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Faculty and Staff Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – Oct/Nov 2019

Leading the Way

 On Wednesday, Nov. 20, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies (PULSIS) United Way team members -- who led fundraising in our unit for the Purdue United Way's 2019 campaign -- were recognized for their contributions to the campaign. This year, this team -- comprised of (L to R) Ashley Hutchcraft, Mary Sego, Dan Rotello and Teresa Balser (both in back row), and Angie Ewing -- led PULSIS in raising more than $13,000 -- $1,700+ more than the unit's goal of $11,865! The team also collected more than 250 books for Read to Succeed.


On Wednesday, Nov. 20, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies (PULSIS) United Way team members — who led fundraising in our unit for the Purdue United Way’s 2019 campaign — were recognized for their contributions to the campaign. This year, this team — comprised of (L to R) Ashley Hutchcraft, Mary Sego, Dan Rotello and Teresa Balser (both in back row), Sandy Galloway, and Angie Ewing — led PULSIS in raising more than $13,000 — $1,700+ more than our unit’s goal of $11,865! The team also collected more than 250 books for Read to Succeed. In addition, at the campaign celebration luncheon, the team was recognized for leading the PULSIS in the highest participation rate of all mid-size units on campus.

Awards and Service

Nanette Andersson attended the workshop, “Environmental Controls in Museums, Libraries, and Archives” at the University of Wisconsin – Madison  (Nov. 4-6) and received a certificate from the College of Engineering and Engineering Professional Development.

Presentations

Nanette Andersson and Sarah Huber presented “A New Concept in University Libraries–Purdue University’s Wilmeth Active Learning Center,” October 22 at the Illinois Library Associations Annual Conference; http://bit.ly/walc-ila19

Clarence Maybee

  • Maybee (chair), Sayyad Abdi, E., Dave, K., & Conrad, L. (2019, October). Information experience: A domain and object of study (panel). Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), Melbourne, AUS.
  • (2019, October). Supporting candidate’s research development: Advisors and librarians enriching researcher capacity (invited panelist). James Cook University, Townsville, AUS.
  • (2019, October). Purdue Libraries’ IMPACT: A journey in collaboration (invited presentation). University of Queensland Library, Brisbane, AUS.
  • (2019, October). Framing research to support career success (invited presentation). James Cook University, Townsville, AUS.
  • 2019 – Delivering informed curriculum: Collaborative engagement practices (workshop). James Cook University, Townsville, AUS, October 29, 2019.

Shirley Li, Nicole Kong, Karen Hum, and Nanette Andersson presented “Applying Web GIS to Space Use Assessment” at the 2019 Applied Geography Conference in Charlotte, NC.

Michael Witt. November 7, 2019. Anatomy of a FAIR Dissertation. Keynote address. 22nd International Conference on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Universidade Portucalense, Porto, Portugal. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.3531599.

Publications and Media

Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel, “Clio’s Presence, or: Where is History of Education to be Found?” IJHE Bildungsgeschichte: International Journal for the Historiography of Education (2019): 171-189.
(Note, per Professor Hérubel: “This is a large-scale bibliometric study devoted to mapping history of education research including all disciplines that feed into this specialization for the Standing Working Group: Mapping the Discipline History of Education, which I am a member. This is a component of International Standing Conference for the History of Education (ISCHE) is an academic society dedicated to fostering research and enhancing intellectual exchange and cooperation among historians of education around the globe.”)

Maybee, Clarence (2018) “The Quarterly Interview: Clarence Maybee,” LOEX Quarterly: Vol. 45 : Iss. 3 , Article 5. Available at: https://commons.emich.edu/loexquarterly/vol45/iss3/5

Zakharov, Wei, Haiyan Li, and Michael Fosmire (2019). Undergraduates’ News Consumption and Perceptions of Fake News in Science. Portal: Libraries and the Academy, 19(4), 653-665. Retrieved from https://muse.jhu.edu/article/735359/summary

Faculty and Staff Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – Sept/Oct 2019

Awards and Service

Research Council awarded Clarence Maybee a PRF International Travel Grant of $2,000 to travel to the 2019 Association for Information Science and Technology in Melbourne, Australia (October 19-23, 2019) to present “Information Experience: A Domain and Object of Study.”

Read more about Maybee’s, Flierl’s, and Fundator’s research at http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/2019/06/28/alalirt-top-20/.

Michael Witt was invited and joined the editorial board of the Annals of Library and Information Studies. (Fun fact: ALIS was started in 1954 by S. R. Ranganathan, i.e., the father of library science, whose birthday is celebrated as National Librarian Day in India.)

Presentations

Chao Cai and Megan Sapp Nelson presented “Moving Data Information Literacy Online: Flipping Research Data Management While Keeping Engaged Learning” at the 2019 Midwest Data Librarian Symposium (Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2019).

Chao Cai and Jody Banks presented “Molecular Phylogeny Implemented in an Introductory Plant Classification Course” at the 3rd Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) Conference (Oct. 9-10, 2019).

Sandi Caldrone presented “Purdue University Research Repository: Adapting when Small Data Gets Bigger” at the Science Gateways 2019 Conference September 24, 2019.

Bert Chapman presented “How U.S. Government Policy Documents are Addressing the Increasing National Security Implications of Artificial Intelligence” at the American Society for Competitiveness Conference in Washington, D.C., October 24, 2019.

A. Bartelmann & Margaret Phillips, The Value of Standards for Teaching, Research, and Facilities Use at Princeton and Purdue. Presented at the ASME Publishing Library Advisory Board (LAB) Meeting, October 9, 2019.

Kendall Roark presented a paper entitled “Queer Tech Futures: STS & Community-based Technology Education” at the 4S Conference in New Orleans, September 6, 2019.

Kendall Roark gave an invited talk entitled “Queer Entanglements: Statistics, Anthropology and (the New?) Data Colonialism” at the Statistics Department Colloquium, Purdue University, September 27, 2019.

Publications and Media

Hérubel, J.-P.V.M., review of Steven Roger Fischer, A History of Reading, 416 pp. Reaktion Books, London, United Kingdom, 2019, in Publishing Research Quarterly 35 (2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-019-09688-y

Hérubel, J.-P.V.M., review of Albert N. Greco: The Growth of the Scholarly Publishing Industry in the U.S.: A Business History of a Changing Marketplace, 1939-1946, 100 pp. Palgrave Pivot, Cham, Switzerland, 2019, in in Publishing Research Quarterly 35 (2019): 530-531. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-019-09663-7.

Heyns, Erla, Eldermire, E., & Howard, Heather (2019) “Unsubstantiated Conclusions: A Scoping Review on Generational Differences of Leadership in Academic Libraries”. Journal of Academic Librarianship. 54(5). 10254.

McGowan, Bethany. Reimagining information literacy instruction in an evidence-based practice nursing course for undergraduate students. J Med Libr Assoc. 2019 Oct;107(4):572-578. DOI: dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2019.663

Wong, Y., Bruce, C. S., & Maybee, Clarence. (2019). The role of stories in informed learning. Information Research. In Proceedings of RAILS – Research Applications Information and Library Studies, Published in Information Research, 24(3). Retrieved from http://InformationR.net/ir/24-3/rails/rails1811.html

Academic Librarian Curriculum Developers: Building Capacity to Integrate Information Literacy across the University

Amity Saha

Amity Saha

by Amity Saha, Graduate Assistant, ALCD Project, and Graduate Student, Hospitality & Tourism Management


Led by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Associate Professor Clarence Maybee, a team from Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies has received a $249,179 award through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to conduct the “Academic Librarian Curriculum Developers (ALCD): Building Capacity to Integrate Information Literacy across the University” project. A partnership between Purdue University, the University of Arizona, and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, the ALCD project increases the capacity of academic librarians to enable student learning by partnering with instructors to develop curricula that allows students to more intentionally, creatively, and ethically use information in disciplinary contexts. Learning to use information within a disciplinary context fosters lifelong learning—allowing students to engage with information to learn in personal and professional settings beyond higher education. Supporting student success and learning, the ALCD project aims to demonstrate the value of academic libraries’ educational efforts to key stakeholders, such as administrators, instructors, and students.

Clarence Maybee

Clarence Maybee

A total of 15 librarians and15 instructors from across the three universities will participate in the three-year ALCD project. The librarian participants will learn about informed learning design, a learning design model developed by Dr. Maybee that emphasizes the role of information in the learning process. They will then work with instructors to create classroom assignments in which students engage with information in new ways to learn course content. In the second year of the project, the instructors will implement the assignments in their courses. In the third year, the results of the project will be shared to provide the higher education community with a sustainable model for promoting student success by teaching learners to use information within the learning context.

Project timeline for “Academic Librarian Curriculum Developers (ALCD): Building Capacity to Integrate Information Literacy across the University”

Along with Dr. Maybee (project leader), there are three co-project leaders, including Michael Flierl (Ohio State University) Maribeth Slebodnik (University of Arizona), and Catherine Fraser Riehle (University of Nebraska, Lincoln). Rachel Fundator, information literacy instructional designer (Purdue University), and Amity Saha, graduate assistant staff, (Purdue University) are also part of the project team.

All members of the project team have extensive experience collaborating with classroom instructors to develop curricula, including the creation and implementation of Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT), a campus-wide program to enhance undergraduate courses. Dr. Maybee has led Purdue Libraries’ involvement in IMPACT since 2012. He is a faculty member with ACRL’s Immersion program, a weeklong intensive retreat for academic library professionals to develop their teaching.

As a graduate staff of the ALCD project, my primary responsibilities include working with the project leader and co-leaders at each institution to help create and implement ALCD project activities, including recruitment, workshop development and implementation, support for the analysis of project outcomes, and the sharing of results of the project through various methods.

For more information about the ALCD project, contact Amity Saha (GA) at saha33@purdue.edu, or Dr. Clarence Maybee (PI) at cmaybee@purdue.edu.

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (13-19-0021-19).


 

Faculty and Staff Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – Aug/Sept 2019

Awards and Service

Nanette Andersson, appointment, Member of the Buildings and Equipment: Buildings for College & University Libraries Committee; and 2020 ELI (Educause Learning Initiative) Annual Meeting Proposal reviewer.

Presentations

Robert Ulrich, Heinz Pampel, Maxi Kindling, Paul Vierkant, Frank Scholze, Michael Witt, Martin Fenner, Kirsten Elger, and Gabriele Kloska. (2019). March re3data: Advancing Services for Open Science. E-Science-Tage 2019: Data to Knowledge, Heidelberg University, Germany.

Xiaoran Yan, Valentin Pentchev, Michael Witt et al. (2019). CADRE: A Platform for Enabling Research via Shared Data, Resources, and Community. 17th International Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics Conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy.

Publications and Media

Chapman, Bert. “Recent U.S. and International Assessment of Baltic Security Developments.” Security and Defence Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 4, Sept. 2019. securityanddefence.pl, doi:10.35467/sdq/112252.

Memories of Life on the Farm: Through the Lens of Pioneer Photographer J. C. Allen

Neal Harmeyer, digital archivist in Purdue Archives and Special Collections, co-authored “Memories of the Farm: Through the Lens of Pioneer Photographer J.C. Allen,” published by Purdue University Press.

Whitford, Frederick and Harmeyer, Neal, “Memories of Life on the Farm: Through the Lens of Pioneer Photographer J. C. Allen” (2019). Purdue University Press. West Lafayette, IN.

Advancing the Active-Learning Culture at Purdue

The Active Learning Community of Practice (ALCoP) at Purdue University is comprised of faculty who gather to share ideas, explore active learning strategies, and discuss student outcomes. Facilitated by Susan Modlin, clinical assistant professor of nursing, ALCoP at Purdue meets monthly. Modlin’s role in this community was recently covered by the ITaP Newsroom in “Active Learning Community of Practice’s Focus This Year Is on Diversity and Inclusion.”

Rachel Fundator, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies

Rachel Fundator

Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Information Literacy Instructional Designer Rachel Fundator has also been integral in assembling and implementing ALCoP.

Below, Fundator shares more about the community of practice.

Q. Tell me about about your role in this community.

Fundator: The ALCoP is a grassroots organization that has provided monthly opportunities for instructors across Purdue to learn about and discuss topics related to active learning since the opening of the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) in the fall of 2017. ALCoP is organized by one faculty member and representatives from three teaching and learning units across camps, including the Purdue University Libraries and School for Information Studies (PULSIS), the Center for Instructional Excellence (CIE), and Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT).

As a collective, we identify salient issues related to active learning and recruit people across campus who can share their insights on these particular issues with community. The organizers from PULSIS, CIE, and TLT work together with our faculty leader to facilitate connections and conversations that can help instructors reflect upon and develop their teaching practices. In this work, we are providing an informal, ongoing venue for advancing teaching and learning culture at Purdue.

Q. How do these meetings and the community help advance and transform learning at Purdue?

Fundator: Ultimately, ALCoP provides instructors with the space to connect with other instructors they may not likely cross paths with in other areas of their work. In these meetings, instructors share and learn from one another about topics related to active learning. Originally, ALCoP was created to help instructors adjust to the increased number of active-learning classrooms across campus. Together, we provided the chance for instructors to learn about the affordances of the classrooms, consider their own practices in relation to the variety of classrooms available around campus, and learn from others about how they help students learn and be engaged in these spaces.

Since the first year of ALCoP, we have expanded these monthly meetings to cover broader topics, such as active learning in online environments and gamification. Most recently, we are organizing a series of monthly meetings around the intersection of active learning, diversity, and inclusion to help instructors consider the ways in which they can engage all students in their courses. ALCoP is always responding to the needs and interests of the instructors who attend the meetings and the campus’ broader educational initiatives.

Q. What role does the PULSIS (Libraries) and PULSIS faculty and staff play in the community of practice, as well as in active learning at Purdue?

Fundator: The PULSIS has an important role to play in advancing active learning at Purdue and beyond. PULSIS faculty and staff are instructors of courses, contributors to faculty development programs like Instruction Matters Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT), representatives on faculty committees and organizations related to teaching, developers of online educational materials, overseers of the largest active-learning classroom building on campus, and researchers who engage in scholarship about the role of information in the learning process. We are ingrained in many aspects of teaching and learning, and serve as an important source of support for instructors interested in helping their students use information and data in better ways in their courses.

Our representative contributes to the organization of the community of practice, and several faculty and staff attend ALCoP sessions, where they make connections with and learn from other instructors they may not have had the opportunity to meet in other settings. PULSIS’ involvement in ALCoP is a natural extension of the way we contribute to advancing teaching and learning at Purdue through our partnerships with the CIE, TLT, and instructors.

IMPACT Data Science Education: Preparing Undergraduates to Lead into the Future

“IMPACT Data Science Education: Preparing Undergraduates to Lead into the Future” is a project awarded funding through Purdue University’s Integrative Data Science Initiative (IDSI). More information about the Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies’ IDSI awarded projects is available at http://bit.ly/idsi2.


by Yixuan Sun, Graduate Assistant, IMPACT Data Science, and Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering

Yixuan Sun, Graduate Assistant, IMPACT Data Science, and Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering

Yixuan Sun, Graduate Assistant, IMPACT Data Science, and Ph.D. Student, Mechanical Engineering

As we become increasingly dependent on data, data-driven work — such as data analysis, visualization, and predictive modeling — has never been more important across different fields. One of the projects of Purdue University’s Integrative Data Science Initiative (IDSI) is “IMPACT Data Science Education: Preparing Undergraduates to Lead into the Future,” which will contribute to the current data science education ecosystem at Purdue by helping faculty integrate data science into undergraduate courses.

The IMPACT Data Science team is comprised of six Purdue faculty and staff members who have expertise in data science, pedagogy, and instructional design. Led by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information (PULSIS) associate Professor Clarence Maybee, the project includes team members Guang Lin, associate professor, mathematics/mechanical engineering/statistics(courtesy)/earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences (courtesy) & director of Data Science Consulting Service; Wei Zakharov, assistant professor, PULSIS; Chao Cai, assistant professor, PULSIS; and Jason Fitzsimmons, instructional developer Center of Instructional Excellence (CIE).

Clarence Maybee

Dr. Clarence Maybee

The IMPACT Data Science project builds on successful Purdue programs, such as IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) and the Data Science Consulting Service. The purpose of the project is to create a sustainable and scalable course development process for integrating data science into undergraduate courses. The project will support six faculty members as they design innovative and engaging data science coursework to enable their students to develop a comprehensive high-level understanding of data science and its applications in their fields.

The IMPACT Data Science team will organize several major activities across the 2019-2020 academic year, which include:

  • selecting six faculty participants to participate in the project (participants must concurrently participate in the IMPACT program in spring 2020);
  • arranging four IMPACT Data Science working group meetings (during the spring 2020 semester), in which the participants will learn from other Purdue faculty who have successfully integrated data science into courses, as well as learn about specific data science tools and methods used in their disciplines; and
  • hosting a half-day IMPACT Data Science Summit (between May and July of 2020), during which the participants will share with the Purdue community their plans for integrating data science into their undergraduate courses.

The IMPACT Data Science project will have a significant impact on the students in the six undergraduate courses selected to participate in the project. Aligned with the learning goals of each course, students will gain the ability to conduct basic statistical analysis, data visualization and predictive modeling, which will provide a unique insight into the subject of the course.

Data science is essential for societal advancement, as it could unlock gateways to new research, technology, and commerce. Students equipped with basic data science knowledge will be more competitive in their careers and the IMPACT Data Science project offers a way for Purdue faculty to help the students succeed in their fields by integrating data science into undergraduate courses.

For more information about the IMPACT Data Science project, contact Yixuan Sun at sun650@purdue.edu, or Clarence Maybee (PI) at cmaybee@purdue.edu

Faculty and Staff Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – July/Aug 2019

Awards

7 PULSIS Faculty on Research Teams Funded in 2nd Round of Purdue’s Data Science Initiative
Clarence Maybee, Pete Pascuzzi, Nicole Kong (PIs); Wei Zakharov, Chao Cai, Michael Witt, Michael Fosmire

Hannah, Matt. Awarded fellowship: Fulbright Specialist, Aug. 2019. More information at

Kong, Nicole, grant awards:

  • 2019 – 2020: Leveraging Soil Explorer for Soils and Ecological Training. USDA, NRCS, Soil Science Collaborative Research Proposals Notice of Funding Opportunity (NFO). Co-PI, with D. Schulze, etc. $ 52,295.49.
  • 2018 – 2019: IndianaView Program Development and Operations for the State of Indiana. AmericaView program, USGS. Co-PI, with L. Biehl, etc. $23,000.

Presentations

Herubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., “The Doctoral Dissertation: Observations, Perspectives, Protean Nature?, Closing keynote address at the Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) at Purdue University, May 23, 2019.

Hérubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., “Disciplinary Nomenclature, Specializations, and University Presses” Seventeenth International Conference on Books, Publishing & Libraries, 5 July 2019, Univerisdad de Granada, Granada, Spain.

Li, Yue (Shirley); Kong, Nicole; and Hum, Karen. Who are using ArcGIS Online? – A Usage Report of Purdue University’s AGO. 2019 ESRI education conference. July 6-9, 2019. San Diego, CA.

Angela Berthume, Jacob Carlson, Emily Chan, Leighton Christensen, Charles Ducker, Kendra Levine, Shashi Nambisan, Hilary Nixon, Steven Polunsky, Rolf Schmitt, Julianne Schwarzer, Lisa Kay Schweyer, Michael Witt. May 2019. Building a National Transportation Data Preservation Network: Detailed Proceedings. Bureau of Transportation Statistics, National Transportation Library, Washington, D.C. https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/41931.

Michael Witt (July 29, 2019). Data Publication and Management. Arequipa Nexus Institute Technical Workshop. West Lafayette, Indiana. https://engineering.purdue.edu/dpmanage/uploads/files/NEXUS-Workshop-Schedule-07-29-2019.pdf.

Zakharov, Wei and Fosmire, Michael (2019, July). Comparing the information needs of practicing engineers between online courses and workplace. Presented at 2019 Great Lakes Science Boot Camp, Chicago, Illinois.

Zakharov, W. (2019, June). Review types and methodologies: A systematic review case study. Presented at 2019 Special Libraries Association Conference, Cleveland, Ohio.

Wang, C.; Hubbard, S.M.; and Zakharov, W. (2019, June). Utilizing the systematic literature review in aviation: A case study for runway incursions. Poster presented at 2019 Special Libraries Association Conference, Cleveland, Ohio.

Publications and Media

Chapman, Bert (2019). “The Baltics and Ukraine: Geopolitical Hotspots.” Praeger Security International.

Dick Kawooya, Donna Ferullo, and Tomas Lipinski. (2019). Library and Information Science Curriculum in a Changing Professional Landscape: The Case of Copyright Education in the United States. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 3(2). 1-43. https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v3i2.6974

Fundator, Rachel; and Maybee, Clarence. (2019). Academic librarians as informed learning developers. In K. Ranger (ed.) Informed learning applications: Insights from research and practice (Advances in Librarianship; volume 46). Emerald.

Tracy Grimm and Sharra Vostral published “Archives as Laboratory: Engaging STEM Students & STEM Collections,” in Engineering Studies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2019.1651731 August 2019

Hérubel, Jean-Pierre; Goedeken, Edward A., “University Presses and Emerging Disciplinary Configurations and Orientations: An Exploration and Discussion
Publishing Research Quarterly 35 (2019): 39-51.

Hérubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., “Tyrannosaurus Monographis and Velociraptor Articlus : A Publishing Ecology Publishing Research Quarterly 35 (2019): 213-222.

Burrows, Trevor; Freeman, Robert S; Heyns, Erla P; Hérubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., “Humanities and Social Sciences Dissertation Bibliographies and Collections: The View from a STEM University Portal: Libraries and the Academy 19 (2019): 511-533.

Hérubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., “University, College Institutional Histories, and University Presses: General Observations of a Unique Publishing Phenomenon,” Publishing Research Quarterly 35 (2019): 352–361.

Hérubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., “Recent Articles on French History, French Historical Studies: 42 (February 2019): 154-172.

Hérubel, Jean-Pierre V. M., “Recent Articles on French History, French Historical Studies: 42 (August 2019): 508-531.

Phillips, Margaret, Howard, H., Valeer, A., & Hubbard, D.E. (2019). Mapping industry standards and integration opportunities in business management curricula. Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. (in press) DOI: 10.1080/08963568.2019.1638662. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lib_fsdocs/220/

Check It Out! August 2019

LCSSAC Corner

By Allen Bol

The Libraries Clerical and Service Staff Advisory Committee (LCSSAC) recently had a change in officers, and I am now now the new chair. We are currently in the planning stages for the Libraries and School of Information Studies’ Fall Picnic with some exciting changes coming! The picnic is set to begin at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, and this year, it will be held at a different location this year–at the River Shelter at Fort Ouiatenon. Please bring a covered dish and a white elephant gift. Dean McNeil is graciously providing the hamburgers, hotdogs, and buns. This event is open for all Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies (PULSIS) faculty, staff, retirees, and their families.

As always, LCSSAC is here to be the listening voice for all the PULSIS support staff. If at any time you have a question or concern, please send us a Link Letter. Link Letters are a confidential way for you to have your voice be heard. All Link Letters go directly to the LCSSAC chair, who will remove all identifying information before sharing it with the rest of the committee. Follow this link: go.lib.purdue.edu/LCSSAC/Linkletter to send a letter.

More DigRef Questions Due to Ask-a-Librarian Pop Out Tab

By Frances Christman and the DigRef Team

This past June, a little pop out appeared on the Library’s homepage. Just a little pop-out. “Ask Us” (see upper right corner of image below).

Digital Reference via Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies

Nothing big, nothing with bell and whistles… just a little “Ask Us” tab showing up on your screen.
Suddenly, questions appeared in our queues—A LOT more questions, to the point that we are now staffing double shifts on certain days of the week to answer the amount of questions we receive. Compared to the previous years, the number of questions have DOUBLED.

Ask-a-Librarian DigRef Service, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information StudiesWe are visible. We are present. We are available!

It was just a little pop out… but oh, what a BIG difference it has made!

Faculty and Staff Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – June/July 2019

Awards

Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies Faculty Awarded Nearly $250K IMLS Grant

Faculty in Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies are part of a team of academic library faculty who recently were selected to receive a $249,179 award through the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program via the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Along with librarians at the University of Arizona and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies faculty librarians will collaborate on the project with university classroom instructors to develop disciplinary-based, information literacy curricula.

The results of the project, “Academic Librarian Curriculum Developers: Building Capacity to Integrate Information Literacy across the University,” will be shared with academic library professionals, administrators, and information literacy thought leaders across the nation. Project team leaders include: Clarence Maybee, project lead, Purdue; Michael Flierl, co-project lead, Purdue; Maribeth Slebodnik, co-project lead, University of Arizona; and Catherine Fraser Riehle, co-project lead, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Read more…

Purdue Research Team Among First Class of Fellows for Collaborative Archive Data Research Environment (CADRE)

Purdue Research Team Among First Class of Fellows for Collaborative Archive Data Research Environment (CADRE)A team of Purdue University researchers is among the seven fellowship teams selected for the first class of the Collaborative Archive Data Research Environment (CADRE) Fellows.

These seven fellowship teams span across disciplines and offer compelling research that incorporates big data and bibliometrics. Each fellow team will access CADRE’s Web of Science (WoS) and Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG) datasets to achieve their research goals.

Purdue University members of the first class of CADRE Fellows, L to R: Michael Witt, Loran Carleton Parker, and Ann Bessenbacher

The three-member Purdue University team will work on the project, “Utilizing Data Citation for Aggregating, Contextualizing, and Engaging with Research Data in STEM Education Research.” The researchers are:

  • Michael Witt (top photo), associate professor of library science, Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies, Purdue University,
  • Loran Carleton Parker (middle photo), associate director and senior evaluation and research associate, Evaluation Learning Research Center (ELRC), College of Education, Purdue University, and
  • Ann Bessenbacher, research associate and data scientist (ELRC), STEMEd HUB, Purdue University.

Read more…


Presentations

Amy Childress and JJ Sadler presented “Collaborating across Campus to Develop a New Undergraduate Research Scholarship Program” and “Creating an Undergraduate Research Society to Support and Connect with Prospective and Current Researchers” at the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Undergraduate Research Programs Division Conference, June 27-29, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Heather Howard presented the lightning talk for her research “Technical Standards Literacy in Management Education” (with co-author Margaret Phillips) at the Midwest Business Librarian Summit, July 24, 2019, Purdue University.

Beth McNeil presented the keynote address at the Midwest Business Librarian Summit, July 24, 2019, Purdue University.

Megan Sapp Nelson and Ningning (Nicole) Kong (2019). Capturing their “First” Dataset: A graduate course to walk PhD students through the curation of their dissertation data. Presented at IASSIST 2019 conference, Sydney, Australia. Available at: https://openconf.org/IASSIST2019/modules/request.php?module=oc_program&action=summary.php&id=104

Margaret Phillips co-taught the short course, “Professional Development and Life-Long Information Strategies for Engineering Research” to mechanical engineering graduate students, July 15-19, Pusan National University in Korea.

Ilana Stonebraker presented “Librarians Do That? Three Applications of Business Information Literacy Outside of the Library” at the Midwest Business Librarian Summit, July 24, 2019, Purdue University.


Publications and Media

Trevor Burrows, Robert S. Freeman, Erla P. Heyns, and Jean-Pierre V. M. Hérubel.
“Humanities and Social Sciences Dissertation Bibliographies and Collections: The View from a STEM University.” Portal: Libraries and the Academy, vol. 19, no. 3, 2019, pp. 511-533. https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2019.0029

Dick Kawooya, Donna Ferullo, and Tomas Lipinski. (2019). Library and Information Science Curriculum in a Changing Professional Landscape: The Case of Copyright Education in the United States. Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship, 3(2), 1-43. https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v3i2.6974

Faculty Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – May/June 2019

Awards

Prof. Maybee with Beth Fuchs of the University of Kentucky, LIRT chair & LIRT awards committee chair.

Prof. Clarence Maybee received the Librarian Recognition Award from LIRT at the ALA Annual Conference June 23 in Washington, D.C. He’s with Beth Fuchs of the University of Kentucky, LIRT chair & LIRT awards committee chair.

Micheal Flierl, Clarence Maybee, Rachel Fundator, and Emily Bonem (Purdue Center for Instructional Excellence) were recognized by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the American Library Association for their research article “Information literacy supporting student motivation and performance: Course-level analyses,” in LIRT’s “Top Twenty Articles of 2018” ( June 2019 newsletter). Their research was published in the January 2018 issue of Library and Information Science Research.

Clarence Maybee was honored as the 2019 recipient of the national Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) Librarian Recognition Award at the American Library Association Annual Conference June 23 in Washington, D.C.

Presentations

Heather Howard and Margaret Phillips delivered the poster presentation, “The Potential of Industry Standards in Undergraduate Business Education,” at the Business & Finance Division, Special Library Association (SLA) 2019 Conference, June 2019, Cleveland, OH.

Shirley Li, Nicole Kong, and Bertin Mbongo presented “Disseminating licensed geospatial data from Geodata Portal,” at the 2019 Indiana GIS Conference, May 15-17, 2019, Bloomington, IN.

Nicole Kong and Nina Collins presented, “Understanding the Impact of an Institutional Repository – A Big Data Mining and Visualization Project,” at the 11th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) International Conference, May 28-31, 2019, Florence, Italy.

Nicole Kong presented, “Librarian as a Collaborator in Supporting Spatial Humanities Research Projects,” at the 11th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) International Conference, May 28-31, 2019, Florence, Italy.

Clarence Maybee and Michael Flierl presented “Informed learning design: A tool for integrating information literacy into disciplinary curricula,” at Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML), May 2019, Florence, Italy.

Bethany McGowan, Jason Reed, and Jane Yatcilla presented the poster session “Creating a For-Credit Systematic Review Course for Graduate Students in the Health Sciences,” May 2019, at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting.

Larry Mykytiuk presented “Hebrew Kings of the Bible Confirmed in Ancient Inscriptions from David to Jehoiachin: A Sample,” March 30; “14 People in the Book of Jeremiah Confirmed by Inscriptions from around 600 B.C.E,” March 31; and “Presentation in Response to Religious School Faculty Inquiry,” March 31, 2019, as the Scholar in Residence at Temple Sholom, Chicago, IL.

Ilana Stonebraker and Maoria Kirker presented “Architects, Renovators, Builders, and Fragmenters: A Study of Student Perceptions Change Over Time in Two Institutions,” Lightning Talk at RUSA First Year Experience Discussion Group, American Library Association Annual Conference, June 2019, Washington, D.C.

Jason Reed presented “Investigating Emerging Roles for Medical Librarians at College and University Libraries” with Alexander J. Carroll at North Carolina State University, May 2019, at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting.

Wei Zakharov, Sarah Huber, and Michael Fosmire presented “Integrating foundational data management course into STEM,” at the IOLUG 2019 Conference, “Tackling Data in Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges in Serving User Communities, in May 2019.

Tom Cramer, Mercè Crosas, and Michael Witt presented “Research Data Management and Workflows in Universities: Transforming Data to Knowledge,” International Council for Scientific and Technical Information, May 17, 2019.

Maxi Kindling, Heinz Pampel, Robert Ulrich, Paul Vierkant, Frank Scholze, Martin Fenner, Michael Witt, and Kirsten Elger. June 5, 2019. re3data – Offene Infrastruktur für Open Science. WissKom2019, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. http://hdl.handle.net/2128/22232.

Frank Scholze, Michael Witt, Robert Ulrich, Heinz Pampel, Maxi Kindling, Paul Vierkant, Martin Fenner, and Kirsten Elger. June 19, 2019. re3data registry of research data repositories: COREF. CERN-UNIGE 11th Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI 11), University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Publications and Media

Wendy Girven Pothier, Heather Howard, and Paul Campbell published “Pathways to Becoming an Academic Subject Specialist: Insights from Three Librarians,” in Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library Information Practice and Research, 14(1).

Ilana Stonebraker, Clarence Maybee, and Jessica Chapman, published, “Undergraduate students’ experiences of using information at the career fair: A phenomenographic study conducted by the libraries and career center,” in the The Journal of Academic Librarianship 45.4 (2019): 358-367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2019.05.002

Faculty Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – Apr/May 2019

Awards

Dean Lingley and Annapurni Subramaniam each received a $600 award to attend the “Text Mining with HathiTrust” workshop (set for June 6) at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) Conference 2019.

The Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT) of the American Library Association has selected Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Associate Professor Clarence Maybee as the 2019 recipient of the LIRT Librarian Recognition Award. The Librarian Recognition Award was created to recognize an individual’s contribution to the development, advancement, and support of information literacy and instruction.

Bethany McGowan and Ilana Stonebraker were selected to receive a Research Data Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine (NNLM). The $20,000 grant award for the project, “Understanding Rates of Attrition in Biomedical Data Challenges: A Study of Failure,” will enable them to provide research data management training to students. The workshops are part of a larger research project through which McGowan and Stonebraker will conduct a study to understand rates of attrition in biomedical data challenges.

Presentations

Richard Bernier presented “An Introduction to Project STAND (Student Activism Now Documented)” at the Society of Indiana Archivists Annual Meeting, April 26, Terre Haute, IN.

Carly Dearborn presented “Preserving Complex Digital Objects” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Matt Hannah presented “The Landscape of Modern Theses” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. He also served as the moderator for the panel discussion, “Challenges and Culture” at the ETD Symposium.

Jean-Pierre Hérubel presented the closing keynote talk “The Doctoral Dissertation: Observations, Perspectives, Protean Nature?” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Nicole Kong presented “Geographic Information Out of Research” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Shirley Li presented “Evaluating Geoportal Performance using Web Analytics” at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, April 7, Washington, D.C.

Justin Race served on the panel during the panel discussion “Challenges and Culture” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Michael Witt presented “Guiding Graduate Students in Data Management in Practice” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Witt has also been selected as a keynote speaker for ETD 2019, the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations, Nov. 6-8, 2019, at the Universidade Portucalense, Oporto, Portugal.

David Zwicky presented “Peppytides” at the Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) Symposium, May 23, at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Publications and Media

Chao Cai

Chao Cai

Cai, Chao, et al. “Three Genes Define a Bacterial-Like Arsenic Tolerance Mechanism in the Arsenic Hyperaccumulating Fern Pteris Vittata.” Current Biology, vol. 29, no. 10, May 2019, p. 1625–1633.e3. www.cell.com, doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.029.

Chao Cai was also interviewed for the article, “How One Fern Can Soak Up So Much Arsenic — And Not Die,” which appeared in Purdue Today.

Kendall Roark was interviewed for the article, “Humanities Central in Development of Emerging Critical Data Studies Field,” which appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of “THiNK,” a magazine published by the Purdue University College of Liberal Arts.

Faculty Presentations, Publications, Awards, and Accomplishments – Mar/Apr 2019

See Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies annual faculty, staff, and student awards at One Book Higher Awards 2019.

Awards

Nastasha Johnson (left), assistant professor, and Michael Witt (center), associate professor, both in the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies, accepted the Academic Connection Award for the Engineering in the World of Data Learning Community faculty team from Associate Director of Residential Academic Initiatives Jonathan Manz (right).Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Assistant Professor Nastasha Johnson (left) and Associate Professor Michael Witt (center) accepted the Academic Connection Award for the Engineering in the World of Data Learning Community faculty team from Associate Director of Residential Academic Initiatives Jonathan Manz (right). (Read more about the teaching team and the learning community at http://bit.ly/ewd-lc-award.)

Heather Howard was awarded (by Research Council) International Travel Grant of $2,000 and Research Support Grant $995.57.  The funds will be used to travel to the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Annual Conference, June 25-28 2019, Lisbon, Portugal to present “Student Information Use and Decision-Making in Innovation Competitions.”

Nicole Kong was awarded (by Research Council) an International Travel Grant of $2,560.  The grant will be used to travel to the 11th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries (QQML) 2019 International Conference, May 28-31, 2019, in Florence, Italy, to present “Understanding the Impact of an Institutional Repository – A Big Data Mining and Visualization Project and Librarian as a Collaborator in Supporting Spatial Humanities Research Projects.”

Clarence Maybee was awarded (by Research Council) an International Travel Grant of $2,000.  The grant will be used to travel to the Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Librarianship conference held in Florence, Italy, May 29-31, 2019, to present “Informed Learning Design: A Tool for Integrating Information Literacy into Disciplinary Curricula.”

Bethany McGowan was awarded (from Research Council) an International Travel Grant of $2,000. The grant will be used to travel to the 2019 Medical Library Association Conference in Chicago, IL, May 5-7, 2019, to present the paper “Understanding Nursing Faculty’s Perceptions of the Role of the ACRL Information Literacy Framework in Nursing Instruction” and two poster sessions on “Using Text Mining Tools to Generate Terms for a Systematic Review: A Comparison of Voyant Tools” and “R tm and Creating a For Credit Systematic Review Course for Graduate Students in the Health Sciences.”

Larry Mykytiuk’s research in Biblical studies was recognized during his time as Scholar in Residence at Temple Sholom, Chicago, IL, March 29‒31, 2019.

Margaret Phillips was awarded (from Research Council) an International Travel Grant of $2,000 and Research Support Grant of $995.97. The funds will be used to travel to the 2019 European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference in Lisbon, Portugal, from June 25-28, 2019, to present “Mapping Industry Standards in Undergraduate Business Education.

Presentations

On April 24, Bert Chapman presented “The Controversial F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: America’s Most Expensive Weapons System and Its Impact” and “British Government Information Resources” at INDIGO, the Indiana Government Documents Librarians Conference at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Adriana Harmeyer was on the panel “Archival Revitalization: Transforming Technical Services with Innovative Workflows” at the Midwest Archives Conference in Detroit (MI), April 6. She also delivered the invited presentation, “Bruce Rogers: Designer, Typographer, and Son of Indiana” to the Daughters of the American Revolution, General de Lafayette Chapter, April 9.

Michael Witt co-organized the Drexel-CODATA FAIR Responsible Research Data Management Workshop on March 31 and April 1 at Drexel University, https://conference.codata.org/Drexel_CODATA_2019.

Publications and Media

Maybee, Clarence, et al. “Informed Learning Design: Teaching and Learning through Engagement with Information.” Higher Education Research & Development, vol. 38, no. 3, Apr. 2019, pp. 579–93. Crossref, doi:10.1080/07294360.2018.1545748.

Reed, Jason B., and Benjamin Jahre. “Reviewing the Current State of Library Support for Open Educational Resources.” Collection Management, Mar. 2019, pp. 1–12. Crossref, doi:10.1080/01462679.2019.1588181.

Marceau, Kristine, Savannah Hottle, and Jane Kinkus Yatcilla. “Puberty in the Last 25 Years: A Retrospective Bibliometric Analysis.” Journal of Research on Adolescence, vol. 29, no. 1, Mar. 2019, pp. 96–114. Crossref, doi:10.1111/jora.12396.

Nicole Kong and Yue (Shirley) Li contributed a post to the BTAA Geospatial Data Project blog at http://bit.ly/btaapurduepost.

 

One Book Higher Awards 2019

During the 2019 One Book Higher celebration event held March 26, faculty, staff, and students were presented with a variety of awards that honored their contributions to the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies and Purdue University during previous academic year. A list of the awards and award winners are below.

(L to R): Anna Subramaniam, chair of the Scholarship Committee; Sarah Merryman, winner of the Albert Viton Scholarship; and Tatum Theaman, winner of the Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship. The Albert Viton Scholarship and the Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship are merit-based scholarships that have been made possible by two generous donors. The amount of each of these scholarships this year is $2,500. The Albert Viton Scholarship was created to recognize students who work in the Purdue University Press.

The Albert Viton Scholarship and the Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship are merit-based scholarships that have been made possible by two generous donors. The amount of each of these scholarships this year is $2,500. The Albert Viton Scholarship was created to recognize students who work in the Purdue University Press.

Pictured, left to right: Anna Subramaniam, chair of the Scholarship Committee; Sarah Merryman, winner of the Albert Viton Scholarship; and Tatum Theaman, winner of the Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship.

The PULSE Award was created by the Circulation Reserve Team to recognize student employees of the Libraries and School of Information Studies. Through fundraising and with special support from Judy and Michael Humnicky, an endowment was raised to support the annual award. Pictured, left to right: Anna Subramaniam, chair of the Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Scholarship Committee, and Purdue University Libraries Student Excellence (PULSE) Award winners Olivia Crouse, Brenae Newhard, and Nicole Szumigalski.

The Amelia Earhart Scholarships are funded by an outside donor and administered through the Division of Financial Aid. Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies is represented on the Earhart Scholarship Committee in recognition of the Earhart Collection housed in the Purdue Archives and Special Collections.

Pictured (L to R): Hannah Melchiorre and Caroline Kren were named winners of the Amelia Earhart Scholarship. (Also named were Amanda Heltzel and Makayla Schannen, who could not attend the ceremony.)

Pictured are Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor Scott Brandt and Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Assistant Professor Nastasha Johnson, who was recognized with the 2019 John H. Moriarty Award for Excellence in Library Service.

The Moriarty Award honors a Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies faculty member, and it was named in honor of John H. Moriarty, who led the Purdue Libraries from 1944 to 1970. Funding for the award is from the Richard L. Funkhouser Libraries Endowment.

Pictured, left to right, are: Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor Scott Brandt, Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Assistant Professor Michael Flierl, Associate Professor Clarence Maybee, and Instructional Designer Rachel Fundator. Flierl, Maybee, and Fundator were honored with the fifth annual Purdue Libraries Research Award for their innovative article, “Information Literacy Supporting Student Motivation and Performance: Course-Level Analyses.”

This research has been featured at two international conferences, the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2018 Annual Conference held in Bergen, Norway, as well as the 2018 Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference in Chania, Greece.

 

Betsy Gordon Psychoactive Substances Research Archivist Stephanie Schmitz was recognized with the Dean’s Individual Award for Significant Advancement of a Libraries Strategic Initiative. She is pictured here with Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor Scott Brandt.

 

 

 

Pictured are Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor Scott Brandt and Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Assistant Professor Pete Pascuzzi, who was recognized with the ninth annual Purdue University Libraries Award for Excellence in Teaching.

 

 

Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor Scott Brandt and Anna Subramaniam, administrator for library enterprise applications are pictured here. Subramaniam, and her fellow EZProxy Configuration File Clean-Up Team members Dean Lingley, Sue Long, Jill Stair, and April Maybee (not pictured) were recognized with the Dean’s Team Award.

 

 

 

Katherine Purple (left) and Bryan Shaffer (not pictured) received the Dean’s Team Award for their service as co-interim directors of the Purdue University Press before current Purdue Press Director Justin Race was named late last year. (Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor Scott Brandt is on the left in the photo.)

 

Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Associate Professor Clarence Maybee was recognized with the Dean’s Individual Award for Sustained and/or Outstanding Contribution to Libraries. He is pictured here with Interim Associate Dean for Research and Professor Scott Brandt.

 

 

Rachel Fundator, instructional designer (on the left, pictured here with Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies Interim Associate Dean Scott Brandt), received the Dagnese Award for Excellence in Service. This year, Melissa Waterworth (not pictured) also received the award.

The award is given annually with support from the Joseph M. Dagnese Memorial Fund. Mr. Dagnese led the Purdue Libraries from 1972 to 1989.

Poster Session Award Winners

One Book Higher Poster Session Winners 2019

(L to R, back row): Dan Rotello, Standa Pejša, Jacinda Laymon, Margaret Phillips, Heather Howard, (L to R, front row) Sandy Galloway, Dianna Deputy, Angie Ewing, Audrey Grisham, and Sandi Caldrone

This year, the winning poster sessions included:

  • Most Innovative Idea
    “Technical Standards in Business Education” by Heather Howard and Margaret Phillips;
  • Most Scholarly
    “Rough Cilicia Archeological Survey in PURR (and elsewhere)” by Standa Pejša;
  • Best Furthers the Strategic Plan
    “You Can’t Do Data Science without Data” by Sandi Caldrone;
  • Most Interactive, Made me LOL, Most Creative, Viewer’s Choice, and AD’s Choice
    “The History of LCSSAC” by Sandy Galloway, Dianna Deputy, Angela Ewing, Dan Rotello, Jacinda Laymon, and Audrey Grisham.

Check It Out! April 2019

LCSSAC Corner

Welcome to Check It Out!

Information about Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies’ Staff Happenings

If you have something that you would like to be included in “LCSSAC Corner” (including activities, accomplishments, upcoming events, etc.), please contact Sandy Galloway at sgallow@purdue.edu.

One Book Higher

One Book Higher Poster Session Winners 2019

(L to R, back row): Dan Rotello, Standa Pejša, Jacinda Laymon, Margaret Phillips, Heather Howard, (L to R, front row) Sandy Galloway, Dianna Deputy, Angie Ewing, Audrey Grisham, and Sandi Caldrone

The 12th Annual One Book Higher (OBH) event was held March 26 in the Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom.

During the annual OBH celebration, faculty, staff, and student awards and scholarships are presented. The event also includes a poster session and luncheon. The poster session features works from the Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies faculty and staff from the year.

This year, the winning poster sessions included:

  • Most Innovative Idea: “Technical Standards in Business Education” by Heather Howard and Margaret Phillips;
  • Most Scholarly: “Rough Cilicia Archeological Survey in PURR (and elsewhere)” by Standa Pejsa;
  • Best Furthers the Strategic Plan: “You Can’t Do Data Science without Data” by Sandi Caldrone;
  • Most Interactive, Made me LOL, Most Creative, Viewer’s Choice, and AD’s Choice: “The History of LCSSAC” by Sandy Galloway, Dianna Deputy, Angela Ewing, Dan Rotello, Jacinda Laymon, and Audrey Grisham.

OBH, always, was a great way to communicate the accomplishments throughout the Purdue University Libraries and School Information Studies. Music was provided by our own Michael Lewis, too!  Michael Lewis

Student Employment Job Fair

Tonya Mull and Teresa Balser

Tonya Mull and Teresa Balser

Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies student supervisors group, SSG, participated in the Student Employment Job Fair April 3 at Purdue.

Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies staff set up a table to inform students of the multiple opportunities for employment within our unit. Information was provided concerning the online job site, units, wages, hours, how to apply, and the criteria for employment. Several students asked questions and have already applied! This was a successful recruitment idea and will be continued in the future.

STEW HVAC Renovation Progress

Phase IV of the Stewart Center HVAC Renovation Project is now underway. This required the relocation of personnel on the second and third floors of the oldest part of Stewart Center. Departments included in this move were: Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies administration, human resources, business office, marketing communications, and advancement (all on second floor), as well as Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies information technology division from room 363. The personnel from the second floor are now located on the first floor of the old engineering library in the A.A. Potter Engineering Center. The information technology staff from the third floor were relocated to the Research Data offices in room 174, as well as the swing space (rooms G50 and G62B) of Stewart Center. All of these departments, with the addition of the Resources Services Department, are currently in the basement of Potter  (which was moved at the beginning of this project from 364 and 370 in Stewart Center), will be moved back later this year to their original spaces. The final phase of this project, Phase V, will then be started and include the first through fifth floors of the HSSE Library Stacks

LCSSAC Members

  • Sandy Galloway, Chair
  • Dan Rotello, Vice Chair
  • Jacinda Laymon, Secretary
  • Angie Ewing
  • Dianna Deputy
  • Audrey Grisham