Kathleen Gust

Engineering Librarian for Outreach Instruction and Electronic Resources

Contact

kgust@stanford.edu
(650) 723-8877

Location

Kathleen's role in the library

I am the liaison to the Materials Science & Engineering and Civil & Environmental Engineering departments of the School of Engineering. As part of that work, I maintain information guides on relevant topics such as the effect of natural disasters on buildings and civic infrastructure, nanotechnology, and water resources and assist faculty and students with their research.

I present workshops for the PWR program, School of Engineering classes and the larger campus community on library research tools and processes. I'm always delighted to participate in class or study sessions for School of Engineering Faculty, TAs and student groups. Let me know if I can help you!

I maintain the digital events board and events RSS feed for the Terman Engineering Library.

Topic Guides by Kathleen

Guide	Last Updated	Subject tag
Concrete and cement	2014-07-30	Civil engineering
Earthquake resources for civil engineers	2014-07-30	Civil engineering
Civil engineering resources	2015-02-04	Civil engineering
Environmental engineering resources	2015-02-12	Environmental engineering, Environmental studies
Materials science and engineering resources	2014-07-30	Materials science and engineering
Geothermal engineering resources	2015-03-03	Energy resource engineering, Environmental engineering
Green building resources	2014-09-26	Civil engineering, Environmental engineering
Nano	2014-11-27	Chemistry, Nanoscience and nanotechnology, Chemical engineering, Materials science and engineering
Patents	2015-02-27	Chemistry, Engineering
Physical properties of materials	2015-04-07	Materials science and engineering, Mechanical design, Mechanical engineering
Water and wastewater resources	2015-06-05	Earth systems, Environmental engineering
Science and engineering technical reports	2014-07-30	Engineering
Commercial product information	2014-07-30	Industrial engineering, Management science and engineering
Grants and funding for science & engineering	2014-09-23	Aquatic studies, Biology, Chemistry, Earth sciences, Engineering, Environmental studies, Mathematics and statistics, Physics and astronomy
Architectural construction and design	2014-10-17	Architecture, Civil engineering
Putting content on e-readers	2015-05-29	Digital collections
Software Help for Engineers	2015-02-04	Computers and computing, Computer science, Software, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics
Statistical Analysis Resources	2015-05-11	Engineering, Mathematics and statistics

Course Guides by Kathleen

Course number	Term	Guide	Instructor
PWR 1CR	Spring 2014	Writing nature: discourses in ecology, culture, and technology	Ross, C.
ENGR 202W	Autumn, Winter, Spring	ENGR 202W: Technical writing	Reichard, C.
MATSCI-81N	Fall	MATSCI 81N: Bioengineering materials to heal the body	Heilshorn, S.
PWR 2CR	Spring 2015	Communicating science	Ross, C.
PWR 1GWS	Winter 2013	Body politics: the rhetoric of transhumanism	Shephard, A.
CEE 178/276	Spring 2015	CEE 178/276 Human exposure analysis	Kopperud, R.
PWR 1GIY	Spring 2015	Jekylls and Hydes: Rhetoric of the Scientist	Yamboliev, I.
PWR 1JM	Winter 2014	The rhetoric of the startup	McEntire, J.
PWR 2ST	Fall 2014	Science, Democracy and Social Media	Starkman, R.
PWR 1SI	Winter 2015	Super-Storms, Polar Bears, and Droughts: The Rhetoric of Climate Change	Ives, Sarah

Professional activities

Special Libraries Association, Silicon Valley Chapter President - 2011
Special Libraries Association, Silicon Valley Chapter Treasurer - 2013-2014

More about Kathleen

As a native of the American southwest, I am particularly interested in water issues and the environmental concerns of arid regions. I also spent several years of my career in a high-tech industry library supporting new product research and innovation in many different fields from computing algorithms to optics and photonics.