{"id":9828,"date":"2022-04-04T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=9828"},"modified":"2022-04-04T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T17:02:28","slug":"what-are-our-engineers-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/what-are-our-engineers-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What are our engineers reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s National Library Week! First celebrated by the American Library Association in 1958, NLW is a way for libraries to highlight and encourage the use of their services and spaces &#8211; so we&#8217;re doing the same thing! We&#8217;re starting up with the thing with you might expect from a library: books.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Located on the lower floor of the library, the Engineering Library has approximately 45,000 books here for easy access, with an additional 105,000 available offsite at the library annex that you can order to pick up at the library desk. Last year we had 774 checkouts of physical books from our stacks. Here&#8217;s a look at what some of the most popular books here at the library, based on how many times they have been checked out. We&#8217;ve removed items that are on course reserve, since they are outliers.<\/p>\n<p>#3 is a tie between&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.lib.uiowa.edu\/permalink\/f\/7nh330\/01IOWA_ALMA21307051460002771\"><em>Microelectronics: circuit analysis and design<\/em><\/a> by Donald A. Neamen and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.lib.uiowa.edu\/permalink\/f\/7nh330\/01IOWA_ALMA21462156860002771\"><em>Introduction to Communication Systems<\/em><\/a> by Upamanyu Madhow, both with 4 checkouts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/microelectronics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9832\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/microelectronics-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/microelectronics-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/microelectronics.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/> &nbsp;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/communication-systems.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9835\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/communication-systems-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/communication-systems-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/communication-systems.jpg 381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#2 with 5 checkouts is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/search.lib.uiowa.edu\/permalink\/f\/7nh330\/01IOWA_ALMA21370914020002771\"><em>Food Security, Nutrition and Sustainability<\/em><\/a> edited by Geoffrey Lawrence, Kristen Lyons, and Tabatha Wallington<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/food-security.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9834\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/food-security-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/food-security-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/food-security.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>#1 is Chemical Process Safety: fundamentals with applications by Daniel A. Crowl and Joseph F. Louvar with 18 checkouts!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/chemical-process-safety-.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9833\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/chemical-process-safety--238x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/chemical-process-safety--238x300.png 238w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/files\/2022\/04\/chemical-process-safety-.png 592w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Come on in and see what we have in store &#8211; you may be surprised what you&#8217;ll find!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s National Library Week! First celebrated by the American Library Association in 1958, NLW is a way for libraries to highlight and encourage the use of their services and spaces &#8211; so we&#8217;re doing the same thing! We&#8217;re starting up with the thing with you might expect from a library: books.&nbsp; Located on the lower<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/what-are-our-engineers-reading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;What are our engineers reading?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9837,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9828\/revisions\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9828"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=9828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}