Cornell Engineering Library

Cornell Engineering Library

The Cornell Engineering Library serves the students, faculty and staff of the Cornell University College of Engineering, as well as the larger university and scholarly community. It serves the 12 schools of the College of Engineering and their approximately 3000 undergraduates, 1300 graduate students, 230 faculty, staff, and the many research centers thereof. Library liaisons are assigned from the library staff to each department. All engineering disciplines, computer science, and the earth and atmospheric sciences at the undergraduate and graduate level are included.

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The library is a component of the Cornell University Library. It was started with an endowment by Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., who was associated with E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company from 1909 until his retirement as their chairman of the Board in 1962. Carpenter was a member of the Cornell mechanical engineering class of 1910 and also served Cornell as a member of its board of trustees. Since the late 1800s there were smaller holdings for civil engineering in Lincoln hall and for electrical engineering in Franklin Hall; mechanical engineering materials were kept in the offices of department chairs.[1]. The library, built in 1957, occupies the ground floor of Carpenter Hall (named after Walter S. Carpenter, Jr.) and two sub-levels of the building, sharing space with the Academic Computing Center (ACCEL).

The library physical collection consists of approximately 300,000 print volumes with another 100,000 volumes and 2 million technical reports held off-site at the Library Annex. In 2011, the library transitioned into a virtual library. High use print volumes were moved to other libraries on the Cornell campus: 20,000 volumes and course reserves were moved to Uris Library, and other low use items were moved to the Library Annex. The decision to become a virtual library was based on advice from an advisory committee composed of four faculty, three librarians, two graduate students, and two undergraduate students, to re-envision the library.[2] As a result of going virtual, the library has pooled resources into enhancing electronic collections such as e-journals, e-books, society databases and other virtual services. The study space in Carpenter Hall remains open for study space, with librarians on site for reference consultation.

The Engineering Library's collections are tailored to research currently underway at Cornell and are described in the Engineering Library collection development policy.[3].

A detailed article describing the library at its opening by Jeanette Poor, the first engineering librarian at Cornell, is in College and Research Libraries. [4]

Further information on the history of the library is found on p. 25 of Cornell Engineering: A Tradition of Leadership and Innovation[5]

References

Cornell University College of Engineering

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