2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Mapping Graduate Student Workshops to Career Readiness Frameworks

Presented at Engineering Libraries Division (ELD) Technical Session 3: Instruction & Information Literacy

Along with campus collaborators, the Colorado School of Mines library has facilitated a workshop series for graduate students since 2019. Recent developments inspired us to re-examine past workshop offerings in the context of career readiness. To understand strengths and weaknesses in workshop coverage, we compared our past offerings to frameworks from the Perkins Collaborative Research Network (PCRN) and the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). The results of this effort highlight strengths and weaknesses of the workshop series as a whole and its composition of library-led topics and externally-led topics. This paper examines our analysis, the results of which will help guide future workshop topic selection to better prepare graduate students for their lives after graduation.

Authors

Seth Vuletich http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-7086-8687 Colorado School of Mines [biography]

Seth Vuletich is the Scholarly Communications Librarian the Colorado School of Mines. Seth provides specialized support to graduate students through all stages of the research lifecycle. Prior to entering the field of librarianship, Seth was a professional woodworker and earned a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Seth earned his Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Denver in 2021.
Ms. Brianna B. Buljung http://orcid.org/https://0000-0002-3376-0757 Colorado School of Mines [biography]

Brianna is the Teaching and Learning librarian at the Colorado School of Mines. She collaborates with faculty to design and implement information literacy throughout the curriculum. Prior to her work at the School of Mines, she was the Engineering and Computer Science Librarian at the US Naval Academy and a contract Reference Librarian assigned to the National Defense University. She earned her MLIS at the University of Denver in 2011.
Mr. Joseph R. Kraus http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6227-8815 Colorado School of Mines [biography]

Joseph Kraus is a reference librarian at the Arthur Lakes Library of the Colorado School of Mines. He also manages the Mines Repository service. He has written numerous articles and has presented on topics such as open access journals, altmetrics, and patron use data of electronic resources.

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