(115) Reaching Out and Getting Connected to Where Engineering and Entrepreneurship Meet

Aiming to maintain engineers’ innovative competitiveness, the addition of entrepreneurship to traditional engineering education has seen a significant growth in recent years. Many higher education institutions offer entrepreneurship courses as curricula or co-curricular activities to equip engineering students with a broader set of knowledge and skills. This paradigm shift in the engineering curriculum calls for librarians to re-examine their existing approaches that support engineering disciplines to match the changes happening. In this poster, we examine practices in library instruction and outreach from the viewpoints of a business librarian and an engineering librarian at two land-grant institutions, based on our working experience with the engineering entrepreneurship program at our respective institution. We will integrate a brief review of the scholarly library literature into the discussions of the information literacy guidelines in business subjects, for example, the Business Research Competency from ALA BRASS, as well as those in engineering disciplines, such as the Engineering Instruction Guidelines. We also incorporate our insights and the lessons learned from providing information literacy instructions to students into our discussion. We conclude with suggestions on effective teaching strategies in library instruction and helpful tips for conducting outreach to this special student group we are targeting.