UW Engineering Library Collection

Handbooks, Directories, and More Fun Things...

This page was originally going to be devoted entirely to handbooks and directories, which are also a highly used set of resources, and are most often used by students. Instead, the space devoted to them will be brief since there is not as much to say about them.

As reference resources, they are highly used for information related to "diagrams, statistics, charts, tables..." These are most often requested when students are doing a class project and are interested in finding out some specific properties information. This information can also be found in some online collection of handbooks/general reference specific to the Engineering field, such as KNOVEL and ENGnetBASE.

For a more definitive web site on reference training at the UW Engineering Library, visit Information Services Librarian, Julie Cook's website, where she has practice questions, the current reference manual in PDF format, as well as a Power Point session on reference training at the Engineering Library. Instruction Services Librarian, Linda Whang was kind enough to let me teach a couple research workshops to students in technical communications courses taken by all engineering majors. Visit Linda Whang's website, where you will find the type of resources Linda teaches to students in these sessions. In addition, you may view some of the one-time, drop-in courses offered at the Engineering Library.

Here are a couple of fun links (and link to links, actually) courtesy of the librarians I work with Wacky World of Patents and one about inventing.

Citations and Reference Sources

The content in this site is based entirely on the following sources as well as my limited experience at the library, but most importantly, the librarians I work with at the UW Engineering Library.

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