Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

September 27th, 2011

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Renowned food columnist/editor and best-selling author Ruth Reichl will speak Oct. 18 as part of the Purdue University Libraries Distinguished Lecture Series.Reichl’s talk, “Eating Our Words,” will be at 7 p.m. in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall and is free and open to the public. After her talk, Von’s Book Shop of more…

September 27th, 2011

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Renowned food columnist/editor and best-selling author Ruth Reichl will speak Oct. 18 as part of the Purdue University Libraries Distinguished Lecture Series.Reichl’s talk, “Eating Our Words,” will be at 7 p.m. in Stewart Center’s Fowler Hall and is free and open to the public. After her talk, Von’s Book Shop of more…

September 23rd, 2011

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University Libraries is leading the development of a new, online resource that will help people locate research data on the Internet. The project is called Databib and will engage a community of librarians from around the world to collaborate in creating an online bibliography of data repositories that can be more…

September 21st, 2011

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An archives exhibit and a book chronicling its history are part of the celebration for the 125th anniversary of the Purdue University Bands. The “Heartbeat of the University: 125 Years of Purdue Bands” exhibit is on display in the Purdue Libraries’ Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center through more…

September 14th, 2011

Cyberinfrastructure-based research has infinitely increased the amount of data being collected and analyzed. Growing demands, both social and political, are driving the importance of sharing the information. But who should have access to it, how long should its shelf life be, and how will other researchers access it? Those questions can be addressed through two more…

August 29th, 2011

July 7th, 2011

Purdue University Libraries has awarded Ian Bell, PhD, with Purdue’s Open Access Award for his outstanding contributions to broadening the reach of the Purdue’s Herrick Laboratories’ conference series. His significant investment of time, resources, energy and forethought in the preparation of papers and descriptive, metadata information and deposit within Purdue e-Pubs, and his service to more…

June 21st, 2011

Over the past few years, the efforts of the Susan Bulkeley Butler Women’s Archives have allowed Archives and Special Collections (ASC) to take in intriguing collections pertaining to female aviators at Purdue. Archives and Special Collections’ newest exhibit, “Soaring to New Heights, Women in Aviation at Purdue” highlights these aviators. The exhibit runs June 11-August more…

June 14th, 2011

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue Libraries has completed the digitization of Indiana Farmer for the years 1851-1917, which chronicles the state of Hoosier agriculture in the pre- and post-Civil War years. The Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Indiana State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services provided funding for the more…

May 23rd, 2011

Purdue University Press has entered into a new partnership with the Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) to support the publication of its technical report series. Since the late 1930s, JTRP has produced a continuous stream of research reports to inform the management of transportation infrastructure in Indiana and throughout North America. The reports are also more…