A message from the DeanBY JIM MULLINSLast week, the Libraries’ annual Staff Recognition Reception was held. This wonderful gathering offers us an opportunity to celebrate our valued colleagues who retired during the year, those who reached a milestone in years of service and those who joined us in the past year. I greatly enjoy this annual event as well as our springtime gathering when several of our colleagues are recognized for their significant contributions through sustained and continued performance or who have contributed to the advancement of our strategic plan. The contributions made by our Libraries family are very impressive — please take a moment to nominate one of your colleagues, or yourself, for recognition this coming spring. Each year as nominations are reviewed, it is very impressive to see the contributions that have been made by so many of you — we all know it is not uncommon for important contributions to be quietly made every day. So, when the call for nominations is announced in January please give your thought to our colleagues in the Libraries, the Press and the Copyright Office who make our community highly professional but as importantly a vibrant, exciting and friendly place to work. Thank you for your warm words of congratulations in response to Provost Sands’ announcement of my appointment as the Esther Ellis Norton Professor of Library Science. Esther Ellis Norton was a 1927 Purdue graduate who served as a librarian in Cincinnati for more than thirty-five years before her retirement and relocation to West Lafayette. In the early 1980s, when the John W. Hicks Undergraduate Library was being constructed, Mrs. Norton made a significant contribution to the project. To recognize her generosity, the reference area was named for her (a plaque and a picture of her are located near the central stairway). Following her death in 1998, President Beering and the Purdue Research Foundation established the endowed professorship in her honor, with former dean, Emily Mobley as the first recipient. I am honored to have been recommended to the Purdue University Board of Trustees by a committee of named Purdue professors and the Provost, following a critical review of credentials and solicitation of letters from national and international peers. The endowment generates income that I will use to support endeavors consistent with Mrs. Norton’s wishes. Among the first will be the acquisition of new furniture and equipment to update the Esther Ellis Norton Reference Area of the John W. Hicks Library. Mrs. Norton’s gift, made nearly thirty years ago to create a state of the art reference area, will now be the state of the art Norton Information Commons. With the fall semester now a memory, and as our attention turns to the holidays that lie ahead, my wife Kathy and I wish to extend to each and every one of you our most heartfelt wishes for a special and memorable holiday with family and friends. And, may 2012 bring you good health and happiness and be as bright, exciting and dynamic as we imagine for the Purdue Libraries community! Happy Holidays!
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CONTENTS
OFF THE SHELF
New Listings
Continuing Vacancies
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Libraries in the news
American Libraries Magazine, December 8 Purdue Exponent, December 16
Lafayette Journal & Courier, December 17 UNS Press Release, December 17
STAFF PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATION
Carlson, Jake. (2012) “Demystifying the Data Interview: Developing a Foundation for Reference Librarians to Talk with Researchers about their Data” Reference Services Review 40(1). Carlson, J., Martin, E. and Burke, M. “E-science, Research Enterprise Support, and “Hot Topics”” [invited presentation] Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado. Nov 4.
LIBRARIES STAFF A-Z
ANN O'DONNELL Q. What do you enjoy most about your job and why? Q. How long have you worked in the Libraries and at Purdue? Q. What is one unforgettable experience that has happened to you or your coworkers while working in the library? Q. What’s your favorite book, website, movie or database? Q. Coffee, tea, water or soft drink? Q. What do you like to do for fun?
What's Cooking?
Toffee Peanut Clusters
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