Purdue University Libraries is very pleased to welcome Rey Junco to our Libraries staff. Rey is an associate professor and First Year Experience and Emerging Technologies Specialist Rey will be temporarily located in HSSE 347 this summer, and will move to Hicks after the renovation. He can be emailed at: rjunco@purdue.edu. Welcome to Purdue Libraries, [...]
The Learning and Information Literacy Division of Purdue Libraries has launched a new web page on the Purdue Libraries website. The web page offers key tools and resources that show how Purdue Libraries advances student-centered learning and information literacy through educational practice and research. For complete details go to: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/infolit For more information on Purdue [...]
Data Curation in the University: Libraries, Research, and Learning Workshop date: March 25, 2013 Venue: JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi, India http://databib.org/workshop This one-day workshop will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru University on March 25, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Cyberinfrastructure and “Big Data” represent a paradigm shift in science that is transforming [...]
In January 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring that all grant proposals include two-page plans that describe what data will be generated in the research and how the data will be managed and shared. Other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the National Endowment for the Humanities soon followed [...]
A new tool, Databib, has been developed to help researchers identify and locate repositories of research data on the Internet. Its development was led by the Purdue University Libraries with collaborators from Penn State University and the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Many funding agencies like the National Science Foundation require [...]
“Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty” has been selected as one of the Top Twenty Articles, by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). The article, co-written by Libraries faculty members, Jake Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller and Megan Sapp Nelson, was published in portal: Libraries and the Academy in 2011 [...]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University Libraries is leading the development of a new, online resource that will help people locate research data on the Internet. The project is called Databib and will engage a community of librarians from around the world to collaborate in creating an online bibliography of data repositories that can be [...]
Cyberinfrastructure-based research has infinitely increased the amount of data being collected and analyzed. Growing demands, both social and political, are driving the importance of sharing the information. But who should have access to it, how long should its shelf life be, and how will other researchers access it? Those questions can be addressed through two [...]
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has awarded Purdue University a $187,000 Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grant. Purdue received funding for its “Understanding Curation through the use of Data Curation Profiles” project, which will create a series of workshops to expand the expertise of academic librarians about data curation issues. Purdue [...]
Michael Witt, an assistant professor of library science and interdisciplinary research librarian at Purdue University, has been named a Fulbright Scholar. The Fulbright Scholar Program is the U.S. government’s flagship academic exchange effort. It is administered by the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars for the U.S. Department of State. The award will support [...]