a grant elegant hotels. The Omni is the more elegant of the two, has fiom the SUNY OWce of Educational Technology to explore a pool as does the Sheraton, and two tennis courts. It is the feasibility of delivering library resources and services via around the comer from the Sheraton Washington, and less the Internet to students enrolled in distance education than a full block from the Woodley Park-Zoo (red line) programs in engineering and nursing. Using digitizing Metro stop. technologies and the hypertext linking and organizational capabilities of the World Wide Web, the UB Science and 2) Restaurants within one block of both hotels Engineering Library, the Science Library at Binghamton Dining choices at this venue are overwhelming. In addition University, and the Feinberg Library at SUNY Plattsburgh to the hotel restaurants, we will have a TON of choices will work together to develop a model system that will allow within arm's length ... And if you get tired of these options, them to explore issues related to providing access to online there's always the Cajun Bangkok restaurant in Old course-related materials and services in support of distance Alexandria for the bravest of us! education. The project builds on a prototype WWW service which, since the Fall of 1995, has been providing access to 1 searched the DC Dining Web page for "Connecticut course materials developed by instructors of distance Avenue" and looked at the 2600 block: education courses offered by the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The URL for the prototype system is Fortune Express http:Nwings.buffalo.edu~libraries/course/course.html. Hardee's Lebanese Taverna Restaurant (Middle Eastern Lebanese - - Don Richardson, at the Gordon Library, Worcester Mediterranean) Polytechnic Institute has started a subscription to the Pancia Gourmet (Chinese) Engineering Information Village with Compendex Web. Rajaj i Curry House (Indian) He'll be interested in talking with other folks at ASEE who Saigon Gourmet (Vietnamese) are using it too. Tandoor Taste of India (Indian) - Delivery by A La Carte Express Nestor Osorio, ScienceIEngineering Librarian from Thai Town Restaurant (Thai) Northern Illinois University chaired the session on Tucson Cantina (Southwestern American) Delivery by A - - "Emerging Technology" at the 1996 Illinois/Indiana ASEE La Carte Express Sectional Conference. The conference main topic was "Re- Woodley Cafe Engineering Engineering Education" and took place at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, March 22-23. At be Recommendations from one of the locals on her favorites in conference Nestor also presented a paper entitled: "An this area include Thai Town , Cafe Paradiso (not listed Assessment Model for Engineering and Technology above), and Dolce Finale as a great dessert place. Collections in The Nineties". Contact me privately if you have specific questions about Bob Schwarzwalder has been named as a member of the anything I've mentioned. There are several ELDers on the new Publications Advisory Board for the Society of east coast who know a lot more about D.C. than I ever will, Automotive Engineers. SAE is establishing this group to so speak up if you have questions they might be able to help obtain more customer feedback on their publishing process you answer! and to examine options for digital publication. SAE is the world's foremost publisher of technical automotive literature Hope this helps, and is a significant publisher of aerospace literature. Glee (Glee Willis, Chair, Membership Committee)

New Publication New Member Profile "ACRL Academic Science and Technology Libraries: Report Jacqueline Riley is the Information Services Librarian at the of a Survey" by Julie Hurd appeared in College and Oregon Institute of Technology Library in Klamath Falls. Research Libraries (March 1996) p. 144- 160. She has been at the library for almost 2 years, serving as spotted by Linda Musser, Penn State 3 Library Webmaster and subject specialist with collection . As predicted in last year's annual report, the total number of Annual Reports from Officers and ELDNET-L subscribers has definitely begun to plateau. One Committee Chairs, 1995-96 might think, on first examination, that ELDNET-L has added markedly fewer subscribers than in years past. That is not the case. While the rate of new subscribers may have fallen . . . . .Accreditation.and Standards. . - . _ _. - . . - ,-...-,. ..-.-.-. - .------.---.-- a bit, it is still fairly brisk. What we're seeing instead is: (I) an increase in the number of list subscribers with I have been investigating the possibility of having ELD peripheral interest in the list and its content who have chosen statistics included on ASEE's Dataworks CD-ROM. to remove themselves from the list, combined with (2) some Headquarters has been reviewing its own data collection effort on my part to clean old, incorrect, and duplicate methods. It has been working with advisory committees to addresses from the subscriber list. The result is a list of develop standard definitions of terms to help ensure data subscribers who are more centrally interested in the topics consistency. I hope to have more to report by June. and information available on ELDNET-L. Karen Andrews, Chair, Accreditation and Standards The number of messages posted to the list increased slightly Committee during the last year. It would appear that both the membership totals and the list traffic numbers are moving Archives toward an equilibrium, fiom which, neither total should vary noticeably either positively or negatively from year to year. The major acquisition this year was a collection of ELD However, I don't believe that point has yet been reached, and materials from Karen Andrews. think both totals will continue to show small increases for at least the next year. (Anyone have any ideas for celebrating Don Richardson, Archivist ELDNET-L's 500th subscriber, should we reach that total during the coming year?)

Awards It would appear that a number of new subscribers to ELDNET-L have, in turn, joined ASEE and ELD, as I hope The Awards committee did not receive any nominations for our Membership Committee Chair's new numbers will show. the Homer Bernhardt Award this year. The activity increases are posing no known monetary or other burdens to ELD, ELDNET-L, or myself. I recommend The Ford Motor company is sponsoring attendance for a that no efforts be made to constrain access to the list or to new engineering Iibrzirim 5.r t!!e !006 Anr102! Meetkg. A open hiowledge of ib existence. I'm pleased with the competition was established by the Awards Committee for number and mix of list subscribers; I hope that list traffic will this sponsorship. A~o~ncementSwere made on ELDNET-L continue to increase; and I hope that ELDNET-L, along with and the ELD home page. The awards committee will the new ELD Home Page, will continue to sway newcomers determine the recipient by May 2 1. The committee thanks to join ASEE and ELD! ELD chair Robert Schwamalder for obtaining this corporate support. Mel DeSart, ELDNET-L Editor

Paige Gibbs. Chair \ Literature Guides LISTSERV ELDNET-L Sheila Curl began her term as the new co-chair of the ELDNET-L is the ELD-sponsored electronic (listserv) subcommittee. Beth Brin, who became chair of the discussion list addressing issues related to or of interest to Publications Committee, edited one last guide, on Civil engineering and related subject area libraries and librarians. Engineering. Three new members joined us: Kelly Jordan, ELD members constitute the core of the list membership, Nancy Zachariassen, and Ann Ward. With their able and although subscription is open to anyone. much appreciated help we are currently reviewing five new guides, and hope to get them published by summer: ELDNET-L subscriber history: Aerospace Engineering, Applied Optics, Computer Graphics, Nuclear Engineering and Statistical Information for Start-up (August 199 1): 62 Engineers.

199 1/92 annual report: 1 19 The following Literature Guides have been assigned to compilers and are in various stages of completion: Electrical I992/93 annual report: 187 Engineering, Electrical Power Engineering, Environmental/ Pollution Engineering, Ergonomics, Metallurgical l993/94 annual report: 3 14 Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Transportation, and an update of Mechanical Engineering. 1 1994195 annual report: 436 I l995/96 (1 0 April 96): 477 We are seeking compilers for gu~deson the following topics: 1995/96 Membership Committee Members: Norma Automotive Engineering, Bioengineering, Hydraulic Godavari, Deborah Kegel, Fred O'Bryant, F. Orion Pozo, Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Robotics/Manufacturing, Gretchen Sneff, Jim Van Fleet, and Glee Willis. Statics and Applied Mechanics, Semiconductors, and Glee Willis, Chair, Membership Committee Superconductors.+ Suggestions for other topics are always ' .--- ... ..- .,. . - ...-.+ -----, . . . -~ ..----.,..-.. .*..-----..--.- welcome. Membership Directory Editor Godlind Johnson, Co-Chair. Subcommittee on Literature Guides The following are the actual costs for the 1995-1996 ASEE Engineering Libraries Division Membership Directory and ~esourceGuide: Membership Printing and Binding (200 copies) $470.5 1 As of April 1, 1996, the ELD roster fiom ASEE headquarters Mailing Envelopes 12.10 lists 173 members, an increase of 20 members hmthe same Domestic Postage 180.32 date last year. By June 30, the membership number is Overseas Postage (Surface and Air) 30.82 expected to top the 175 mark. This will be the third year in a row that we have added 20 more members to the ELD tally, Total Mailed 180 (161 US & 19 Foreign) and the most exciting part of all this, of course, is the global Total Cost: $693.75 representation of our membership. ELD now includes a very strong Canadian contingent (6% of our membership), as well The ELD continues to add new members throughout the as members in Finland, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, year, and I expect to mail an additional 15-20 copies of the New Zealand, and Portugal. Directory between now and the end of 1996. I would expect production and mailing costs for the 1996197 edition of the Deborah Kegel, Gretchen Sneff, and (soon) Jim Van Fleet Directory to be about the same as for this edition, barring continue their enormously popular inclusion of brief unforeseen changes in postal rates. biographies of new ELD members in the Division's newsletter. Fred O'Bryant produced a crisp, new printed In his 1994195 Annual Report, Directory Editor James Van 1995- 1996 ELD Membership Directory for distribution Fleet estimated that the next edition of the Membership to all members, and works tirelessly throughout the year to Directory might cost as much as $800 to produce. He was track all membership address changes to be reported to not far off in his estimate. I was able to reduce the domestic directory recipients via the newsletter. postage costs somewhat by usmg our library's bulk maii (library rate) permit, but postage was still a large factor in As of April 1st (314 of the way through the recruitment year), expenses, accounting for almost a third of the total. the Chair had mailed a total of 223 "Invitation to Join ELD" packets to prospective ELD members throughout the world. Although the ELD Membership Directory is a very usehl At the customary rate of 25 mailed per month, I estimate that document, it is a costly one for the Division to produce I the total for the full recruitment year (July-June) will be 300 would like to suggest for discussion possible ways for \ packets mailed. Follow-up letters have been sent to 12 reducing costs. First, eliminate the Job Descriptions and people whose ASEE memberships have lapsed since 1995, Duties and Bylaws portions of the document and supply and to six people who paid ASEE membership dues but these to new members as a separate booklet and only by neglected to pay ELD membership dues. request to others. Currently, this would save about $55 in printing costs per print run. Second, supply the Directory as This year the Chair launched a new, all-out "in-your-face" an unbound, three-hole-punched document which members bombardment on several online fronts to amact additional could bind or place in a notebook of their own choosing. new members. The newest of the recruitment strategies This would save about $140 per print run. Third, consider included: publicizing the distribution of the new membership producing the Directory every other year instead of annually. directory; publicizing contact info for membership in Loose-leaf supplements could be sent to members in the EVERY ELD conference announcement mailing; publicizing interim years to keep their Directory up to date. Finally, "the ELD conference experience" commentaries solicited consider going to a WWW-based Directory. I have seen from the ELD membership; and posting a "scouting report" such a directory for another organization which is password- about the upcoming conference site. Each of these efforts protected in such a way that members can update their own flushed out yet another handful of "lurkers" from ELDNET- entries but others cannot make changes to the database. I L or STS-L. l expect to see MANY new faces at the ELD have no cost figures at present for such a system but there are sessions in D.C., and predict an all-time high in ASEE considerations of providing server space and access for those conference attendance by the ELD membership. who have no InternetfWWW connections. I welcome discussion of these suggestions as well as other ways to keep The behind-the-scenes membership work is conducted our Directory cost-efficient without sacrificing its quality. smoothly thanks to the marvelous teamwork of the scouts/liaisons, the membership directory editor, the newsletter editor, the ELDNET-L moderator, the new member biographers, and the program chair. I apprec~atethe help and support of the ELD Extended . Civil Engineering I Executive Committee and the ELD membership in the Engineering Geology production of this year's Membership Directory. Integrated Circuits Materials Composites Fred O'Bryant, Membership Directory Editor . - . - . - - - - . - . - , ...... - , . . - . 1 - . - . . . . . - . . . . , - . - - - . . - Telecommunications Advanced Ceramics Union List (1992) Newsletter Artificial Intelligence TOTAL Four issues of the ASEEELD newsletter were produced and mailed. My institution supported duplication and paper One paper was submitted for publication in the proceedings. costs, so the only production costs to the organization were The paper was refereed and accepted for publication. The postage, which varied by issue due to size of issue and review timeline was changed to correspond with ASEE membership numbers at the time. Headquarters deadlines (publishing the proceedings on CD- ROM took more production time). September 1995 74.97 December 1995 121.93 An ELD Publications Web page was created with March 1996 63.39 information on the available publications. Webmaster David May 1996 (est.) 140.00 Carter html-ized the page (thank you David!) and a link was Total $400.29 also created from the ASEE Publications Page to the ELD Publications page. Newsletter issues were sent to David Carter, University of Michigan, who added them to our Web page. I thank all the Activities of the subcommittees are reported separately. members who contributed their ideas, enthusiasm and articles to the newsletter. It's a continuing adventure! Beth Brin. Publications Committee Chair

Dena Thomas, Editor Union List

Nominating The "Union List of Technical Reports, Standards and Patents in Engineering Libraries" (3rd ed.) is set to be published in This year the Nominating Committee, a.k.a, the California mid-1996. Response from contributing libraries was not as Mafia, consisted of Steve Gass (Stanford University), Christy heavy as we had hoped, with not all previous participants Hightower (University of California at San Diego), and Ann choosing to continue their participation. The adveniof Ward (California Polytechnic State University at Pomona). increased Internet access as well as holdings in OCLC and We are pleased to offer for your consideration Beth Brin for RLIN were cited among the reasons for non-participation. the position of Secretary1 Treasurer and Locke Morrisey for Nonetheless, there is a core of about 30 libraries which chose the position of Director. to share their holdings. Publication of the Union List was delayed until 1996 due to time constraints of the editor who Steve Gass, Nominating Committee Chair most sincerely apologizes for the delay.

Linda Musser, Editor, Union List Publications

The Engineering Libraries Division published the "Selective Engineering Information Village Guide to Literature on Civil Engineering" this year. This guide was advertised on several listsews. @ UMaine

Sales figures for the ELD publications ("Selective Guides to Engineering Information, Inc., publisher of Engineering the Literature on ..." and "Union List of Technical Reports, Index and other well known engineering reference tools, has Standards and Patents in Engineering Libraries") from expanded its services to the World Wide Web. Ei's October 1, 1995 through March 19, 1996 (arranged by date Engineering Information Village(tm) is a collection of free published) are: and fee-based services providing timely information of interest to engineering students, researchers and practicing professionals.

Ordinarily, an academic subscription to the Village could cost as much as $27,000 per year. However, Fogler Library, in cooperation with the six other New England land-grant institutions, has negotiated a four month trial subscription. 6 UMaine faculty, staff and students may access the Village seconds. Every transaction in Compendex Web is using a standard Web browser 6om any computer connected interrupted by Netscape's security warning alert. This - - to,theInternet via the campus network. -Access is restricted . -repetitive message,-whikrequ~esanadditional mouse click . . by IP address. to remove, can be turned off by deselecting the option in the warning window itself. With the exception of a few minor User feedback will be vital in determining whether or not typos and dead links Village maintenance is very good. access to the Village continues beyond the trial period. If successful, Ei Village will become one of several Web-based Michael White, University of Maine information services purchased by the New England land- grant university consortium. The Village's featured services are Tech Alert, Membership Directory Changes Spotlights and Compendex Web. Tech Alert is a limited database that includes the last two months of Ei Compendex and Ei Page One and the most recent three days of AP and The following names and addresses should be added to your Reuters news articles. Spotlights is a weekly literature alert copy of the ELD Membership Directory: service based on searches of Compendex Plus. Users can view summaries and citations of the most recent publications Anne M. Buck in more than 150 engineering and industrial topic areas. University Librarian California Institute of Technology Ei Compendex Web includes Compendex Plus from 1989 2254 Loma Vista \ to the present as well as Publications in Engineering (PIE). Pasadena, CA 9 1 104 There are two search options, Assisted and Expert. The first 8 18-395-6416 provides a step-by-step form for building searches using FAX: 8 18-792-7540 short descriptive phrases and is intended for users who are E-Mail: [email protected] not familiar with database searching. However, the form interface is long and difficult to follow. Novice searchers Kimberly D. Douglas may find it more frustrating to learn than the Expert Search Head, Technical Information Services system mode. Library System 1-32 Califomin Instiate ;f Techx!cgy Users familiar with database searching will have little Pasadena, CA 9 1 125 problem with the Expert Search interface. It is considerably 8 18-395-64 14 shorter than the Assisted Search (slightly more than two FAX: 8 18-792-7540 screens) and well-organized. Searchers may use keywords to E-Mail: [email protected] search the Basic Index (Title, Descriptors and Identifiers) or Title Words, Subjects, Authors and Serial Titles. The last Najwa L. Nabti Hanel four categories include alphabetical indexes that can be used Head, ReferenceIInformation Services to browse and paste terms into the search fields. Searches Science and Engineering Library can be limited by year or discipline. Boolean operators, e.g., University of Southern California AND, OR, NOT, and the proximity operators ADJ or W/x Los Angeles, CA 90089-048 1 can be used to link keywords. Search lines are limited to 65 2 13-740-44 19 characters. Brief but clear help pages explain how to search FAX: 2 13-740-0558 each field. Results are displayed by title, serial title, brief, E-Mail: [email protected] full or tagged record. Lizbeth Langston Ei Village collects and reviews lnternet resources of interest Reference Librarian to its users. The Editors Choice collection of 7,500 Sciences Division annotated engineering and related sites is well organized and Physical Sciences Library - 053 more informative than most laundry-list Web indexes. P.O. Box 5900 Additional document delivery services give subscribers the University of California-Riverside option to order articles online. Institutional subscribers may Riverside, CA 925 17-5900 block this function to prevent inadvertent ordering. 909-787-35 1 1 E-Mail: LANGSTON@UCRAC I .UCR.EDU Like all sites, access to Ei Village is subject to the vagaries of the Web. Speed and response delay is highly dependent Theresa S. Lee on time of day, network connection and type of computer. Engineering Librarian Generally, a 486 or better PC with a direct network Engineering Library connection delivers satisfactory performance. University of Michigan AM Arbor, MI 48 109-2 136 Though Ei Village uses graphics sparingly, moving from 3 13-763-4836 page to page can take more than one minute in peak hours. FAX: 3 13-764-4487 Early morning or evening use reduces such delays to a few E-Mail: [email protected] Walter W, Massie The following corrections should be made to your copy of Delft University of Technology the ELD Membership Directory: Offshore Engineering P. 0. Box 5048 Leroy Adarns has a new address: . . . Delft,%OQGa . . - . . . . . - . . . . . Box 5L8 . . - . .---. - .* .--.. THE NETHERLANDS Pomt Lookout. MO 65726 03 1-1 57-8461 E-Mail: [email protected] Bill Bartenbach Change job title to Managing Director, EI Europe Theresa Men Head Sheila Curl Mathematics Library Change job title to University Engineering Librarian 3 10 Vincent Hall Change telephone number to 2 19-63 1-6665 University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 Thomas DePetro 6 12-624-9395 Change telephone number to 3 16-689-3978 Ext. 5082 FAX: 612-624-4302 E-Mail: [email protected] Jefiey Dodd Change the underscore in E-mail address to a dash Brandon Muramatsu NEEDS Project Manager John Forys / Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Change the underscore in E-mail address to a dash University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 Steve Gass 510-643-1817 Change E-mail address to FAX: 5 10-643-1822 [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] Elaine Granatstein Cheryl Sirna Change E-mail address from NTORONTO to Student UTORONTO School of Information Science - - University of Michigall ~eliyJordan 413 E. Kingsley #3 Change job title to Engineering Reference Librarian Ann Arbor, MI 48 104 Change library name to Engineering Library 313-930-1612 Change address to University Park, PA 16802 E-Mail: [email protected] Change telephone number to 8 14-865-3700 Change ZIP code to 16802 Steven A. Stone Electronic Services Librarian Joseph R. Kraus Bradley University Library Remove the "e" from surname and E-mail address Bradley University Change FAX number to 703-993-2200 Peoria, IL 6 1625 309-677-2839 Charles R. Lord FAX: 309-677-2827 Remove "FH- 1 5" from library name E-Mail: [email protected] Add Box 352 170 to postal gddress Change ZIP code to read 98 195-2 170 Terry C. Wang Head Librarian Elinor A. Maze Science and Engineering Library Change mailing address to 8 173 W. Lake Creek Road University of Texas at Arlington Change ZIP code to 76682-3507 2004 Lake Country Drive Arlington, TX 760 12 Thomas E. Pinelli 8 17-274-7904 Change job title to Head, Visual Imaging Branch, lSSD FAX: 8 17-272-5803 E-Mail: [email protected] Last-Issue fiom Emerald Isle 1 Dana Roth Change E-mail address to [email protected] This is the last newsletter issue for this academic year. It is also the final issue !?om my sabbatical stay in Ireland. I am . Nan-ccy Schnlei ' - . . . ' . - - . . ------....- enjoyirig-meeting Irish libraiiani Md Itfamirig about theii ' Correct telephone number to read 7 16-645-2946 Ext. 225 viewpoints and professional concerns. 1 am also thoroughly Change E-mail address to enjoying meeting the Irish in general, who have such a warm [email protected] and 6iendly spirit. Dublin, with its vibrant theatre, art, and music scenes, is captivating. You may have heard there are Donna Swischer a fair number of pubs here, as well. I will miss the Change E-mail address to conference this year, but will think of you all. S [email protected] Cheers! AM Ward E-mail address should read CSUPOMONA without the Dena period Her library's Web page address is http://www.csupomona.edu~library

Anna WU Has changed jobs; correct entry to read:

Anna C. Wu Head of Public Services Seeley G. Mudd Library for Science and Engineering Northwestern University 2233 North Campus Drive Evanston, IL 60208-3530 847-49 1-29 10 FAX: 847-491 4655 E-mail: ANNA WU@N WU.EDU

IATUL in Irvine

The next meeting of the International Association of Technological University Libraries will be June 24-28. 1996 at the University of California, Irvine. The theme of the conference is "Networks, Networking, and Implications for Digital Libraries."

Please contact Julia Gelfand for information:

Julia Gelfand, IATUL 1996 Coordinator Science Library University of California, Iwine Irvine, CA 92713-9556 USA 7 14-824-3 1 14 (fax) 7 14-824-497 1 (phone) [email protected] Life is brighter after Guinness