Making Institutional Repositories Work
Making Institutional Repositories Work takes novices as well as seasoned practitioners through the practical and conceptual steps necessary to develop a functioning institutional repository,...
View ArticleFrom Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood
The outsized influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From...
View ArticleData Information Literacy: Librarians, Data, and the Education of a New...
Given the increasing attention to managing, publishing, and preserving research datasets as scholarly assets, what competencies in working with research data will graduate students in STEM disciplines...
View ArticleTransforming Trauma: Resilience and Healing Through Our Connections With Animals
Have you ever looked deep into the eyes of an animal and felt entirely known? Often, the connections we share with non-human animals represent our safest and most reliable relationships, offering...
View ArticleUniversities in Imperial Austria, 1848–1918: A Social History of a...
Combining history of science and a history of universities with the new imperial history, Universities in Imperial Austria 1848–1918: A Social History of a Multilingual Space by Jan Surman analyzes...
View ArticleA History of Yugoslavia
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do...
View ArticleTransforming Institutions: Undergraduate STEM Education for the 21st Century
Higher education is coming under increasing scrutiny, both publically and within academia, with respect to its ability to appropriately prepare students for the careers that will make them competitive...
View ArticleImagining Afghanistan: Global Fiction and Film of the 9/11 Wars
Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelled...
View ArticleTransforming Acquisitions and Collection Services
This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of...
View ArticleThe Midas of the Wabash: A Biography of John Purdue
A biography of noted businessman John Purdue (1802-1876), whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's land grant university-Purdue University-in 1869. Purdue also contributed to...
View ArticleRoss–Ade: Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies
David Ross (1871–1943) and George Ade (1866–1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for...
View ArticleLetters of George Ade
George Ade, one of the most beloved writers of his day, carried on a lively correspondence with the most colorful of great and near-great. George M. Cohan, William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt,...
View ArticleRichard Owen: Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890
Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. The youngest of eight children, Richard grew up at the family estate of Braxfield House, where he...
View ArticleThe Hovde Years: A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde
This biography details Hovde’s life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and...
View ArticleThe Dean: A Biography of A. A. Potter
More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of...
View ArticleEdward Charles Elliott, Educator
A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent,...
View ArticleForce for Change: The Class of 1950
The Class of 1950 was like none other—none other before and none since. In the fall of 1946, class members came from the cornfields of the Midwest; from the battlefields of France, Italy, and Germany;...
View ArticleMy Amiable Uncle: Recollections about Booth Tarkington
He was twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction: in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. His play, Clarence, launched Alfred Lunt on his distinguished career and...
View ArticleThe Future of the German-Jewish Past: Memory and the Question of Antisemitism
Germany’s acceptance of its direct responsibility for the Holocaust has strengthened its relationship with Israel and has led to a deep commitment to combat antisemitism and rebuild Jewish life in...
View ArticlePioneer Science and the Great Plagues: How Microbes, War, and Public Health...
Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues—anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio—were conquered, and details the important role that...
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