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PURR and Libraries: Providing Purdue Researchers with Data-Management and Archiving Tool
September 7, 2018 — Last week, the Washington Post published an article about the data a Purdue University professor (and two of his research colleagues) gathered on “every confirmed, line-of-duty police killing a civilian in 2014 and 2015.” Logan Strother, assistant professor in the Purdue Department of Political Science, used the Purdue University Research Repository, or PURR, to publish the dataset of police shootings he references in the piece. (Co-authors include Charles Menifield and Geiguen Shin, both at Rutgers University, Newark.) According to Data Repository Outreach Specialist (Research Data, Purdue University Libraries) Sandi Caldrone, by using PURR to publish the dataset, Strother is promoting transparency in scholarship. Read more on the Purdue Libraries’ news site…
Exhibition shows growth of West Lafayette campus since 1869
AUGUST 29, 2018, WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — A newly opening exhibition by Purdue Libraries highlights the physical growth and evolution of the university’s West Lafayette campus from its establishment in 1869. Read more at SFGate.com…
Purdue Polytechnic professor uses grant award to bring virtual reality training to archivists nationwide
AUGUST 22, 2018 — Mesut Akdere, associate professor of human resource development (HRD) and director of HRD Virtual Lab at the Purdue Polytechnic Institute, along with [Purdue Libraries’ faculty Sammie Morris and Nastasha Johnson] and professors from and the Center for Intercultural Learning, Mentorship, Assessment, and Research (CILMAR), received a grant from the National Historical Records and Publications Commission (NHPRC) to provide training for archivists across the country by developing and facilitating the Archives Leadership Institute (ALI) for the next generation of archivist leaders. The new program, ALI@Purdue, will provide advanced training for archival leaders in the United States, giving them the knowledge and tools to transform the profession in practice, theory and attitude. Read more from Purdue Polytechnic Institute…