Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

May 7th, 2013

Purdue University Libraries seeks an energetic, outgoing, and innovative individual to join a collaborative, dynamic team of information professionals who carry out a robust program of integrated information literacy, data services, scholarly communication, and collaborative research, and, as a faculty member, contribute to the research and scholarship in these areas. Duties and Responsibilities:  As a more…

April 30th, 2013

Purdue University has identified “Big Data” as a major thrust for interdisciplinary research and education. Several faculty positions, including one in the Libraries, are available in enabling technologies as well as in domain sciences that deal with the use and management of digital data. The new hires will join a strong faculty group engaged in more…

April 11th, 2013

Mary Dugan and Michael Witt, two members of the Purdue Faculty of Library, Archival and Information Sciences, were approved by the Board of Trustees for promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure.  This approval culminates the process that began at the beginning of the academic year with review by the Libraries Primary Promotion more…

May 7th, 2012

Congratulations to all Libraries faculty promoted in 2012! Promoted to Professor of Library Science Michael Fosmire Promoted to Associate Professor of Library Science Christopher C. Miller Catherine Fraser Riehle Maribeth Slebodnick

March 29th, 2012

“Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty” has been selected as the winner of the American Society for Engineering Educations, Engineering Libraries Division (ASEE ELD) 2012 Best Publication Award. The article, co-written by Libraries faculty member, Jake Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller and Megan Sapp Nelson, was published in portal: Libraries more…

January 10th, 2012

As noted in Fall 2010 Libraries Update, when the NSF issued a “mandate” in May 2010 for data management plans the University was quick to respond. And now the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) is available to researchers as resource for both creating data management plans, and for managing data. (http://research.hub.purdue.edu/) As described at the more…

January 10th, 2012

On November 21, 2011, the University Resources Policy Committee (URPC) recommended to the Academic Senate that it adopt a resolution that supports that peer-reviewed, scholarly articles published by Purdue faculty be deposited in Purdue ePubs digital repository. Deposit of the research article into Purdue ePubs does not replace the publication of record in the scholarly more…

January 10th, 2012

The Purdue Libraries Information Literacy Program is making substantial progress in its campus-wide approach to information literacy (IL) consistent with the expectation that information literacy will be a core competency of the curriculum. The Libraries’ first Information Literacy Specialist, Clarence Maybee, assistant professor of library science, arrived in September from Colgate University to assume this important more…

January 10th, 2012

The Purdue community has access to over three million books through the Libraries website, lib.purdue.edu. For the past few years the Libraries has also been adding electronic books, or “e-books,” to the collection. The e-books include over 750,000 digital versions of recent print books, from publishers like Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, and many other academic publishers, more…

January 10th, 2012

Many library resources in support of coursework, scholarship, and research are now provided electronically to the campus community, through the Libraries website. Libraries continues also to host print reserve materials across campus and has recently standardized its reserve policy for print reserves to lessen confusion for those using the reserve system and ensure that reserves are more…