Engineering Librarian Groups

You may want to check out sites of other interest groups:

E-group for Engineering College Librarians
http://krmulla.blogspot.com/2008/03/engg-lib-forum-e-group-for-engineering.html

EngLib for the Scitech Librarian
http://englib.info/

Science and Engineering Academic Librarians
http://www.carl-acrl.org/ig/seals/

Ontario Engineering Librarians’ Interest Group
http://library.queensu.ca/blog/englib/

If you know of any others - post them on the blog!

ALIA Education and Workforce Summit 2008

At the last ACCESS Group meeting, Jenny Hale spoke about the ALIA Education and Workforce Summit she attended at the State Library of Victoria on Friday 28 March 2008.

The link for the Education and Workforce summit is : http://www.alia.org.au/education/summit08/.

This page contains the original submissions plus the interim report.

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http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/

Bentham OPEN

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http://www.bentham.org/open/index.htm

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RESCHEDULED: ACCESS Group Meeting - May

The ACCESS Group meeting scheduled for the 17 April has been postponed. The meeting will now be held on Tuesday 6 May, 12pm-2pm.

Bronwyn Hicks will be hosting the meeting at Brisbane City Council.

Bronwyn has suggested that we contribute a few dollars each (probably under $5) and she will organise for sandwiches and juice to be provided. Money will be collected on the day. We can have lunch / discussion at the start and following that look at the collection area.

Street address:
South TowerGreen Square
505 St Paul's Terrace
Fortitude Valley

Those attending the meeting are asked to meet in the Constance Street foyer. We will need to sign in at the Reception and be escorted to the meeting room.

Please RSVP to Loretta Atkinson if you would like to attend by the 2 May. Also please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting.

ACCESS Group Meeting - April

The next ACCESS Group meeting will be held on the 17 April, 12pm-2pm. Bronwyn Hicks has kindly offered to host the meeting at Brisbane City Council.

Bronwyn has suggested that we contribute a few dollars each (probably under $5) and she will organise for sandwiches and juice to be provided. We can have lunch / discussion at the start and following that look at the collection area.

Street address:
South Tower
Green Square
505 St Paul's Terrace
Fortitude Valley

Those attending the meeting are asked to meet in the Constance Street foyer. We will need to sign in at the Reception and be escorted to the meeting room.

Please RSVP to Loretta Atkinson if you would like to attend by the 14 April. Also please let me know if there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting.

Engineering Education Futures Forum

At the last ACCESS meeting Jocelyne Poirier informed us of the Engineering Education Futures Forum. The Forum will start on the evening of the 25 March and will conclude on the 28 March.

The aim of the Forum is:
- to bring together a group of key national and international engineering education stakeholders to consider the nature of engineering and engineering education in the 2015-2020 window.
- to present a series of wide-ranging 'vision statements' from key participants to help conceive the goals, curricula structure and implementation strategies for future engineering education.
- to design innovative curricular pathways supported by appropriate pedagogies for next-generation engineering programs that help address future graduate attributes as well as bring engineering science and practice into effective partnership.

For more information:
http://www.carrickinstitute.edu.au/carrick/go/home/fellowships/pid/471