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September 5th, 2014
The Hicks Undergraduate Library is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a new exhibition this fall from the American Library Association titled, “Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry.” Through October 10th, the exhibition and related programs will be available for all library visitors to learn about the Dust Bowl, one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in American history.
The exhibition recalls a tragic time in our history and explores its environmental and cultural consequences. Visitors will explore several thought-provoking questions: What caused fertile farms to turn to dust? How did people survive? What lessons can we learn? Audiences will explore this time period as the exhibition delves into the history and geography behind the Dust Bowl. It also delves into the human element through the words of the survivors themselves, showing what it was like to live through such a difficult time.
The exhibition was organized by the American Library Association Public Programs Office, the Oklahoma State University Library, and the Mount Holyoke College Library. It was made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor.
Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry will be accompanied by a series of free library programs, including lectures and film screenings:
September 9, 2014 – 7:00pm*
Hicks Undergraduate Library – Room G980D
The Dust Bowl: Causes and Consequences
Presenter: Dr. R. Douglas Hurt – History Department Head
September 16, 2014 – 7:00pm*
Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought and Depression in the 1890s
Presenter: Dr. Susan Curtis – Professor of History
September 24, 2014 – 7:00pm*
The Politics of the Dust Bowl: Woody Guthrie and John Steinbeck
Presenter: Dr. Harry Targ – Professor of Political Science
September 25, 2014 – 7:00pm
Dust Bowl Women
Presenter: Dr. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg – Chair – Iowa State University Department of History
October 1, 2014 – 7:00pm*
Sanora Babb: Whose Names are Unknown
Presenter: Dr. Bill Mullen – Professor of English & American Studies
October 8, 2014 – 7:00pm
The Plow that Broke the Plains – The Dust Bowl Documentary
Presenter: Dr. Otto Doering – Professor of Agriculture Economics
Each presentation will be held in Hicks Undergraduate Library, Room G980D. They are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. If you have any questions about the display or presentations, please contact Ann O’Donnell (atodonne@purdue.edu, 765-496-1498) or Emily Heitman (eheitman@purdue.edu, 765-494-6732).
You can also visit our website: https://www.lib.purdue.edu/dustbowl
* Sections of the Ken Burns documentary, The Dust Bowl, will be aired during these presentations.
Filed under: generalSeptember 5th, 2014
Welcome to Database of the Week. This feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics is intended to give you a brief introduction to a database that you may not know. This week, though, instead of a database, we want to introduce you to a crowd sharing service that could be used for any class.
This Week’s Featured Database: CrowdAsk
Find it: crowdask.lib.purdue.edu
Description/focus: CrowdAsk is a library site where academics, librarians, and students work together to share knowledge and answer questions. Creating an account is easy with your Purdue username and password.
Start with this hint: To see the most recent questions and answers on CrowdAsk right now, go to the CrowdAsk site. The main page will show these questions. You can also view the answer that was provided to the questions, or look at how many votes the question has received. Users will vote for questions that they believe are important. The best answer to a question can also receive votes. Some questions are tagged in categories, which you can look at the right side of the page. You can also search a topic to see what kind of questions and answers already exist.
Click here to see how to get started with CrowdAsk. There is another tutorial here which covers questions, voting, and badges.
Why you should know this database: CrowdAsk provides quick, contextual help from members of your community and teaches question-asking, answering, and technical writing skills.
How this will help students: Some classes use this database as a central place where their students can ask each other questions. For example, students can ask each other when certain assignments are due. But you are not limited to classes; any student can ask questions or answer questions on the site.
Cost: For information contact mdugan@purdue.edu.
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Filed under: database, general, MGMTSeptember 4th, 2014
Bepress announced today their new Undergraduate Research Commons (http://undergraduatecommons.com/). The commons provides a central point of access to undergraduate scholarship and research from undergraduate students of institutions on the Digital Commons institutional repository and publishing platform. The commons provides free online access to many different types of materials including peer-reviewed journal articles, capstone and honors theses, fieldwork and class projects, conference proceedings, and more. One can search the commons by subject areas, types of works, and institution. At Purdue we have six series/collections/journals represented in the commons that are linked below:
Aviation Technology Undergraduate Student Research (Department of Aviation Technology)
CFS Honors Program Undergraduate Theses (CFS Honors Program)
Honors College Student Publications (Honors College)
The Journal of Purdue Undergraduate Research (Scholarly Publishing Services Open Access Journals)
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium
About Bepress:
Bepress, formerly the Berkeley Electronic Press, is an academic software firm that was founded by academics in 1999. It is dedicated to producing products and services to support scholarly communication, including institutional repository and publishing software.
For more information about Purdue series/collections/journals represented in the commons, contact Dave Scherer, Manager, Purdue e-Pubs, Purdue University Libraries at dscherer@purdue.edu.
Filed under: general