Howard Recognized with SLA Award for Academic Business Librarianship

July 27th, 2018

Last month, Purdue Libraries Assistant Professor and Business Information Specialist Heather Howard was honored with the annual Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship Award from the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Business and Finance Division.

According to the SLA website, the award recognizes the accomplishments of librarians who are new to the field of academic business librarianship. Qualifying criteria for this award include evidence of exemplary librarianship, such as published journal articles and/or books, conference presentations, excellence in teaching, online tutorials, or innovative services at nominees’ institutions. In addition to the recognition, Howard received a $1,000 gift.

For more information about the award, visit http://bf.sla1.org/awards/award-descriptions/.

“IMPACT Learning: Librarians at the Forefront of Change” Book by Purdue Libraries Prof. Maybee Now Available

March 7th, 2018

Purdue University Libraries Information Literacy Specialist and Associate Professor Dr. Clarence Maybee’s new book, “IMPACT Learning: Librarians at the Forefront of Change in Higher Education,” presents the ways in which academic librarians are making a difference in student learning and success, using Purdue University’s IMPACT (Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation) program as an example.

Maybee’s book describes how academic libraries can enable the success of higher education students by creating or partnering with teaching and learning initiatives that support student learning through engagement with information.

In his book, the author discusses existing models, extracting lessons from Purdue Libraries’ partnership with other units to create a campus-wide course development program, IMPACT, to provide academic libraries with tools and strategies for working with faculty and departments to integrate information literacy into disciplinary courses.

The text will also helps teachers and students deal with information in the context of a discipline and its specific needs and presents an informed learning approach where students learn to use information as part of engagement with subject content.

To order the book, visit http://bit.ly/2oSMrWx. For more information about the information literacy resources offered by Purdue Libraries, visit www.lib.purdue.edu/infolit.