California State University, Northridge is offering students at CSUN and neighboring colleges interested in careers in science and engineering an opportunity to network with industry professionals.

The event, sponsored by the Bonita J. Campbell Endowment for Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), will be held Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the Delmar T. Oviatt Library in the Jack and Florence Freman Presentation Room, located in the heart of the university’s campus at 18111 Nordhoff St. in Northridge.

Science and engineering representatives will be available to answer questions from 3 to 5 p.m. Students will be given a chance to participate in speed mentoring sessions with these professionals from 4 to 6 p.m.

“Many times students have questions about what it is really like to work in a particular industry,” said Joyclyn Dunham, project and program coordinator for Cal State Northridge’s library. “The WISE board thought it would be a great idea to allow students to ask those questions of working industry professionals in a relaxed setting here on campus.”

For more information or to learn how your professional organization can partner with WISE for this and future outreach events, please call (818) 677-2638. Persons with disabilities needing assistance and deaf and hard-of-hearing persons needing interpreters, please call the above number in advance for arrangements.

For more information about the library events and hours, visit its website at http://library.csun.edu/ or call (818) 677-2285.

Cal State Northridge’s Oviatt Library has more than 1.4 million volumes. It also subscribes to nearly 275,000 eBooks. It has an extensive audio and video collection, numbering nearly 18,000. The library’s online resources are heavily used, with almost 13 million visits to its Web pages and databases annually and a yearly gate count of more than 1.6 million patrons. It also has an extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, documents, photographs, artifacts and other archival materials. The Oviatt Library serves as the main research facility in the San Fernando Valley.

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