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