Book Reading and Signing:

Ten Good Reasons to Read Tom Sawyer

Alan Gribben

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Date and Time:  Thursday, February 1 at 3 p.m.

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, Access & Community Initiatives, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, and AU Bookstore.

Located in the three large glass display cases immediately upon one’s left when entering the Special Collections and Archives Department is an exhibit concerning The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and other works by Mark Twain.

The exhibit contains editions of Mark Twain’s works including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Innocents Abroad, and other titles plus illustrations, informative captions, theses, and more.

The exhibit also celebrates The Big Read:  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum of Library Services and Arts Midwest.

The Special Collections and Archives Department is located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Auburn University Urban Studio Digital Collection

These posters  are the work of students of the Urban Studio, an outreach program of Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction.  Each poster is a graphic “snapshot” of an Alabama community’s Small Town Design Initiative.

Distributed to every household in the community and displayed at the post office and city hall and in churches, schools and storefronts, the posters provide a tool for building constituent support, recruiting, and promoting the community, and reminding everyone of their town’s assets, opportunities and economic strategies for advancement. 

The posters become support material for grant requests, partnership building and promotion.  A community with a plan is more competitive, and the poster allows the community to easily and effectively communicate their town’s potential.

See this link for access to this resource.

Linscott’s Directory of Immunological & Biological Reagents 

Using this database, it is possible to search for antibody suppliers for thousands of specific antibodies and other immunological and biological reagents such as ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) assay kits, cytokines, enzymes, recombinant proteins, siRNAs (short interfering ribonucleic acids), tissues, organs, and custom antibody services.

Edited by Eric W. Weisstein and published by CRC (Chemical Rubber Company) Press/Taylor & Francis in 2009, this is the Third Edition.  The three-volume set is located in the Reference Collection on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number QA 5 .W45 2009.

Seminars on EndNote citation software are being offered to faculty members and graduate students during the Spring Semester.  Click on the Seminars link located under the “Services” tab located in the upper left hand side of the Auburn University Libraries homepage for registration information, etc.  Seminars are free but registration is required.

Currently, the following EndNote seminars are being offered at 3:30 – 5:00 p.m.

Friday, February 19

Monday, March 1

Tuesday, March 16

Thursday, April 8.

The recently-constructed Learning Commons area, located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, features a variety of services now available to Auburn University students:

• 300 new power outlets
• whiteboards
• 10 group study areas
• 415 new seats
• the Miller Writing Center
• the Study Partners tutoring service
• the OIT (Office of Information Technology) Helpdesk
• Ralph Brown Draughon Library subject specialists available at the Reference Desk

Construction of the Learning Commons area was funded by a generous donation from EBSCO.

Henry Stewart Talks:  Biomedical and Life Sciences Edition

The Henry Stewart Talks:  Biomedical and Life Sciences Edition is a collection of over 1000 animated audio visual presentations by world leading experts.  The collection is organized into over 50 series such as Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine, Monoclonal Antibodies as Therapeutic Agents, and Protein Folding, Aggregation and Design.  Each presentation appears in the library catalog, but can also be found at the Henry Stewart Talks website by browsing by series or by a keyword search.  To be up to date as new series and talks are added to the collection, complete the “Keep Me Updated” form.

The ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) has recently added the following dataset to its collection:  Student-Athlete Experiences Data Archive produced by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).  The file contains data relating to such variables as graduation rates, team-level academic progress rates, and more.

The ICPSR database provides search and browsing access to abstracts and datasets in the world’s largest archive of computerized social science data.  Search or browse title of study, principal investigator, words in abstracts, or study number.  It is possible to browse major research categories.