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Engineering Libraries American Society for Engineering Education Naney Schiller, Ediir March- 3 993 Science & Engineering Library, SUNY-Buffalo 7 16-045-2946 Fax: 7 16-645-371 0 sfenancy@ubvm. bitnet Message from the Chair Have all of you reviewed the Conference Information1 opportunity to remember that "America" is a continental Registration booklet that arrived with the February appellation too. m? Cecilia Mullen has provided us with a very engaging program. In addition to technical sessions, Until May, business meeting, and dinner, our Division is sponsoring a workshop. Alan Gould, ELD member, will conduct a --Paige Gibbs, Engineering Libraries Division Chair program "Information Retrieval for Engineering UMASS Dartmouth Library Educators" on Wednesday, June 23. Please encourage North Dartmouth, MA 02747 your faculty colleagues to attend this helpful, interactive e: [email protected] presentation. v: (508) 999-8886 f: (5081 996-9759 It seems as if no sooner do we get something new than we have to try it out. The Publications Committee has a new agreement with ASEE and immediately two And a Note from the Editor publications appear. I know my appreciation of everyone involved is heartily seconded by the entire Division. We To All Division Officers and Committee Chairs: April 16, have a year-old ELDNET-L and now our Membership 1993, is the deadline for submissions to the May 1993 Directory is available electronically as well as in paper. issue of the ELD Newsletter. This year we are going to Thanks to Jim Van Fleet, Membership Directory Editor, try something new. Instead of printing the Division for this most successful effort. The new directory annual reports in the September issue of the newsletter, testifies to the difference a few years and technology we will print them in the May issue, in advance of the can make. Most of our members now have electronic annual conference, so that the business meeting can be mail addresses. expedited (and we can get to dinner on time!). All officers and committee chairs are asked to limit their New publications are not confined to our division. By annual reports to 300 words, if possible, and to have now we should all have received' ASEE's new serial, them in by the April 16th deadline. Thank you. Journal of Enaineerina Education, our society's juried journal. Long and prosperously may it be published. --NancySchillw, ELD Newsletter Editor Just because we have something new doesn't have to What's Inside ... mean it is published. We have a new site for the 1994 Call for Nominations for ELD Officers ......... 2 conference. Carole Goodson, PIC IV Chair, has sent Centennial Conference News ............... 2 word that the site has been changed from the previously ELD Committee Reports .................. 5 announced location to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Liz Update on Duplicates Exchange ............. 6 Watson, ELD member and librarian at the University of People & Places ........................ 6 Calgary, is looking forward to having the conference in ASEE Midwest Section Meeting ............. 7 her "back yard." With this location we have an Corrections to ELD Membership Directory ...... 8 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter March 1993 before May 15, 1993, but I would advise you to send it Call for Nominations in before that1 for ELD Officers If you have not attended one of our Annual Conferences, the 1993 Annual Conference at University of Illinois will The ELD Nominating Committee would like to receive be an exciting one to start with. Not only is University nominations from the membership for the offices of ELD of Illinois a big draw in terms of their exciting facility SecretaryKreasurer and ELD Director. Please submit the (and new Engineering Library, which we may be able to names of possible nominees to any member of the tromp through as an "extra event," provided committee by March 31, 1993. Committee members construction is well enough along), but this years marks are: Kate Henog, (716) 645-2756, [email protected]. the centennial celebration of ASEE and special events are buffalo.edu; Karen Andrews, (310) 825-3983, karen@ being planned by the host university. ELD is also making cs.ucla.edu; and Jay Waddell, (805) 756-2642, du378@ plans even as you read this for some additional extra- oasis.calpoly.edu. The names of the candidates will be curricular events in addition to those items listed in the published in the May issue of the ELD Newsletter. At conference pamphlet. the ELD business meeting at the ASEE Annual Conference in June, nominations also will be accepted The first session you will want to be sure to attend is the from the floor. first meal event, Session 0700, which is the Centennial Picnic and Street Fair. ELD members try to meet here, The core ELD Executive Committee consists of the Chair and Glee Willis and her Committee will let you all know of the Division; the Program Chair; the Secretary1 what color balloons and banners will mark the ELD spot. Treasurer; and two Directors serving alternating two-year The picnic is on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. and terms. Being an officer in ELD is a very positive and really kicks off our conference. New and old time enjoyable growth experience. It is interesting and members will be at this session, so we want to see all of challenging, and brings considerable satisfaction. We you there. look forward to hearing from you. In addition to our own ELD technical sessions, check out --Jay Wadddl, ELD Nominating Committee Chair sessions sponsored by other divisions--all sessions are open to all attendees, unless otherwise noted. 1993 ASEE Centennial Hope to see old and new faces in June--if you have questions, give me a call (4081 924-2813 or on e-mail at Conference News mullen@SJSUVM1 .bitnet. Ijust want to remind ELD members to take a look at your --Cecilia Mullen, ELD Program Chair ASEE Prism package for February 1993 (you say you got yours a long time ago--well, mine seems to be lost in P.S. Several of our ELD sessions will be of interest to Alaska!). The advance notice for the Annual Conference your Engineering Faculty, so talk them up. Find out is included in the mailing. Registration forms start on which faculty are going and encourage them to page 37. ELD programs are listed on page 22 (but one attend--e.g., the workshop, Session 3441, on page 12 session has been omitted in this brief list--Session 3441, is just for them (of course, librarians are invited too)! Information Retrieval for Engineering Educators, on June 23, 1993, 12:30-2:00 p.m. It is listed on page 12 (I'm ON LOCATION IN CHAMPAIGN-URBANA not quite sure why!). Also please note the sessions with meals: of course, our annual dinner (Session 2741, From Between the Ears listed on page 33) and the ELD extended Executive (mine, as well as the cornfields') Committee meeting, listed on page 34. In the last issue of the Newsletter, I covered conference Iencourage you to pin your conference pamphlet to your travel and accommodations for the June 1993 ASEE mirrorldoor, etc., so as not to let the early bird Annual Conference, and provided a brief overview of registration date slip by. Early bird registration means Urbana-Champaign and the University. In this March 1993 Engineering Libraries Division Newsletter installment, I want to cover some of the places of flower gardens, greenhouses, and sculptured hedges. interest that you might want to consider visiting while The estate, house, and grounds are the former residence here this summer. of Robert Allerton, who donated them to the University in 1946. The park is open daily to the public with picnic BUT FIRST ....two updates related to travel and sites and miles of riverside and highland trails. The paths accommodations. offer excellent self-guided hiking. (There are lots of parks in Champaign, Urbana, and the surrounding area, 1. For those of you interested in staying in the dorms but Allerton puts them all to shame. A beautiful place.) (either the private variety such as Hendrick House or in one of the University dorms), please see page 8 in the Rockome Gardens - 35 miles SW of CU (C). Admission information/registration booklet that accompanied your charge. February issue of Prism. Buried in the middle of the third Located in the heart of the Illinois Amish country, the column are the phone number and contact people for Gardens feature beautifully landscaped gardens and making dorm reservations. If you talk to Joan some of the most unique rockwork in the state. Visit a Chenoweth (short Es, long 0, accent on the Chen), recreated frontier village with several specialty shops and congratulate her on her recent engagement (that'll weird a gift shop featuring items made by the Rockome her out but good). Gardens Craft Guild. 2. For you flyers: Air Wisconsin, which flew commuter MUSEUMS flights into CU under the United Express banner, has pulled out of the local airport. There is no longer a Champaign County Historical Archives (W,B,C) Free! connection into Champaign on United Airlines. That cuts your airline choices back to TWA through St. Louis, Champaign County Historical Museum (B,C) Admission USAir through Indianapolis, and American through charge. Chicago or Nashville. One good thing to come from this: with United's departure (if you'll pardon the pun) from the Champaign to Chicago run, American has agreed to Krannert Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion (W,B) Free! fly a larger plane into Champaign on possibly ALL of their The second-largest museum in Illinois displays a superb six daily flights from Chicago (this will NOT effect the collection including Old Masters, Oriental works, modern Nashville connecting flights).