Information Resources for

Civil & Environmental Engineering, Peace Corps Masters International Program

Dave Lepse, Librarian (487-1443; dlepse@mtu.edu)

 

Circulation

To borrow an item from the collection, bring the book to the Circulation Desk with your "Tech Express" card. Books may be borrowed by graduate students for seventeen weeks, but are subject to recall after three weeks if needed by another borrower. Periodicals may be borrowed for three days.

 

Interlibrary Loan

To request books and articles from other libraries, complete an Interlibrary Loan Request Form. Forms are available at the Circulation Desk, or on the Library Web Page by selecting Library Services, then Interlibrary Loans. There is no charge for this service.

 

Research assistance

For individual assistance or instruction from a librarian, visit or phone the Reference/Information Desk (487-2507), e-mail instrlib@mtu.edu, or use the Ask a Librarian buttonon the Librarys web page.

 

Library Hours

Monday Thursday 7:45 a.m. 12:00 p.m.; Friday 7:45 am 5:00 p.m.

Saturday 12:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m.; Sunday 12:00 p.m. 12:00 a.m.

Break and holiday hours will be posted.

 

Library of Congress Classification System (LCCS)

T Technology	Q General Science
TA General & Civil Engineering	QA Math & Computer Science
TC Hydraulic & Ocean Engineering	QC - Physics
TD Environmental Technology & Sanitary Engineering	QE - Geology
TE Highway Engineering
TF Railroad Engineering & Operation
TG Bridge Engineering
TH Building Construction

 

Locating Books on the Library Shelves

Shelved by Library of Congress call number in the Main Collection on Third Floor.

 

Locating Periodicals on the Library Shelves

Periodicals are shelved by Library of Congress call number in these locations:

CURRENT JOURNALS (1^st Floor): Recent issues kept here until bound or reissued in microfilm or microfiche.

BOUND JOURNALS AREA (Garden Level): Bound periodicals dated 1971 or later.

MICROFORMS AREA (1^st Floor ) Microfilm & Microfiche cabinets located on the east side of the building.

 

Electronic Journals at JRVP

JRVP subscribes to an increasing number of journals which provide electronic versions of their publications online. Access them under E-Resources on the Librarys web page. You can limit your search to Civil & Environmental Engineering.

 

Reference Collection 2^nd Floor

The reference collection contains dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, directories, standards (ASTM, ANSI, AASHTO, etc.), codes, catalogs, etc., shelved by Library of Congress Classification System call number.

 

JRVP Online Catalog

On the Librarys web page at www.lib.mtu.edu.

Use to find what books, journals and government publications that the Van Pelt Library owns and where they are located. When you enter the catalog, a Basic search screen appears.

 

To search for a periodical title, click on the Journal Title button, then type the title of the periodical in the box provided. A Journal Title search may result in a list of several records for the same title; you may need to view more than one of these to find the issue date youre seeking.

 

When searching for more complex titles such as conference proceedings, a keyword search is usually effective. Click on the Keyword Search button, then enter several of the most unique keywords from the conference title, then select all of these from the pull-down menu on the right.

 

MTU theses and dissertations in Civil Engineering can be found through a Keyword Search as follows:

Search for: mtu civil engineering [all of these]

Search for: thesis dissertation [any of these]

 

 

Other catalogs

WorldCat

Unified catalog of OCLC member libraries

Linda Hall Library

The largest private science and engineering library

RedLightGreen

An easy to search database of books, based on the RLG (Research Library Group) Union Catalog

 

 

Databases of journal article abstracts, technical reports, and engineering handbooks

 

To find citations to recent articles from journals, conference proceedings, and other publications, go to the Librarys web page at www.lib.mtu.edu and select E-Resources, then Search for an E-Resource.

 

The resulting screen offers four search options for finding databases or electronic journals: (1) Keyword search of database titles and/or descriptions, (2) Search by subject area, (3) Search by collection name, (4) Browse an alphabetical list by title.

 

 

Suggested databases

Please note: database descriptions can be found on the Librarys Databases web page

 

Agricola

ASCE Civil Engineering Database

Compendex

Current Research @ Michigan Technological University

Dissertation Abstracts

ENGnetBASE

Environtmental Engineering Abstracts

FirstGov

GeoRef

Ground Water On-Line

Health & Safety Science Abstracts

ILI Standards Infobase Online

Medline

Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

NTIS (National Technical Information Service)

Scirus

TOXNET

United States Patents

Water Resources Abstracts

Web of Science

 

 

Geographical information sources

 

Alexandria Project, UCSB

CIA World Factbook

GeoNet Names Server

Library of Congress Country Studies

Oddens Bookmarks

Perry Castaneda Map Library, University of Texas

United Nations Cartographic Section

US Department of State Background Notes

Waldens Country Reports (Lexis-Nexis Academic, Reference sources)

 

 

Statistics sources

 

OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) Statistics Portal

United Nations Statistics Division

World Bank Data and Statistics

World Trade Organization statistics

 

 

International news sources

 

International News Archives

NewsLink

SciDev.Net (news about science, technology, and the developing world)