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March 21st, 2013

The world’s largest children’s museum is over the moon about its first Extraordinary Scientist-in-Residence – former astronaut, Dr. David Wolf.  Adding to the excitement is an additional announcement of a new partnership with Purdue University in conjunction with Purdue Libraries and its Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives (part of the Virginia Kelley Karnes more…

March 18th, 2013

Purdue e-Pubs has reached another significant milestone, hitting 4-million downloads this past week since its original inception. There continues to be a consistent and steady stream of utilization of Purdue e-Pubs. Purdue e-Pubs is a service of the Purdue University Libraries, providing online publishing support for original publications as well as hosting for Purdue-affiliated articles, more…

March 8th, 2013

Purdue University Libraries is seeking student participants to survey its website help section on March 18 and 20 and for user evaluation by appointment. Participants for the March 18 and 20 dates are asked to give approximately 30 minutes anytime between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. both days in the John W. Hicks Undergraduate Library, more…

March 1st, 2013

Alumna and Former Purdue University Trustee Susan Bulkeley Butler Honored at Event with ‘Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Archives Award’ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University’s Division of Archives and Special Collections will celebrate Purdue women who helped pave the way for future generations of female engineers with an archival exhibit. “Women at Work: Celebrating the more…

March 1st, 2013

The Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics, Purdue University Libraries has been named the winner of the 12th Annual Centers of Excellence Awards in the Management Category by the Business & Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA).

February 26th, 2013

The media collection has moved from the Hicks Undergraduate Library to the HSSE Library. Course reserves and scheduled media will remain at Hicks until the end of the semester. For more information please contact Linda Rose, Library Operations Manager at lrose@purdue.edu.

February 14th, 2013

Data Curation in the University: Libraries, Research, and Learning Workshop date: March 25, 2013 Venue: JNU Convention Centre, New Delhi, India http://databib.org/workshop This one-day workshop will be held at Jawaharlal Nehru University on March 25, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Cyberinfrastructure and “Big Data” represent a paradigm shift in science that is transforming more…

January 15th, 2013

In January 2011, the National Science Foundation began requiring that all grant proposals include two-page plans that describe what data will be generated in the research and how the data will be managed and shared.  Other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and the National Endowment for the Humanities soon followed more…

January 8th, 2013

December 3rd, 2012