ENGR First & Second Year Engineering (Fall 2022)

Engineers use various types of information when designing devices, processes and systems.

The type of information needed often dictates the source and strategy needed to locate it.

This guide will introduce you to:

•  types of resources used by engineers and how to access them.
• The why and how of citing sources

This guide will also provide supplemental sources for ENGR 102 & 216

• Library instruction & Research help.
  • individual
  • Small group
  • Classroom (in the library, or in the class location).
    • McAllen students & Faculty - I can provide remote instruction & research help.
• Get It For Me (Interlibrary Loan)
  • Courier material from one library to another (MSL to Evans)
  • Deliver material to faculty offices
  • Borrow material from other libraries
  • Scan articles, conference papers, book chapters (50 pages or less) for convenient download.
  • NOTE to McAllen students - register as "Distance ed McAllen" and books will be mailed to you free of charge. 
• Course Reserves
  • Information for Students
  • Information for Instructors
• suggest a purchase. (electronic or print)
• Borrowing - check-out, renew, recall, return library materials
• Study Spaces - quiet, group & individual study rooms.