ELD and IATUL – Reflections from the Past and Vision for the Future Jay Bhatt IATUL liaison to ELD Drexel University

What are ASEE and ELD? The (ASEE) American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit member association, founded in 1893, dedicated to promoting and improving engineering and technology education. ASEE has more than 12,000 deans, professors, instructors, students and industry representatives. ELD is the Engineering Libraries Division of the ASEE. At present there are more than 185 members most of them are academic engineering librarians. Annual conference provides an excellent opportunity to interact with engineering faculty.

What is ELD? Provides an opportunity to share experiences about librarianship l l ELD is extremely dynamic, growth oriented, motivated and committed to instill professional values to the engineering librarianship Involved in the provision of library services and the development of innovative approaches to networking information services. ELD serves as a forum for engineers who believe that information access lies at the heart of engineering education

ASEE ELD Liaisons Program Representing the views of ELD to those other organizations; and Increasing collaborative opportunities with related organizations. Possible culmination projects among members of organizations Activities reported in the Newsletter Vladimir Borovansky –ELD Liaison to IATUL Jay Bhatt-IATUL Liaison to ELD For more information, see:

Vision for the Future IATUL members contribute at the ASEE conference Information Literacy - create Task Forces in ELD and IATUL; Chairs of the two Task Forces collaborate IATUL and ELD members jointly present at conferences or publish papers through collaborative partnerships New goals emerge as we grow together

Networking opportunities Both IATUL and ELD sessions provide ample opportunities for collaboration Science and and engineering information needs of users provide base for interaction globally Both organizations contribute towards this goal where information experts share and exchange ideas Members identify projects for collaboration

From Opportunities to Action Important to build on these opportunities Begin discussing projects based on mutual interest Challenging. How do we determine what is beneficial to both? Trial and Error. We must try. Presentations and publishing together Use , virtual chat, virtual conference, or create groups For example: Continuous Asynchronous Conferences Section of Drexel Univ’s Dspace 96

A successful example for collaboration-Gateways ViFaTec – The Engineering Subject Gateway, Martin Bomeke EEVL - Michael Breaks and Linda Kerr- OAI and Subject Gateway AVEL – David Radcliffe-Sustainability Knowledge Network is a portal and brokerage service for engineers.

A successful example for collaboration What next? How can all three Gateways come together and share their views to a setting where all engineering information professionals come together? What do we want to achieve? Interactivity with the audience? dialog? Why not try at ASEE – ELD Division Conference in 2003? ille03.html ille03.html Session: Using Web-based Engineering Information

A successful example for collaboration Planning to envision such a session began in August 2002 Contacts established, communication continued With active assistance from the ELD Program Chair, theme Web based engineering information gateways established Each presenter gets 15 minutes; Audience interacts with questions; possible panel discussion with John Saylor as the resident expert

A successful example for collaboration – OAI implications One of the aims of the Open Archives Initiative is to increase access to scholarly publications. What is the impact of OAI in their vision for gateways to increase access to scholarly publications? Why create ViFaTeC, EEVL or AVEL when Google seems to be the Default search engine? How do we motivate users to use engineering subject specific engines? Is it necessary? Our session at ASEE ELD will try to seek answers to such questions

Opportunities for Collaboration Lifelong Learning and how libraries can contribute towards this mission Institutional Repositories – Dspace type initiatives and think about sharing resources Web Gateways IATUL members collaborate with ELD members in the development of Digital Library initiatives. Scholarly Communication Electronic 24X7 – Continue to explore Electronic Archival Issues Education, Training and Mentoring

Future Directions Information Literacy Create Task Forces in ELD and IATUL; Chair of the two Task Forces collaborates for future ideas Joint Presentations and Publishing Write Joint papers, Collaborative presentations on such topics Continue to Create channels for exchanging ideas relevant to librarianship in technological universities Any other ideas? What is the next step? IATUL members discuss on IATUL listserv?

Future Directions Share and Exchange ideas both on ELDNET-L and IATUL-L To subscribe to ELDNET-L (Electronic Discussion List sponsored by ELD) send the message to SUBscribe eldnet-l Create a database of Information expertise of IATUL members; ELD is currently working on such a database. (To facilitate communication)

Our Contact Information Vladimir Borovansky Arizona State University Jay Bhatt Drexel University Please send your feedback, other ideas and suggestions to us.