Caroline Smith (Libraries) is coauthor of the book, Lifelong Learning for Engineers and Scientists in the Information Age(Elsevier), which recently received the 2013 Best Publication Award from the Engineering Library Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Her coauthors are Ashok Naimpally of Fresno City College and Hema Ramachandran of California State University, Long Beach. As one nominator said, "This volume brings into juxtaposition the goals and realities of engineering education and of teaching information literacy, marking points of logical intersection and providing suggestions for both librarians and engineering educators to take advantage of those." Smith and the co-authors of this book have mapped out both ABET criteria and Association of College & Research Libraries information literacy standards and have identified where definitions of lifelong learning and selected competencies in each are in concert. An Award Committee member found it "a great resource" and that it "includes great talking points for librarians to use when discussing the importance of information literacy with faculty and practicing engineers." The award presentation will take place at the annual meeting of the Engineering Libraries Division in Atlanta in June. The winners will receive a stipend of $1,000.
