Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

September 24th, 2014

In order to bring attention to exemplary information literate student inside and outside of Krannert, the Parrish Library is excited to host a fall case competition. Students compete presenting solutions using business information. This case competition is open to all undergraduate students regardless of major. Teams should be 4-5 students. At least one student should more…

September 22nd, 2014

September 17th, 2014

(From Paul Zink, WLFI.com) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) – On Sept. 17, 1787 the United States Constitution was signed. On Sept. 17, 2014 Purdue students and faculty gathered to celebrate Constitution Day. The event began at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning in Purdue Memorial Union’s room 118. Visitors were able to take the self-guided tour through more…

September 16th, 2014

Dust, Drought, and Dreams Gone Dry   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. From August 28th to October 10th, the exhibition and related programs will be available for all library visitors to more…

September 12th, 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, with only basic information to get you started.  Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases. This Week’s more…

September 8th, 2014

Purdue University Libraries seeks a Digital Library Software Developer to join our team at the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) to further the development of our cutting-edge research data repository service, PURR. The Purdue University Research Repository (http://purr.purdue.edu) is a platform based on HUBzero that enables campus researchers to write and implement effective data management more…

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 more…

September 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 more…

September 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 more…

August 29th, 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, with only basic information to get you started.  Hopefully, you will be tempted to explore this or other databases. This Week’s more…