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July 8th, 2013
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Rey Junco, a Purdue University associate professor of library science, has been named as a returning fellow to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the center announced Monday (July 8).
According to a press release issued by the center, fellows will work primarily in Cambridge, Mass., alongside Berkman directors and staff, and will serve as key instigators within the vibrant research community.
The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997 through a gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the center is home to a community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that include cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
Junco is a social media scholar who investigates the impact of social technologies on college students. His primary research interest is using quantitative methods to analyze the effects of social media on youth psychosocial development, engagement, and learning. His research has also focused on informing best practices in using social technologies to enhance learning outcomes.
Filed under: DIGIT, faculty_staff, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommJuly 8th, 2013
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Rey Junco, a Purdue University associate professor of library science, has been named as a returning fellow to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, the center announced Monday (July 8).
According to a press release issued by the center, fellows will work primarily in Cambridge, Mass., alongside Berkman directors and staff, and will serve as key instigators within the vibrant research community.
The Berkman Center is a research program founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development. Founded in 1997 through a gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the center is home to a community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates working on projects that include cyberspace, technology, and society. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu
Junco is a social media scholar who investigates the impact of social technologies on college students. His primary research interest is using quantitative methods to analyze the effects of social media on youth psychosocial development, engagement, and learning. His research has also focused on informing best practices in using social technologies to enhance learning outcomes.
Filed under: DIGIT, faculty_staff, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommJuly 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 the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago this past weekend.
“Purdue Libraries, and its Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2), are honored to receive the ACRL STS Innovation Award for work on the Data Curation Profile Toolkit, said Jake Carlson, associate professor and data services specialist, Purdue University. “It is extremely gratifying to know that our peers recognize this work as cutting edge. As is often the case, many others have contributed in some way to its success, from co-PIs at the Graduate School of Librarian and Information Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to subject librarians at Purdue, UIUC and Cornell, to library schools such as University of Michigan or University of North Carolina who are using it to educate new librarians, and to DataNet participants such as those at University of Tennessee who are using it to interview scientists.”
The goal of the DCP Toolkit was to develop a practical means for librarians to engage with researchers about issues in managing, sharing and archiving their data, with the intent of enabling librarians to work with researchers to address real-world data needs. Work in this area continues through other projects sponsored by the D2C2 including the Data Curation Profiles Directory for publishing Profiles; the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR), which offers a suite of services for researchers to manage and publish their data; and the Data Information Literacy (DIL) Project to develop educational programming for teaching data management and curation competencies to graduate students.
The Distributed Data Curation Center is coordinated by D. Scott Brandt, associate dean for research and professor; Jake Carlson, associate professor and data services specialist; and Michael Witt, assistant professor and interdisciplinary research librarian, all of Purdue University. If you know of anyone who is or has used the Data Curation Profile Toolkit, please contact Jake Carlson (jrcarlso@purdue.ed) or Lisa Zilinski (lzilins@purdue.edu).”
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ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, representing more than 12,000 academic and research librarians and interested individuals. ACRL is the only individual membership organization in North America that develops programs, products and services to meet the unique needs of academic and research librarians. Its initiatives enable the higher education community to understand the role that academic libraries play in the teaching, learning and research environments. ACRL is on the Web at http://www.acrl.org/, Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ala.acrl and Twitter at @ala_acrl.
Filed under: D2C2, faculty_staff, general, press_release, RSRCH, scholcommJune 28th, 2013
Jamillah R. Gabriel, lead library technician at Ohlone College in Freemont, Calif, since 2007, has been appointed as the Purdue Black Cultural Center’s librarian. Gabriel has more than 13 years of experience in both academic and public libraries, and has held leadership positions in professional organizations including the Association of College and Research Libraries, the California Library Association and the California Conference of Library Instruction. At Purdue, she will be responsible for the management of the BCC Library and will spend 25 percent of her appointment working on initiatives within Purdue Libraries. She began her new role on June 17.
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, press_releaseJune 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
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, RSRCH, scholcommMay 29th, 2013
Purdue University Libraries seeks a highly motivated, intellectually curious, and reliable Digital Repository Specialist to support the creation of unique digital collections in Purdue University Libraries. Responsibilities of the Digital Repository Specialist will be split between the development of Human-Animal Bond Research Institute (HABRI) Central, (a grant-funded online resource focused on the health benefits of the human/animal bond—H/AB) and, to a lesser extent, the licensing and upload of content to the Purdue e-Pubs institutional repository.
HABRI Central represents a unique collaboration between a library, a publisher, and a disciplinary center. It is comprised of a bibliography of published and unpublished literature relevant to H/AB studies, a repository of full text and data resources, an online publishing venue, and digital community workspace built on the HUBzero software “platform for scientific collaboration” developed at Purdue University. The Digital Repository Specialist will be responsible for maintaining the repository component of the project, including licensing content from publishers and describing and uploading previously unpublished materials, both visual and textual.
Purdue e-Pubs is the University’s institutional repository and contains almost 30,000 documents of Purdue scholarship with over one million downloads annually. It is built on the Digital Commons platform. The Digital Repository Specialist will assist the manager of Purdue e-Pubs with the deposit of Purdue scholarship, checking rights, creating metadata, and uploading materials with some student and part-time staff support.
The Digital Repository Specialist will collaborate with other Purdue Libraries and Press staff to establish repository guidelines, including policies and procedures and metadata standards. He or she will provide regular reports on progress and status and maintain both internal and user documentation. This position will be funded for a period of three years from the date of hire with possibility of extension.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
Preferred:
APPLICATION PROCESS:
To be considered for the position, applications must be made through Purdue University’s employment web site at: www.purdue.edu/hr/employment and reference Job Number 1300804. Please include a cover letter with your application outlining your qualifications for this position. Review of applications will begin June 3, 2013 and will continue until the position is filled. Questions can be directed to: libhr@purdue.edu. Resumes or CV’s sent to this email address cannot be considered. Please put “HABRI/e-Pubs” in the title of all email correspondence.
Purdue University is an equal opportunity/equal access/affirmative action employer fully committed to achieving a diverse workforce. A background check is required for this position.
Filed under: faculty_staff, general, press_release, scholcomm, Uncategorized
May 29th, 2013
On May 9, Richard L. Funkhouser was the recipient of a 2013 Purdue University President’s Council Pinnacle Award. The award was given in recognition of a gift to the Purdue University Libraries of a million dollars or more. The gift consisted of farmland purchased by his great-great grandfather William Whistler in 1853 and was owned by five generations of the Whistler-Funkhouser family.
Funkhouser retired from Purdue University Libraries in August 2001, after serving for over 44 years. He grew up on the family farm and attended Delphi Community Schools. He began his Purdue career as an assistant in the Reference Unit of the General Library on June 11, 1957, the day after he received his graduate degree from Indiana University. In 1958, he became the Engineering Librarian and later took on responsibilities for the Mathematical Sciences and Aviation Technology Libraries. He was the Science Librarian from 1975 until his retirement. He also served as the Coordinator of Physical Sciences and Engineering Libraries for several years. He held a two-year appointment as Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India where he advised on the development of the new university’s library, especially in collection development and the architectural design of its new library building. Upon retirement, the University granted Funkhouser professor emeritus status in recognition of his distinguished career.
In June 2002, Funkhouser was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Special Libraries Association (SLA). He served on the SLA Board of Directors, as treasurer and chair of the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics (PAM) Division, and as chair of the Science-Technology Division. In addition, he was a member and chair of several national committees and was treasurer, vice-president, and president of the Indiana Chapter.
During his career he received the John H. Moriarty Award from Purdue Libraries, the John H. Moriarty Award from the Indiana Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, and the Achievement Award from the PAM Division of SLA. He was named a Sagamore of the Wabash by the Governor of Indiana in 2001.
Funkhouser continues to be a guest at many of the Libraries events and activities and is a great resource for stories about the Libraries’ history. Now in his eightieth year, he continues to travel, having gone to China last year and to China and Canada this year. He does research on his family’s history and recently wrote a book on a cousin who died on the ill-fated, 1881-1884 “Greely Expedition” to the Arctic. He is now working on a book on this cousin’s brother who was the world champion Greco-Roman wrestler in the 1880s.
Filed under: events, faculty_staff, general, press_release, UncategorizedMay 16th, 2013
Purdue University Libraries has launched a new library management system, Alma to replace both Voyager and SFX. This includes functions associated with an integrated library system (ILS) and an electronic resources management system (ERM).
The benefits of Alma will include:
· Streamlined workflows resulting in efficient and effective processes.
· Elimination of silos between print and electronic resources
· Improved collection analysis through Alma Analytics and Oracle Business Intelligence
Purdue University Libraries is not only an early adopter of this new system; but it was a co-developer of Alma with Ex Libris, Princeton University, Boston College and University of Leuven (Belgium).
Many Purdue University Libraries faculty and staff have been involved in the planning and implementation of Alma over the last few years to ensure a successful launch.
Further information regarding Alma’s key features will be communicated in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact: Paul Bracke, Associate Dean for Digital Programs and Information Access, Associate Professor of Library Science, Purdue University Libraries at (765) 496-3606 or pbracke@purdue.edu or George Stachokas, Assistant Professor & Head of Resource Services, Purdue University Libraries at (765) 494-2812 or gstachok@purdue.edu.
Filed under: ADM, CIRC-SERV, collections, DIGIT, facilities, faculty_staff, general, press_release, services
May 13th, 2013
Have you heard of PURR but want to find out more information on the key functions of this Purdue University Libraries repository?
Check out PURR’s latest video, which has also been launched on YouTube and learn the four main ways the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) can help you manage your data and research:
Filed under: D2C2, DIGIT, general, MGMT, scholcomm, services
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, Rey!
Filed under: ADM, faculty_staff, general, HSSE, press_release, RSRCH, scholcomm