This is the first of a series of summaries of the Engineering Libraries Division sessions at the recently completed American Society for Engineering Education conference. What follows is Jim's summary of the Get Acquainted Session, traditionally ELD's opening session of the conference. Because of the structure of the session and the sheer volume of information offered by the 50+ people present, please be aware that not every little detail may be exactly correct, and that this summary will doubtless be one of the longest you'll see. Jim's fingers were almost smoking from keying notes into his laptop, and the laptop's battery (and maybe Jim's?) were both running low before the session was done. Any names or other information Jim was unsure of are listed in brackets in the text below.

Tom de Petro

Wichita State

Working on guide to aerospace literature, using a software package called Papyrus, which he has found very useful. Requests that we (ELD) take a look at our role in the Virtual Engineering Library. He has an article in an upcoming issue of Science and Technology Libraries. Ruth Seidman at MIT is the editor and is accepting articles.

Gene Alloway

University of Michigan

Here to represent the UM Digital Library Project (sponsored by NSF/ARPA/NASA). He currently does work on the interface, and is also adding collections (including non-Internet/non-public domain materials). More details to follow in a later session.

Bob Chang

University of Arizona

Restructuring the entire library (personnel-wise) through a strategic planning process. U of AZ is also beginning to work with/under an annual planning cycle.

Dena Thomas

University of New Mexico

"Holding the line." so not a lot of new projects are underway. U of NM is working with less staff, searching for a director. State legislators are starting to support education and libraries, so bond money is arriving which has allowed them to work on the book collection.

Jill Powell

Cornell

Will describe the ICE Project in detail in a later session. Their WWW service is generating a lot of interest, and they are teaching html authoring to classes that have waiting lists for entry.

Donna Swischer

Linda Hall Library

The engineering collections are still arriving at the library from the old Engineering Societies Library. All expected to arrive by September (?). An online system is up, and a WWW page is in the offing.

Lisa [Emer?]

Taylor & Francis

Here representing the company. Her position is "Engineering Acquisitions Editor".

Andy Stewart

University of Missouri, Rolla

The U of MO system is switching from local cataloging and to a III system. Also converting government documents and cataloging them as well. The budget picture looks good.

Fred O'Bryant

University of Virginia

Their WWW project has taken a lot of time.They're going public in August. They have a new electronic classroom in the library, using it to teach using electronic services. The library is changing from NOTIS to "something else".

Glee Willis

University of Nevada-Reno

With a new building coming up, she is involved in re-planning the space, using a 3-D program to help visualize this. Mixed feelings on combining 2 libraries.

Paige Gibbs

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Announced that the Homer Bernhardt award is being given to Clifford Lynch later at the conference. Working with the Boston Library Consortium -- they are trying to build/become a state university system. Her poster session will address teaching faculty use of information resources.

Ann Ward

Cal Poly-Pomona

The engineering library and services for it work within a general library setting. The budget is still bad. They are putting together an interactive electronic classroom, and are getting ready to (have already?) put up some Wilson databases on their OPAC.

Don Richardson

WPI

A lot of effort going into web related resources with a goal of creating a campus-wide system. The library homepage has been one of his focuses, and training has taken up much additional time -- again, classes are oversubscribed.They also have a new president.

Locke Morrisey

University of California-Irvine

They have just finished and moved into a new (award-winning) science library. The university will soon appear in People magazine regarding some improrieties at their fertility clinic. Building and adding to their WWW pages, and also working on team building.

Karen Greig

Stanford

Reengineering technical services and moving from a mainframe to a client-server architecture. They are evaluating the Sirsi system, and working on keeping up with the web explosion.

Karen Andrews

UCLA

Karen is now head of reference and circulation. The library is moving to client-server architecture. A debate is underway as to whether the engineering web pages should have the same look & feel as the main library. During the poster session, she will present the survey data compiled from ELD responses. Moving to UC-Davis in the fall.

Patsy Hulse

University of Auckland, New Zealand!

Working on CD-ROM networking. They too are looking to change from a NOTIS system to something else.

Kate Herzog

Freelance Engineering Librarian

Will present information on serials at a later session.

Lizbeth Langston

University of California-Riverside

Has openings, and copies of the position descriptions. A new science library is coming up, and their engineering programs have started graduating people. They too are working on the WWW.

Godlind Johnson

SUNY-Stonybrook

The budget picture is bad. Working with "Engine-Net" to do distance teaching and pooling of teaching resources -- moving from videotaping to real-time interactive video. They are also getting new equipment (public workstations) but no technical support. Removing books, as well.

Bonnie Stableford

University of British Columbia

Undergoing a systems reassessment, and plan to have a new system by Sept. '96. A new library building is coming in at the same time. They are canceling serials, consulting on collection policy -- faculty are looking at and asking for interdisciplinary collections. Adding Georef remotely, Ei via Citadel. They are restructuring the library (organizationally?). End-users can submit their own ILL electronically using a package called Pegasus, which works well). IPO is on its way. There will be a vacancy there soon, too.

Beth Brin

University of Arizona

They have recently added 4 new librarians, and will soon hire two more sci-tech people. Completed a needs assessment survey to find out about customer desires. Have moved from IHS on fiche to CD-ROM. Developing an "information commons". Working to improve ILL, reserves, and reshelving. Also looking at outsourcing in technical services.

Jean Whelan

University of Colorado-Boulder

Migrating (actually a long march) from CARL to Innovative Interfaces Inc. -- clean-up is immense! Concerns include how to pay for it. Looking at front ends and searching interfaces. The University of Denver library school is returning, and appears to intend to serve commuter students. Their FirstSearch system is now up and running. They are experimenting with ILL online.

Flossie Wise

University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Engineering works out of a central reference library -- engineering does not predominate the work. Moving from GEAC to Sirsi, up and running in January. They have their CD-ROMs on an server. They are working towards full Internet access for the public. Their TULIP project is not delivering full images to the desktop -- doing table of contents and abstracts. Creating a library-wide conspectus, and doing a lot of weeding. Newer instructional programs for undergraduates are designed to make them information literate. They now have a librarian in the computer center [Jose-Marie Griffiths].

Ron Rodrigues

Knight-Ridder (DIALOG)

New job -- he is no longer with customer services, now senior staff consultant. Their new science marketing strategist is a PhD biologist. He will present ScienceBase information at the poster session. Also touting Probase, (a European product) which supports full boolean, and their Expressnet product for image delivery.

Katalin Harkanyi

San Diego State University

SDSU is having budget problems, haven't subscribed to new journals in years. Working on web page design.

Mike Reid

Knight-Ridder

In charge of CD-ROM [product development? Marketing? Science and technology?] He's interested in knowing whether the CDs should be online analogs or should they be actual slices of the literature sold directly to end-users?

Lucille Wert

Emeritus Professor

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

A past ELD member, currently on editorial board of ACS's "Chemtech". She is advising on pricing, and looking for manuscripts on improving access to information.

Alan Gould

University of Nebraska

Has had success with joint funding on some projects (adding Mathsci, purchasing automated patent systems). Has dropped a couple CD-ROM titles and recently undergone a 17% cut in serials -- 24% next year.

Vladimir Borovansky

Arizona State University

They are now doing collection development in support of strategic planning. They too are shopping for a new OPAC. They also have a new homepage and an automated patent system (the cost picked up by Motorola).

Deborah Kegel

University of California-San Diego

Discussed the UC IEEE project -- trying to load in full image of CDs off of IPO disks. They are looking to have three years up by the end of the summer. More shared decision making training going on here as well. They now have a cluster system for science libraries. Doing ILL via the WWW, also working on Ariel to make it deliver to professor's desktops. They have recently resumed 7 day library hours.

Kim Douglas

Caltech

They have a new director, and are building a new library.

Nancy [Zacariasin?]

Caltech

Finding out that web pages are not a thing you start and finish... Caltech is getting started on participating in digital library projects.

Sharon Gause

University of Colorado-Boulder

Working on building gateways to as many networks as they can. All of Colorado is now connected electronically. Working with the engineering departments, they are teaching how to find information rather than play on the Internet. Staff remains the same while use goes up.

Christina Byrne

University of Washington (Seattle)

Their renovation is completed and they have opened a new electronic classroom. Staff is a bit down, but new equipment is coming in. They have a new article delivery project underway and are balancing network/CD/Z39.50/whatever other protocols.

Carol Salomon

Cooper Union

Gave a background of the school, which grants degrees in studio art, architecture, and engineering. They have ~1000 students, 600 of whom are engineers. The architects don't talk to the engineers... They are moving to a GEAC system, and have fiber optic line(s) coming in to the library.

Christy Hightower

University of California-San Diego

An H-P grant to equip their electronic information center, and have done a case study for HP as well. They brought up their own web site, and used it for integrating teaching with the web with the library. Compendex coming up on their III opac. They are also a TULIP site -- TULIP is probably ending at the UC system as a whole, though a few campuses may continue.

Dorothy Byers

University of Cincinnati

They have a math and computer science library. The collections budget has taken a beating -- they have moved to BNA. They are moving into document delivery using Ohiolink (uses III). Delivery works pretty well, and they use Uncover heavily. They are contracting out to run G.E.'s library. They are also involved in web work.

Sheila Curl

Notre Dame

$3.9 million are being added to the library's (as a whole) base. They are now adding 2nd hand 486 machines and replacing their NOTIS system.

Charlotte Erdmann

Purdue

Teams are looking at a replacement for their OVID Tech. system. (They have recently added Medline and Current Contents to it.) A new undergraduate teaching classroom has been added, and new Pentium workstations are on the library floor. Some web development underway, and they have added some new staff.

Anna Wu

Purdue

Conducting a nationwide search for a new head of the library. A big weeding project is coming up.

Claire Swanson

Georgia Tech

The campus, part of the Olympic Village, is having/anticipating some security problems. They are sharing networked information across the state.

Carol Reese

ASCE

Manager for information projects. ASCE now has all 22 of their journals on CD, full-text, fully indexed. The society now has a press division.

Steve Gass

Stanford

Thanked the membership for the unanimous vote on the budget. Stanford's libraries & academic resources and information technology divisions have split, after a recent merger. They are moving the major databases off of the mainframe and looking to migrate away from NOTIS. They received a 6% budget increase. The library is now producing the Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC) along with the society that published it. Noted that NASA Recon on the net has full coverage back to the 1960's -- it covers both STAR and IAA information.

Jay Waddell

Cal-Poly San Luis Obispo

Continuing to de-emphasize CDs based on a long-time policy decision. They have campus-only access to most of their electronic information.

Mel DeSart

University of Kansas

15% journal cut this year. An RFP for the new online system went out this year. The 5 Regent's Libraries in Kansas are participating in SWAP (a System-Wide Access Project) that will bring some common database access to all 5 institutions.

Tom Volkening

Michigan State University

The library now reports to the Vice-Provost of Computing and Technology. A private law school is coming on to campus. Will present information about a new manufacturing coalition at the poster session -- a TRP project to support development and cataloging of internet manufacturing resources. ILL is now an end-user system at MSU.

Cecilia Mullen

San Jose State

Has created a computer-aided instruction package which describes 145 resources, hypertextually linked, on a workstation. Working on a 5-10 year plan on information for engineers -- still no long-term plan in the works. The budget picture is not good. The library has a used book store and is using it to make some money, though it requires a lot of staff to operate.

Bob Schwarzwalder

Ford Motor Co.

The Technophile column (in Database) has been extended to a monthly. Ford is moving fast, and has added 3 new staff and a new liaison. Their web site will come up in early July -- it will only be available to Ford employees, and will track queries and work flow of information requests. Ford is also working on TULIP, and also on a UMI product called ProQuest Direct. They are looking to use a non-MARC OPAC.

Mike White

University of Maine

They have been a PTDL since 12/93, and are the site for the entire state. They have new remote sensing and GIS databases under development. The library is leading a university-wide team on developing web pages for the Maine system. They are also active in teaching internet classes.

Jim Ottaviani

University of Michigan

ITIC (Integrated Instruction Technology Center) construction is proceeding. Moving planned for December 1995, opening for January 1996. The Engineering Library will combine with Art & Architecture and the Computer Aided Engineering Network. UM is moving TULIP from experimental to production mode -- budgeting accordingly. Also preparing to experiment with real-time video reference delivered over the Internet, and exploring the feasibility of purchasing and delivering full text of U.S. patents. Their web site has been public for most of the year, and they continue to build on it.