VOLUMe Fall 2017

VOLUMe Fall 2017

Mullins Reading Room in the WALC
Libraries faculty and staff 2017
View of atrium from third floor of WALC

WILMETH ACTIVE LEARNING CENTER DEDICATION

Purdue University President Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr., hits the World’s Largest Drum as part of the WALC Dedication Ceremony

Steve Wilmeth (son of Thomas S. Wilmeth) and Sally Wilmeth (daughter of Harvey D. Wilmeth) pose with the World’s Largest Drum after the WALC Dedication Ceremony
Dean of Libraries James L. Mullins at the WALC Dedication Ceremony 

Located in the heart of the Purdue University campus, the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) was dedicated September 22, 2017. The building exemplifies Purdue’s commitment to undergraduate education, and the 1924 Heating and Power Plant (HPN), with its iconic smokestack, stood for nearly 90 years on the WALC site. HPN not only provided power and heat to the University community, but it also served as a laboratory for engineering students. Today, we would refer to that learning experience as “active learning.”

PURDUE LIBRARIES    

MISSON & VISION

“Purdue University Libraries is singular in more ways than just its name.”

mission: Our mission is to advance the creation of knowledge for the global community through the provision, development, dissemination, curation, and preservation of research and scholarship; the collection and archiving of the historical record of the University; the teaching of information literacy; advocacy for informed learning and open access; the creation of dynamic physical and virtual learning environments; and research in library, archival, and information sciences.

We accomplish our mission through our core values and defining characteristics via a culture committed to:

– A learner and researcher focus;

– Diversity, equity, inclusiveness, and respect for all;

– Collaboration;

– Creativity, innovation, and risk taking;

– Equitable access to information; and 

– Responsible stewardship of University resources.

vision: Purdue University Libraries will be a national and international model for the 21st-century academic research library.

learning: We contribute to student success and lifelong learning through innovative educational practices. Our research-based information literacy programming empowers Purdue’s diverse communities of learners to use information critically to learn and to create new knowledge. Our learning spaces, both virtual and physical, align with evolving curricula and student learning needs.

scholarly communication: We enhance the spectrum of scholarly communication from discovery to delivery through the provision of information resources, services, research, partnerships, and national and international leadership. We advocate for change in scholarly communication to promote economic sustainability, effective use of copyright, and open access to knowledge for all.

engagement and emerging opportunities: We commit our resources and expertise in Library, Information, and Archival Sciences to advance the profession and contribute to the welfare and economic development of the citizens and state of Indiana, the nation, and the world.

Please share any comments, questions, and inquiries about Purdue Libraries and VOLUMe with Teresa Koltzenburg, Director of Strategic Communication: tkoltzen@purdue.edu | 765.494.0069 or James L.Mullins, Dean of Libraries: jmullins@purdue.edu.

VOLUMe | FALL 2017 | Volume, n. 1. A unit of written material assembled together and cataloged in a library. 2. A large amount; quantity. 3. Loudness. | VOLUMe—the title of the Purdue University Libraries publication—speaks to the central, critical role our Libraries play in applying the principles of library science to translate the wealth of data into the treasure of knowledge. Through the voices of Libraries’ thought leaders, VOLUMe articulates central themes of the Libraries’ new strategic plan to become a leading world-class 21st-century academic research library. | COVER | photos courtesy of Teresa Brown and Mark Simons | EDITOR | Teresa Koltzenburg | GRAPHIC DESIGNER | Lindsey Organ | COPY EDITOR | Katherine Purple | PHOTOGRAPHERS | Charles Jischke, Mark Simons, John A. Underwood, Purdue University Marketing and Media, Teresa Koltzenburg, Teresa Brown, Mark Shaurette, Elaine Bahler, Thinkstock.

FOREWORD

A MESSAGE FROM THE PROVOST

Jay T. Akridge // Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity // Purdue University

If you wanted to find Dean of Libraries Jim Mullins during any lunch hour over the past year or so, it was always best to start with the benches under the Sycamore tree next to the construction site for the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC). Inevitably, he was there. Jim has been involved in every aspect of the WALC and, from concept to completion, this has been his labor of love. Our campus will be forever grateful to Dean Mullins for providing the vision, passion, and persistence that brought this dream to reality. In recognition of Dean Mullins’s advocacy for the Wilmeth Active Learning Center, President Daniels designated the signature library space in WALC as the James L. Mullins Reading Room, as he retires from Purdue at the end of 2017.

It was out of a love for learning that two brothers–and Boilermaker engineers–named Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wilmeth supported Purdue University Libraries for many years. Always innovative, Tom Wilmeth helped fund the Libraries’ first electronic database. “I believe the essence of education,” he said, “is developing the ability to train and teach oneself to learn.” I couldn’t agree more.

Today, through the WALC, we have reimagined and reinvented libraries at Purdue. By combining a new paradigm for teaching and learning with six engineering and science libraries (now the Library of Engineering and Science), we have successfully created a flexible, collaborative-style learning/library facility. With 27 active-learning classrooms, each incorporating one of seven different room configurations, the WALC creates an ideal setting for fostering creativity, interaction, and retention. In addition, during the evening and weekends, active-learning classrooms become study spaces, making the entire building a 21st century library. In the following pages, you will learn how our students, faculty, and staff are being inspired by this unique learning environment.

The WALC is both a harbinger of our future and a guardian of our past. Those of us who have been around Purdue for many years—and hundreds of thousands of our alumni and guests—fondly remember the 1924 Power Plant and its iconic smokestack that once stood on the location of the WALC. With artifacts from the original building and subtle cues (the reception desk is the circumference of that old smokestack), campus history is carried forward. The history of our country is there, too, in the Mullins Reading Room, where we are honored to display an authorized copy of Emanuel Leutze’s dramatic 1851 painting “Washington Crossing the Delaware,” rendered by Robert Bruce Williams and on loan to Purdue from the Washington Crossing Foundation.

Something truly extraordinary happened at the start of our fall semester: literally from the moment the doors opened at this remarkable facility, it became the central hub for our campus. About 4,000 students visit the WALC every day, and exceptional teachers and talented Libraries faculty and administrative professionals are helping them explore, learn, and find what they need.

If you haven’t already, I hope you’ll stop by the Wilmeth Active Learning Center to see it for yourself. If you happen to run into Dean Mullins, ask him to show you around. He’d be happy—and very proud—to tell you all about it.

D-VELOPING A DESTINATION SPACE

As we started the planning process for the WALC and the Library of Engineering and Science (LoES), in addition to visualizing the designs for the traditional study spaces and access to computers and physical collections (e.g., books and technical documents), we envisioned creating a destination space. We pictured a space where students could find technologies and resources not available elsewhere on campus. Additionally, with the increased emphasis on data management across campus, we felt that having a high visibility “storefront” location—to highlight and make accessible the considerable talent and tools the Libraries have—would be imperative in order to help students and researchers find the expertise and equipment they would need to make sense out of their data. 

The current Data Visualization Experience Lab of Purdue (D-VELoP) took shape from this vision, informed by our previous experience in the Libraries consolidated into LoES. Formerly, geographic information services (GIS) services were housed in the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Library; the Guy Mellon Cyberchemistry Lab provided chemical information tools; the Engineering Library offered such Maker services as 3D printing; and, with the recent hiring of a bioinformatics information specialist, the Life Sciences Library offered bioinformatics expertise. From their experiences offering such robust resources in the formerly separate Libraries, the Libraries faculty in the LoES have accumulated significant expertise in working with scientific and geospatial data. Nevertheless, in these smaller libraries, we did not have the resources to create a large enough space to draw users in, and, particularly, to teach at an appropriate scale. 

We designed the D-VELoP suite on the third floor of WALC to address those needs. With an 18-station computer lab—each computer is loaded with visualization software programs and features high-resolution, larger format monitors—finally, we can provide hands-on instructional activities in a classroom environment.

Michael Fosmire // Head, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Technology (PSET) Division // Professor // fosmire@purdue.edu

In our first semester (Fall 2017), Libraries Faculty Member Assistant Professor Nicole Kong taught an introductory graduate level course in GIS she created for the College of Liberal Arts. In addition, Libraries Assistant Professors Megan Sapp Nelson and Pete Pascuzzi co-taught the Libraries’ first LIBR-designated graduate course, “Data Management at the Bench,” in the D-VELoP computer lab. We also expanded our Maker footprint with the addition of three more 3D printers.

In the near future, D-VELoP will house a CNC (computer numerical control) router and VR (virtual reality) equipment that will complement our existing lending library of computing and electronics components and specialized cameras and scanners. A recent Libraries faculty hire, Assistant Professor Sarah Huber coordinates the Libraries’ Mobile Making workshops, which invite students to play with emerging technologies and think about how they can incorporate them into projects or personal passions. 

Finally, our visualization wall allows anyone on campus to bring their data or other projects into a space where they can simultaneously see large and small structures in an interactive environment. Professor of Human-Environment Modeling Bryan Pijanowski, in Purdue’s College of Agriculture’s Forestry and Natural Resources Department, is helping us pilot the system by teaching his graduate seminar on soundscapes in this room. Pijanowski’s research indexing audio recordings by geography provides insights into the health and vibrancy of ecosystems and clues to changing habitats and behaviors due to urbanization, industrialization, and climate change. Our visualization wall allows for interrogation of large data sets, with audio components, providing an immersive environment for analyzing and presenting data to make discoveries about the world around us.

In D-VELoP, we have created the “destination space” we envisioned, and we will continue to explore, grow, and develop the suite and its resources—and ultimately Purdue students and faculty—to be in step with Purdue’s overall trajectory of “making things that move the world forward.”

WHY THE LIBRARY OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE?

Michael Fosmire (far right) // Head, PSET Division // Professor // Purdue University Libraries // fosmire@purdue.edu

Amanda Gill (middle right) // Operations Manager, PSET Division // Purdue University Libraries // gill3@purdue.edu

Vicki Killion (far left) // Head, HLS Division // Associate Professor // Purdue University Libraries // vkillion@purdue.edu

Monica Kirkwood (middle left) // Operations Manager, HLS Division // Purdue University Libraries // monicack@purdue.edu

There comes a “moment of truth” in every design project, whether it’s starting a business, creating a social media feed, launching a service…or, opening a new library. You take a deep breath, open the doors, and hope people show up. By that measure, the Library of Engineering and Science (LoES) in the Wilmeth Active Learning Center has been an unbelievable success.

Since we opened at the start of Fall 2017, from all the students using the space, the LoES is bursting at the seams—exactly as we hoped they would. From the computer labs, to the Mullins Reading Room, to the “ecotone”transition spaces lining classrooms, students grab every single seat to make the best use of their time in and around their courses, and, indeed, well into the night. 

The LoES cannot be separated from the rest of the Wilmeth Active Learning Center. Its spaces entwine with classrooms in an organic manner, so students may not even realize they are in the library or classroom (hint, if they are on the carpet, it’s library space). The design of LoES began with a participatory-design exercise with students, faculty, and Libraries staff, during which we observed students’ habits and asked them about their ideal learning environment—not their ideal library space, but their ideal learning environment. Based on these responses, we identified several key concepts that informed our vision for the LoES.

Natural light permeates the building, and internal windows connect students to the outside. One of the strongest comments from students had to do with the isolation they felt in many of our spaces, which were built in the interiors of buildings (and great during tornado warnings), but were not very inspiring for learning. We also identified several modes of study students engage in: teamwork, individual study, technology-assisted at times, and at other times, students desiring a space for complete concentration. There are times when students want to be together in a more social working environment, and others when they want to be “alone, together,” best represented by the Mullins Reading Room, where students can gain inspiration by working diligently alongside their peers.

We programmed computer banks conducive to both individual and group interactions, as well as study rooms equipped with large monitors. Finally, soft seating rimming many of the classroom areas provides a place for students to gather prior to class to prepare for a presentation or talk about a homework assignment imminently due. After a class, these seats enable students to meet in groups to create work plans, or to follow with their instructor about a difficult concept without having to fight the hundreds of students dashing between classes. 

Although we call it the Library of Engineering and Science, it is very much an interdisciplinary environment, open to the entire campus community. The WALC draws students from every major through the variety of courses taught in the building. From a service perspective, while we do house the most current and high-use engineering and science physical print books, and we have assembled a formidable amount of staff and Libraries faculty expertise in the literature of those disciplines, we also keep in mind that many of our users do not have that background, yet still have information needs we can meet. We also want to engage with non-science and engineering students, for example, with our Mobile Maker activities, to let them explore technologies and think about how they might use them in art, humanities, and the social sciences. 

In tandem with the physical Library of Engineering and Science, our consolidation of Libraries faculty from six different locations, and two divisions—Health and Life Sciences (HLS) and Physical Sciences and Engineering (PSET)—into one space has also led to many collaborations and exchange of good ideas. Perhaps the most salient has been the development of a two-credit course, “Data Management at the Bench”  (LIBR 595), the Libraries’ first offering under our own course designation. The course, co-taught by Megan Sapp Nelson (PSET) and Pete Pascuzzi (HLS), would have been significantly more difficult if they had still been in the Hampton Civil Engineering and Lilly Halls on opposite ends of the campus. We built the Libraries staff and faculty wings of the LoES to take advantage of proximity, with comfortably furnished common spaces encouraging Libraries faculty, and our visitors, to sit down and have a conversation that leads to an idea that leads to a collaboration that leads to a project. 

For students, to faculty and staff, we designed the LoES to have a place for everyone to be their most productive—whether quiet, noisy,together or alone, and outfitted with technology or distraction-free.  When we opened, we fully expected to find spaces that students flocked to or avoided, prepared to make changes as needed to adapt to their needs. What we have found is that, typically, every seat is filled.  Every nook we designed into the building, the students have found and occupied consistently.  While we will continue to monitor utilization of the LoES and tweak as needed, we feel confident that we have addressed student needs in the LoES/WALC design and implementation. 

CONSTRUCTION COLLABORATION

(L to R): Michael Cheesman, Derek Staley, and Tim Krueckeberg (all of Turner Construction), and Rustin Meister

RUSTIN MEISTER
Senior Project Manager, Wilmeth Active Learning Center // Purdue University

If you have ever been involved in a home remodel, or even the construction of a new home, you understand there are a number of factors to consider and many decisions to make—perhaps many more than you ever envisioned. In principle, building the new Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) was a bit like building a new home, but the scope, complexity, and magnitude of such a project is undoubtedly overwhelming without a team to manage it. That is where we came in.

Planning and design for the WALC took more than a year and served as the foundation for this project. Our role involved working closely with architects and engineers to ensure key stakeholder and end-user input was captured. At the same time, we had to stay on budget and schedule and maintain alignment with the academic program. Collaborating with the design team and Dean Mullins, we worked to incorporate the 1924 Power Plant (HPN) artifacts into the design and to ensure the WALC’s exterior architecture complemented its historic surroundings; these were only a few of the hundreds of design details that had to be considered. 

Construction makes design a reality. Job site safety is always the first priority on every project. Keeping pedestrians safe during the demolition of the 1924 Power Plant and the Engineering Administration Building (ENAD) involved weeks of careful planning with the demolition contractor. Construction of the WALC took nearly two years, and involved extensive onsite coordination with the contractors to maintain the overall scope, schedule, and budget of the project. On peak days, the WALC saw roughly 160 workers on site. It consists of more than 11,000 cubic yards of concrete (that is more than 1,000 concrete trucks!) and 800 tons of concrete reinforcing steel (equal to the weight of over five blue whales!).  

The WALC has been operational for only a short period of time. In that short time, we have already witnessed what a positive effect it has had on students, faculty, and staff. Given its initial success, it is clear the WALC will have a lasting impact on this campus, and we are grateful to have been a part of it. 

STUDENTS & FACULTY

REACT TO THE WALC

As a full-time Purdue staff member and a part-time Purdue student, I find that the WALC is the ideal place to have class. I can grab lunch at Au Bon Pain, sit and eat in one of the many common areas, then go upstairs to class. This allows me to optimize my time and minimizes the disruption to my workday, helping me to get the most out of the student portion of my day.

What’s more is that the WALC is a welcoming, exciting, and vibrant building. There are people everywhere! In front of the building, the tables and benches are filled with students doing homework, working together, eating lunch, and catching up with friends. Even on rainy days, you can be outside because about half of the seating area is protected underneath the Mullins Reading Room. Inside the building, it is open, airy, and just as filled with people. Computer labs aren’t tucked away behind doors either; there are many computer terminals in the atrium, right next to the reference desk, aligning the path to your next class.

Caitlin J. Adams //Business Systems Analyst // University Development Office // Purdue Research Foundation // cjadams@prf.org

Once you’re in class, there’s something engaging about knowing that your room is set up differently than the room next door–that your professor chose to have class in this room because it will facilitate the needs of the class.

Every learning activity in my SYS 400 “Science and Technology Policy” course is team-based. We work on a semester-long project as a team and our classroom time centers on discussion. There are monitors one very wall of the room, so we can sit facing each other, ready to talk, but still see the day’s discussion questions or other materials displayed.

Typically, we sit in pods with our teams, making it easy to get to know each other early in the semester. Class discussion starts in each of our teams then opens up to the class as a whole.

By the time we had our first project meeting outside class, my team members and I were already comfortable with each other and we were able to start work immediately because we already had practice discussing things as a team.

I think the room itself is actively improving the class and my education. What more could you ask for from a building or a classroom?

The classrooms in the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) enable students to engage with one another and the course material in new and exciting ways.

During the Fall 2017 semester, my “Introduction to Patient-Centered Care,” the introductory pharmacy practice course for first-professional year students, has been in the “Boiler Up” classroom (room 1018)  in the WALC. In essence, this course is their first exposure to the knowledge and skills—such as patient assessment, patient communication, and medication therapy management—necessary to become a pharmacist. Though active learning was emphasized in this course prior to being placed in WALC, it was difficult to assist students in these activities in a large, traditional classroom setting.

Kimberly S. Plake //Associate Professor of  Pharmacy Practice // Department of Pharmacy Practice // Purdue University // kplake@purdue.edu

In the Boiler Up room, students sit at tables of six, allowing group work to take place with ease. When looking up information pertaining to medications and disease states, students can easily find data using their tablets and laptops. The tables in the room not only give students the necessary space for their computer use, but the accompanying electric outlets also allow them to use these tools for an extended time.

Students actively work through patient cases while instructors can move through the room easily and answer student questions. When participating in a role-play or communication activity, students simulate a patient interaction, practicing their skills in a “safe” environment prior to using them in practice. Debriefs with instructors regarding active-learning exercises regularly take place, enabling students to reflect on their learning and provide feedback to instructors.

The classroom spaces in the WALC allow instructors to design their courses creatively without having to consider the limitations of the space. With 150 students per class, it was difficult to keep students engaged and on task. In this team-taught course, instructors are now developing new activities that they would not have considered attempting in a traditional classroom. As a result, students are deeply engaged in their learning and the application of their knowledge and skills.

I have to admit that the construction itself for the new Wilmeth Active Learning Center was a little annoying last year, but it is really exciting to have another area in the middle of campus to study. I think both the architecture and the overall design of the building, with the furniture and study areas, are well done.

Raymond Peck (Los Altos, CA) // Sophomore, Civil Engineering // Purdue University One

One of my favorite parts of the new building is the Mullins Reading Room, because it is focused on individual quiet study. I also really like that some of the chairs are set off by themselves around the perimeter of the room. The tables in the Reading Room, too, are well lit, and the proportions of the furniture in this room were well thought out and make it possible for students to focus without the distraction of being uncomfortable.

This semester, I have also used some of the computers located near the Library of Engineering and Science information desk on the second floor, and I like the fact that the monitors articulate, which really helps when I am working at the computer and working with my textbooks at the same time. The computer desks also have a lot of space, so you can spread out your materials, which has been helpful to me while studying.

The Wilmeth Active Learning Center is a great addition to the Purdue campus! I have the privilege of teaching on the third floor Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. Walking in the building on those days for my class, I find that the students are a-buzz with energy, and the building is always crowded.

Dennis Savaiano // Virginia C. Meredith Professor and Director, North Central Nutrition Education Center // Department of Nutrition Science // Purdue University

The entire ambiance of the WALC evokes high-tech learning—exactly the future of Purdue. The flexible classroom has allowed us seamless transition between discussion and presentation components of the course. The multitude of windows and resulting light seems to keep the students engaged, even at an early morning hour.

Congratulations to Jim Mullins for having the vision and persistence to make a magnificent modern, useful learning space happen in the very middle of the Purdue campus. It is a great legacy for a great dean and a new crown jewel and centerpiece for the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette.

Dealing with the construction site where the Wilmeth Active Learning Center now sets has been frustrating the last few years. Because of all the fenced off areas, it took me longer to get to my classes. But when the building opened this year, the ambiance of campus improved so much! I feel like I started to see people congregating outside around this building and the surrounding buildings.

Damisola Balogun (Fort Wayne, IN) // Senior, Industrial Engineering // Purdue University

I use the WALC a lot for studying. I do not use it as much during the day because it is really busy because of classes. But, if I can find a spot, I will study in the Reading Room. I love the natural light all the windows provide in that room. It is a good studying environment.

More often, though, I come to the WALC around or after 6:30p.m. By that time, it has died down a little bit and the classrooms are openedup as study spaces.

I have studied in other classrooms in the building, but [room 1018] (one of the “Boiler Up” classrooms) is probably one of my favorite classrooms in this building. Maybe it is because I have class in here and I am more used to this room, but I do really like the size of the desks in here, which provide a lot of space to spread out if you need to.

LEGACY OF THE 1924 POWER PLANT AND ITS ICONIC SMOKESTACK LIVES ON!

When it became certain the 1924 Power Plant (HPN) would be demolished to make way for the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC), a group of individuals came together to decide what could be saved as artifacts from HPN that could help tell its story and celebrate the memories so many Boilermakers had of the iconic smokestack. On a very cold day in February 2014, the group toured HPN and identified parts of the structure (grating, flue doors, pipes, bricks, decorative trim) that could be re-purposed into the structure of the WALC. In addition, the group selected various pieces of equipment from HPN, including a turbine, control valves and gauges, and the ash cart that removed the cinders from the boilers and soot from the smokestack. These items were chosen to tell the story of the operations of HPN and the men who worked there, as well as the educational role it played for many Purdue engineering students.  

As the architects from BSA Life Structures designed the WALC, wall cases were planned that would display the artifacts, which would allow visitors to learn about the role of the 1924 Power Plant at Purdue. To ensure a coherent story and clarification of the items, a museum display professional from Museum Croft stewarded the location of the items in the cases as well as the narrative, all available through an audio tour that can be accessed via a smartphone. (The audio tour can be reached by dialing 765-245 3595. Of course, this can be dialed up from any location, but it is most meaningful to be in the WALC to have the artifact or photograph in front of you. The audio tour also challenges the listener to create her/his own story using the artifacts, thereby, becoming an active learner in the WALC.)

The walls of the WALC are also rich with reproductions of historic photographs of the Purdue University campus, including an aerial view of the campus from 1924, the year the Wilmeth brothers were students at Purdue. Several photographs show engineering students learning the operations of the 1924 Power Plant from a professor, as well as images depicting the workers who made the plant operate. 

A Purdue Icon: Creation, Life and Legacy

A Purdue Icon was published in August 2017 by Purdue University Press as part of its Founders Series, to convey, in seven essays, the significance of the 1924 Power Plant. The book highlights the growth of the industrial age during the late 19th century and the extraordinary growth and demand for electrical power, which necessitated the construction and continual expansion in the generation of heat and power, and ultimately cooling for Purdue. The book also discusses the design of the 1924 Power Plant and its significance as a statement of modernity in the 1920s; however, it also discusses the need for expansion beyond what the 1924 Power Plant could generate and ultimately its retirement in the 1980s.

The demolition of its smokestack was completed in the early 1990s, with the razing of the entire structure following in 2014.

The final essay discusses the planning and design of the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) on the site of the 1924 Power Plant. The WALC merits its central location as the vibrant heart of the Purdue campus on the very site of an earlier active learning center, the 1924 Power Plan. 

Purdue Icon: Creation, Life, and Legacy is available through Purdue University Press //  www.thepress.purdue.edu/titles/format/9781557537829

James L. Mullins // Dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor 2004 – 2017 // Purdue University Libraries

A BUILDING TO SHOWCASE       

PURDUE HISTORY

As we approach the 150th anniversary of Purdue University, it is the perfect time to commit to preserving its history. The mission of the Archives and Special Collections is to preserve and share the documents and artifacts that tell the remarkable story of how Purdue grew from a small land grant university on the banks of the Wabash River into the world-class research institution it is today.

Much has been achieved over the last 20 years to preserve Purdue’s history, and our collections are robust and meaningful. Scholars worldwide conduct research using our collections, and we regularly teach students about Purdue history using the archival collections. Yet, there is no place at Purdue for visitors and the Purdue community to actively engage with Purdue’s history and to learn about how it has grown over time and the ways Purdue alumni, faculty, and staff have impacted the world.

Sammie L. Morris // University Archivist and Head, Archives and Special Collections Division // Professor // Purdue University Libraries // morris18@purdue.edu

It is at this important moment in the history of the University that we turn our eyes to the mission of engagement. As Harry Truman famously said, “There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.” As we celebrate the success of the archival work done to collect and care for Purdue’s history, we believe now is the time to connect that history in a more meaningful way to students, scholars, alumni and the public.

The inaugural (1958) Grand Prix go-cart race (proceeds go to scholarships) at Purdue University, (see www.purduegrandprix.org/foundation/history)

A stand-alone Archives and Special Collection building would create a destination point for experiencing Purdue history. This building would serve as an engagement center where anyone—students, faculty, alumni, K-12, external scholars, and the public—could come to learn about Purdue’s rich heritage. The building would be designed to excite and educate visitors about Purdue’s past and its many innovations and accomplishments over time. An Archives and Special Collections building, with attractive, interactive displays and gallery spaces, will attract visitors eager to learn about Purdue and how it has moved the world forward.

Cover of the game day program for the 1893 football game between Purdue and DePauw held Thursday, Noveber 30, 1893, in Indianapolis. Purdue wont the game 42-18

A state-of-the-art Archives and Special Collections building will allow us to continue supporting research, while adding in additional spaces for teaching and learning with enhanced engagement opportunities through museum-like gallery spaces. This building will house the historical documents, photos, films, artifacts, and publications that tell the story of Purdue. In addition to the University Archives, the new building will store the manuscripts and personal papers of noteworthy Purdue alumni and faculty, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s Archives, the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, the Betsy Gordon Psychoactive Substances Research Collection, and the Libraries distinctive collections of rare books. Emerging technologies will be integrated into the building, to connect these valuable collections to the world and bring history to life. 

Please be on the look-out for upcoming announcements about the kick off of the Campaign for the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Research and Engagement Center. This campaign is not just about protecting history for generations to come, but also actively engaging with it today. We hope you will join us in this exciting endeavor to build a new Archives and Special Collections building that highlights Purdue’s history and the ways Purdue has impacted the world.

For more information, please contact Kathryn Dilworth, Director of Advancement, Purdue Libraries and Purdue University Press, at KFDilworth@prf.org or (765) 494-2806.

This image is from one of the first pages of the 1889 Debris Yearbook produced by students. The image captures present-day Memorial Mall, with University Hall, the only structure remaining since the time the image was taken. Debris was published by students annually from 1889-2008

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Glenn Cooper

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Pris Gerde

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Martin Gerson

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Thomas and Jacquelyn Roberts Grady

Robert Gralinski

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Brian and Elaine Hicks

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Craig Hoffman

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Joseph and Sandra Howarth

Harold Howell

Joseph and Elizabeth Humenik

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Leon Hutton

Ganeshkumar and Nalini Iyer

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Mark Jarvis

Justin Jennings

Bob and Donna Jesse

Richard and Frances Johnson

Valerie Johnson

David and Victoria Klassen

Donald and Linda Kraft

Richard and Marie Kuhnla

Benette Laiken

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Mark and Denise Langhenry

Steven and Susanne Leininger

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Charles and Mary Martin

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Patricia Martin

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Joy Matson

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Richard and Donielle Mayer

Boni McCabe

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Hugh and Linda McMinn

Beth McNeil and Wes Welch

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Alvin Mordoh

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Anthony Mucelli

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Rudy Nix

Tony Nondorf

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Stephen Pater

Tom Pechan

Stephen Peppler

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Kenneth and Katherine Peters

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Richard and Rae Roley

Charles and Dorothy Rowe

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Linda Runkel

Nancy Russell

Michael Sambs

Thomas and Jane Schmidt

Kristie Schorr

Ralph and Sharon Schowe

Fred and Nancy Schpero

Kyle Schultz

Employees of Scot Industries

Mary Sego

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Douglas and Laura Skidmore

Gretchen Stephens

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     Simmering Zientek

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Frank and Phyllis Abbott

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Jane Anderson

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Peter and Nancy Ayers

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Harold and Mary Jane Bailey

William Baker

Nancy and David Barbee

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Thomas and Karen Bartels

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David and Lynn Beer

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Fred and Marilynn Broviak

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John and Ruth Cherry

Gerry and Carol Chrisman

Orla Christensen and Joan England

Larry and Jolee Clodfelter

Edwin Codner

Earl Coleman

Julianne Collins

Richard Collins

Stephen Conkling

Linda Conley

Richard Constantine

Marquis and Jo Cooke

James and Terry Coots

Thomas and Phyllis Corrigan

Ronald Coslett

Andrew Costello

Jane Coulston

Jeffery and Susan Covert

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Carol Cramer

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Betsey Dunaway

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     Edith Herman-Wiener

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Mary Ann Zimmerman

AFTERWORD

A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

James L. Mullins // Dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor 2004 – 2017 // Purdue University Libraries

It is never easy to have something you have enjoyed doing for so many years come to an end, however, all things do. It has been a remarkable thirteen and a half years. Purdue University has been my “perfect storm,” not in the traditional, negative connotation, but rather in a positive manner—the coming together of opportunities that enabled Libraries to further define and refine its role within Purdue University and make its mark in the profession.

When I arrived, Purdue Libraries, as all research libraries were in the early 21st century, was on the cusp of making the final transition from a print dominated world to a digital one. Processes and practices important in the past were becoming obsolete. As the world moved more toward a digital environment, Libraries had to make that transition, as well, to take advantage of new modes of scholarly communication to enable Libraries to most effectively benefit students and faculty alike.

No single person, not even a dean, can chart or determine the vision for an organization such as Purdue Libraries. It is a joint endeavor. During my time at Purdue, I have had remarkable colleagues within the Libraries administration, its faculty and staff who have made the Purdue Libraries one of the most innovative and creative research libraries in the United States, and some would say, the world. The support given to Purdue Libraries by the University administration and Purdue Trustees has been key to allowing Libraries to achieve the same level of recognition within the research library community that Purdue University has in the academic arena. As one long-time supporter of the Libraries, former Purdue Trustee John Hardin would say, “You can’t have a great university without a great library.” No truer statement has ever been made.

Finally, I want to note with great appreciation the work of the Dean’s Advisory Council comprised of Purdue alumni and friends whose support throughout these years has meant so much. Under the leadership of Larry Hiler, the DAC made commitments to raise funds and support initiatives within Libraries that have helped make it a national and world leader in innovation and creativity.

I depart at the end of 2017 knowing that Purdue Libraries is poised for its next level of greatness through the leadership of the next Dean of Libraries of Purdue University.

Hail Purdue and Boiler Up!

VF 2017

VOLUMe Fall 2017

 

LEGACY OF THE 1924 

POWER PLANT AND ITS 

ICONIC SMOKESTACK

LIVES ON!

When it became certain the 1924 Power Plant (HPN) would be demolished to make way for the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC), a group of individuals came together to decide what could be saved as artifacts from HPN that could help tell its story and celebrate the memories so many Boilermakers had of the iconic smokestack. On a very cold day in February 2014,the group toured HPN and identified parts of the structure (grating, flue doors, pipes, bricks, decorative trim) that could be re-purposed into the structure of the WALC. In addition, the group selected various pieces of equipment from HPN, including a turbine, control valves and gauges, and the ash cart that removed the cinders from the boilers and soot from the smokestack. These items were chosen to tell the story of the operations of HPN and the men who worked there, as well as the educational role it played for many Purdue engineering students.  

As the architects from BSA Life Structures designed the WALC, wall cases were planned that would display the artifacts, which would allow visitors to learn about the role of the 1924 Power Plant at Purdue. To ensure a coherent story and clarification of the items, a museum display professional from Museum Croft stewarded the location of the items in the cases as well as the narrative, all available through an audio tour that can be accessed via a smartphone. (The audio tour can be reached by dialing 765-245 3595. Of course, this can be dialed up from any location, but it is most meaningful to be in the WALC to have the artifact or photograph in front of you. The audio tour also challenges the listener to create her/his own story using the artifacts,thereby, becoming an active learner in the WALC.)

The walls of the WALC are also rich with reproductions of historic photographs of the Purdue University campus, including an aerial view of the campus from 1924, the year the Wilmeth brothers were students at Purdue.Several photographs show engineering students learning the operations of the 1924 Power Plant from a professor, as well as images depicting the workers who made the plant operate. 

A Purdue Icon:Creation, Life and Legacy

A Purdue Icon was published in August 2017 by Purdue University Press as part of its Founders Series, to convey, in seven essays, the significance of the 1924 Power Plant. The book highlights the growth of the industrial age during the late 19th century and the extraordinary growth and demand for electrical power, which necessitated the construction and continual expansion in the generation of heat and power, and ultimately cooling for Purdue. The book also discusses the design of the 1924 Power Plant and its significance as a statement of modernity in the 1920s; however, it also discusses the need for expansion beyond what the 1924 Power Plant could generate and ultimately its retirement in the 1980s.

The demolition of its smokestack was completed in the early 1990s, with the razing of the entire structure following in 2014.

The final essay discusses the planning and design of the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) on the site of the 1924 Power Plant. The WALC merits its central location as the vibrant heart of the Purdue campus on the very site of an earlier active learning center, the 1924 Power Plant. 

James L. Mullins // Dean of Libraries and Esther EllisNorton Professor 2004 – 2017 // Purdue University Libraries

A BUILDING TO SHOWCASE

PURDUE HISTORY

Sammie L. Morris // University Archivist and Head, Archives and Special Collections Division // Professor // Purdue University Libraries // morris18@purdue.edu

As we approach the 150th anniversary of Purdue University, it is the perfect time to commit to preserving its history. The mission of the Archives and Special Collections is to preserve and share the documents and artifacts that tell the remarkable story of how Purdue grew from a small land grant university on the banks of the Wabash River into the world-class research institution it is today.

Much has been achieved over the last 20 years to preserve Purdue’s history, and our collections are robust and meaningful. Scholars worldwide conduct research using our collections, and we regularly teach students about Purdue history using the archival collections. Yet, there is no place at Purdue for visitors and the Purdue community to actively engage with Purdue’s history and to learn about how it has grown over time and the ways Purdue alumni,faculty, and staff have impacted the world.

The inaugural (1958) Grand Prix go-kart race (proceeds go to scholarships) at  Purdue University, (see www.purduegrandprix.org/
foundation/history/).

It is at this important moment in the history of the University that we turn our eyes to the mission of engagement. As Harry Truman famously said, “There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”As we celebrate the success of the archival work done to collect and care for Purdue’s history, we believe now is the time to connect that history in a more meaningful way to students, scholars, alumni and the public.

A stand-alone Archives and Special Collection building would create a destination point for experiencing Purdue history. This building would serve as an engagement center where anyone—students, faculty, alumni, K-12, external scholars, and the public— could come to learn about Purdue’s rich heritage. The building would be designed to excite and educate visitors about Purdue’s past and its many innovations and accomplishments over time. An Archives and Special Collections building, with attractive, interactive displays and gallery spaces,will attract visitors eager to learn about Purdue and how it has moved the world forward.

Cover of the game day program for the 1893 football game between Purdue and DePauw held Thursday, November 30, 1893, in Indianapolis. Purdue won the game 42-18.

A state-of-the-art Archives and Special Collections building will allow us to continue supporting research, while adding in additional spaces for teaching and learning with enhanced engagement opportunities through museum-like gallery spaces. This building will house the historical documents,photos, films, artifacts, and publications that tell the story of Purdue. In addition to the University Archives, the new building will store the manuscripts and personal papers of noteworthy Purdue alumni and faculty, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s Archives, the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives, the Betsy Gordon Psychoactive Substances Research Collection, and the Libraries distinctive collections of rare books. Emerging technologies will be integrated into the building, to connect these valuable collections to the world and bring history to life. 

This image is from one of the first pages of the 1889 Debris Yearbook, the first yearbook produced by students. The image captures present-day Memorial Mall, with University Hall, the only structure remaining since the time the image was taken. Debris was published by students annually from 1889-2008. 

Please be on the look-out for upcoming announcements about the kick off of the Campaign for the Purdue University Archives and Special Collections Research and Engagement Center. This campaign is not just about protecting history for generations to come, but also actively engaging with it today. We hope you will join us in this exciting endeavor to build a new Archives and Special Collections building that highlights Purdue’s history and the ways Purdue has impacted the world.

For more information, please contact Kathryn Dilworth, Director of Advancement, Purdue Libraries and Purdue University Press, at KFDilworth@prf.orgor (765) 494-2806.

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Lois Maickel

Charles and Mary Martin

John and Patricia Geist Martin

Patricia Martin

Stephen Martin and Mary Mayer

Joy Matson

Derek and Anne Mauk

Richard and Donielle Mayer

Boni McCabe

Ward and Lou McClelland

Scott and Barbara McLaughlin

Hugh and Linda McMinn

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Alvin Mordoh

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Rudy Nix

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Ned Ochiltree

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Yousef Panahpour

Wayne and Judith Pask

Stephen Pater

Tom Pechan

Stephen Peppler

Eugene and Geraldine Pergament

Kenneth and Katherine Peters

Garrett and Mary Plepel

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Manuel and Joan Raffo

Grant and Elizabeth Richards

Rebecca Richardson

Ralph Rohrer and Melinda Jester

Richard and Rae Roley

Charles and Dorothy Rowe

Jason Rowland and Susan Haber

Linda Runkel

Nancy Russell

Michael Sambs

Thomas and Jane Schmidt

Kristie Schorr

Ralph and Sharon Schowe

Fred and Nancy Schpero

Kyle Schultz

Employees of Scot Industries

Mary Sego

Charles Shook

Edward Sigo

Douglas and Laura Skidmore

Gretchen Stephens

Brian Strobel

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Joyce Teel

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Carole Tolley

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     Katharine Tweedy-Weeder

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John and Janice Wilkins

Wilmeth Family

James and Barbara Wilson

Robert and Joyce Witte

Patrick and Leslie Wood

William and Margaret Wu

Chuanbo Zang

Scott and Brenda Zeevaart

Robert and Marcy Ziek

Michael and Heather Simmering Zientek

David Zwicky

Classof 1966 Donors

BoilerSTEAM Commons

Thomas and Sally Symmes Abbott

Frank and Phyllis Abbott

Daniel and Joyce Ahrns

Richard Allen

John Andelin and Virginia Geoffrey
Jane Anderson

Dan and Jane Williams Anglim

Donald and Sheila Ansley

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Peter and Nancy Ayers

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Nancy and David Barbee

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Thomas and Karen Bartels

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Charles and Barbara Beeson

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Gregg Borchelt

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Robert and Christina Brewer

Roy and Benita Bridges

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Carol Cramer

B. J. Crowel

Bruce and Sharon Miller Csaszar

Sherman and Patricia Murphy Dautel

Robert and Janice Davidson

Bruce and Anna Davis

John and Barbara Felch Day

Thomas and Shirley Deetz

Joseph and Nancee Delich

William DeTalvo

Douglas and Pamela Diehl

Richard Diemer

Wayne and Mary Jo Doebling

Robert Dolphin

Dennis and Leslie Drag

Betsey Dunaway

Laurence and Karen Dusold

Patricia Earnest

David and Ellen Easley

Bruce and Tricia Eastmond

Arlene Eggleston

Dennis and Janice Eickhoff

James and Janis Erb

William and Jimmie Espich

Robert and Katherine Kruggel Evans

Douglas and Christine Evans

Richard and Ann Falkner

Richard and Jeannette Findley

David Flanigan

John Fleck

Frederick and Julie Ulrey Foland Michael and Robbye Frank

Gilbert Frey

Peter Fruehman

Melvin Fujii

James and Catherine Gatman

Marilyn Geist

William and Dorothy Getz

Barry and Joanne Caudell Gibson

John Gilbert

George Gillespie

Donna Gollnick

Milan and Patricia Gorby

Barry and Paula Graden

Betty Gray

Larry Greulach

Carole Greulach

Larry and Helen Gruber

John and Jane Guagliardo

James and Bonnie Hajduk

John and Harriet Halkyard

Donn and Barbara Hancher

Carlo and Margaret Hansen

Jerome and Audrey Winzer Harness

Vincent and Sondra Harrell

Benjamin Haskins

Marshall and Janet Hedrick

Ellen Henderson

Leonard Wiener and

     Edith Herman-Wiener

Kevin and Michelle Higgins

Gerald and Mary Hintz

Dennis and Virginia Hixenbaugh

Wayne Hockmeyer

Phillip and Cynthia Hofman

James Hogan

Keith and Nancy Honegger

John and Christine Hostetler

William Howard

Neil Huff

Karen Humphreys

John and Candace Hunter

Richard and Susan Hunziker

Sudhakar Ingle

Thomas and Kathy Jenkins

Edward Johnson

Kenneth and Jane Jonaitis

Ronald Jumps

Joseph and Kathleen Kaar

Raymond and Beverly Karcher

Charles Keen

Joseph Kelly

Eleanor Keppler

Robert and Pamela Krause King

Robert Kinnier

Ray and Diane Klassen

John Klesch

George Kmetz

Richard Knipstein

William and Gina Kornrumpf

Lawrence and Joyce Krueger

Stanley and Hollis Greenman Kuenn

Thomas and Marcia Kuhn

Paul Kuhnert

Richard and Gloria Patrick Kunz

William and Marilyn Kunz

Andris and Sharon Kurins

Michael Lane

Robert Lautner

Thomas Lawlis

William Leech

Charles and Aino Leedom

Steven and Mary Beth Leininger

Larry and Nancy LeMay

Virginia Lentz

William and Linda Linnemeier

James Lohman and Christine Rinta

Ann Foster Lohn

James and Mable Long

Donald and Sandra Lowes

Larry and Barbara Lukens

Edward and Barbara Arens Lukes

Gary Mamer

Thomas and Kathryn Marcotte

Ronald Martin

Thomas and Rita Mathern

Henry and Sharon Suydam Mattice

Henry and Sandra Mayer

Lee McClain

Michal McClure

Michael and Sandra McDonald

Terence McDowell

Carol McGuff

Thomas and Mary McKane

Chaunchy and Elaine McKearn

Michael and Katherine McManus

Donald and Marian Meinheit

Charles and Catherine Mekel

Emil and Beth Meyer

Edward and Sandra Michaels

Eugene and Judith Michaud

Kenneth and Ann Miller

Francis and Charlotte Miozzi

Dennis and Barbara Mishler

Sheridan Miszklevitz

Dwight Mix

Jeffrey and Roberta Monger

Edward and Sara Morgan

Diane Dupuis Morris

David Morris

Carl and Sharon Mueller

Daniel and Pamela Murray

Barbara Muskin

Max Muterspaugh

Mark and Marilyn Nataupsky

Charles and Janet Nelson

Daniel and Genny Norman

Ronald Nowicki

Mary O’Brien

Shinya and Hisako Ochiai

Wayne and Emily Oehlman

Robert and Royleen Shanta Owczarzak

Gerald and Mary Patrick

Ray Paulin

George and Jane Pavlina

Karel and Sherry Peck

John and Brenda Penn

Bailey Terry and Ricarda Martin Perez

Harvey and Phyllis Persinger

David and Pamela Pethick

John and Margaret Petraits

David and Deanna Pettyjohn

Charles and Marjorie Poore

Thomas and Kay Potenza

Arthur and Jeremy Powell

Albert Price

Charles Quakenbush

Michael Radecki

Robert and Linda Railey

Orlando and Paula Meese Raimondo

Marjorie Randolph

Darrel Reininga

Kenneth Ries

Martha Robbins

Samuel and Louise Robinson

Albert Rosendahl

Armine Rotramel

Richard Sander

Thomas and Joanne Sawyer

John Schattyn

Michael and DeEtte Scheetz

Charles and Carolyn Schlehuser

Joseph and Nancy Schoendorf

James Schomer

Phillip and Su-Esta Scott

Bruce Scranage

Jerry and Cheryl Searcy

Sheila Seibel

James and Lois Shaevel

Don and Marilyn Shalibo

Stephen and Jane Sharon

Timothy and Naizme Sheehan

Ronald and Patricia Sheffler

James and Karen Shields

Alan and Linda Siegel

Malcolm and Janet Sigmond

John Simkanich

Stephen and Judith Sindlinger

Robert and Genevieve Skrivan

Roger Smith

Donald and Joann Smith

Robert and Susan Smith

Robert and Barbara Smith

Richard Snider

Carl and Ina Snook

William and Marlene Snyder

Larry Spitznagle

Thomas Springer

Stephen Spurgeon

Thomas Staples

Theodore Stapleton

James and Barbara Stark

Arthur and Joyce Stemp

Dennis and Marilyn Stine

James and Joan Stiver

Kenneth and Charlotte Stuff

Frances Sweet

Robert and Lynn Swingle

John and Patricia Tancredi

Rita Thacker

William and Ann Thomas

Paul and Esther Timmeney

George and Judith Tkacz

Steve and Marsha Tokarski

Robert and Toni Tongue

Timothy and Dorothe Trick

Wayne and Barbara Trout

Stephen Troyer

Robert and Mary Van Siclen

James and Linda VanSlette

Rinda Vogelgesang

Daniel Wagner

Richard Waldrop

James and Lucy Walker

Michael Walsh

Phillip and Dorothy Wankat

Dwight and Shirley Washburn

Thomas and Pricilla Washer

Leon and Marysue Wechsler

Bernard Weinland

Max Wessler

Alden and Mary West

Robert White

Margaret Whiting

William and Marthena Wilder

Frank and Marcia Wiles

Elaine Wilson

David Workman

Terry and Margaret Yake

Michael and Carolyn Yanke

Gary and Rachel Yingling

William and Sherry Young

Garr Youngren

Robert Zetzl

Joseph and Ruby Matthies Zima

Melanie Zimmer

Mary Ann Zimmerman

Class of 1966 Donors: Boiler STEAM Commons

Thomas and Sally Symmes Abbott

Frank and Phyllis Abbott

Daniel and Joyce Ahrns

Richard Allen

John Andelin and Virginia Geoffrey
Jane Anderson

Dan and Jane Williams Anglim

Donald and Sheila Ansley

Keith and Lynne Apple

Thomas Ashbaucher

Peter and Nancy Ayers

Edmund Ayson

Harold and Mary Jane Bailey

William Baker

Nancy and David Barbee

Thomas and Cynthia Barlo

Thomas and Karen Bartels

Judith Bechtold

David and Lynn Beer

Charles and Barbara Beeson

Larry and Linda Bellville

William and Paula Ross Berg

Donald and Carolyn Blackman

John and Brenda Blaha

Harold Blazevich

Joseph and Judith Blum

Richard and Sandra Bockhorst

Harlan and Virginia Bonsett

Gregg Borchelt

Stephen and Nancy Bourke

Ann Brace

Robert and Judy Brady

Charles and Chyrl Brandt

Karl and Luisa Bremer

Robert and Christina Brewer

Roy and Benita Bridges

Graham and Terry Parker Bright

Fred and Marilynn Broviak

Sharon Keller Brown

Monica Brunelle

John and Linda Buckman

Richard and Kathleen Bucknam

Philip and Wilhelmina Burket

Janet Schmidt Burkhart

Gene and Marie Buzzard

Herman Cantrell and Joann Data

Martha Cantrell

John and Marilyn Branham Caradonna

Pamela Carlton

Luanne Lee Carson

David Carter

William and Shirley Chappell

Ronald and Diana Bishop Chastain

John and Ruth Cherry

Gerry and Carol Chrisman

Orla Christensen and Joan England

Larry and Jolee Clodfelter

Edwin Codner

Earl Coleman

Julianne Collins

Richard Collins

Stephen Conkling

Linda Conley

Richard Constantine

Marquis and Jo Cooke

James and Terry Coots

Thomas and Phyllis Corrigan

Ronald Coslett

Andrew Costello

Jane Coulston

Jeffery and Susan Covert

John and Carolyn Cragun

Carol Cramer

B. J. Crowel

Bruce and Sharon Miller Csaszar

Sherman and Patricia Murphy Dautel

Robert and Janice Davidson

Bruce and Anna Davis

John and Barbara Felch Day

Thomas and Shirley Deetz

Joseph and Nancee Delich

William DeTalvo

Douglas and Pamela Diehl

Richard Diemer

Wayne and Mary Jo Doebling

Robert Dolphin

Dennis and Leslie Drag

Betsey Dunaway

Laurence and Karen Dusold

Patricia Earnest

David and Ellen Easley

Bruce and Tricia Eastmond

Arlene Eggleston

Dennis and Janice Eickhoff

James and Janis Erb

William and Jimmie Espich

Robert and Katherine Kruggel Evans

Douglas and Christine Evans

Richard and Ann Falkner

Richard and Jeannette Findley

David Flanigan

John Fleck

Frederick and Julie Ulrey Foland Michael and Robbye Frank

Gilbert Frey

Peter Fruehman

Melvin Fujii

James and Catherine Gatman

Marilyn Geist

William and Dorothy Getz

Barry and Joanne Caudell Gibson

John Gilbert

George Gillespie

Donna Gollnick

Milan and Patricia Gorby

Barry and Paula Graden

Betty Gray

Larry Greulach

Carole Greulach

Larry and Helen Gruber

John and Jane Guagliardo

James and Bonnie Hajduk

John and Harriet Halkyard

Donn and Barbara Hancher

Carlo and Margaret Hansen

Jerome and Audrey Winzer Harness

Vincent and Sondra Harrell

Benjamin Haskins

Marshall and Janet Hedrick

Ellen Henderson

Leonard Wiener and

     Edith Herman-Wiener

Kevin and Michelle Higgins

Gerald and Mary Hintz

Dennis and Virginia Hixenbaugh

Wayne Hockmeyer

Phillip and Cynthia Hofman

James Hogan

Keith and Nancy Honegger

John and Christine Hostetler

William Howard

Neil Huff

Karen Humphreys

John and Candace Hunter

Richard and Susan Hunziker

Sudhakar Ingle

Thomas and Kathy Jenkins

Edward Johnson

Kenneth and Jane Jonaitis

Ronald Jumps

Joseph and Kathleen Kaar

Raymond and Beverly Karcher

Charles Keen

Joseph Kelly

Eleanor Keppler

Robert and Pamela Krause King

Robert Kinnier

Ray and Diane Klassen

John Klesch

George Kmetz

Richard Knipstein

William and Gina Kornrumpf

Lawrence and Joyce Krueger

Stanley and Hollis Greenman Kuenn

Thomas and Marcia Kuhn

Paul Kuhnert

Richard and Gloria Patrick Kunz

William and Marilyn Kunz

Andris and Sharon Kurins

Michael Lane

Robert Lautner

Thomas Lawlis

William Leech

Charles and Aino Leedom

Steven and Mary Beth Leininger

Larry and Nancy LeMay

Virginia Lentz

William and Linda Linnemeier

James Lohman and Christine Rinta

Ann Foster Lohn

James and Mable Long

Donald and Sandra Lowes

Larry and Barbara Lukens

Edward and Barbara Arens Lukes

Gary Mamer

Thomas and Kathryn Marcotte

Ronald Martin

Thomas and Rita Mathern

Henry and Sharon Suydam Mattice

Henry and Sandra Mayer

Lee McClain

Michal McClure

Michael and Sandra McDonald

Terence McDowell

Carol McGuff

Thomas and Mary McKane

Chaunchy and Elaine McKearn

Michael and Katherine McManus

Donald and Marian Meinheit

Charles and Catherine Mekel

Emil and Beth Meyer

Edward and Sandra Michaels

Eugene and Judith Michaud

Kenneth and Ann Miller

Francis and Charlotte Miozzi

Dennis and Barbara Mishler

Sheridan Miszklevitz

Dwight Mix

Jeffrey and Roberta Monger

Edward and Sara Morgan

Diane Dupuis Morris

David Morris

Carl and Sharon Mueller

Daniel and Pamela Murray

Barbara Muskin

Max Muterspaugh

Mark and Marilyn Nataupsky

Charles and Janet Nelson

Daniel and Genny Norman

Ronald Nowicki

Mary O’Brien

Shinya and Hisako Ochiai

Wayne and Emily Oehlman

Robert and Royleen Shanta Owczarzak

Gerald and Mary Patrick

Ray Paulin

George and Jane Pavlina

Karel and Sherry Peck

John and Brenda Penn

Bailey Terry and Ricarda Martin Perez

Harvey and Phyllis Persinger

David and Pamela Pethick

John and Margaret Petraits

David and Deanna Pettyjohn

Charles and Marjorie Poore

Thomas and Kay Potenza

Arthur and Jeremy Powell

Albert Price

Charles Quakenbush

Michael Radecki

Robert and Linda Railey

Orlando and Paula Meese Raimondo

Marjorie Randolph

Darrel Reininga

Kenneth Ries

Martha Robbins

Samuel and Louise Robinson

Albert Rosendahl

Armine Rotramel

Richard Sander

Thomas and Joanne Sawyer

John Schattyn

Michael and DeEtte Scheetz

Charles and Carolyn Schlehuser

Joseph and Nancy Schoendorf

James Schomer

Phillip and Su-Esta Scott

Bruce Scranage

Jerry and Cheryl Searcy

Sheila Seibel

James and Lois Shaevel

Don and Marilyn Shalibo

Stephen and Jane Sharon

Timothy and Naizme Sheehan

Ronald and Patricia Sheffler

James and Karen Shields

Alan and Linda Siegel

Malcolm and Janet Sigmond

John Simkanich

Stephen and Judith Sindlinger

Robert and Genevieve Skrivan

Roger Smith

Donald and Joann Smith

Robert and Susan Smith

Robert and Barbara Smith

Richard Snider

Carl and Ina Snook

William and Marlene Snyder

Larry Spitznagle

Thomas Springer

Stephen Spurgeon

Thomas Staples

Theodore Stapleton

James and Barbara Stark

Arthur and Joyce Stemp

Dennis and Marilyn Stine

James and Joan Stiver

Kenneth and Charlotte Stuff

Frances Sweet

Robert and Lynn Swingle

John and Patricia Tancredi

Rita Thacker

William and Ann Thomas

Paul and Esther Timmeney

George and Judith Tkacz

Steve and Marsha Tokarski

Robert and Toni Tongue

Timothy and Dorothe Trick

Wayne and Barbara Trout

Stephen Troyer

Robert and Mary Van Siclen

James and Linda VanSlette

Rinda Vogelgesang

Daniel Wagner

Richard Waldrop

James and Lucy Walker

Michael Walsh

Phillip and Dorothy Wankat

Dwight and Shirley Washburn

Thomas and Pricilla Washer

Leon and Marysue Wechsler

Bernard Weinland

Max Wessler

Alden and Mary West

Robert White

Margaret Whiting

William and Marthena Wilder

Frank and Marcia Wiles

Elaine Wilson

David Workman

Terry and Margaret Yake

Michael and Carolyn Yanke

Gary and Rachel Yingling

William and Sherry Young

Garr Youngren

Robert Zetzl

Joseph and Ruby Matthies Zima

Melanie Zimmer

Mary Ann Zimmerman

AFTERWORD

A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN

JAMES L. MULLINS // Dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor 2004 – 2017 // Purdue University Libraries

It is never easy to have something you have enjoyed doing for so many years come to an end, however, all things do. It has been a remarkable thirteen and a half years. Purdue University has been my “perfect storm,” not in the traditional, negative connotation, but rather in a positive manner—the coming together of opportunities that enabled Libraries to further define and refine its role within Purdue University and make its mark in the profession.

When I arrived, Purdue Libraries, as all research libraries were in the early 21st century, was on the cusp of making the final transition from a print dominated world to a digital one. Processes and practices important in the past were becoming obsolete. As the world moved more toward a digital environment, Libraries had to make that transition, as well,to take advantage of new modes of scholarly communication to enable Libraries to most effectively benefit students and faculty alike.

No single person, not even a dean, can chart or determine the vision for an organization such as Purdue Libraries. It is a joint endeavor.During my time at Purdue, I have had remarkable colleagues within the Libraries administration, its faculty and staff who have made the Purdue Libraries one of the most innovative and creative research libraries in the United States, and some would say, the world. The support given to Purdue Libraries by the University administration and Purdue Trustees has been key to allowing Libraries to achieve the same level of recognition within the research library community that Purdue University has in the academic arena. As one long-time supporter of the Libraries, former Purdue Trustee John Hardin would say, “You can’t have a great university without a great library.” No truer statement has ever been made.

Finally, I want to note with great appreciation the work of the Dean’s Advisory Council comprised of Purdue alumni and friends whose support throughout these years has meant so much. Under the leadership of Larry Hiler, the DAC made commitments to raise funds and support initiatives within Libraries that have helped make it a national and world leader in innovation and creativity.

I depart at the end of 2017 knowing that Purdue Libraries ispoised for its next level of greatness through the leadership of the next Deanof Libraries of Purdue University.

Hail Purdue and Boiler Up!

In the photo, Dean Mullins is holding a dictionary he has owned for nearly 50 years. The well-worn edition of Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate was given to him by his late brother and sister-in-law for his high school graduation.

VOLUMe Spring 2017

VOLUMe Spring 2017

Purdue Libraries Mission & Vision

“Purdue University Libraries is singular
in more ways than just its name.”

mission: Our mission is to advance the creation of knowledge for the global community through the provision, development, dissemination, curation, and preservation of research and scholarship; the collection and archiving of the historical record of the University; the teaching of information literacy; advocacy for informed learning and open access; the creation of dynamic physical and virtual learning environments; and research in library, archival, and information sciences.

We accomplish our mission through our core values and defining characteristics via a culture committed to:

A learner and researcher focus;

Diversity, equity, inclusiveness, and respect for all;

Collaboration;

Creativity, innovation, and risk taking;

Equitable access to information; and

Responsible stewardship of University resources.

vision: Purdue University Libraries will be a national and international model for the 21st-century academic research library.

WILMETH ACTIVE LEARNING CENTER 
Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) will open August 2017. The latest construction project of Purdue University, the WALC is a new Libraries’ building housing the Engineering and Science Library, and it will incorporate 27 classrooms. Read more about the building at www.lib.purdue.edu/walc.

learning: We contribute to student success and lifelong learning through innovative educational practices. Our research-based information literacy programming empowers Purdue’s diverse communities of learners to use information critically to learn and to create new knowledge. Our learning spaces, both virtual and physical, align with evolving curricula and student learning needs.

scholarly communication: We enhance the spectrum of scholarly communication from discovery to delivery through the provision of information resources, services, research, partnerships, and national and international leadership. We advocate for change in scholarly communication to promote economic sustainability, effective use of copyright, and open access to knowledge for all.

engagement and emerging opportunities: We commit our resources and expertise in Library, Information, and Archival Sciences to advance the profession and contribute to the welfare and economic development of the citizens and state of Indiana, the nation, and the world.

Foreword

A message from a member of USLAC

TRENT LOW
Mechanical Engineering // Class of 2017 // Purdue University // Midshipman, United States Navy 

Being a part of the Undergraduate Student Libraries Advisory Council (USLAC) has truly been an amazing experience during my time as an undergraduate at Purdue. I was first invited to join the council when I met Dean Jim Mullins while doing yard work for a student organization.

Since then, opportunities to provide input—about everything from what kind of chairs should be used in the Hicks Library to touring other universities’ libraries to gain insight on how the new Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) should be designed—were provided to me and my fellow council members. The results of our shared opinions demonstrate how our input has made, and will continue to make, an impact on campus. I hope current and future Purdue students will find all of our input useful when using the WALC.

In addition to inviting and listening to students’ opinions about the design and resources available in the WALC, Purdue personnel also examined the best design aspects of other universities’ facilities and blended those into the design of the WALC, resulting in a well rounded, highly functional facility. Many of the features students will have in the WALC are a direct result of this due diligence.

My favorite of these features will be reflected in the approach to classroom use in the new building. Once classroom hours for the day have concluded, the classroom space will be available for individual study sessions, as well as group meetings, until classes resume the next day. Long gone are the days of locked and empty classrooms going to waste while students hope to find open study spots in the libraries during finals week. Once the WALC opens, students will be able to make use of all its spaces in the evening and overnight hours, ensuring access to this much needed study space.

My second favorite feature of the WALC is the “maker” space that will be available to students from every college. This space will provide access to software and materials for personal hobbies, as well as class projects, and will even house 3-D printers. It is access to resources like these – resources that formerly were only available to students who belonged to a designated college – that help drive student creativity, curiosity, and innovation.

As a student body, we often joke that the University administration does not care about what we think; however, that could not be further from the truth at Purdue. To be frank, I never would have thought that Purdue personnel would take my advice about a large project such as the WALC. Yet they took my suggestions, and many other students’ suggestions, too, along the way.

When the doors finally open, I am sure that not only will the WALC be a building students find extremely useful, but it also will stand as a reflection of how much members of the University administration listen to the needs of the student body. In time, the WALC’s design is one sure to be emulated by universities and institutions of higher education around the nation and the globe.

Award Winning Attributes

ERLA HEYNS
Associate Professor // Head, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education and Business Division // Purdue University Libraries // eheyns@purdue.edu 

Last August, I joined Purdue University Libraries as the Head of the Humanities, Social Science, Education, and Business (HSSEB) Division. I am proud to be part of this highly acclaimed institution, and I commend the Libraries’ faculty and staff on receiving the coveted Excellence in Academic Libraries Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in 2015.

When thinking about the Purdue Libraries, several of our institution’s attributes are important to recognize,including the faculty and staff members’ efforts to plan for the present and future, their commitment to teaching and learning, and the opportunities for faculty and staff to collaborate across the Libraries.

Powerful Planning

My experience providing leadership and direction for innovative programs and services at Indiana University and, most recently, at Cornell University Libraries, leads me to believe that having a clearly articulated plan for the Libraries is essential to channel resources effectively in order to fulfill the mission of the University.

What stands out to me in the Purdue Libraries’ plan is the high level of “collaboration, creativity, innovation, and risk taking” acknowledged by the ACRL award. Collaboration,creativity, and innovation are also identified in the core values and defining characteristics of the institution in the Libraries, Press, and Copyright Office Strategic Plan for 2016–2019. Our plan provides a clear road map for the Purdue Libraries.

Active Teaching and Learning

As we re-envision our goals for the HSSEB Division, I am leading a strong group of Libraries’ faculty and staff members deeply committed to the Libraries’ learning goals and to providing award-winning, innovative teaching. Our classroom learning spaces set us apart from our peers, and in the Parrish Management Library and the Hicks Undergraduate Library, these spaces create unique opportunities to engage students in active and collaborative learning activities through new, educational technology and highly flexible classroom design.

Collaborative Effort

We will continue to explore how to continue to collaborate with our colleagues in other parts of Purdue Libraries, such as with our fellow faculty and staff members. With Publishing and Archives specifically, we share the goal of creating Digital Humanities platforms.In addition, faculty in our Research Data Unit provide data management and curation education, which is of great interest to our HSSEB faculty. Their work lends itself to excellent collaborations.

Empowering Students and Cultivating Success

MICHAEL FLIERL
Assistant Professor // Academic Affairs // Information Literacy // Purdue University Libraries // mflierl@purdue.edu

I find the word “empower” important. As Purdue University Libraries’ Learning Design Specialist, I lead the Libraries’ efforts to empower Purdue students in transition – such as first-year, international, and transfer-experience students –to use information critically and reflectively to learn.

In “Beyond a Deficit View,” an Inside Higher Ed opinion piece (April 2016), Byron White, vice president for university engagement and chief diversity officer at Cleveland State University, states: “let us recognize first [students’] gifts, talents,and contributions, rather than their deficits.”

In my own travels to Maskwacis Cultural College (Alberta,Canada) – with its mission “[t]o educate with discipline and compassion so that Indigenous and other communities will be inspired by creative, intelligent individuals” – I learned, firsthand, the importance of this concept. There is a significant difference between discussing student expectations from a position of strength as opposed to referring to them as “at-risk” or “disadvantaged.”

Students from different backgrounds, who possess varying perspectives about and experiences from the world, enrich our campus community socially, culturally, and intellectually. Nietzsche understood this, noting: “A young man [or woman] can be most surely corrupted when he [or she] is taught to value the like-minded more highly than the differently minded.”

My previous position at Purdue focused on the IMPACT(Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) program. There, I helped faculty redesign courses to make them more student-centered.

I view my current position as an extension of my previous one – to think, first, about how students will experience using information to learn and succeed at Purdue. Now, as a faculty fellow for the First-Street Residence Halls this academic year, I have the wonderful opportunity to work more directly with students. Not only am I excited to serve as a resource, but I am also delighted to learn from Purdue’s ambitious and intelligent students.

In my current research, I am investigating international students’ academic and information literacy learning needs, active learning spaces, and librarian experiences of the IMPACT program. The goal of all these efforts is to achieve a greater understanding of the factors that influence student learning in a variety of circumstances and contexts.

This is important because many Purdue students face systemic challenges that limit their abilities to succeed. It is my task to address these challenges head on, so that all students at Purdue are afforded opportunities for personal, professional, and academic success.

I feel great pride and meaning in such an endeavor.

Hoosier History

Archival Collection Inspires Indiana Legacy Project

DAVID HOVDE (left)
Associate Professor // Archives and Special Collections // Purdue University Libraries // hovde@purdue.edu

NEAL HARMEYER 
(right)
Digital Archivist // Archives and Special Collections // Purdue University Libraries // harmeyer@purdue.edu

The mission of any archive or special collection is to preserve the past and present it to provide access to present and future generations. Within the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center in the Purdue University Libraries, each day brings forth new insights and information about the history and people of Purdue University and their impact upon the world.

As part of a team of professional archivists, faculty, and staff, we collect, describe, preserve, and make available unique historical content unlike any else in human history—at a place unlike any else in human history. Whether aiding a researcher in our reading room, answering a question originating from another continent, or teaching students in the classroom, our mission is to provide access and education to all. The materials within the Archives and Special Collections inspire us to learn about our own shared past while documenting our present.

Recently, one extraordinary archival collection inspired us to collaborate, along with Fred Whitford, clinical engagement professor at Purdue Pesticide Programs, on the 2016 book, Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo History of Indiana’s Early County Extension Agents. Our goal for this book was to explore a lesser-known aspect of Purdue and Indiana state agricultural history. We were fortunate to work with the Purdue University Press to publish this work, now recognized by the state as a Bicentennial Legacy Project.

The book features hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs that depict agricultural life in Indiana in the 20th century. In 1912, officials from the Purdue College of Agriculture Extension Agent program sent representatives across the state to conduct research, educate farmers, and return their findings to Purdue University. These agents labored in Indiana’s farming communities, and through their work to help create safer work environments and foster continuous improvement of farming operations via local education programs, they helped bring about better economic situations for Indiana families. Integral aspects of rural Indiana – such as 4-H,agribusiness, hybrid crops, and on-site farming demonstrations – all gained prominence through the work of those agents during the last century.

The collection – currently inclusive of all 92 Indiana counties during the years 1913-1972 – remains open and available for any interested party to study and research. The extension agents’ reports and their associated photographs represent a time and place not far from our own. Yet, if these materials had not been preserved within Purdue Archives and Special Collections,the scientific, personal, familial, and institutional challenges and accomplishments of those involved would have been diminished or even lost.

The mission to maintain a continuum of knowledge, experience, and understanding of actions, places, and peoples underpins the importance of archives and special collections. As the authors of Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family, standing we studied one such continuum and feel privileged to contribute new scholarship and highlight the bountiful information preserved within Purdue Archives and Special Collections.

What it Means to be a Manager in Purdue Libraries

In the Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary’s online collegiate thesaurus, the word “operation” has many listed synonyms and related words for its various meanings. “Responsibility,” “performance,” “commitment,”“plan,” “supervision,” “leadership,” and “achievement” are among them. And like the dictionary entry, in this round up of Purdue Libraries’ nine operation managers’ duties, each OM describes his or her work with a variety of verbiage that demonstrates the wide range of services and tasks they monitor and maintain, as well as the span of positions, they manage daily.

Diana Grove, Head, Acquisitions: The rapidly changing environment of Acquisitions is a consistent theme with my position; I think often about how traditional acquisition functions can be streamlined and improved. In my position, I am responsible for managing the operations of the Acquisitions Unit to ensure the unit’s goals are met. I work in close collaboration with personnel from other library departments, and I also work closely with vendor-account service mangers and contacts from other universities. I work with the Acquisitions staff to ensure work flows are efficient, that training needs are met, and to initiate cross training.

Gene Ann Fausett, OM, Archives & Special Collections (ASC): I am responsible for security and operations, as well as space allocation and management, and I assist with special projects (e.g., digitizing archival items), recording accessions, and I serve as the unit’s safety representative. A typical day could involve creating a new swipe badge for an employee, retrieving items from an offsite location,discussing the Library of Congress’ XML METS/ALTO standards for digitizing a collection, and describing and recording new donations in our content management system. Frequently, I assist patrons in researching items about our collections.

Amy Winks, OM, Access Services: In my position, I provide operational and administrative leadership to the Access Services department. I also manage the interlibrary loan and centralized circulation operations. I spend most of my time managing and supervising the work of employees and overseeing access-related services. I also consult and collaborate with other Purdue Libraries’ OMs, as well as members of the administration, on Access Services policies, including planning and implementing changes.

DIANA GROVE (top)

GENE ANN FAUSETT (middle)

AMY WINKS (bottom)

Mandi Gramelspacher, Administrative Services Manager: Just by looking at me, you would never know that I am a professional juggler. I do not juggle tennis balls, bowling pins, or flaming batons (although on occasion my job feels just as intimidating!). As the administrative services manager for Purdue Libraries, I juggle tasks, schedules, meetings, deadlines, and priorities. My job is a constant cycle of tracking responsibilities, ensuring they are completed, and hoping that nothing slips through the cracks. I enjoy helping others, and one of my favorite things about my job is the variety of people I support and interact with each day.

Monica Kirkwood, OM, Health and Life Sciences Division: Rapid changes in technology require new training on a regular basis, so staff members are equipped to assist patrons efficiently. As the OM of my division, I am committed to supporting training for each of my staff and student staff members. Frequent training helps to ensure they are familiar with our commonly used databases and electronic resources while maintaining knowledge of our print collections.

Cliff Harrison, OM, Digital Programs (ASC): The Digital Programs unit provides digital reformatting services to faculty and staff in the Libraries and to individuals in the Purdue community. As the operations manager, I oversee all aspects of digitization projects, from planning through the final delivery of digitized collections. In our unit, we are equipped to digitize many kinds of still-image media, including photographs, documents, manuscripts, books, bound journals,scrapbooks, slides, and photographic negatives. We also serve faculty and departments outside the libraries to digitize collections of significant research and historical interest. These external projects have included a large set of documents from Amnesty International, a complete run of the Faculty Senate meeting minutes, and a collection of photographs from the Purdue Bands.

MANDI GRAMELSPACHER (top)

MONICA KIRKWOOD (middle)

CLIFF HARRISON (bottom)

RaeLynn Boes, OM,Humanities, Social Science, Education and Business (HSSEB) Division: My position provides operational leadership and management for HSSEB Division,which includes the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics, the Hicks Undergraduate Library, and the HSSE Library. In addition to conducting performance evaluations and recommending appropriate personnel actions (such as scheduling, prioritizing of work, hiring, and training), I help set priorities and balance the workload of staff members to maintain high standards of user service.

Amanda Gill, OM, Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Technology (PSET) Division: I am responsible for supervising staff, overseeing projects, and keeping our service points running smoothly. It is my goal to make sure every location under my purview offers the best customer service possible. This means making sure staff members are educated on all policies and procedures, and they are well versed in the various resources and databases that apply to their areas.

Joe Kinzig, OM, Print Repositories: Print Repositories’ three locations are currently experiencing massive changes in order to facilitate the soon-to-be-open Wilmeth Active Learning Center. Our compact shelving, which consists of 22 miles of shelving, has recently undergone a renovation from electric to manual operation. This renovation should extend the life of the shelving another 40 years. Lights and additional bracing are also being installed in our Veterinary Medical Library located in Lynn Hall. Amongst all these changes, we have withdrawn some 300,000 items and transferred-in more than 500,000 items.

RAELYNN BOES (top)

AMANDA GILL (middle) 

JOE KINZIG (bottom)

Looking Back, Moving Forward

NANCY HEWISON
Professor // Associate Dean for Planning and Administration // Purdue University Libraries // nhewison@purdue.edu

It has been 32 years since I joined the Purdue Libraries faculty. Recently, I  reflected on the Purdue Libraries transformation during that time – especially the markedly different ways libraries and library resources are now used by students and faculty and the dramatically different role of Libraries faculty.

Libraries have always been important for students, not only because they offer collections and knowledgeable librarians, but also because they are great places to study. When the Hicks Undergraduate Library opened in 1982,undergraduate students flocked to it, as they now had a place, away from the distractions of their residence halls, focused on their needs.

Over the years,we have reimagined library space to better support student learning, incorporating both group and individual study space. Food and drink, which had been forbidden in libraries (although not completely absent, as evidenced by a banana peel I once found hidden at the back of a shelf of Biological Abstracts), are now not only permitted, but also increasingly available within the Purdue Libraries.

In the 1980s, finding books in the campus libraries was a challenge since each library had a card catalog of just its own holdings. In the 1990s, THOR, a computerized library catalog covering the holdings of all Purdue libraries was made available,but users had to go to a library in order to search it.

Today, we have grown accustomed to locating easily and quickly both print and online books via the catalog on the website. The website also offers searchable databases that lead the user to journal articles and other publications on almost any topic, no matter how complex or obscure. Available since the 1980s, online databases revolutionized the process of searching for information.

The role of Libraries faculty (librarians) has changed dramatically since the 1980s, when we managed libraries, offered assistance at a reference desk, presented instructional sessions on how to use the library, and built book and journal collections. Today, skilled professionals manage operations of the Purdue Libraries.Our Libraries faculty members are key contributors to undergraduate student learning as instructors for numerous courses, and they are collaborating with colleagues for the integration of information literacy into courses across the curriculum, as well. They collaborate with faculty and guide graduate students in the management of research data, serve as consultants to other universities’personnel seeking to create active learning spaces, and share their research and their practice via publications in professional journals. 

The Purdue Libraries will continue to realign and rethink services, spaces, and collections to meet the changing needs of students, faculty, and staff. We’re rightfully excited about the soon-to-be opened Wilmeth Active Learning Center,with its science and engineering library, innovative learning spaces, extensive space for individual and group study, and a café.

As 2017 and subsequent years unfold, I’m certain our Libraries faculty and staff will continue to create learning experiences, services, and spaces that will become significant parts of the Purdue experience for students and the entire Purdue community.

Expanding Information Literacy for Future Engineers

MARGARET PHILLIPS
Assistant Professor // Engineering Information Specialist // Purdue University Libraries // phill201@purdue.edu

Engineers and technologists need to be skilled in quickly locating and using high-quality information for their work. Making evidence-based design decisions is key to project success, reducing the potential for unnecessary costs and delays. Thus, to best prepare students for the workplace, it is essential that real world, authentic information experiences are incorporated into their engineering and engineering technology curricula.

In my role as the Engineering Information Specialist in the Purdue Libraries, I collaborate with faculty in the College of Engineering and the Purdue Polytechnic Institute (PPI) to develop and strengthen students’ information literacy. I am passionate about my work, which helps to expand the role of information in students’assignments and projects.

A new initiative I lead involves a collaboration with faculty in the schools of mechanical engineering and engineering technology. The project embeds Purdue Libraries faculty as information consultants in mechanical engineering (ME), mechanical engineering technology (MET), and electrical and computer engineering technology (ECET) senior design teams. Early feedback indicates this is a successful approach to facilitate student learning about information sources beneficial for design, such as patents and technical standards.

In addition, I am currently the principal investigator for a grant project funded by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). For the project, “Standards are Everywhere: An Information Literacy Approach to Standards Education,” along with my co-principal investigators, Paul McPherson, visiting assistant professor at the PPI, and Michael Fosmire, professor in Purdue Libraries, we are creating an open access standards education platform. This platform will contain web-based, interactive tutorials, assessments, and digital badge credentialing, all of which will be able to be downloaded and implemented“right out of the box” by any instructor.

Technical standards are information sources heavily utilized in industry; however, they are often neglected, or they are only incorporated on a surface level, in many engineering and engineering technology programs. I am excited that our platform will provide an easy way for instructors to integrate standards education into engineering and engineering technology courses. As a result, students will be able to convey their knowledge to potential employers and other educators through digital badges.

Information Literacy and Improved Health

BETHANY MCGOWAN
Assistant Professor // Health Sciences Information Specialist // Purdue University Libraries // bmcgowa@purdue.edu

At Purdue University libraries, I am in the unique position to teach health care providers the information literacy skills that lead to better-informed clinical decisions.

In my role as Health Sciences Information Specialist, I teach the information literacy competencies and evidence-based practices that health care professionals need to recognize and use quality health information. One of my favorite things about my work is teaching students with a range of research experience, from undergraduates, who are just beginning to explore their interests in entry-level nutrition classes, to graduate nursing students, who are able to put what they have learned to use in clinical settings immediately.

Most of my teaching is focused on conveying the link between health information literacy and evidence-based practices. The Medical Library Association defines health information literacy as the set of abilities needed to recognize a health information need; identify likely information sources and use those sources to retrieve relevant information; assess the quality of information and its applicability to a specific situation; and analyze, understand, and use information to make good health decisions. Evidence-based practices complement health information literacy by supporting the integration of clinical expertise, patient values, and current research evidence into the decision-making process for patient care.

Noteworthy projects I have been involved in include a collaboration with the Purdue Discovery Learning Research Center, in which we presented hackathon opportunities that encouraged participants to use open health data. I shared the experience in a recent publication, “Hackathon Planning and Participation Strategies for Non-Techie Librarians.”

I also attended the 2016 Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Immersion Teaching Track Program and am a teaching assistant for the Spring 2017 cohort of IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) Faculty Fellows. Both opportunities are helping me transform my teaching approach. In addition to instructional design principles, I am exploring how information and data visualizations, such as maps, can be used to convey complicated health information.

Delving into Data

KENDALL ROARK
Assistant Professor // Data Specialist // Purdue University Libraries // roark6@purdue.edu

In my position in Purdue Libraries, I draw on my experience gained as an applied anthropologist, as well as from on-the-job training as a Council on Library and Information Resources postdoctoral fellow in data curation (2013 – 2015). Currently, I am an assistant professor with the Purdue University Libraries Research Unit and affiliate faculty with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WFSS) program. In 2012, I received my Ph.D. in anthropology with a graduate certificate in women’s studies from Temple University.

As part of my role as a research data specialist at Purdue University Libraries, I seek to better understand researcher practices, workflows, data, and information needs. I meet with individual researchers or research groups and collaborate on applied research projects with colleagues locally and abroad.

Specifically, in my current projects, I seek to understand perspectives of those involved directly in confidential information and sensitive data handling within the university-industry partnerships, clinical research settings, and medical archives. I also collaborate with researchers and technology designers at Purdue and other institutions to develop and implement privacy-aware protocols, workflows, and other tools that help facilitate ethical data-sharing practices.
 

As an instructor, I teach workshops for graduate students through the Graduate Research Information Portal (G.R.I.P.) and present guest lectures on data management and the sharing of human subjects data. I also provide curriculum-development assistance for Purdue instructors who wish to incorporate data management, digital methodologies, and broader data literacy topics into their courses. 

As a member of the Data Education Working Group, I am involved with organizing professional-development opportunities for Libraries faculty. Additionally, I currently am developing a pilot workshop series for instructors in the College of Liberal Arts who wish to introduce or further develop data management learning outcomes into their research methods courses. I also participate in this process as the instructor of record for WGSS 68200, “Issues in Feminist Research and Methodology,” offered this spring. In this course, I incorporate feminist approaches to critical information (data) literacy and ethical data management principles. 

More information about Research Data services at Purdue can be found at www.lib.purdue.edu/researchdata.

Parsing Patent Information Literacy

DAVID ZWICKY
Assistant Professor // Chemical Information Specialist // Purdue University Libraries // swicky@purdue.edu

Currently, my focus is on patent information literacy. In addition to their value – a recent patent case involving pharmaceutical companies Idenix and Gilead led to a record $2.5 billion-dollar judgment – as intellectual property, patents are rich, complex sources of information with relevance to science and engineering, entrepreneurship, history, and design. Oftentimes, patents are the only public source of information about corporate research and development activities; as an example, I am aware of estimates that assert more than three quarters of the chemicals in the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)Registry database are discussed only in patents, rather than in traditional scholarly journals.

A student or researcher without some basic patent knowledge could be at a serious disadvantage, even if he or she does not plan to obtain a patent for his or her own invention. Still, many people – even when they do not dismiss patents as purely commercial documents – find patents difficult to use. The legal-technical language used to define inventions formally can be hard to parse.

I am interested in exploring how students and researchers learn about patents, how they interact with patents, and how they exploit patents to inform their work.

Purdue has been at the forefront of patent librarianship for many years. We have collaborated extensively with the United States Patent& Trademark Office’s Patent & Trademark Research Center (PTRC) Program to bring patent programming and resources to campus. Over the course of her career, Professor Emerita Charlotte Erdmann worked with a variety of patent and trademark stakeholders on campus to do just that.

As Purdue’s current representative to the PTRC Program, I am in a position to continue those collaborations and extend them through my own work.

Recently, Assistant Professor Margaret Phillips and I have been looking at how students in an engineering technology class incorporate patents into the engineering design process. Margaret and I have been involved in the course for several semesters; we lead students through patent-searching exercises and observe the students’ discussions of their experiences in their papers and presentations.

While we are still in the process of evaluating our data, we have discerned the students use patents to inform their designs in several different ways. Many students have used patents in a traditional manner – e.g.,to determine the novelty of their designs – but some have found different,creative ways to exploit patent information.

My hope for these efforts is that I can learn what drives patent information literacy, with the goal of improving patent instruction for our students and patent outreach for our community.

For the Love of Libraries & Student Support

JOY MATSON
Libraries’ Dean Advisory Council

I love to talk with people about the Libraries at Purdue! It is wonderful to get them to the moment where they comprehend what is going on inside of these buildings and subsequently understand how the work of the staff and faculty impacts students and researchers.

I first met Dean Mullins when he and his wife, Kathy, moved to West Lafayette. It did not take long for me to get on board with his mission to take Purdue to the top of the field in academic libraries. Winning the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) award in 2015 was proof of that achievement. I am proud to have been a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council in the Libraries during this rise to the top.

I chose to support the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) early on in that campaign because the facility is a ground breaker, in terms of collaboration between an institution’s library and student learning on a college campus. On our council, we have discussed for years the research that went into the design and use of this facility.

While I am not a Purdue graduate, the teaching and learning that goes on across campus inspires me as a donor. This is the reason – when I made my planned gift to the Libraries – I asked that it go toward student support. The Libraries is the one place that serves all of the students, and the resources and expertise of the Libraries’ faculty and staff make a big difference in their individual learning.

My gift is going to support tuition through the funding of awards and scholarships, and I could not be more excited about that! I am proud to connect my legacy at the University to the Purdue Libraries, and I look forward to seeing it continue to support students at the highest level.

My gift, to support students in the Libraries, is in honor of my mother, Erma R. Matson, an educator and lifetime learner.

Computer Consequences

JUDY NIXON
Professor // Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and Business // Purdue University Libraries // jnixon@purdue.edu

My story at Purdue University Libraries spans more than 30 years and has involved significant change and adaption. It is a story that has evolved with the change that computers have brought to libraries. In some ways, though, my job is much the same as it was when I came to Purdue. I still select books and journals, and I still teach students how to do research. In other ways,however, the job has changed almost beyond recognition.

In 1984, when I started as the Consumer and Family Sciences (CFS) Librarian, we were still filing cards in the card catalog. The e-book and the e-journal were barely a dream; yet faculty and staff at Purdue Libraries were on the forefront of providing personal computers for each library.

One of the primary reasons I accepted the position had to do with the promising attributes of the new IBM dual disk-drive personal computer. I need edit for online searching in the Dialog database; at the time, I was not sure how else I would use the “modern” invention.

I soon discovered I could use it to index the journal articles in the hospitality index, a field of study poorly indexed by the commercial indexes. The project lead to a print and an online index used by our students. Shortly thereafter, we were selling it to other hospitality schools in both print and CD-ROM formats. 

In 1989, I was recognized with the John H. Moriarty Award for Excellence in Library Service to the Faculty and Students of Purdue University. In 1994, I was honored, too, with the Gale Research Award for Excellence in Business Librarianship. I received the awards, in part, because of the Lodging and Restaurant Index. Personnel in the CFS Library continued to produce the index for more 15 years, until it was taken over by EBSCO and formed the basis of the database Hospitality & Tourism Complete.

After 10 years as the CFS Librarian, I took the position as the Krannert School of Management & Economics Librarian, now the Roland Parrish Library at Purdue University. At the time, management and economics were fields with great demand for electronic access. Besides journal articles, our researchers needed access to electronic versions of financial reports, marketing and economic data, tax law services, and accounting standards, and we had a lot of print material, too. In addition, like other business libraries, we had a huge collection of corporate annual reports (ARSs) used by researchers for the financial data. Using my experience with database development on the hospitality database, I began indexing the ARSs. Eventually, I merged the records for ARS reports from a dozen universities to create a joint index called Annual Reports at Academic Business Libraries, which is accessible via the web.

After another 10 years, I became the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education Librarian. In this position, one major project (that called for computer skills) I tackled involved solving the problem of books shelved in improper locations. To solve this, I developed a process that required the regular scanning of bar codes and then interfaced this data with our online system. In 2009, another significant project (that also required computer skills) involved a major review of periodicals in order to reduce the serial budget by 10 percent.

Since 2009, I have served as the Education Librarian, and again in this position, I have used computers and learned new software products to create online tutorials, some comprehensive and lengthy, and others that are quick “two-minute tips” on specific topics. In my current job, I have had more time for research and have edited two books, Academic E-Books (Purdue University Press, 2016) and Patron-Driven Acquisitions (Routledge, 2011.) 

Overall, I would say the major influences on my career as a librarian have been the computer and my ability to learn how to use computing technology to provide the resources our users need. Every new development in the computer world brings some new tools for librarians. I still love to learn the new tools and apply them to the work I do in the Purdue Libraries.

Experiential Learning in the ASC Leads Students to Cultural Heritage Careers

The Division of Archives and Special Collections (ASC) at Purdue Libraries has become more that a repository for the records of Purdue, achievements of alumni, and rare materials. In addition to welcoming thousands of students, faculty, and scholars from all over the world annually, the Archives has become a laboratory in which undergraduate student workers, who have a passion for history, can gain professional skills and be mentored for careers in cultural heritage.

On average, the Archives employs 16 students – with such various majors as computer science, linguistics, history, engineering, and agriculture – per semester. Like all student workers in Purdue Libraries, these students learn to employ professional skills in their everyday interactions with staff and our patrons. For those students with a particular interest in historic preservation, working in the ASC, alongside Purdue archivists, has opened doors to coveted internships, spots in graduate programs, and career opportunities.

Three recent Purdue graduates who have chosen graduate studies and careers in cultural heritage fields are former ASC student archives assistants. They are: Max Campbell (B.A. 2014, M.A. 2016), Katie Martin (B.A. 2015), and Hannah Vaughn(B.A. 2016). In addition, during their studies, each enrolled in one or more courses co-taught with Purdue archivists. These students earned competitive internships at the Smithsonian, and two of them have chosen to enroll in graduate school for Library and Information studies.

Each shared how his or her opportunity working in the ASC served as a life-changing experience.

Katie Martin (left)

As a history and American studies major, I was interested in a potential career in archives and special collections from the beginning, but my student assistant position in the Purdue Archives confirmed my interest. The archives staff members were always highly encouraging and supportive and made me feel validated in pursuing this career. I am forever grateful for the opportunities and will always regard my supervisor, Digital Archivist Neal Harmeyer, as a wonderful mentor.

I loved going to work in the archives because I felt surrounded by so much history all the time – just walking into the vault everyday was an affirmation of my interest in archives. I remember learning about Amelia Earhart’s prenuptial letter to George Palmer Putnam in a class my freshman year, and I was able to hold the actual document in my hands three years later. Nothing compares to thinking of an item’s significance to the course of human history while you are holding it in your hands.

I loved meeting Astronaut Captain Eugene Cernan, a Purdue alumnus, at the opening of his papers, volunteering at the Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan exhibit open houses, and publishing my Amelia Earhart paper in Flight Paths/presenting it at poster sessions.

I am now in the second year of the MLS program at Indiana University and work in the Indiana University Archives, the Modern Political Papers Unit, and the Department of Information and Library Science office. This summer, I also secured my dream internship at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History Library. I owe these great experiences to my foundation in the Purdue Archives.

Max Campbell (right)

While working in the ASC, I grew to love working with collections from astronauts and pilots. Learning about these people from their personal materials created an intimate connection with each person, even though I had never met the individual.

Working in the ASC allowed me to see, firsthand, how important and necessary that archives and special collections are for everyone. The best moment for me was when I found out about the ASC. I was taking classes for a history degree when I joyfully discovered that one of my professors taught a “History of the Space Age” class. Since I was very interested in the history of spaceflight, he recommended I check out the ASC and see if I could volunteer. One thing led to another, and I started a job there, helping with the Flight and Space Archives.

Working at the ASC has been the foundation for my career. I owe my success to the experiences in the ASC. There are, however, specific moments that stand out. One involves the Archives research seminar. This class showed me that not only can you study space history in the archives, but you canal so do this in the archives for a living as an archivist or historian. It was after this class I applied for an internship (for which I was selected) in the Department of Space History at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.  I then returned last summer as an intern.

Hannah Vaughn (middle)

Prior to my job at the Purdue Archives, I was unsure about what career path I wanted to take. I had just recently switched my major to history, but I knew that I wanted to work with some form of special collections, whether it be in a museum or library. I had briefly heard of the Purdue Archives, but had no idea what exactly went on there. So, when I started my job at the ASC, I also decided to take a class that incorporated the Purdue Archives into the coursework. The course, “Technology and Culture of Flight”(History 395), was co-taught by a faculty member and my supervisor at the Purdue Archives, Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration Tracy Grimm.  Every day, I was either working in the ASC, or I was there for class, using the collections. Each day was different from the previous one, and there was always something new to learn and discover.

I realized that I had discovered something special to me. And, thanks to the fellow archivists and student workers at Purdue Archives, I heard about the master of library science program at Indiana University, in which I am now enrolled. There, I am specializing in rare books and manuscripts. Not only did my job in the ASC at Purdue open the door to graduate school, but my work there also paved the path to multiple internships, including one at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where I was able to work with the museum’s loan archive.

Through the cooperation of Purdue professors and library staff, I was able to experience the ASC through the lens of a researcher, and watching my fellow classmates work there, too, made me realize just how important my employment was. I was not only doing my job to preserve materials, but also to make collection materials accessible and understandable to anyone wishing to learn more about a certain topic. Whether it be from a researcher who expressed to me how much he or she enjoyed a collection or when a donor, such as Purdue alumnus and astronaut Captain Eugene Cernan, told me to keep up the good work, it truly was the people who helped foster my passion about ASC and compelled me to choose it as a career.

Afterword VOLUMe  

A Message from the Dean     

JAMES L. MULLINS
Dean of Libraries // Esther Ellis Norton Professor // Purdue University Libraries

It is easy to say that the greatest change to libraries – and to our lives – has been the emergence of technologies that have brought computers and internet access into every aspect of our daily lives. The good news is that the academic library that many of us have known is still with us, conceptually and in many ways physically. Nevertheless, the way we manage the information provided by libraries has changed significantly. The tactile nature to information now is only occasionally with us. Like many of us, I still like to read newspapers in print, but I will admit to also gaining a quick summary online. However, I now do nearly all of my professional and pleasure reading electronically. One of the benefits of electronic or digital access over print is that you can adjust the font size and for we baby boomers, that is an incredible plus.

One print publication that I always enjoy reading is VOLUMe. This issue of VOLUMe is our sixth in the past five years. When we launched VOLUMe, our goal was to convey the diversity of knowledge and skills within the Libraries faculty and staff necessary to meet the expectations and needs of a research university the caliber of Purdue. As I have scanned the past issues and, of course, the current one, it has become clear that no one individual, whether it is a Libraries faculty, staff or administrator, makes Libraries what it is today. Our success is the result of the collaborative effort of Libraries’ teams that frequently include colleagues from the colleges and schools at Purdue, as well as librarians from around the country and the world. With each issue of VOLUMe our intent is to provide insight into what motivates, exhilarates, and challenges Purdue Libraries faculty and staff. It is also our opportunity to acknowledge the work and support given by Purdue colleagues, alumni, and donors.

Thank you for reading VOLUMe, and as always, I welcome your comments on how we can make this important publication of the Purdue Libraries even more relevant for you.

VOLUMe 2016

VOLUMe 2016

Purdue Libraries Mission & Vision

mission: Our mission is to advance the creation of knowledge for the global community through provision and preservation of scholarly information resources; teaching of information literacy; research in library, archival, and information sciences; and the development of dynamic physical and virtual learning environments.

vision: We will be recognized as an essential leader in the advancement of the University’s core strengths and global mission by leading in innovative and creative solutions for access to and management and dissemination of scholarly information resources, and for the provision of information literacy and the creation of leading-edge learning spaces, both physical and virtual, and will be regarded as a leader in the national and international research library community.

Foreword – message from the Provost

In 1876, the American Library Association was formed and Melvil Dewey published his decimal-based system of classification that would become known as the Dewey Decimal System. Today, nearly 140 years later, this fifth edition of VOLUMe describes a library environment that Mr. Dewey wouldn’t recognize.

Purdue Libraries faculty are partners in teaching, embedded within courses and even co-instructing for greater information literacy among our students. Library physical spaces now include collaborative work areas and informal learning spaces. Card catalogs have given way to computers, and these virtual environments mean that students and faculty can access the libraries’ information anytime from anywhere.

Purdue University Libraries have led the way as times have changed, modifying space and bringing technology to the service of teaching and learning, discovery and engagement.

Earlier this year, the Purdue University Libraries received  a prestigious award —the 2015 Association of College and Research Libraries Excellence in Libraries Award. Steven Bell, chair of the 2015 Excellence in Academic Libraries Committee said, “Purdue University Libraries succeeds by being experimental, taking risks, innovating and leveraging collaboration with their faculty, graduate and undergraduate students to push the boundaries of what research university libraries can accomplish for their community, locally and globally.”

Much of the success is due to the work of the faculty/professional staff, support staff and student assistants led by James L. Mullins, Dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor. These are the people who keep the libraries around our campus operating every day, helping our students and faculty as they pursue excellence in their studies, discover new knowledge and improve their craft. You will read about recent successful programs conducted by Purdue Libraries faculty in this edition of VOLUMe. I know you will enjoy and appreciate, as I do, their remarkable accomplishments.

The Purdue Libraries system contributes to the excellence of this institution and is critical to its future success. I am very proud of the creativity, dedication and innovation demonstrated by members of Purdue Libraries as they define the role of the 21st century research university. I suspect Melvil Dewey would be proud, too.

Deba Dutta
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Diversity

The Purdue University Libraries Collection & the Digital Revolution

What is a collections strategist?  It’s a new position in large academic libraries and involves activities related to ensuring that the right kinds of research materials are available in the right place and in the right format for Purdue’s students and faculty.  In my role, I identify publishers whose journal backfiles are now available in electronic format and recommend adding these so that Purdue’s scholars have immediate access to more articles.  In consultation with Libraries faculty colleagues, I also arrange to move low-use print material from the active collections to the repositories.  I have worked in the Purdue Libraries for 28 years, and was appointed to this position in July 2015.

Suzanne M. Ward (left) 
Professor, Collections Strategist

There’s no denying that the thrust of our collections is electronic. With a little over 1.9 million ebooks, almost 103,000 online journals, and over 300 database subscriptions, Purdue faculty, staff, and students have 24/7 access to the majority of our collection from both on and off campus. In my role as Director for Information Resources, I oversee our $14.4 million budget for library materials, ensuring that the appropriate scholarly research materials are subscribed to, purchased, or borrowed for our users.

I also oversee the four units that make up the Information Resources division: Acquisitions, Metadata Services, Digital Programs, and Access Services. Each unit plays a critical role in making sure that our print and electronic materials are accessible to the Purdue community.

In collaboration with Suzanne Ward, Collection Strategist, we monitor and evaluation the changing resources environment and work to build a robust collection of scholarly materials that meets the needs of our users.

Rebecca A. Richardson (right)
Director of Information Resources

New Possibilities in Publishing

It is an honor to lead the Scholarly Publishing Division of the Purdue University Libraries. Purdue is a recognized innovator in the field, and the commitment and passion of our team is inspiring. We already have an impressive array of Open Access (OA) publishing projects and, as a team, are prepared to reach “One Brick Higher” from here.

As a newcomer to Purdue, I just learned that phrase and love it. It captures the spirit of the place and the team in the Libraries and the Press and everyone I have met so far. Fresh from business school, I find it captures our prime MBA directive as well: no matter how good things are, we will find ways to improve them. I will need that training, too, because things are pretty darn good right about now; just a few highlights from the summer:

We hit our 10-millionth article downloaded from Purdue ePubs! We are striding toward 11M currently, with some Purdue scholars passing tens of thousands of downloads, per articles, and one scholar passing 111,000 downloads for his top 20 articles combined. We are all are pleased by these successes, but imagine how happy the thousands of people around the world are who are learning from and acting on Purdue research?

In Knowledge Unlatched (KU) news, we had two more Purdue University Press titles chosen for the next round! KU is a revolutionary approach to funding OA publication of monographs. Dozens of the best presses have been competitively selected to participate. The Press has placed titles in both rounds. We also learned that one of our titles from last year, Understanding the Global Energy Crisis, edited by Eugene D. Coyle (Austin) and Richard A. Simmons (Purdue) is leading all other titles in total downloads, outpacing titles from Michigan, Cambridge, Duke, Bloomsbury, Brill and others—at a rate of 2.75 STDV above the mean, for the quants in the crowd! We can all celebrate that more than 3,000 copies of the book have been downloaded, in the first year!

Where to go from here? One place is the Web. We are sitting down with Libraries’ IT professionals and with Purdue Marketing & Media to reimagine Scholarly Publishing’s web platforms and strategies. Together, we will present our strengths to potential authors more clearly and well, and better present and promote our scholars’ works to the world. We may be holding an open contest for a new logo design and perhaps a little branding competition. We are also discussing sponsoring a new writing contest for students and alumni. We have many other initiatives underway. These are just a few. Stay tuned for news!

What sets Purdue apart, and makes all this planning and progress possible, along with the exceptional support we all enjoy from Purdue leadership, is the level of collegial integration between the visual and textual communications professionals in Scholarly Publishing and the scholarly communications faculty throughout the libraries. Together, we will continue discovering and collaborating with areas of excellence on campus, sharing resources, and scaling operations, to pave the way for new possibilities in publishing for Purdue.

Peter C. Froehlich, MBA
Director, Purdue University Press and Head, Scholarly Publishing Services

Library Scholars Grant Program: The Art of Research & Collaboration

Through the generous support of the Library Scholars Grant Program, Purdue University Libraries provided me with a grant to support a two-week trip to Rennes, France to review the archives of several art critics housed at the Archives de la critique d’art, which pertain to the reception of American art in postwar Europe.  I had two research objectives as part of the grant: to finish collecting quantitative data for the “Triumph of American Art,” a research project I am developing as part of Artl@s in collaboration with the Purdue GIS Library (http://www.artlas.ens.fr), and to collect qualitative data for a book-length manuscript.

Growing out of my research on the historiography of the postwar Western art world, this project aimed at reconstructing, mapping, and analyzing the diffusion and reception of American art in Europe between 1945 and 1970. It advances earlier scholarship by bringing the story of the so-called “triumph of American art” up to the 1970s (most studies end in the 1950s), and by adopting a transnational approach (most studies focus on one country’s response to American art).

Methodologically, the significance of this project is twofold: first, it involves the creation of a database of exhibitions, purchases, and publications of American art in Europe from 1945 to 1970. Systematically collecting this data was a daunting task, but was necessary to ground interpretation in facts and move beyond the many myths that surround the “triumph of American art.” In order to retrace the circulation of artworks, artists, and other art professionals between the United States and Western Europe, I created maps. Mapping allowed me to see relationships that didn’t appear by merely reading or interpreting textual and quantitative sources.

With support of Purdue University Libraries GIS specialists including Nicole Kong, we are building a mapping interface that allows specialists and non-specialists to query and visualize the data through maps, thereby learning about art, history, geography, and digital tools.

The research trip to the Archives de la critique d’art, supported by the Library Scholars Grant Program served as a significant step toward the successful completion of both my book manuscript, which was published as The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s–1980s (Ashgate, 2015), and a long article on the reception of American art entitled “To Drip or to Pop? The European Triumph of American Art.” (Artl@s Bulletin, Spring 2014): , by providing me with access to the personal papers of several art critics who witnessed and reported on the arrival of American art in Western Europe.

I am grateful for the research support and collaboration with Purdue University Libraries.

About the Library Scholars Grant Program

Through the Library Scholars Grant Program, Purdue University Libraries provide grants to untenured and recently-tenured Purdue professors to help them gain access to unique collections of information necessary for their research. Annual awards of up to $5,000 are made possible through the generosity of the 50th anniversary gift of the Class of 1935. The funds may be used for expenses associated with travel to archives or collections beyond Purdue. Upon completing research, grant recipients present a seminar about the information-related activities supported by the grant. Interested applicants should visit http://www.lib.purdue.edu/info/scholars/guidelines.html for further information.

Catherine Dossin
Associate Professor of Art History

Student Engagement & Outreach: Commitment to supporting student needs

Beyond its efforts to impact student outcomes through innovations in instructional and learning space programs on campus, Purdue University Libraries is also actively engaged with students through a variety of activities both within Libraries divisions and across the university.

Student Ambassadors

This past year, the Libraries created three new student ambassador positions to support Libraries student engagement and outreach efforts on campus and on social media.  The student ambassadors also support regular Libraries events such as end of semester study break activities and GIS Day at Purdue.  Student ambassadors rotate around various Libraries divisions to support divisional and system-wide needs, while also serving as Libraries representatives for campus and community outreach opportunities. Student ambassadors also engage and communicate Libraries services, resources and activities on a variety of social media and digital communication mediums, offering a student voice and perspective as part of the Libraries strategic communication efforts.  These students provide important feedback to Libraries administration in Libraries planning, communication and decision-making, as needed.

Why I Love Purdue Libraries Video Contest

Purdue University Libraries is launched its third annual “Why I Love Purdue Libraries Video Contest,” this past fall, with a top award of $1000. The contest is open to all current, enrolled Purdue University students. Finalists are selected by Purdue Libraries Undergraduate Student Libraries Advisory Council (USLAC), Dean of Libraries, Libraries associate deans and director of strategic communication. Contest finalists and/or award winners are featured on Libraries website, social media and digital signage.  All awards will be distributed through Purdue University Financial Aid Division. These videos have been shown to alumni, donors, Board of Trustees members and the community so they hear in students’ own words, the value of Purdue University Libraries.

Study Break Events

As the end of the semester approaches, Hicks Undergraduate Library offers a wide array of events during prep and finals weeks to help Purdue students alleviate stress. Each event is free and refreshments are served. Examples of some of the programming offered this past semester included: Game Break Hicks Undergraduate Library offered a variety of classic board and card games to allow students to de-stress and have fun. Therapy Dogs Therapy Dogs, International, Inc. brought several dog teams to the main common area in Hicks. Students were allowed to visit with the dogs to help lower their stress levels. Music Therapy Julia Lopez-Kaley, MT-BC, provided customized activities with goals of decreasing stress and ways to recognize and manage the symptoms in a musical context. A Taste of Relaxation Instructors from the Purdue Recreation Center provided instruction on various stress reduction techniques including meditation, progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery.

Student Events, Outreach and Orientation Activities

Purdue University Libraries also sponsor a range of events that engage the Purdue community, but especially students. These include events that welcome students to the Libraries and help to make them aware of our facilities. For example, Libraries faculty and staff members are active participants in Boiler Gold Rush (BGR), Purdue’s annual orientation for new students. In addition to providing an overview of Library resources to the entire freshman class, Libraries faculty members also lead small group exercises throughout the orientation process, providing the opportunity to interact with undergraduate students from the first week they are on campus. The Libraries also sponsor competitions that allow students to demonstrate their creativity, use their information literacy skills in a fun setting, and of course, engage with the Libraries.

Student Award and Scholarships

PULSE Award

The PULSE Award program is an endowed fund started and funded primarily by the faculty and staff of the Libraries to recognize the hard work and dedication of the students who work in the Libraries. Each year, one or two awards are given for the top student workers in the Libraries. Awards are $500 to $1000 per piece.

Albert Viton Scholarship

Established in 2006 and endowed by Dr. Albert Viton, an author and retired economist, the scholarship is awarded annually to a student employee from the Purdue Press or the Libraries.

Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship

Established in 2004 by Dorothy Newby McCaw in honor of former Libraries dean Emily R. Mobely, the McCaw scholarship is awarded annually to a Libraries student worker.

Shannon Walker, MS
Director of Strategic Communication

From USLAC to U.S. Navy: Student Leadership Lessons Learned

Prior to my chance encounter with Dean Mullins, I had not really utilized the Libraries to their full extent, nor did I know what they had to offer.  After he extended me an invitation to join the USLAC, I really began to learn about where libraries in general have been, where they are, and where they are heading.  The council provided a venue for the Libraries’ staff to garner a variety of student input for the future of the University.  Various staff members provided lectures on information literacy, current and future projects, as well as some history.  The Council members would in turn provide feedback for projects, and those ideas were taken on board and often implemented.  It was extremely gratifying to witness some of our suggestions appear several years down the line.

Purdue, under Dean Mullins’ leadership, has been forging the way ahead across the nation with regards to information literacy.  The libraries are no longer the stereotypical repositories of books, but of information.  The difference may seem subtle, but it is important.  Purdue Libraries have shaped themselves to meet the changing needs of students and researchers, and have adapted to current technologies.  The enhanced student experience that stems from the changing culture was certainly of benefit to me, as it is to many other students today.

My experience on the Council has paid dividends since graduation.  It has taught me that within an organization, the end-user has a strong say in the products and methods that they utilize, as long as motivated advocates exist.  Additionally, having an appropriate forum to voice ideas is equally important.  Purdue Libraries have found a way to marry the two, and the end result is a unique, more robust library that better serves not only the Purdue student population, but libraries and students across the country and around the globe.

Lieutenant John Milne
Helicopter Pilot, United States Navy

The Next Generation of Informed Leaders

Current business students, budding executives, will graduate into a business world where decision making is dependent on the information they have available to them. Information Literacy, or the set of integrated abilities enabling the actionable use of information, is key to success in this age of proliferating information and data. At Purdue University Libraries, we encourage information literacy through the efforts inside and outside of the classroom as part of a strategic effort to integrate information literacy into students’ learning. As part of this effort, I teach MGMT 175: Information Strategies for Management Students, an eight-week course that challenges our students to think deeply, research widely, and use their business and communication skills to create innovative new solutions for stakeholders.

When I teach, I try to focus on research skills as only the door-opener to a larger struggle the students will have to engage in their entire lives to make decisions using information. Students must gather information in the spirit of transformation of their own actions as well as their potential firm, group, or community. How do you translate what you know to what you do not know? What if what you learned previously or thought you knew was wrong? What happens when you cannot find what you need because it does not exist?

MGMT 175 is a flipped course redesigned as part of the IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) program. Students watch videos and undergo tutorials before class, and then in class they engage with a specific real-world problem. During these group challenges, teams in a short time frame (50 minutes) research and provide recommendations using skills they learn before class. My research has shown that not only do students learn during MGMT 175, but I also have found that they build upon that knowledge in other classes, achieving far higher information literacy scores than their peers who had not taken MGMT 175.

Teach MGMT 175 for the past two years has taught me many things, one of which is the huge potential of students to surprise you. They have such a capacity for growth, reflection, and change. At Purdue Libraries we not only teach skills students need for the workplace now, but also management approaches and analytic thinking that will prepare students for the fast-paced and evolving information world of the future

Ilana Stonebraker
Assistant Professor, Business Information Specialist

Creating a customer service-oriented approach through Outreach & Engagement

In my role, I serve as a liaison to the departments of Physics and Astronomy, Mathematics, and Statistics departments in the Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology (PSET) division at Purdue University Libraries.

With experience and background in both academic and public libraries, I work hard to bring a customer-service and outreach oriented perspective to my position, collaborating with fellow faculty, students and researchers across the university.

I have been leading several initiatives at Purdue University Libraries including the Graduate Research Information Portal (G.R.I.P.) project.  G.R.I.P. is an informational gateway targeted towards Purdue University graduate students.  The portal provides graduate students with critical resources, tools and contacts within a streamlined, comprehensive webpage, or portal.  I enjoy working collaboratively with fellow colleagues to help enhance awareness of this this portal and advance the tools and resources to best fit the needs of the graduate student population.

In addition, I recently led an information literacy project, “Embedded information literacy within an introduction to design process course: successive citation analyses and student reflections as an assessment of learning” supported by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL’s), Assessment in Action (AIA) national initiative, designed to inform the campus community and the larger library community about the impact of embedded library instruction on student performance and students’ information literacy skills, both perceived and actual.

I felt extremely encouraged as a result of this study, which showed statistical significance in students’ academic growth, development, and competence in their information literacy skills as a result of the librarian cooperation with professors. I also gained the confidence to talk to stakeholders and campus administrators about library assessment and library impacts.

I am excited to continue my research and work as part of a profession-leading team of Libraries faculty in the areas of information literacy, data services and student-centered, active learning.

Nastasha E. Johnson
Assistant Professor, Physical and Mathematical Sciences Information Specialist

Advancing Discovery & Research through Data Integration

The importance of data literacy and research data integration is critical in today’s research environment – especially in the health and life science disciplines.

As part of my role at Purdue University Libraries, I develop programs to support discovery and learning in molecular biosciences, establish collaborations with researchers, and advance initiatives in data management and publishing in the areas of biochemistry, bioinformatics, medicinal chemistry, molecular biosciences and molecular pharmacology.

I also evaluate, select and integrate molecular biosciences resources into the Libraries’ collections and serve as a liaison to the College of Agriculture’s biochemistry department, the College of Pharmacy’s medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology department, and to other faculty, staff and students who utilize bioinformatics in their research.

I enjoy working collaboratively with fellow faculty members across these divisions to address the needs of students and researchers in courses and to help identify effective ways to integrate bioinformatics into their research.

As a key member of the Libraries’ data services team, it is very gratifying to see the growing interest and understanding of the importance of data literacy and research data integration as an integral part of the research process.

Purdue University Libraries data services team is leading the profession in these efforts, and I frequently work and interact with this group to explore data issues and solve problems for researchers.

Pete. E. Pascuzzi
Assistant Professor, Molecular and Biosciences Information Specialist

Message from Purdue Student Government President and Vice President

The role of libraries in fundamentally shaping education and learning cannot possibly be overestimated. As soon as we began reading, back when we still fumbled clumsily over the most rudimentary words, educators prodded us towards the boundless resources offered by libraries. Today, tremendous advances in technology have transformed the landscape of scholastics, and libraries have been tasked with keeping pace.

The prior necessity of physically visiting the library in order to access its wealth of volumes diminished as technological progress gave way to the vast archives available online today. As we grew up, our generation in particular directly witnessed this pronounced evolution in daily interaction with libraries.

Here at Purdue University, we are fortunate enough to experience the immense benefits of the creativity, innovation, and dedication of Purdue University Libraries’ faculty and staff. This isn’t just prejudice talking, either.  In 2015, Purdue University Libraries was selected by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to receive a top honor, the Excellence in Libraries Award. It’s not difficult to see why. As students who have spent countless hours poring over our textbooks in various quiet corners of the many Purdue libraries, we can personally attest to the essential role of these spaces in our college careers.

They offer a quiet escape from the madness of your residence hall, apartment, or fraternity house when you want to buckle down with your studies. They catalyze future research endeavors that earn Purdue her national accolades as a top research university. They provide a forum for both individual study and collaborative work. And, perhaps most importantly, they function as a training ground for building strong work habits that will last after graduation.

Whether we tangibly engage the libraries on campus or access the library archives from the comfort of our homes, we, as students, are ever grateful for the role the libraries play in our education. On behalf of the student body as a whole, we would like to extend an enormous expression of thanks to Purdue University Libraries faculty and staff for fostering such a positive, enriched, and conducive learning environment.

Ever grateful, ever true.

Sincerely,

Mike Young, Student Body President

Becca Wilmoth, Student Body Vice President

Volume 2015

Mitch Daniels
Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. 12th President, Purdue University

Foreword – Message From the President

Welcome to the fourth annual edition of VOLUMe, which highlights the innovative, dynamic, and transformative work of Purdue University Libraries for our faculty, staff, and students as well as library leaders around the world.

In this issue you will learn about:

Plans for our new Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wilmeth Active Learning Center (ALC), a centerpiece envisioned for our educational enterprise. In the heart of campus the ALC will provide new collaborative-style, multifunctional, active learning classroom and library spaces, and flexible workspaces. The ALC will offer streamlined library resources as well as gathering and exhibition spaces. It will systematically support our Purdue IMPACT program, which targets introductory undergraduate courses with large enrollments, facilitating course redesign that incorporates student centered teaching and active learning.

Research involving information literacy. Student-centered learning requires teaching students how to find, evaluate, interpret, and apply information to solve problems and construct new meanings. Libraries faculty collaborate with other faculty across campus to design courses to improve learning.

Efforts to help our researchers use and manage data in new ways. This is critical in our knowledge-based world where it seems that discovery moves at the speed of sound. Libraries’ Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provides guidance and collaboration with our researchers to help integrate geographical data into their research.

Collaboration between two faculty members, one in Agronomy and the other in the Libraries, to build a database documenting groundwater for agriculture.

Growth of the Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections by a significant gift of an artifact from the last moon landing and funding from a Purdue alumnus to document the historic buildings and landscape of Purdue.

Open access, which shares our research via the Internet, increasing the rapid exchange of ideas and discovery. And unlike the subscription method with many scholarly journals, it is free and open to everyone, not just other scholars. Purdue e-Pubs now comprises over 42,000 digital documents. In the past year, there have been over 2.8 million downloads. You can watch the fascinating, by-the-second activity on a world map at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu. We are proud that Purdue University Libraries received recognition by being chosen for the 2015 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in the university category through its creativity and innovations to meet the needs of the Purdue University community. In addition, our Libraries serve as an international leader through innovative advances in teaching, learning, research and scholarly communication. Purdue Libraries plays a critical role in the fast changing world of information.

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Views of the ALC – both inside and out

Purdue Libraries Mission & Vision

Mission: Our mission is to advance the creation of knowledge for the global community through provision and preservation of scholarly information resources; teaching of information literacy; research in library, archival and information sciences; and the development of dynamic physical and virtual learning environments.

Vision: We will be recognized as an essential leader in the advancement of the University’s core strengths and global mission by leading in innovative and creative solutions for access to and management and dissemination of scholarly information resources, and for the provision of information literacy and the creation of leading-edge learning spaces, both physical and virtual, and will be regarded as a leader in the national and international research library community.

Strategic Goals

Learning: Libraries faculty lead in information literacy and learning space implementation, research and scholarship.

Scholarly Communication: Libraries facilitate and enhance the continuum of the scholarly communication process.

Global Engagement: Libraries faculty lead in international initiatives in information literacy, e-science, information access and data management, and collaborate on Purdue’s global initiatives.

Please share any comments, questions, and inquiries about Purdue Libraries and VOLUMe with Shannon Walker: walker81@purdue.edu | 765.494.2900

Thomas S. Wilmeth
Thomas S. Wilmeth, 2013, in his 100th year

Active Learning Center to Honor Brothers

At its April meeting, the Purdue University Board of Trustees approved naming the Active Learning Center for two brothers, both College of Engineering alumni, for their long-term commitment and generous support of the Purdue University Libraries.

The naming recognizes and honors the late Thomas S. (Tom) Wilmeth, who earned an electrical engineering degree in 1935, and the late Harvey D. Wilmeth, who earned a chemical engineering degree in 1940. Tom Wilmeth passed away this past January at the age of 101.

The Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wilmeth Active Learning Center (ALC) will be dedicated in fall 2017 upon completion of the $79 million classroom-library project-ranked since July 2012 as the University’s number 1 capital project. Besides having 27 active learning classrooms, the Wilmeth Active Learning Center will consolidate six engineering and science disciplinary libraries. It is anticipated that the ALC will be a daily academic destination for 5,000 Purdue students and faculty.

“It is appropriate to name the Active Learning Center-a library-classroom prototype of the future-after two brothers who personified and exemplified the creative problem solving, ingenuity and entrepreneurship of Purdue engineers,” said Purdue President Mitch Daniels.

The brothers founded Scot Industries, Inc. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1949. Tom ran and built the business with seed money provided by the wise investments of younger brother Harvey. Scot Industries is a worldwide quality and technological leader in the specialty metal tubing and bar business. Scot Industries continues to grow as a privately held company with 13 plants worldwide.

“The Wilmeth family has had a long-term commitment to Purdue University Libraries, and their gifts affirmed that commitment,” said James L. Mullins, dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton professor. “They recognized the vital need for active and life-long learning and the important role libraries have to achieve that goal.”

Tom Wilmeth’s support for the Purdue University Libraries began in 1991, when he made a contribution to fund the Libraries’ first electronic database. In 1993 he joined the Libraries Dean’s Advisory Council and served for 10 years.

Purdue awarded him an honorary doctorate of engineering information literacy in 2013 in recognition of his understanding and appreciation of the need to use published research outside of academe to advance industrial methods and to create new engineering processes and technological applications. In 2004 he received the President’s Council Distinguished Pinnacle Award for his philanthropy to Purdue University Libraries.

“My philanthropy has always been intended to offer opportunities to others through the resources and services of the Purdue University Libraries,” said Tom Wilmeth. “I believe the essence of education is developing the ability to train and teach oneself to learn. Thanks in large part to the training we received at Purdue, our successes have allowed my brother and me to help others achieve their own success.” Tom attributed the brothers’ success to “continual self-education, creative ideas, extraordinary determination, hard work, a little luck and the willingness to take risks.”

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Purdue Libraries Faculty and Staff

Purdue Libraries Name 2015 ACRL Award Winner

In January, Purdue University Libraries was chosen for the 2015 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Excellence in Academic Libraries Award in the university category.

“Purdue University Libraries succeeds by being experimental, taking risks, innovating, and leveraging collaboration with their faculty, graduate and undergraduate students to push the boundaries of what research university libraries can accomplish for their community, locally and globally,” said Steven Bell, chair of the 2015 Excellence in Academic Libraries Committee and associate university librarian for research and instructional services at Temple University. “Whether it’s their information literacy initiative that features their participation in Purdue’s IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) curriculum, a commitment to renovate and create library spaces that are highly intentional about student learning and collaboration with faculty or engaging in course redesign with their faculty, what most impressed the committee was Purdue’s profession-leading and cutting-edge work in the area of research data services. Where Purdue excels among this year’s strong pool of university applicants is in their support of faculty research, through their Library Scholars Grant Program, which provides faculty members with grants for travel to special collections at other institutions in support of their growth as scholars.”

“The faculty and staff of the Purdue University Libraries are proud of the progress we have made to define the role of the 21st-century research library within its university community,” said James L. Mullins, dean of libraries, who also is the Esther Ellis Norton professor at Purdue. “To have our creativity, innovation and dedication recognized through this important award is a wonderful honor.”

Shannon Walker, MS
Director of Strategic Communication
Purdue University Libraries
walker81@purdue.edu
Jane Yatcilla
Jane Yatcilla

Redefining Librarianship

The opportunity to work on very different kinds of projects has provided me with a career that is varied, dynamic and always interesting.

One project I am involved with is HABRI Central, an online collaborative space for researchers of the human-animal bond (HAB). Currently I am working on a bilbliometric analysis of Anthrozoos, one of the first journals dedicated to HAB research. I hope to discern trends in the literature with regard to methodologies used, and the targeted human demographics or animal species. This work is setting the stage for a broader study of HAB research across multiple disciplines that I will conduct in 2015.

I co-teach SCI360: Great Issues in Science and Society, in the fall semester. This course addresses the social, political and economic aspects of climate change, energy issues and other grand challenges faced by human society. The curriculum has been influenced by my involvement on the IMPACT Support Team as well as my co-instructor Saad Haq’s participation in IMPACT to redesign another course. Saad and I revised our learning outcomes, and we evaluate classroom activities based on how well they support the learning outcomes. We expect the students to do work outside the class to learn about the topics, and this allows for more in-class time for students to work on group projects. Recently we polled our students to find out what topics interest them. Building some flexibility into the syllabus enables us to tailor content, resulting in a fun learning environment where the students are involved not only in learning, but in influencing our teaching.

My experiences with HABRI Central, IMPACT, and classroom teaching have enriched my perspective on my own place within the University. Now when people ask me what I do for a living, I don’t say that I’m a librarian; I say, “I work in higher education.”

Jane Yatcilla
Associate Professor
Life and Health Sciences Information Specialist
Purdue University Libraries
janeyat@purdue.edu
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2015 Undergraduate Student Libraries Advisory Council (USLAC)

USLAC // GSLAC

The Undergraduate (USLAC) and Graduate Student Libraries Advisory Councils (GSLAC), formed by Dean Mullins shortly after his arrival in 2004, are comprised of highly engaged and committed students to strengthen the services, facilities and resources of the Libraries.

“I believe it is vital for the student voice to be heard on this level to help the administration better accommodate current and prospective students. Dean Mullins shares this belief, which is why the USLAC is in existence,” said Holden Aven, USLAC member, Accounting, Krannert School. “I also worked alongside Dean Mullins during the planning phase of the Active Learning Center.”
There were several instances when the ALC Planning Committee needed student input in order to make effective student-centered decisions. Students from both USLAC and GSLAC provided vital perspectives on everything from classroom layout and study spaces to furniture and interior design.

“I was fortunate enough to make a two-day trip to view libraries at other universities that would serve as a model for how parts of the ALC would be designed,” said Trent Low, USLAC member, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering. “The majority of this team had more than 20 years of experience in each of their respective fields. Considering the huge age gap between myself and the designers [and Dean Mullins], I felt that the trip would be somewhat boring and full of awkward silence, with forced small talk. Within the first day, everyone was cracking jokes at each other and talking as if they had known each other for months, not hours. That was the first time in my life that I realized there was no reason to be nervous around anybody in a position of power, because at their core those people are human, just like anyone else. I feel that learning that will translate well to the workforce. So long as I perform well in any job I hold, there is no reason to fear a boss. They are just your everyday guy or girl after all.”

“I have really appreciated being a part of the process to provide vital input on the tools that will truly help the ALC be effective and successful,” said Andrew Martin, GSLAC member, Civil Engineering, College of Engineering.

Shannon Walker, MS
Director of Strategic Communication
Purdue University Libraries
walker81@purdue.edu
Catherine Frasier Riehle
Catherine Frasier Riehle

Developing a team-based Publishing course

As part of the inaugural semester of Purdue University’s Honors College, I was invited to develop and teach a new, interdisciplinary honors course on academic and scholarly publishing that would be both theoretical and practical, and would culminate in a student-edited publication. Supporting the development of information literacy competency in undergraduate students, via teaching, partnerships and curricula, is a strategic goal for Purdue University Libraries, as it is for many college and university libraries.

I partnered with Charles Watkinson, the former director of the Purdue University Press and head of Scholarly Publishing Services, to teach and develop this new course because of my experience co-teaching freshman honors seminars, my membership on the advisory board of the Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research (JPUR), and my expressed interest in undergraduate students’ knowledge and perceptions of scholarly communication topics. Together, we set out to build and provide a learning experience that would immerse students in the world of scholarly publishing, from practical issues to philosophical challenges. Throughout the semester, students heard from and participated in discussion with us and a variety of invited experts. These included archivists, directors of other university presses, local authors, Purdue’s University copyright officer, scholarly repository specialist and a number of staff from Purdue University Press.

A major project that set the stage for our course was the publication of a print and electronic book. Charles and I partnered with Kristina Bross, associate professor of English, who in fall 2013 taught Interdisciplinary Writing, an Honors College course during which students engaged in archival research to discover and write mini-biographies of students of Purdue’s class of 1904. Our students began the spring 2014 semester with a book proposal and raw Microsoft Word files of these biographies, and shepherded this real-life project, a volume of the biographies, to publication.

Little Else Than a Memory: Purdue Students Search for the Class of 1904 was published in April 2014 and became available for download via Purdue’s institutional repository, Purdue e-Pubs, soon after. To culminate the semester, our class traveled to Bookmasters, a publishing services company in Ashland, Ohio, where students spent a day touring the facility and talking with publishing professionals. There we were able to pick up the first copies of our book, hot off the press.

By acknowledging where and how and by imagining unrealized possibilities, opportunities abound for librarians and strategic campus partners to engage students in the conversation that is scholarship. By doing so, we may not only support the development of information literacy competency and savviness in real and meaningful ways, but prepare a future generation of academics, researchers, professionals, and especially users and producers of information.

Catherine Fraser Riehle
Associate Professor
Instructional Outreach Librarian
Purdue University Libraries
cfriehle@purdue.edu
Amy Van Epps
Amy Van Epps

Distinguished Service in Engineering Education

Amy Van Epps, associate professor and engineering information specialist, Libraries, was awarded the 2014 Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award by the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Award Committee. Founded in 1893, the American Society for Engineering Education is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.

Each year at the ASEE Annual Conference, the Engineering Libraries Division presents an award that recognizes work that contributes to the advancement and development of excellence in engineering libraries.

The nomination letter for Van Epps stated, “I strongly believe her numerous and ongoing contributions over the years since she joined in 1995 lead to this honor. Her academic work and professional service are so woven into the fabric of our division that it is hard to picture the group functioning without this phenomenal librarian. I was so impressed when reviewing her portfolio that I feel remiss in not nominating her years ago.”

One of Van Epps’ colleagues at Purdue University stated, “Amy’s enthusiasm extends to her work within the Libraries at Purdue. She joined the PhD program in engineering education about five years ago, and she wasn’t shy about sharing her library expertise in the classroom, developing an entire cohort of engineering education students (and future faculty members) with an enhanced understanding of information literacy skills and the importance of passing those on to her students.”

A colleague within the ASEE Engineering Libraries Division commented, “Amy is a consummate mentor without the word ever being mentioned. My personal experience as a brand new engineering librarian over a decade ago was enriched immeasurably by the many interactions I’ve had with her, both at ASEE conferences as well as by telephone when I would call her for expertise and advice.”

About the Homer I. Bernhardt Distinguished Service Award: Homer I. Bernhardt was head of the Bevier Engineering Library at the University of Pittsburgh from 1966-82. Bernhardt’s professional activities contributed to engineering and librarianship at the University of Pittsburgh and at ASEE. His commitment to the field is recognized in Engineering Libraries Division’s decision to name its Distinguished Service Award in his memory, established in 1990.

Amy Van Epps
Associate Professor
Engineering Information Specialist
Purdue University Libraries
vanepa@purdue.edu
Nicole Kong
Nicole Kong

GIS Resources at Purdue help researchers map and organize data

Purdue students and faculty in all disciplines can benefit from using geographic information systems, or GIS, to visualize and interpret data, and Purdue University Libraries offers vast resources to help them harness this power. GIS Services at Purdue include a wide array of support, from learning the basics about GIS to outlining and creating complex GIS tools for researchers’ specific projects, says Nicole Kong, GIS specialist and assistant professor of library science.

“The usefulness of GIS spans disciplines, from agriculture to engineering to anthropology to art history,” Kong says. “No matter the subject of a project, there’s a good chance that GIS can help researchers map and organize data so they can better understand relationships, patterns and trends-it can make their research easier as well as help spur new discoveries and ideas.” GIS resources and knowledge are helpful for students and faculty alike, Kong continues. In fact, she partners with faculty in the academic departments to co-teach classes that help students learn how they can use GIS tools to aid their specific needs. She also offers GIS-related workshops for various groups on campus. Recent workshops have been geared toward faculty and students in the social sciences and toward students affiliated with the Visual Analytics for Command, Control, and Interoperability Environments Center, or VACCINE.

For faculty, Kong often works one-on-one to help them develop GIS solutions to aid their ongoing research. All faculty and students are welcome to use the resources housed at the GIS Services Web page, Kong says, and Libraries provides the technology and information resources needed for projects.

In addition to tools available now, Libraries is building a geospatial data portal that allows the searching of multiple GIS databases simultaneously. Once it’s ready next year, students and faculty will have much easier access to geospatial information that exists around the world. Further, to continue to spread the word about Purdue’s GIS Services, Libraries held its seventh annual GIS Day on November 7, 2014.

In the future, GIS Services at Purdue will expand, Kong says. The operation will move from its location in Hampton Hall’s Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Library to the Wilmeth Active Learning Center, which is scheduled for occupancy in August 2017. In addition to all current GIS Services, the center will contain a GIS and visualization lab, where students will have convenient physical and virtual spaces to access more GIS learning resources and create their own GIS tools as needed.

More information about current GIS services at Purdue can be found at: https://www.lib.purdue.edu/gis. The page details all GIS resources at Purdue, including access codes for free Web-based training modules from Esri, a leading supplier of GIS software and geodatabase management applications.

Nicole Kong
Assistant Professor
GIS specialist
Purdue University Libraries
kongn@purdue.edu
ALC at dusk
Active Learning Center at dusk

Library of Engineering and Science in Wilmeth Active Learning Center

For the past ten years a goal of the Purdue University Libraries was to bring together in one location the engineering and science libraries that were scattered across the campus. With the increased access to digital resources and the changing and reduced need to have print materials immediately available to researchers, the opportunity was afforded to merge six of the engineering and science libraries. When the opportunity arose to build upon the site of the old Power Plant and ENAD, it was logical not only to meet the need for new classrooms to provide ideal space for active learning, but it was the opportunity to consolidate six libraries: Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences; Engineering; Life Sciences; Pharmacy, Health Sciences, and Nursing; and Physics. By combining these libraries efficiency will be gained in management as well as bringing to one location Libraries faculty who specialize in these disciplines and who can collaborate more easily with each other and with their disciplinary faculty colleagues.

The unique aspect of the Wilmeth Active Learning Center is the integration of library/study spaces adjacent to active learning classrooms. During the day, about 40% of the ALC will be available for team and individual study and learning with the balance being classrooms where students and faculty practice and benefit from the latest active learning methodologies. After classes end for the day in the late afternoon, the classrooms become team and individual learning spaces, or library spaces, significantly increasing the efficiency of the building. Although the existing six libraries hold about 700,000 volumes, only 30,000 print volumes will be shelved in the Wilmeth ALC.

The computer-generated renderings shown provide a view of the ALC atrium, reading room, active learning classrooms, and study spaces. The floor plan of the second floor (one of four levels) illustrates the integration of library study/learning space with classroom/instructional rooms. The two-story reading room is a traditional design element that anchors the building to its library heritage while still addressing the changing needs of 21st-century Purdue students.

The Wilmeth Active Learning Center through its provision of integrated classroom/library spaces is unique. It will likely become a model for others to follow. Purdue is a leader in transforming how students learn through the application and combination of new pedagogies and spaces.

James L. Mullins
Dean of Libraries
Esther Ellis Norton Professor
Purdue University Libraries
jmullins@purdue.edu
Eugene Cernan / Tracy Grimm
Eugene Cernan / Tracy Grimm

Alumni astronaut Cernan donates Lunar Mapbooks from Apollo 17 lunar mission

Eugene Cernan, the most recent person to walk on the moon, donated an Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle mapbook to Purdue University this past spring. Cernan, a 1956 Purdue graduate, donated his personal papers to the Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives in January 2009. He followed up with the donation of the Apollo 17 mapbook this past year.

The maps are mounted in a custom-made book and are accompanied by several contextual documents and photographs. The maps provided the crew with bearings and ranges to each investigation site on the lunar surface during more than 22 hours of exploration.

Cernan was commander of Apollo 17, which blasted off from Kennedy Space Center on December 7, 1972. The Purdue alumnus performed three moonwalks, exploring the barren landscape in a lunar rover. Technically, he is the most recent person on the moon since he was the last to reenter the lunar module Challenger after the mission’s third and final moonwalk with crewmate Harrison Schmitt.

Purdue named Cernan a distinguished engineering alumnus in 1967. He holds honorary doctorates from Purdue and three other institutions, along with numerous honors, including the Navy Distinguished Flying Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal with Star, and the NASA Distinguished Service Medal. He has been inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, the National Aviation Hall of Fame, Naval Aviation Hall of Honor, and the International Aerospace Hall of Fame.

The Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives was established with gifts from Barron Hilton and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, and in addition created the position of Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration, held by Tracy Grimm. It is part of the Purdue Libraries’ Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center. In addition to being home to the largest collection of Amelia Earhart papers in the world, the Archives include the papers of engineers, aviators, aviation professionals, scholars and alumni astronauts including Neil A. Armstrong and Cernan-the first and last persons to walk on the moon—Jerry Ross, the late Janice Voss and Roy Bridges Jr.

Tracy Grimm
Barron Hilton Archivist for Flight and Space Exploration
Purdue University Libraries
grimm3@purdue.edu
Richard L. Funkhouser
Richard L. Funkhouser

Commitment to Scholarly Communication

I gave to specific Purdue University Libraries projects for several reasons.

First, as a former Purdue University Libraries faculty member for over 44 years, I remember the many buildings that are now gone-the original Heavilon Hall, Michael Golden, Fowler Hall, Purdue Hall, Pierce Conservation, and others. As a librarian and researcher, I understood the importance of documenting campus buildings, interiors as well as exteriors, before that information disappears.

Second, I realized in my faculty role that the Purdue University campus, especially its buildings, were among the top inquiries received by the Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections division. Therefore, I felt compelled to give toward a critical campus project, funding the Purdue Buildings and Landscape Collection. This collection will chronicle the history of Purdue buildings and landscape architecture on the West Lafayette campus.

When this archive is online, researchers all over the world will be able to access directly these historical documents. This will increase the depth and scope of scholarly communication at Purdue University and beyond.

I have known the Purdue campus since the 1940s, having grown up on a farm 25 miles from the area. In 2013, I was honored with the Purdue University President’s Council Pinnacle Award in recognition of my gift of farmland to the University. This land was purchased by my great-great grandfather William Whistler in 1853 and has been owned by five generations of the Whistler-Funkhouser family. I am very pleased to know that this gift has benefited the Libraries, Archives, Joseph M. Dagnese Memorial (for Libraries faculty), and WBAA at Purdue University.

An often quoted phrase is, “If you find a job you like, you’ll never have to work a day in your life.” I spent 44 years enjoying my work in the various positions I held in the University Libraries. The support of this archive is my “thank-you” to the University for not having to “work” a day in my life.

Richard L. Funkhouser
Professor Emeritus
Purdue University Libraries
rlf@purdue.edu
Marianne Stowell Bracke
Marianne Stowell Bracke

Designing data sharing platforms for the future

I am thrilled to be working alongside such forward-thinking faculty as Sylvie Brouder, professor of agronomy, Purdue University, to establish consistent and mainstream data practices for research and collaboration within the fields of agricultural science and agronomy.

Access to well-organized and searchable data is essential to support research in the 21st century. In my expanding librarian role, I work to address the critical need for data management within these fields.

Agricultural sciences, specifically, the field of agronomy does not have a history of consistent data management platforms or practices in place. With pressure from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and other federal agencies to establish such standard measures for research and innovation, Brouder, myself and a team of researchers, librarians and colleagues from across the industry convened last fall in Washington, D.C., to start a conversation about the current and future landscape of data management within this discipline.

Key presenters at this inaugural data management symposium included representatives from organizations such as the Cochrane Collaboration, a not-for-profit organization with collaborators from over 120 countries working together to produce credible, accessible health information that is free from commercial sponsorship and other conflicts of interest.

There was an immediate and abundant response to the symposium. Our team was very encouraged by the open and frank conversations taking place, and discovered new opportunities and partnerships to help keep the conversation going.

A key outcome from the symposium is the interest in the expanding role of librarians as it relates to data management services and support. I have been able to help connect researchers and colleagues with data management resources and support within many universities and industries across the country.

It’s exciting to be a part of this significant transformation in the role of a librarian. The opportunities are endless.

Marianne Stowell Bracke
Associate Professor
Agricultural Sciences Information Specialist
Purdue University Libraries
mbracke@purdue.edu
Sylvie Brouder
Sylvie Brouder

Designing data sharing platforms for the future

The need for well-organized and searchable data within the field of agronomy has increasingly come to the forefront.

My personal experience with helping to facilitate consistent data management platforms began in 1997-98 in working with the Purdue Water Quality Field Station (WQFS), a Purdue Core Facility that is highly instrumental and data driven.

My role in facilitating use of the WQFS made me keenly aware of the large volumes of data that could be applied to important research but were not simply because they were inaccessible. Gradually, I realized how pervasive this situation was in agronomy, and, that with the sheer volume of data, there was a critical need for functional workflows to take data from the field to durable repositories-to both create standard data management platforms and to properly disseminate research and scholarship.

At that time I decided to go directly to the experts in knowledge management and preservation/curation and involve Purdue University Libraries to help us organize, standardize and annotate our data. With Libraries partners such as Marianne Stowell Bracke, agricultural sciences information specialist and associate professor of Library Science, Purdue University Libraries, we were then able to create ways to organize, archive, annotate and disseminate our data and research.

Over the past few years, we have continued to grow and evolve in our data management efforts. With added pressure from federal agencies to establish standard measures for research and innovation, Bracke and I, in collaboration with other Purdue agronomy and Libraries colleagues, decided to bring key people in the data value chain-funders, colleagues, industry leaders-to the table to discuss current data sharing platforms and the extent to which they do or do not meet the needs of the data creators. This helped us to establish our data management needs, understand the real cost to managing data and foresee any opposition and/or barriers.

As a result of this inaugural data management symposium, we found many common threads. We realized more than ever that libraries/libraries faculty partners play a critical role in distilling, synthesizing and creating open access to this data. We also established a continuing, open dialogue of how to best translate science into knowledge for recommendations and policy, and to create the transparency that is increasingly being demanded by the general public for the process of converting data into useable guidelines for decision making.

Sylvie Brouder
Professor of Agronomy
Department of Agronomy
College of Agriculture // Purdue University
sbrouder@purdue.edu

Purdue E-pubs surpasses 9 million downloads

With so many groundbreaking discoveries and research findings occurring at Purdue University, there is one place on campus providing free, global, online access to this scholarship-the Purdue e-Pubs institutional repository. Recently, Purdue e-Pubs surpassed 9.0 million downloads and 42,000 objects, continuing to advance the impact of scholarship at the global, national and local level. Purdue University Libraries began providing the Purdue e-Pubs service to the campus community in 2006 as a means to openly share research and scholarship in a stable, citable format.

As many funding agencies change their requirements to ensure open accessibility to funded research findings (rather than through paid subscription databases that limit access), Purdue e-Pubs provides several services to faculty to fulfill these requirements to openly share previously published research. Support is offered by Libraries staff in checking permissions and copyright, tracking down copies of papers, and uploading them to the repository on behalf of faculty members. Faculty and students can learn more about open access and how Purdue e-Pubs makes their materials open by visiting the Purdue Libraries open access portal at http://lib.purdue.edu/openaccess.

Another critical function of Purdue e-Pubs is to provide online publishing support for original publications, including niche open access journals, technical reports, white papers, conference proceedings, posters, and student scholarship. Value-added publishing services are provided in collaboration with Purdue University Press, and all content is indexed by Google Scholar.

Measuring and reporting impact is an important part of the Purdue e-Pubs service. Purdue e-Pubs issues automatic monthly download notifications to authors and administrators, documenting the reach of their scholarship, not only to academic colleagues and administrators, but to taxpayers, policymakers, and media outlets. A real-time readership activity map is displayed on the homepage of Purdue e-Pubs showing items in the repository being downloaded from around the world. The readership activity map can also be displayed on collections, journals and series allowing colleges, schools, departments and research centers the opportunity to monitor the real-time global downloads of their materials from around the world.

Purdue e-Pubs works in tandem with other Libraries services and repositories, including e-Archives and Purdue University Research Repository (PURR), to serve the full spectrum of the Purdue community’s scholarly communication needs. As the repository continues to garner more downloads and objects, faculty, staff and students are encouraged to consider adding their research and scholarship. To watch the real-time readership activity map live in action, please visit www.purdue.edu/epubs. For more information about Purdue e-Pubs and adding additional previously published items, please contact me.

David Scherer
Scholarly Repository Specialist
Purdue e-Pubs
Purdue University Libraries
dscherer@purdue.edu
Hui Wang / Tianfang Dou
Hui Wang / Tianfang Dou

Visiting Scholars from across the globe

It is with great pleasure that I came to the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) and learned from Purdue University Libraries. I have spent almost six months at Purdue, and I am impressed by everyone’s enthusiasm and thoughtfulness. Thank you all for being so generous with your time and attention. I appreciate the studies, ideas and experiences you have shared with me.

The following is what I have gained during my visiting period:
Data service plans, projects and practices of U.S. academic libraries and other information service organizations

The challenges, issues and best practices in data service

The strategies, policies and services of PURR

Practical experience in data services at Purdue

The tools Purdue uses in the management of data throughout the research lifecycle.

Based on what I’ve learned at Purdue, I wrote and submitted an article for publication to a library science journal in China, and I am getting ready to submit another case study of PURR in Chinese that I co-authored with Michael Witt [Purdue] and Tianfang Dou, the other visiting scholar from Tsinghua University. We began a new research study that we hope will result in a third publication in an English library science journal later in the year.

Hui Wang
Visiting Scholar
National Science Library
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China

It was with great pleasure that I was invited by Dean of Libraries Dr. James Mullins to be a visiting scholar in data management at Purdue University Libraries. I’m so happy, appreciative and proud to have worked with the PURR (Purdue University Research Repository) team for the past three months [April through June]. As a full participant in data services at Purdue, I have gained a wealth of firsthand experiences with library research data services, tools and practices. What I have learned from Purdue Libraries will be taken back to my home country and will definitely benefit my own library at Tsinghua University.

Those experiences have met and exceeded all my expectations. I can tell the world proudly now that I have learned the strategies, policies, services and tools Purdue and other institutions use in the management of data throughout the research lifecycle.

I loved being part of the Libraries and hope I can enhance the further collaboration between Tsinghua and Purdue.

Tianfang Dou
Visiting Scholar
Tsinghua University Library
Beijing, China
Jan Olek
Jan Olek

Afterword – Message from the University Library Committee Chair

My introduction to the University Library Committee (ULC) began in the fall of 2004 when I first responded to the call from the University Senate asking for volunteers to serve on various committees. I was lucky enough to be appointed and quickly learned that the ULC plays a very important role in advising the dean of Libraries on the policies related to print and digital collections, research and instruction. Members of the committee represent faculty and students, both graduate and undergraduate, across the campus. Serving on the ULC was a very rewarding experience and an excellent opportunity to learn about the challenges and opportunities facing the library system at a major research university.

During my three years of service on the ULC, it became obvious that the traditional function of the library, that is to collect, organize, preserve and offer assistance with the use of information, was rapidly changing. These changes appeared to be transformative in nature and included issues ranging from challenges posed by technology to new approaches to research, learning and options for disseminating information.

It was mostly a desire to be a part of this transformative process that motivated me to volunteer (in the fall of 2013) for a second term on the ULC. The changes I learned about and was able to observe during this past year have been even more extensive that I expected. This is particularly evident in the area of teaching and learning. The current generation of students makes extensive use of various digital resources that redefines the concept of traditional information literacy and presents libraries with a unique set of challenges to address the need for such specialized skills. Recent progress in the science of learning resulted in the University wide initiative to integrate active learning to redesign and transform the way the courses are being thought. The Libraries faculty and staff actively participate in this initiative and the forthcoming Wilmeth Active Learning Center (ALC) will offer a truly modern, state-of-the-art facility to foster these changes.

With a number of ongoing initiatives, Purdue University Libraries provides national leadership in changing the existing paradigm and is actively working to explore new ways to meet the needs of 21st-century researchers and students. I’m pleased as chair of the University Library Committee to represent the faculty as Libraries meets present and future challenges for advancing learning and scholarship.

Jan Olek
Chair, University Library Committee
Professor of Civil Engineering
College of Engineering