ELD and IATUL – Collaborative Partnership Jay Bhatt IATUL liaison to ELD Drexel University

What is ELD? Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. 175 members; mostly academic engineering librarians. Promotes the library as an integral part of engineering education. Annual conference interact with engineering faculty learn about major issues and trends in engineering education share experiences about librarianship

What is ASEE? The American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education. ASEE is more than 12,000 deans, professors, instructors, students and industry representatives. ASEE: http://www.asee.org ELD: http://www.englib.cornell.edu/eld/

ASEE ELD Liaisons Program Increasing collaborative opportunities with related organizations Improving and increasing the visibility of ELD and its activities, and vice versa Improving awareness of issues and activities of importance to ELD or its members and communicating that information back to ELD

ASEE ELD Liaisons Program I am both ELD liaison to IATUL and IATUL’s liaison to ELD I will be taking IATUL’s ideas to ELD in Montreal in June

ELD Liaisons ACRL/STS ACS/Chem Info Division ASIS&T Association of College & Research Libraries, Science & Technology Section ACS/Chem Info Division American Chemical Society, Chemical Information Division ASIS&T American Society for Information Science & Technology

ELD Liaisons IFLA International Federation of Library Associations, Science & Technology Section Special Libraries Association Engineering Division Physics-Astronomy-Math Division Science and Technology Division SPARC Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition

ELD’s 24x7 Ref Task Force Investigate possibilities and problems associated with establishing an international network of engineering libraries Basic/core engineering reference services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week IATUL participation welcomed

Scholarly Communication- Kate Thomes (ELD SPARC Liaison) Looking at such questions as: How does scholarly communication function for engineers? What does it provide? Is there something in the culture of engineering that induces or inhibits participation in changing modes of scholarly communication? Are there any online engineering repositories currently?

Scholarly Communication Questions, continued: What benefit would engineers derive from an online repository? What changes other than online repositories might benefit engineering scholars? As engineering librarians, what are our concerns/perspectives relative to engineering scholarly communication? As engineering librarians, what is our role in facilitating changes? How can IATUL members bring insight to this group?

Other ELD activities JSTOR Task Force Investigating adding more engineering journals Mentoring Task Force Facilitate mentoring activities among ELD members. One of the goals is to create a database of information experts. Accreditation and Standards Committee Information Literacy guidelines and standards for engineering

Other ELD activities Literature Guides – Web based with potential links from Virtual libraries. For example, Selected Guide to the Literature on Industrial Ergonomics will be available soon. Union List of Technical Reports, Standards and Patents in Engineering Libraries ASEE ELD Web site http://www.englib.cornell.edu/eld/ Annual Conference

Opportunities for Collaboration Investigate other possibilities International adaptation of information competencies for engineers Virtual reference – 24x7 task force established. IATUL participation. Any ideas? Engineering books online – international publishers scene Engineering research modules Electronic thesis and dissertations Electronic journals Other ideas

Opportunities for Collaboration We have a lot in common Communicate, Collaborate and Co-operate – 3cs for participation ASEE ELD conference web site http://www.englib.cornell.edu/eld/conf/montrealprogram02.html

Contact me Jay Bhatt Information Services – Engineering Drexel University bhattjj@drexel.edu