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December 29th, 2011
Purdue Libraries has made some changes to reserve policies across the libraries to lessen confusion for those using the reserve system and ensure that reserves are available to all students as equitably as possible. These will be in effect beginning January 9, 2012. Reserves will continue to be held by request of the instructor behind more…
Filed under: AVTE, CHEM, CIRC-SERV, EAS, ENGR, general, HLS, HSSE, LIFE, MATH, MGMT, PHAR, PHYS, UGRL, VETM | Comments Off on Libraries standardizes reserve process across campusDecember 17th, 2011
The Purdue University Board of Trustees ratified James Mullins as the Esther Ellis Norton Professor of Library Science on Dec. 17. Mullins has been dean of Libraries and professor of library science at Purdue since 2004. Before that he was associate director for administration at MIT Libraries, and prior to MIT was university librarian at more…
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, press_release | Comments Off on Mullins named Esther Ellis Norton Professor of Library ScienceNovember 8th, 2011
In Spring 2011, the Libraries Orientation Committee worked with a group of student leaders from Student Access, Transition, and Success (SATS) to turn a set of learning objectives into viable concepts and then actual scripts for four videos that were unveiled at Boiler Gold Rush (BGR) and to the Purdue community. The student leaders took more…
Filed under: general | Comments Off on Libraries collaborates with student leaders to create videosNovember 8th, 2011
Over the summer the Hicks Undergraduate (HIKS) and Siegesmund Engineering (ENGR) Libraries each converted large reading rooms into cutting edge classrooms and group collaborative study spaces for students. In HIKS, room B848 has become the Hicks Learning Studio; a classroom for four classes as part of the Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT). IMPACT’s more…
Filed under: ENGR, general, HSSE | Comments Off on Libraries redefining spaces for student instructionNovember 8th, 2011
Filed under: general | Comments Off on Purdue Profile: Donna Ferullo, director of the University Copyright OfficeNovember 3rd, 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University Press and the School of Veterinary Medicine will develop a new online resource to further the study of the human-animal bond.The site – HABRI Central – will serve as a comprehensive bibliography and repository of scholarly material, an online publishing platform for peer-reviewed content, and a virtual collaborative community more…
Filed under: general, press_release, VETM | Comments Off on New Web resource to facilitate study of bond between humans and animalsNovember 2nd, 2011
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Libraries will receive a $2 million grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation to endow an archivist for the Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan archives and special collections at the university. Conrad Hilton’s son, Barron Hilton, is the retired chairman, president and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp. An avid pilot more…
Filed under: AVTE, general, press_release, SPEC | Comments Off on Grant provides archivist to care for Purdue Libraries’ astronaut collectionsNovember 1st, 2011
West Lafayette, IN – Publishing services provided by libraries are expanding and professionalizing, suggests a new report released by SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, on behalf of a team of researchers from the libraries of Purdue University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Utah. The report is the result of more…
Filed under: general, press_release | Comments Off on Publishing Services a Major Growth Area for Academic LibrariesOctober 1st, 2011
Filed under: general, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Purdue Libraries is now accepting proposals for the 2011-2012 Library Scholars Grant ProgramSeptember 27th, 2011
Filed under: general | Comments Off on October, National Information Literacy Awareness Month