Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies News

July 2nd, 2013

The Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), based in the Research Department of the Purdue University Libraries, is the 2013 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology Section (STS) Innovation in Science and Technology Librarianship Award for their work on the Data Curation Profiles Toolkit. The award was presented during more…

June 27th, 2013

Purdue Libraries Associate Professor Rey Junco’s new study finds that wealthier students share, connect more on Facebook. Check out the details of his research in a recent story posted by The Huffington Post: http://tinyurl.com/noyjwsy

May 7th, 2013

Purdue University Libraries is very pleased to welcome Rey Junco to our Libraries staff.  Rey is an associate professor and First Year Experience and Emerging Technologies Specialist    Rey will be temporarily located in HSSE 347 this summer, and will move to Hicks after the renovation.  He can be emailed at: rjunco@purdue.edu.  Welcome to Purdue Libraries, more…

April 2nd, 2013

The Learning and Information Literacy Division of Purdue Libraries has launched a new web page on the Purdue Libraries website. The web page offers key tools and resources that show how Purdue Libraries advances student-centered learning and information literacy through educational practice and research. For complete details go to:  http://www.lib.purdue.edu/infolit For more information on Purdue more…

April 2nd, 2013

The Learning and Information Literacy Division of Purdue Libraries has launched a new web page on the Purdue Libraries website. The web page offers key tools and resources that show how Purdue Libraries advances student-centered learning and information literacy through educational practice and research. For complete details go to:  http://www.lib.purdue.edu/infolit For more information on Purdue more…

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…

July 24th, 2012

A new tool, Databib, has been developed to help researchers identify and locate repositories of research data on the Internet. Its development was led by the Purdue University Libraries with collaborators from Penn State University and the support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Many funding agencies like the National Science Foundation require more…

July 20th, 2012

“Determining Data Information Literacy Needs: A Study of Students and Research Faculty” has been selected as one of the Top Twenty  Articles, by the Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT). The article, co-written by Libraries faculty members, Jake Carlson, Michael Fosmire, Chris Miller and Megan Sapp Nelson, was published in portal: Libraries and the Academy in 2011 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…