The Digital Scholarship Council (DSC) is looking for ideas from across the Libraries to help build the Purdue Libraries’ digital collections. We hope you will consider submitting your ideas for digitization projects or new web archives at https://apps.lib.purdue.edu/digitization-suggestion-form/. These ideas will be used for developing rich digital collections within e-Archives, e-Pubs and PURR, as well as building our Web Archiving Program (https://www.archive-it.org/organizations/979).

Potential projects should meet the collecting policies of each of our repositories (e-Archives, e-Pubs, PURR) and will be evaluated on criteria including: original format, physical/digital condition, scholarly importance, rights, sensitivity of information, and grant-award status to determine the priority of the project. We do require that your project ideas be approved by your department or division head prior to submission.

Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, but will be reviewed quarterly. Proposals should be submitted by the end of March for the first review cycle, the end of June for the second, the end of September for the third, and the end of December for the fourth. Prioritization of proposals will take place at the DSC meeting following each deadline. Final decisions regarding timeliness for projects will be made by the Digitization Unit, with guidance from the DSC. The first review using this process will take place in July 2016.

Expedited review will be available for grant applications involving digitization.

Charlotte Erdmann, associate professor, will retire on June 30, 2016 after 32 years with Purdue University Libraries. Charlotte began her Purdue career on June 4, 1984 as the Head of Reference of the Engineering Library and Computerized Searching Librarian.

She conducted searches in the pay-as-you-go databases of Dialog and the like, where you pay by the search and by the number of records retrieved...so it was very important to do an efficient and effective job. From 1986-1989, Charlotte worked part-time with Purdue’s Technical Assistance Program (TAP) which included a team of Purdue faculty and graduate students who solved problems for Indiana’s small and medium-sized  businesses. When she returned to the Engineering Library full-time, one of the most unique projects that she accomplished was chairing the committee that designed all the help screens when the Libraries mounted COMPENDEX locally on our servers through NOTIS in 1992. While most institutions were getting access to databases via a still intermittent internet, Purdue decided we would have better access and could customize our interface if we ran the database internally.

Since 1996, Charlotte has taken on primary responsibility for collections in the Engineering Library, always taking a system-wide view, suggesting sources for other libraries and looking to pool resources to purchase interdisciplinary content. She has also worked as a Liaison Librarian for Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aviation Technology, Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology. In recent years, she has been involved in digitizing projects and data mining.

Professionally, Charlotte is well-regarded in technical information societies. She served as Director and Chair of the Engineering Libraries Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ELD-ASEE), and President of the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Association (PTRCA), as well as receiving a year-long fellowship at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She has been Purdue’s representative to the Patent and Trademark Resource Center Program since 1991 and the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) since its inception, and is on the advisory board for Begell House publishers.

Charlotte has had a very full career at Purdue, which we will be celebrating at a reception June 21, from 2-3:30 p.m. in the Engineering Library, Room B50 with remarks beginning at 2:30 p.m.

If you plan to attend, please respond by June 17, 2016
http://go.lib.purdue.edu/events/erdmann

Clarence Maybee, PhD, assistant professor of library science and information literacy specialist, Purdue University Libraries, has been selected as the recipient of a Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award for 2015 for his dissertation titled, “Informed learning in the undergraduate classroom: The role of information experiences in shaping outcomes".

On Friday, June 10, Purdue University Libraries and Purdue University Press will celebrate the book launch of Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family: A Photo history of Indiana’s Early County Extension Agents by Frederick Whitford, Neal Harmeyer and David Hovde.

The book captures the story of the state’s first Extension agents in archival photos and words, when Extension was an idea and county agents were folks who traveled muddy back roads visiting farmers day after day, year after year.

Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue University’s Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center in the Purdue University Libraries, Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family includes hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituents’ reluctance to change. Through patient outreach and dedicated engagement, they built trust in communities and little by little were able to share new information that introduced farmers and their families to exciting new frontiers of productivity.

The book is available through Purdue University Press at http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/node/3641

A luncheon honoring Purdue employees retiring July, 1 2015 — June 30, 2016, will be held June 30, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. in the Purdue Memorial Union.

Libraries staff to be recognized include:

Jim Derringer, 29 years
Charlotte Erdmann, 32 years
Connie Farris, 32 years
Donna Ferrel, 29 years
Brad Heiss, 26 years
Brenda Martin, 20 years
Gretchen Stephens, 39+ years
Suzanne Ward, 28 years
Jody Zink, 37 years

Honorees have already received their invitations. Others wishing to attend to honor the retirees should register at www.conf.purdue.edu/hrevents/. Cost to attend is $10. The deadline to register is June 22.

Questions regarding this event should be directed to Carrie Hanson in Human Resources at carrie@purdue.edu or 49-47397.

Karen Field’s name was randomly drawn from all those who were SMILED upon in May. She received a $25 Von’s Book Shop gift certificate.

All faculty, administration and staff are invited to send a note of appreciation for a kindness or thoughtfulness given, assistance provided to or by a Libraries, Press or Copyright Office colleague.

To learn more about how to participate in our SMILE Program, please visit and bookmark this page on the Libraries intranet: http://intranet.lib.purdue.edu/display/HR/SMILE+Program/

Progress continues on the Wilmeth Active Learning Center. View from the A. A. Potter Engineering Center looking at the back of the building.