Departmental liaisons work with subject selectors in making library purchases and cancellations in their respective areas. Departmental liaisons also meet at least once a semester to receive updates on the status of the SEL acquisitions budget and to voice any concerns that faculty or students in their departments may have about SEL collections or services. The FNSM SEL Library Advisory Committee is chaired by Dr. D. Allan Cadenhead. SEL will be working with SEAS this summer to provide an orientation to SEL and engineering information resources as part of the Freshman Engineering Orientation. As you are planning new student orientations for the summer and early fall, please let us know if there is a way we can be of assistance with your programs.
Many departments also sponsor workshops and conferences during the summer session.
SEL librarians are available to provide sessions on such topics as accessing Web and online resources in science and engineering, or sessions geared to more specific information needs of the participants. Through the online system, GaleNet, the University Libraries are making available a number of heavily used reference sources. Two of these sources, the Encyclopedia of Associations and the Research Centers and Services Directory , are of particular interest to SEL users. Searching the Encyclopedia of Associations is one of the fastest ways to locate an association or professional society s phone number, fax, e-mail, address, membership information, publication listings, and other relevant data. The database contains some 142,000 listings for nonprofit membership organizations of national, regional, state and local, or international scope.