The Purdue Libraries Facility Team and Libraries staff are gearing up for the move to the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) this summer. As you can imagine, there is quite a bit of logistics to handle a move such as this with precision. Here is the WALC move by the numbers:

This past semester, Purdue University Libraries launched its 4th annual “Why I Love Purdue Libraries” video contest and finalized its winners early this spring. The contest was open to all current, enrolled Purdue University students. All video entries had to follow specific rules and guidelines and be 1-3 minutes in length. Winners were selected by the Undergraduate Student Libraries Advisory Council (USLAC) and winners were finalized by Libraries associate deans, director of strategic communication and the Dean of Libraries. There were 11 entries.

The 2017 winners are as follows:

• First Place: Jacob Russell (junior, information systems management) and Preeya Sharma (junior, finance); each will receive half of the $1,000 prize;
• Second Place: Tré Bennett (senior, computer graphics technology); $750 prize
• Third Place: Jing Yao (sophomore, industrial management) and Xiaoping (Mary) Zhu (sophomore, business management); each will receive half of the $500 prize.

View the winning videos on the YouTube Playlist at www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfiLH31ZZsO3OYQLsVaRwApmrk4APRMmk

Contest award winners will be featured on the Purdue Libraries website and communication channels and all awards will be distributed through Purdue University Financial Aid Division.

2017 Purdue Libraries Video Contest winners joined Dean of Libraries Jim Mullins and Purdue Federal Credit Union (PFCU) Vice President Jeff Love for presentation of their awards. The Purdue Libraries Video Contest is supported by Purdue Federal Credit Union. Pictured left to right: Jing Yao, Xiaoping (Mary) Zhu, Jim Mullins, Jeff Love, Jacob Russell and Tré Bennett.

2017 Road School presenters were invited to stop by the Purdue Libraries exhibit area on the second floor of Stewart Center to submit their presentations before or after their sessions. The archived presentations provide a valuable resource after Purdue Road School is concluded, as demonstrated by the more than 165,000 downloads of the presentations and proceedings to date. Conference materials from Road School dating back to 1924 have been digitized and added to e-Pubs. Pictured are Marcy Wilhelm-South and Nina Collins collecting presentation information from a Road School presenter.

Research Council has evaluated and awarded the following grants:

An International Travel Grant to Jean-Pierre Hérubel to travel to Paris, France to carry out research in scholarly communication of grey literature which will include consultation on site at several closed repositories in May 2017.

An International Travel Grant to Erla Heyns to travel to Limerick, Ireland to present on “Re-envisioning a Traditional Liaison Library Model to Accommodate the Digital Scholarship Needs of Users” at the 9th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference (QQML2017) in May 2017.

An International Travel Grant to Bethany McGowan to travel to Dublin, Ireland to present on “Information Design and Universal Design Strategies for Teaching and Presenting Complex Health Information to Diverse Learners” at the International Congress of Medical Librarianship (ICML) Conference in June 2017.

A Research & Scholarship Support Grant to Ilana Stonebraker to travel to Baltimore, Maryland to moderate and present a panel titled “Liberty and Justice for All: Critical Information Literacy for Business and Professional Students” at the ACRL (Association of College & Research Libraries) Conference in March 2017.

Presentations by past Library Scholars Grant recipients will be held on Thursday, April 6 in the Swaim Conference Room, 4th floor of HSSE Library, from 2-4:15 p.m. The event is open to all staff and you are invited to come and go in between presentations as needed.

• Silvia Mitchell, assistant professor of History
  ”Anglo-Spanish Relations during the Regency of Queen Mariana of Austria, 1665-1675”
• Jennifer Zaspel, assistant professor of Entomology
  “Systematic Revision of the Vampire Moths and their Fruit-Piercing Relatives”
• Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, associate professor of History
  “Across the Iron Curtain: Jewish Displacement, Dispersion and Contact, 1945-1960”
• Yvonne Pitts, associate professor of History
  “Vile Characters’ and Property Law: Regulating Prostitution and Creating Property in Civil War Era Nashville, 1860-1868”
• Brett Crawford, assistant professor of Technology Leadership and Innovation
  “Issue Work and Modern Actorhood in River Conservation”

The Library Scholars Grant Program was established in 1985 by the 50th anniversary gift of members of the Class of 1935, and the class has been continuously supportive of this fund for the past 32 years. This program supports access to unique collections of information around the country and the world for nontenured and recently tenured Purdue faculty in all disciplines from the West Lafayette, Fort Wayne, IUPUI, Northwest campuses and the Statewide Technology Program. The grants cover the expenses associated with the cost of transportation, lodging, meals and fees charged by the library or other collection owner.

Pictured: Michael Johnston, assistant professor of English, talks about his research conducted at the British Library in London and the college libraries of Cambridge University.

Wilmeth Active Learning Center
Elements from the old Power Plant have been integrated into the interior design of the space.