News & Announcements

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 [...]

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 on YouTube and learn the four main ways the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) can help you manage your data and research: http://youtu.be/Yw0IJj7FqA8  via @youtube

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, [...]

Purdue University Libraries seeks an energetic, outgoing, and innovative individual to join a collaborative, dynamic team of information professionals who carry out a robust program of integrated information literacy, data services, scholarly communication, and collaborative research, and, as a faculty member, contribute to the research and scholarship in these areas. Duties and Responsibilities:  As a [...]

Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: Digital Commons Network, from Bepress. Link:www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on List of Business Databases. Description/focus:  Digital Commons [...]

Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database:  EBSCO databases: Applied Science & Technology, Business Source Premier, EconLit, Hospitality & Tourism Complete, Newspaper Source, Omnifile [...]

Welcome to Database of the Week, a feature from the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management & Economics.  These weekly snapshots will give you basic information about our most relevant and beneficial online resources. This Week’s Featured Database: Checkpoint, formerly RIA Checkpoint, from Thomson Reuters. Link:www.lib.purdue.edu/libraries/mgmt, under Collections, click on the List of Business Databases. [...]

Purdue University has identified “Big Data” as a major thrust for interdisciplinary research and education. Several faculty positions, including one in the Libraries, are available in enabling technologies as well as in domain sciences that deal with the use and management of digital data. The new hires will join a strong faculty group engaged in [...]

Mary Dugan and Michael Witt, two members of the Purdue Faculty of Library, Archival and Information Sciences, were approved by the Board of Trustees for promotion to the rank of associate professor with tenure.  This approval culminates the process that began at the beginning of the academic year with review by the Libraries Primary Promotion [...]

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 [...]

The world’s largest children’s museum is over the moon about its first Extraordinary Scientist-in-Residence – former astronaut, Dr. David Wolf.  Adding to the excitement is an additional announcement of a new partnership with Purdue University in conjunction with Purdue Libraries and its Barron Hilton Flight and Space Exploration Archives (part of the Virginia Kelley Karnes [...]

Purdue e-Pubs has reached another significant milestone, hitting 4-million downloads this past week since its original inception. There continues to be a consistent and steady stream of utilization of Purdue e-Pubs. Purdue e-Pubs is a service of the Purdue University Libraries, providing online publishing support for original publications as well as hosting for Purdue-affiliated articles, [...]

Purdue University Libraries is seeking student participants to survey its website help section on March 18 and 20 and for user evaluation by appointment. Participants for the March 18 and 20 dates are asked to give approximately 30 minutes anytime between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. both days in the John W. Hicks Undergraduate Library, [...]

Alumna and Former Purdue University Trustee Susan Bulkeley Butler Honored at Event with ‘Outstanding Contribution to Women’s Archives Award’ WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Purdue University’s Division of Archives and Special Collections will celebrate Purdue women who helped pave the way for future generations of female engineers with an archival exhibit. “Women at Work: Celebrating the [...]

The Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics, Purdue University Libraries has been named the winner of the 12th Annual Centers of Excellence Awards in the Management Category by the Business & Finance Division of the Special Libraries Association (SLA).

The media collection has moved from the Hicks Undergraduate Library to the HSSE Library. Course reserves and scheduled media will remain at Hicks until the end of the semester. For more information please contact Linda Rose, Library Operations Manager at lrose@purdue.edu.

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 [...]