Analysis Of Asee Eld Conference Proceedings: 2000 2009

This study examines the papers and posters from the annual American Society for Engineering Education – Engineering Libraries Division (ASEE-ELD) programs over the last ten years. The bibliometric analysis provides an overview of authorship and content, as well as insights into the Division and what it values. It also gives context that is useful to both newer and longtime ASEE-ELD members. Unlike many other studies of single publications, contributions to annual ASEE-ELD programs were not systematically indexed and tangible artifacts do not exist for all contributions. Primary sources were consulted to identify the contributors and their contributions; however, this was often limited to just bibliographic information. The advent of “publish-to-present” for all papers and posters in 2009 will provide systematic archiving in the future, but is of limited use for the period studied. Considering the move to “publish-to-present” and a decade that brought significant change to the profession, it seems appropriate to reflect upon the past decade through such an analysis. The contributors were summarized both qualitatively and quantitatively in terms of authorship, co-authorship, and institutional/organizations affiliations. Since full-length papers do not exist for all contributions prior to 2009, content analysis is based on titles of the papers and posters. The titles were analyzed using both a standard classification scheme and textual analysis software to identify topics and keywords/phrases, respectively. These topics and keywords/phrases were further analyzed for patterns and trends. The analysis not only presents a snapshot of where our profession and Division has been, but potentially identifies future directions.