The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is the No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Based in Washington, D.C., The Chronicle has more than 70 full-time writers and editors, as well as 17 foreign correspondents positioned around the world.

Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

The Chronicle's audited Web-site traffic is routinely more than 12 million pages a month, seen by more than one million unique visitors.

The Chronicle is a nine-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, and one of its columnists was a finalist for a 2005 Pulitzer Prize. The Chronicle has also received honors from the Education Writers Association, the Society of News Design, the EPpy Awards, and the Webby Awards, among others. (See http://chronicle.com.lib-proxy.nd.edu/awards for a complete listing.) In 2007 The Chronicle was ranked in the top 10 of most credible news sources by Erdos & Morgan, a widely used survey of thought leaders in the United States. The Utne Reader that year named The Chronicle for "best political coverage" among independent newspapers.

Engineering Library Open House

Help us to celebrate!

"Engineers Make a World of Difference"
at the Engineering Library Open House!

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2 - 4 pm
Location: 149 Fitzpatrick Hall

Join us for food, punch, and lots of free stuff!
Enter our 2nd Annual Trivia Contest for chances to win valuable prizes.

Hope to see you there!

Carol Brach for the Engineering Library Staff

Safari Books Online

We are pleased to announce that the library has a trial available for
Safari Books Online, until January 31. Safari includes a technology
books from O'Reilly, Addison-Wesley, Sams, Prentice Hall, Que, Cisco
Press, Microsoft Press, Peachpit Press, John Wiley & Sons, New Riders
Publishing, Course Technology, IBM Press, Macromedia and Adobe Press.

Please note that if we do subscribe to Safari, the subscription would be
for selected titles, not the entire service.

Try it out, and let us know what you think!

http://engineering.library.nd.edu/protected/Safari.shtml

Thank you,

Aaron Bales
Assistant Engineering Librarian

The passing of Frank Eck

By:	Dennis K. Brown
Date:	December 13, 2007

Frank E. Eck, a University of Notre Dame alumnus, benefactor and advisor, died today (Dec. 13) in Columbus, Ohio, of complications from open heart surgery. He was 84.

"Frank was a tremendously generous man – with his time, counsel and resources – and we join with his family and many friends in mourning his death,” said Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., Notre Dame’s president. “Frank’s wonderful spirit, wide smile and boundless enthusiasm will be missed.”

A 1944 graduate of Notre Dame, Eck was chairman of Advanced Drainage Systems (ADS) of Columbus. He earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and had served on the College of Engineering Advisory Council since 1984.

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Course Reading Materials - Open Sessions

In response to recent concerns surrounding course reading materials, the University Libraries in cooperation with the Kaneb Center is offering a series of short (30 min.) presentations covering our course reading materials services and how they can support your pedagogical goals while reducing costs for your students. We will demonstrate library services (such as electronic reserves, custom created pages of library resources, and direct links to electronic journal articles), how to take advantage of these services, and then how to integrate them into your course presentation methods such as Concourse, web pages, email, etc.

Some highlights of what will be covered:

1. Electronic Reserves - a service where the library digitizes and links to content we subscribe to based on faculty selected readings.
2. Online Resources - custom created web pages of resources relevant to your courses, direct links to online articles, etc.
3. Getting Your Students to the Materials - integrating our services in Concourse, email, or other methods you use for course material distribution.
4. How to Request Customized Services from the Libraries

Dates and times are as follows:

123 Nieuwland Hall
December 12, 2007 2pm

Montgomery Auditorium, LaFortune Student Center
December 13, 2007 10am
December 17, 2007 4pm

131 Decio Hall
December 13, 2007 3pm

121 Mendoza College of Business
December 17, 2007 10am

210 Debartolo Hall
December 18, 2007 10am

Wiley InterScience Reference Works

The Engineering Library is pleased to provide The College of Engineering students and faculty with online access to a selection of major reference works from Wiley. Please visit the library's online catalog to see the full list of titles available, or click on www.interscience.wiley.com.

Wiley InterScience Major Reference Works (interscience.wiley.com/reference) are fully searchable—search the text for a phrase, article title, or keyword, browse the alphabetical and subject lists of articles, or widen your search across all content on Wiley InterScience. Articles can be viewed, downloaded, and printed in HTML or PDF format (in most cases). Where available, references link to cited articles in PubMed (Medline), ISI, CAS and in other journals through CrossRef.

Reference Works available from Wiley include titles in the following subject areas:

• Life Sciences
• Medicine and Healthcare
• Mathematics and Statistics
• Chemistry
• Engineering
• Psychology
• Physics and Astronomy
• Earth and Environmental Science
• Polymers and Materials Science
• Computer Science

To view a complete list of titles, visit interscience.wiley.com/reference.

For more information on the Library and accessing online reference works, please contact engrlib.1@nd.edu

Leaders on the Football Field from the College of Engineering.

2007-2008 Band Officers from the College of Engineering.

Claire Wagner

President
Level: Senior
Instrument: Falto
Major: Mechanical Engineering

Peter Brandt

Social Chair
Level: Junior
Instrument: Falto
Major: Aerospace Engineering

Kristy Schlueter

Parliamentarian
Level: Senior
Instrument: Falto
Major: Aerospace Engineering

Drum Majors

Ryan Bailey

Drum Major
Level: Senior
Instrument: Baritone
Major: Electircal Engineering

Christine Loza

Assistant Drum Major
Level: Senior
Instrument: Clarinet
Major: Chemical Engineering