Supplementing The Library Collection With Digital Content From Engineering Departments

There are over 65 Centers and Labs associated with the Stanford School of Engineering. Information from these Labs is often being made available online, either in addition to or instead of print. Much of this online material is widely scattered, difficult to find, mounted on personal websites, and unlikely to be available over the long term. Ideally, the research output of the School of Engineering Labs and Centers, whether in print or electronic format, should be preserved for the long term and should be easily accessible to the Stanford community. As a first step towards this goal, the Engineering Library has begun a project to identify, characterize, and organize these materials. We want to learn what is out there, where it is being stored, and how much of it we already have in the Library.