William Bartram, the eighteenth-century naturalist who explored the American South just prior to the American Revolution, will be the focus of a one-day interdisciplinary symposium on Friday, October 27, to be held in the Special Collections and Archives Department of Auburn University’s Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

The symposium, which is open to the public, will showcase the latest work by a distinguished group of eight scholars from a variety of fields including literature, history, and art history.  Books on Bartram written by symposium presenters will be available for purchase, and authors will be available for book signing.

There is a $25 registration fee for the conference, which includes lunch and refreshments.  Students may attend the lectures for free.  For a registration form, schedule, and list of scholars and presentations, please click here or call (334) 844-4948.  Registration deadline is October 25.

The symposium is sponsored by the Auburn University Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, AU Libraries, AU Departments of History and English, the Alabama Humanities Foundation, and the Bartram Trail Conference.

You are cordially invited to a photographic exhibit of American academic libraries c. 1900.  the exhibit is located in the lobby of Dudley Commons.  This exhibit is a production of the LADC (Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction) staff and will remain for much of October.

ArcView 9.1 and Extensions Student Edition – One-Year Education Use Only

ESRI offers ArcView Student one-year timeout software to students taking GIS (geographic information systems)-related courses at Auburn University because of our campuswide site license.  Faculty can now order directly from ESRI enough copies of the ArcView for their students. 

To learn more, check out the FAQ’s on the program at ESRI ( http://www.esri.com/industries/university/education/student_faqs.html ).  For the web form address contact Barbara Bishop ( bishoba@auburn.edu ) or Christopher Mixon ( mixonch@auburn.edu ).

The Children’s Catalog and its archive, the Children’s Catalog Archive, are the electronic versions of Wilson’s standard reference work of the same name.  The Children’s Catalog is a selective annotated list of fiction and nonfiction books and magazines for children from preschool through sixth grade, along with review sources and other professional aids for children’s librarians and school media specialists.  Nonfiction works are classified by subject according to the Dewey Decimal Classification system.  Works of fiction, story collections, and picture books are designated Fic, S, C, and E.  Most of the print edition is available on the Fourth Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number Z 1037 .W76.  The 2001 edition in print is located under the same number in the Reference Collection on the Second Floor of the RBD Library.

The Business and Company Resource Center database covers business and management topics.  It includes directory listings for over 300,000 companies as well as company profiles, industry rating, product brands, company performance ratings, investment reports and ratings, industry statistics, financial overviews, financial ratios, and more.

Sesquicentennial Lecture

See this link for a complete schedule of the Sesquicentennial Lecture Series.

Intercollegiate Athletics at Auburn University

Speaker:  David Housel.  He graduated from Auburn University in 1969 with a degree in Journalism, taught in the A.U. Department of Journalism from 1972 to 1980, subsequently served the University as Sports Information Director and Athletic Director, and is the author of Saturdays to Remember (1973) and From the Desk of David Housel: A Collection of Auburn Stories (1991).

Intercollegiate athletics has long been part of campus life at Auburn. In 1892 the school instituted intercollegiate football, which has consistently held the highest profile, but sports from women’s basketball to polo have been part of the Auburn experience for decades. Successful athletic teams have generated boundless enthusiasm, while unsuccessful ones have had the opposite effect. The story of Auburn University cannot be told without a chapter on intercollegiate athletics.

Date and Time:  October 12 at 4 p.m.

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

Sponsored by:  The Auburn University Libraries, The Center for Arts and Humanities; Auburn University Outreach, and Auburn University Sesquicentennial Committee.

IPUMS – USA

The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) consists of 38 high-precision samples of the American population drawn from 15 federal censuses and from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2004.  The IPUMS assigns uniform codes across all the samples and brings relevant documentation into a coherent form to facilitate analysis of social and economic change.  Registration is required:  users are automatically registered when they agree to all conditions for use.

IPUMS – International (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series – International) is the world’s largest collection of publicly available individual-level census data.  The data are samples from population censuses from around the world taken since 1960.  Names and other identifying information have been removed.  The variables have been given consistent codes and have been documented to enable cross-national and cross-temporal comparisons.  Registration is required:  users must submit an abstract of the research project when registering for IPUMs – International for approval.

IPUMS – CPS provides integrated data and documentation from the March Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS) from the period 1962-2005.  The harmonized CPS data are designed to be compatible with decennial census data in IPUMS – USA.  Registration is required:  users are automatically registered when they agree to all conditions of use.  IPUMS stands for Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

Study Partners, a tutoring service sponsored by Academic Support, a Division of the Office of Undergraduate Studies, offers the following Fall and Spring Semester schedule:

Monday – Thursday:  2 – 8 p.m.

Friday:  10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Sunday:  5 – 8 p.m.

Consult the Study Partners web site at http://www.auburn.edu/studypartners for more information or contact them at 844-5972 or academic_support@auburn.edu .

Study Partners is located in Room 0176B on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.