ELD and IATUL

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ELD and IATUL Collaborative Partnership

• Jay Bhatt
• IATUL liaison to ELDDrexel University

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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

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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/

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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

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ASEE ELD Liaisons Program

• I am both ELD liaison to IATUL and IATULs
  liaison to ELD
• I will be taking IATULs ideas to ELD in Montreal
  in June

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ELD Liaisons

• ACRL/STS
• Association of College Research Libraries,
  Science Technology Section
• ACS/Chem Info Division
• American Chemical Society, Chemical Information
  Division
• ASIST
• American Society for Information Science
  Technology

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ELD Liaisons

• IFLAInternational 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

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ELDs 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

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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?

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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?

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Other ELD activities

• JSTOR Task ForceInvestigating 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 CommitteeInformation
  Literacy guidelines and standards for engineering

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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 sitehttp//www.englib.cornell.edu/el
  d/
• Annual Conference

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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

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Opportunities for Collaboration

• We have a lot in common
• Communicate, Collaborate and Co-operate 3cs for
  participation
• ASEE ELD conference web sitehttp//www.englib.cor
  nell.edu/eld/conf/montrealprogram02.html

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Contact me

• Jay Bhatt
• Information Services Engineering
• Drexel University
• bhattjj_at_drexel.edu