ELD achieved ASEE divisional status in 1967. The ESLC (Engineering Schools Library Committee), ELD’s predecessor, was established in 1941. See ELD Anniversary Brochure of 2019.
Chairs of the Engineering Libraries Division, 1941- present:
| Chair | Institution | Years |
| Ruth McGlashan Lane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology + | 1941 |
| John B. O’Farrell | City College of New York | 1942 |
| Ruth McGlashan Lane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1943* |
| William H. Hyde | Jr., Illinois Institute of Technology | 1947* |
| Edward A. Chapman | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1949* |
| George S. Bonn | Rice Institute | 1951* |
| Johanna E. Tallman | University of California, Los Angeles | 1953 |
| John H. Moriarty | Purdue University | 1954* |
| Ira A. Tumbleson | Newark College of Engineering | 1956* |
| Jeannette Poor | Cornell University | 1958* |
| John P. McGowan | Franklin Institute | 1961* |
| Warren N. Boes | Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn | 1963* |
| Karen G. Takle | Drexel University and IBM | 1965* |
| Joseph V. Kopycinski | Lowell Technological Institute | 1967* |
| Robert B. Gaither | University of Florida | 1969 |
| Elizabeth Roberts | Washington State University | 1970 |
| Virginia Wilcox | Colorado School of Mines | 1971 |
| Edwin Posey | Purdue University | 1972 |
| Morton Snowhite | Newark College of Engineering | 1973 |
| Carmen Brown | Worchester Polytechnic Institute | 1974* |
| Mary Jo Arnold | Ohio State University | 1976* |
| James M. Kyed | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1978* |
| Karen Andrews | University of California, Los Angeles | 1980 |
| Kathy Jackson | Texas A&M University | 1981 |
| Zanier Vivan | University of New Mexico | 1982 |
| Maurita P. Holland | University of Michigan | 1983* |
| Donald Richardson | Worchester Polytechnic Institute | 1985* |
| Hazel Wetts | University of Southern California | 1987 |
| James R. Fries | Dartmouth College | 1988 |
| Dorothy Byers | University of Cincinnati | 1989 |
| Vladimir Borovansky | Arizona State University | 1990 |
| Jay Waddell | California State University, San Luis Obispo | 1991 |
| Paige Gibbs | University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth | 1992 |
| Cecilia Mullen | San Jose State University | 1993 |
| Steve Gass | Stanford University | 1994 |
| Bob Schwarzwalder | University of Michigan | 1995 |
| Andy Stewart | University of Missouri | 1996 |
| Charlotte Erdmann | Purdue University | 1997 |
| Beth Brin | Idaho State University | 1998 |
| Sheila Curl | Purdue University | 1999 |
| Linda Musser | Pennsylvania State University | 2000 |
| Mel DeSart | University of Washington | 2001 |
| Gretchen Sneff | Temple University | 2002 |
| Larry Thompson | Virginia Tech | 2003 |
| Andy Shimp | Yale University | 2004 |
| Jill Powell | Cornell University | 2005 |
| Kate Thomes | University of Pittsburgh | 2006 |
| Jay Bhatt | Drexel University | 2007 |
| Amy Van Epps | Purdue University | 2008 |
| John Teleha | North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University | 2009 |
| Bob Heyer-Gray | University of California, Davis | 2010 |
| Michael White | Queen’s University | 2011 |
| Doug McGee | University of Pennsylvania | 2012 |
| Adriana Popescu | Princeton University | 2013 |
| Megan Sapp Nelson | Purdue University | 2014 |
| Anne Rauh | Syracuse University | 2015 |
| Craig Beard | University of Alabama at Birmingham | 2016 |
| Bruce Neville | Texas A&M University | 2017 |
| William Baer | University of Notre Dame | 2018 |
| Julie Cook | University of Washington | 2019 |
| David Hubbard | Texas A&M University | 2020 |
| Kari Kozak | University of Iowa | 2021 |
| Daniela Solomon | Case Western Reserve University | 2022 |
Note: +Engineering Librarians Committee of New England; * two-year term
Chairs of the Engineering School Libraries Committee, 1942-1960:
| Chair | Institution | Years |
| Ruth McGlashan Lane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1941-42* |
| John B. O’Farrell | City College of New York | 1942-43 |
| Ruth McGlashan Lane | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 1943-47 |
| William H. Hyde, Jr. | Illinois Institute of Technology | 1947-49 |
| Edward A. Chapman | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | 1949-51 |
| George S. Bonn | Rice Institute | 1951-53 |
| Johanna E. Tallman | University of California, Los Angeles | 1953-54 |
| John H. Moriarty | Purdue University | 1954-56 |
| Ira A. Tumbleson | Newark College of Engineering | 1956-58 |
| Jeannette Poor | Cornell University | 1958-60 |
*Engineering School Librarians Committee of New England
Directors of the Engineering Libraries Division, 1989- present:
|
Director
|
Year elected
|
|---|---|
| Billie Joy Reinhart |
1989
|
| Bob Schwarzwalder |
1990
|
| Christy Hightower |
1991
|
| Linda Musser |
1992
|
| Gretchen Sneff |
1993
|
| Susan Herring |
1994
|
| Sheila Curl |
1995
|
| Locke Morrisey |
1996
|
| Mel DeSart |
1997
|
| Tom Volkening |
1998
|
| John Saylor |
1999
|
| Leslie Reynolds |
2000
|
| Suzanne Weiner |
2001
|
| Greg Raschke |
2002
|
| Mary Steiner |
2003
|
| Liz Mengel |
2004
|
| Carol Brach |
2005
|
| Michael White |
2006
|
| Linda Whang |
2007
|
| Nancy Linden |
2008
|
| Adriana Popescu |
2009
|
| Amy Buhler |
2010
|
| Anne Rauh |
2011
|
| Aleteia Greenwood |
2012
|
| Jon Jeffryes |
2013
|
| Jan Fransen |
2014
|
| Kari Kozak |
2015
|
| Julie Cook |
2015
|
| John Napp |
2016
|
| Bernadette Ewen |
2017
|
| Michelle Spence |
2018
|
| Eric Schares |
2019
|
| Julie Arendt |
2020
|
| Ibironke Lawal |
2021
|