Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

September 9th, 2025

The Mathematical Sciences Library (MATH) has partially reopened, welcoming patrons back to a refreshed and updated environment. While the west side of the library remains closed, awaiting the arrival of new carpeting, visitors can enjoy newly carpeted areas, upgraded furniture, and additional group study rooms. The library’s redesign features a thoughtful rearrangement of bookshelves to more…

September 7th, 2025

Parrish Library’s Featured Databases series will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of Purdue Libraries’ subscription resources. This edition will feature Checkpoint Edge, brought to you by Thomson Reuters. Focus Checkpoint Edge provides primary tax documents and secondary analysis for federal, state, and local taxation, estate planning, pensions and more…

August 24th, 2025

Parrish Library’s Featured Databases series will give you a very brief introduction to the basic features of one of Purdue Libraries’ subscription resources. This edition will feature D&B Hoovers, brought to you by Dun & Bradstreet. Focus D&B Hoovers aggregates company profiles, business news, and industry reports. Access The List of Business Databases is an more…

August 14th, 2025

Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies is excited to share a new campus-wide resource: the Digital Accessibility Guide. This comprehensive guide is designed to help faculty, staff, and students create more accessible digital content—from instructional materials and research outputs to webpages and presentations. The guide provides practical tools, best practices, checklists, and training links more…

July 29th, 2025

Since 1998, the Indiana State Library (ISL) has provided INSPIRE, a suite of online databases and resources, to all libraries, schools, and residents of Indiana. Due to recent budget cuts at the federal and state levels, ISL has had to renegotiate its INSPIRE contract with the library database vendor EBSCO, resulting in several EBSCO databases more…

June 25th, 2025

Purdue Libraries Assistant Professor Zoeanna Mayhook has been invited to serve on the planning committee for the inaugural AI Academy, offered through the Purdue Innovation Hub. This week-long experience, scheduled for August 11–15, is designed to help faculty across campus build the skills and confidence to creatively and critically integrate AI tools into their teaching more…

May 29th, 2025

Libraries faculty members Margaret Phillips, Jason Reed, David Zwicky, and Wei Zakharov won the 2025 ELD Best Publication Award for their paper titled, “Systematic Reviews in the Engineering Literature: A Scoping Review.” The award was established in 1998 to honor the best new paper or non-reference monographic work in engineering information.  The paper, a collaborative more…

May 29th, 2025

The Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) has signed a groundbreaking two-year Open Publishing Agreement with Springer Nature—marking the publisher’s first unlimited, uncapped open access agreement in the Americas. This agreement is the BTAA’s fifth Open Publishing Agreement and its most ambitious yet, significantly expanding publishing opportunities for researchers across participating institutions, including Purdue University.  Under this new more…

May 20th, 2025

Libraries faculty member Samantha LeGrand has been selected as a Teaching Leadership Award Fellow for the 2025–26 school year. The award fosters the pursuit of excellence in teaching and the development of teaching leaders, and honors Purdue faculty and their departments who foster excellence and growth in teaching. As a fellow, LeGrand will focus on more…

May 8th, 2025

On May 2, Rachel Fundator, clinical associate professor at Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies, and Margaret Collins, undergraduate research and pedagogy assistant for the Institute for Information Literacy at Purdue, delivered the keynote presentation at the 23rd annual Illinois Information Literacy Summit in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The Summit, co-hosted by the College of more…