Engineering book wins international reference award
An engineering reference book which draws heavily from a variety of Jisc-funded projects and services has won the prestigious Best Reference Work Award 2006 from the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Information Sources in Engineering was edited by Roddy MacLeod and Jim Corlett, with many of its contributing authors drawn from Jisc-funded services such as EEVL, the RDN Virtual Training Suite, PerX and the EThOS project.
Providing information about primary and secondary sources, including a wide range of electronic materials, the book is aimed at librarians and information scientists in technical fields as well as non-professional information specialists.
Editor Roddy Macleod is manager of the PerX project, based at Heriot-Watt University, which also deals with engineering information and which is part of Jisc’s digital repositories programme. He paid tribute to the expertise of the contributing authors, saying:
"With 27 chapters, written by 32 experts in their own areas, the combined effort represents a significant contribution to the field of engineering information. Jim Corlett and myself would like to express our great thanks to all of the contributors, who made this 4th edition a fascinating study of an important subject which often receives less attention than it deserves."
The award will be presented at a ceremony in Chicago in June.
For further information please go to: Information Sources in Engineering