Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Questions to ask the Engineering Librarian, Jay Bhatt


How are the books organized in the library? Are all the engineering books together and then grouped according to concentration? For example, would all books on bridges be in the same general area with maybe other civil and architectural engineering books? Or are all books organized with the Dewey Decimal System?

Are there books that are based off of or written by certain companies? By bridge building companies or other construction companies that could give us information on their methods of building strong bridges?


I know that when doing research on the library website we can narrow down our search to scholarly research depending on topics, but is it possible to actually narrow down the search to bridges? I am aware that it can be narrowed down to engineering, and if it can be narrowed down to bridges can it be further narrowed to a certain type of bridge like truss bridges?

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