
Purdue University Libraries Charles Watkinson, new Director of the Purdue University Press, was recently interviewed by WBAA. Listen online: http://bit.ly/592eBM

Purdue University Libraries Celebrate GIS Day @ Purdue today (11/23) with a poster session & research presentations, 2:30-6 pm, STEW 206. http://bit.ly/8W2iVG
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Again this year Purdue Libraries is hosting a GIS Day event. Building on the response from last year's event, we are not holding our event on the official GIS Day (Nov. 18), rather on November 23 to avoid some other events that tend to conflict. ...

Purdue University Libraries Ready for the Old Oaken Bucket game? Learn more about the history of the rivalry courtesy of an online exhibit from the Purdue and IU Archives: http://www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/bucket/

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Purdue Libraries celebrate new interactive classroom, start second of
three-phase renovation: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/09110 2DoanMEL.html
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Purdue University Libraries Did you know Oct. 31 was John Purdue's birthday? Learn more about Purdue University's founder in an online exhibit: http://bit.ly/1bDe8A

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Building our Flight Archives: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/09102 7MullinsPapers.html
Source: news.uns.purdue.edu
This is an official news Web page of Purdue University, home of the Boilermakers, alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon, and proud member of the Big Ten Conference.

Purdue University Libraries Lots of news stories on Amelia movie and Purdue's George Palmer Putnam collection of Earhart papers. See links: http://bit.ly/3TkPDC

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CBS News features items from the George Palmer Putnam Collection
of Amelia Earhart Papers in the Purdue University Libraries Archives and Special
Collections. Interviews were also filmed in the Humanities, Social Science, and Education Library:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5 394306n&tag=cbsnewsVideoArea.0
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CBS News video: The Lost Journey Of Amelia Earhart - 72 years after famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart disappeared while flying over the Pacific, Kimberly Dozier retraces her fateful journey in search of what really happened.

Purdue University Libraries Open Access Week kicks off Oct. 19. See the Libraries events at http://bit.ly/1qjBUA
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Purdue will be participating in the first annual international Open Access Week from October 19-23, 2009. An expansion of Open Access Day, which Purdue hosted along with 120 other campuses in October 2008, ...

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"Purdue's Place in Space: From the Midwest to the Moon" exhibit now available online!
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/09101 3MorrisExhibit.html
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This is an official news Web page of Purdue University, home of the Boilermakers, alma mater of the first and last men to walk on the moon, and proud member of the Big Ten Conference.

Purdue University Libraries Dr. Sharon Weiner, Purdue's W. Wayne Booker Endowed Chair in Information Literacy, answers questions on National Information Literacy Awareness Month in today's Journal & Courier: http://bit.ly/2FpTwg
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As the first round of term paper deadlines approaches, Purdue students flood the libraries, seeking sources to support their work.

Purdue University Libraries It's Banned Books Week: http://bit.ly/Z2jMY. Check out Purdue Libraries info on censorship & intellectual freedom: http://bit.ly/3PAkmK.

Purdue University Libraries Distinguished Lecture "The Future of Information" by TechNation host Moira Gunn TONIGHT, Fowler Hall, 7pm. Free! http://bit.ly/z0E74

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In her talk "The Future of Information," Dr. Gunn will discuss how on-demand, person-to-person contact and instant 24/7 information offers only an inkling of the depth of the digital revolution and how it has changed the basis for how humans interact, make agreements, and take action. Dr. Gunn will discuss how Global I...nformation Systems are emerging, offering global insight, and making global strategy an imperative while turning the planet into one big network.
Dr. Gunn is program director for Information Systems Programs at the University of San Francisco and the author of "Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas." A Purdue alumna, she was the first woman to earn a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue.
This lecture is made possible by major funding to the Purdue Libraries from the Estate of Anna M. Akeley, and is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost with major support from College of Engineering and College of Science.Read More
Dr. Gunn is program director for Information Systems Programs at the University of San Francisco and the author of "Welcome to Biotech Nation: My Unexpected Odyssey into the Land of Small Molecules, Lean Genes, and Big Ideas." A Purdue alumna, she was the first woman to earn a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue.
This lecture is made possible by major funding to the Purdue Libraries from the Estate of Anna M. Akeley, and is co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost with major support from College of Engineering and College of Science.Read More
"The Future of Information"
Time:7:00PM Monday, September 14th
Location:Fowler Hall, Stewart Center

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Purdue revamps Hicks Undergraduate Library: http://blogs.lib.purdue.edu/news/2009/09 /03/purdue-revamps-hicks-undergraduate-l ibrary/. Check out a video about the new "iDesk": http://www.lib.purdue.edu/ugrl/video.htm l.
Source: blogs.lib.purdue.edu
Hicks Undergraduate Library has dispersed entry- and intermediate-level books and materials to disciplinary subject libraries across campus. The change means related subject materials of all levels now can be found together. It also frees space at Hicks to be used for student collaboration.
















