Currently on display in the Special Collections and Archives Department in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library is the following exhibit:  “William Bartram:  Botanist, Artist, Explorer, Author.  April 7, 1739-July 22, 1823.”

The exhibit features numerous illustrations of southeastern plants and flowers, plus numerous books by and about Bartram, the flora of the southeast including Alabama, Indians of the southeast, numerous captions, and a chronology of Bartram’s life.

The exhibit is located in the three upright glass display cases in the north side (i.e., facing Samford Hall) of the Special Collections and Archives Department which is located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

The expansion of the Digital Resource Lab expansion is fully underway on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.  When completed, the new Digital Resource Lab will triple in size.  Completion of the expansion is expected to take place this Summer and the Grand Opening is expected to take place at the start of the Fall Semester.

The Digital Resource Laboratory (DRL) at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library is designed to help Auburn University students, faculty, and staff use multimedia materials in their class assignments and course projects. It does this by providing access to the latest multimedia hardware and software, together with the on-site technical expertise needed to use these resources to best advantage. The DRL is committed to serving the multimedia technology needs of Auburn University students and faculty in all academic disciplines.

The Accessible Archives database has recently expanded its coverage of Nineteenth-Century African American newspapers to include full-text access to articles from the following:

Freedom’s Journal (New York, N.Y.), 1827-1829

The Colored American (New York, N.Y.), 1837-1841

The North Star  (Rochester, N.Y.), 1847-1851

Frederick Douglass Paper (New York, N.Y.), 1851-1855

The National Era (Washington, D.C.), 1847-1860

Provincial Freeman  (Toronto, Canada), 1854-1857

The Christian Recorder (Philadelphia, Pa.), 1861-1902, lacking 1892.

Accessible Archives contains full-text access to comprehensive primary source material found in leading historic periodicals and books, with eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records.

The CCH Internet Tax Research Network provides tax news as well as federal and state tax information.  Included are tax codes, regulations, court cases, rulings, legislative documents, treaties, IRS (Internal Revenue Service) publications as well as CCH explanation and analysis.  Federal Tax Archives are available for all years since 1978.  State Tax Archives are available for all years since 1984.  Includes the CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter.  (CCH stands for Commerce Clearing House).

The Internet Cafe, located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, will be closed the week of Spring Break, March 17 -21, to allow the A. U. Libraries and the A. U. Office of Information Technology to replace the current desktop computers.  Once the installation is complete, the Internet Cafe will have 24 brand-new Dell Optiplex 755 workstations with 17-inch flat panel monitors.

Effective March 6, 2008, uniformed security personnel will be available to escort library users to their vehicles parked in the Library parking deck and the Comer Hall parking lot between the hours of 8:30 p. m and 7:30 a. m. Sunday through Friday morning.  Persons interested in an escort should ask at the escort station near the First Floor Circulation Desk of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Seminars on EndNote citation software are being offered to faculty members and graduate students during the Spring Semester and on into the Summer.  Click on the Seminars link located in the middle 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:

Tuesday, May 13

Thursday, May 29

Wednesday, June 25