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Survey of Library Services at Engineering News Record's Top 500 Design Firms: Implications for Engineering Education
Author(s) -
Napp John B.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2004.tb00811.x
Subject(s) - curriculum , principal (computer security) , information literacy , engineering , business , engineering management , library science , psychology , computer science , pedagogy , operating system
This paper reports on the findings of a national survey of the library services available at Engineering News Record' s Top 500 Designs Firms. In mid‐October 2002, a survey was mailed to all 500 firms. The survey was in two parts. One part was to be completed by a principal in the firm. The second part was to be completed by the degreed librarian (holding a Masters in Library Science or its equivalent) if the firm employed one. The findings indicated that 74.4 percent of responding design firms do not employ a degreed librarian. In 79 percent of those firms, engineers obtain information on their own. This situation, along with other results, seems to suggest that more information literacy instruction may need to be included in the engineering curriculum.