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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

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.

Call for Library Student Worker 2019 Scholarship Applications

Mary Zhu (left) was the 2018 recipient of the Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship, and Sarah Merryman was the 2018 recipient of the Albert Viton Scholarship.

Parrish Library student employee Mary Zhu (left) was the 2018 recipient of the Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship, and Purdue University Press student employee Sarah Merryman was the 2018 recipient of the Albert Viton Scholarship.

by Anna Subramaniam

On behalf of the Libraries Student Award & Scholarship Committee, we are pleased to announce there are five awards/scholarships available this year. Supervisors and students will receive an email about the application process. Please encourage and support our student staff members to apply for the appropriate award and/or scholarship. The application deadline is February 1, 2019

The PULSE Award
This award was created by the Purdue Libraries Circulation/Reserve Team in 2004. Initial funding was initiated through garage sales, a craft/bake sale, and individual donations. In the first year, $1,445.80 was raised from 40 donors. Contributions continued to be added throughout the year, with the goal of reaching the $20,000 amount necessary to endow the award.

In 2004, Dean of Libraries Emeritus James Mullins, led a fundraising challenge and agreed to match pledges from the Dean’s Fund dollar for dollar. In 2005, endowment efforts were achieved with the efforts and contributions of Purdue graduates Mike and Judy Humnicky of California, who both spent their time at Purdue (1966-70) employed by the Libraries. The first two awards were presented in May 2004. This year three (3) $1,000 awards are available.

The Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship
In 2004, Dorothy Newby McCaw found a meaningful way to honor her friend: she endowed the Dorothy Newby McCaw Scholarship for Libraries Student Workers in honor of Emily R. Mobley, former Libraries Dean. McCaw established the scholarship in honor of Dean Mobley’s retirement as a way to recognize her many accomplishments during the 12 years of her deanship. The scholarship fulfilled one of Mobley’s goals as dean—to recognize top student workers in the Libraries. The first scholarship was awarded in 2007. This year, one $2,500 scholarship is available.

The Dr. Albert Viton Scholarship
In 2006, Dr. Albert Viton, author and retired economist, endowed a scholarship to be awarded
annually to a student employee from the Purdue University Press or the Libraries. His desire is that this scholarship will make a significant impact on students’ lives and education while at Purdue. Viton became associated with the Press with the publication of his book, The International Sugar Agreements: Promise and Reality in 2004. The first scholarship was awarded in 2007. This year, one $2,500 scholarship is available.

Important Information
All student staff members should receive e-mail notification about this opportunity, but please make sure they are aware of these awards and scholarships, and of the February 1 deadline. Supervisors, please be aware of your part of the application process and the deadline of February 15, 2019. Students will not be considered without your recommendations as part of the application process.

The URL for the information and applications is: www.lib.purdue.edu/pulsescholar
Remind your senior-year student staff members that they are eligible for the PULSE award if they meet the other criteria posted on the website.

Committee members include Anna Subramaniam, Elizabeth Moore, Robin Meher, Emily Branson, JJ Sadler, Carole Tolley, and Robert Freeman.

For more information, contact Anna Subramaniam at subrama@purdue.edu or 49-66202.