Do you use your Engineering Societies Library as much as you might?

Nowadays there is a great deal of talk about the information revolution, information retrieval, and the mechanization of libraries, talk that might even lead you to assume that libraries as they now exist have become next to useless. Such is hardly the case. A library, even the smallest and most specialized, is only useless when its potential users don't know it exists, don't know what's in it, don't think of using it when the need arises, or don't use it because they don't know how to use it. You'd think the last reason listed would be the last to apply to engineers, who are, after all, educated men. But no, says ESL Director Ralph H. Phelps, engineers in general don't know how to use libraries effectively because they haven't been trained to use them. In fact, if you are like most engineers, you probably don't use your own Engineering Societies Library nearly as much as you might. It may pay off for you to spend a few minutes considering just what ESL is, and to find out how it is prepared to help you? no matter where you are, whether you are near ESL, which is in the same building as IEEE Headquarters in New York, whether you are on the West Coast, or in Europe.