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Caption: Dedication - Grainger Engineering Library
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In the Instructional Services Laboratories, librarians train Grainger patrons in the use of library resources and technologies. Willi a computer workstation at every seat, these labs emphasize hands-on training with state-of-the-art bibliographic databases and equipment. In the On-line Search Facilities, Grainger Center librarians work with individual researchers to devise strategies for comprehensive literature searches using the Dialog, STN, and BRS information supermarkets. These laboratories also function as demonstration areas and sites in which small groups can search the periodical index databases and the on-line catalog. As the largest engineering library in the United States, the Grainger Center accommodates 1,200 patrons, amounting to some 20 percent of the 7,400 students and 515 faculty in the College of Engineering. The Grainger's user statistics also indicate that it will be a strong participant in the University Library system, long the most actively used university library in the world. Recent engineering library statisticsforone year indicate that the Grainger already serves more than 900,000 patrons yearly: * 500,000 individual users, both on-site and through electronic access via dial-in computers, telephone searches, electronic mail, and the campus networks. * 275,000 on-line catalog transactions by library users. * ISO. (XX) on-line transact ions In lil narv stall. * 5,000+ CD-ROM searches. * 100,000 searches through the library's local databases and feebased search services. A Grand Tradition of Giving The fortunes of W. W. Grainger began with a book. After completing a bachelors degree in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois in 1919, William Wallace Grainger launched a mail-on ler business with a small catalog showing electrical supplies and components. Through the years, his eight-page catalog grew to thousands of pages. And W. W. Grainger, Inc., became a national leader: Through it all. however, Grainger himself honored an overriding professional commitment: to make technology accessible to everyone. The commitment thatfoundits first expression in a modest catalog has now culminated in the largesi engineering library in the United States, equipped with state-of-the-art information retrieval technology. Dedicated on October 14, 1994, the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center is a fitting legacy to W. W. Grainger in that
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