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

Electronic reserves resolution passes

The Student Senate passed a resolution Wednesday that encourages professors to increase their use of electronic reserves in place of course packets, which spiked in price this year.

The resolution, presented by Senate Academic Affairs chair Carol Hendrickson and Fisher senator Stephen Bant, "respectfully encourages" professors to use electronic reserves instead of course packets "when it seems in the best interests of their students based on the price and convenience of the materials."

A similar resolution was presented to the Senate on Oct. 31 but failed to pass. High course packet prices have been discussed in the Senate over the past several weeks. Hendrickson and Bant conducted an e-mail survey of students last month and found that the majority of those who answered were unhappy with the higher prices of course packets.

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Electronic Reserves Service Survey

Engineering Faculty:

The Engineering Library would like to assess your interest in using our Electronic Reserves service (eReserves) as an alternative to traditional printed Course Packets to provide your students with journal articles or book chapters you feel are important teaching materials.

Our thinking includes the fact that course content is becoming less traditional in format and much more interdisciplinary, especially in the sciences and engineering. It may even be difficult for you to identify a textbook that covers all the important ideas that you want to impart to students via teaching materials for a course.

Students have expressed their dissatisfaction with paying Course Packet copyright fees. If you would elect to use the library's eReserves service, there is no cost to the student. The library arranges for copyright clearance and pays the copyright fees but it really is a totally different financial model. Thus we feel it is an opportune time for professors to consider using eReserves in place of Course Packets.

Briefly, eReserves is a password protected online service that allows students to access articles or book chapters any time via the internet. Access is controlled so that only currently enrolled students can use the classroom materials you have chosen so that copyright infringement does not occur. For more information about eReserves see:
http://www.library.nd.edu/reserves/ElectronicReserves.shtml

Just as an FYI, we will continue keeping Books on Reserve in the Engineering Library which students can check out for short time periods for your classes; that will not change.

At this point in time we need to estimate demand for eReserves in order to plan for costs and preparation time. If you would kindly answer the questions in this short survey, we will appreciate it very much!

Thanks so much for your participation in this survey! Please respond as soon as possible or by November 23rd.

Carol Brach

Here is the link to the survey:
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB227385V68HX