International Abstracts in Operations Research provides access to more than 59,000 articles published from 1989 to the present.  Covering fields from operations research to management science and all the subfields contained therein.  Searches may be done by keywords, journal information, or author name.  While some records contain links to full-text, most do not.

The corresponding print edition of this resource is available for the years 1961-2007 on the Fourth Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number Q 500 .I5.

By Jeffrey Alan, this is the Fourth Edition and published by Academic Press/Elsevier in 2008.  It is located on the Fourth Floor under call number QA 47 .J38 2008.

This exhibit, located in the three tall glass display cases immediately on the left hand side upon entering the Special Collections and Archives Department, features numerous photos, books, posters, and memorabilia concerning movies filmed in or about the state of Alabama such as “The Grass Harp,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Honeydripper,” and “The Phenix City Story,” to name a few.

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

The desk used by World War I flying ace, race car driver, and founder of Eastern Airlines, Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973) is now located in the Special Collections and Archives Department on the left hand side just past the three large glass exhibit cases upon entering.  The desk was acquired through the late Dr. W. David Lewis of the Auburn University History Department, who published Eddie Rickenbacker:  An American Hero in the Twentieth Century  in 2005 (Johns Hopkins University Press), and who was instrumental in acquiring the Eddie Rickenbacker Papers for the Auburn University Libraries.

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

Currently on display in the Special Collections and Archives Department, located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, is an exhibit featuring “Vacation Home in Alabama.”  Located in the three upright glass display cases on the north side of the department, the exhibit features books, photographs, captions, and more concerning the vacation attractions of Alabama including weekend getaways, parks, beaches, the Talladega Superspeedway, Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, wine, barbeque, and more.

The estate of Dr. Harry Philpott, President of Auburn University from 1965 to 1979, recently donated a complete set of the Eleventh Edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica.  The Eleventh Edition (1910-1911) is considered to be one of the most collectable and contains articles by many famous and soon-to-be-famous authors.  The set donated to the Auburn University Libraries is the regular quarto sized edition rather than the “handy volume” edition published in octavo size.  The Special Collections and Archives Department, located on the Ground Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, also holds the Presidential records of the Philpott Administration and over 20 hours of oral history interviews with the late Dr. Philpott.

The Eleventh Edition of The Encyclopaedia Britannica is currently on display in the Special Collections and Archives Department in the five flat glass display cases located on the east side of the department.

Movies, Music, & More has moved to the Digital Resource Lab (DRL) on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.  The materials housed in Movies, Music, & More include DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, audiotapes, audiobooks, kits, portable microform views, etc.  Movies, Music, & More was formerly located behind the Circulation Department on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.  All materials have now been relocated to the Digital Resource Lab (DRL) except for materials on Reserve and long playing (L.P.) phonograph records.  The Reserve materials (dance videos, CDs, etc.) are still located at the Circulation/Reserve Desk on the First Floor and the phonograph records have been moved to the Closed Stacks storage area.

Recently added to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) database is the data set, “Pandemic Economics:  the 1918 Influenza and its Modern-Day Implications” (no. 22680).

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, also known as ICPSR, provides search and browsing access to abstracts and data sets in the world’s largest archive of computerized social science data.  Search or browse title of study, principal investigator, words in the abstract, or study number.  Browse major research categories.

Blackwell Synergy E-Journals Move to Wiley InterScience

Electronic access to journals published by Blackwell formerly available via the Synergy database, have now been transferred to the Wiley InterScience database.  1400 journals with 3,000,000 articles are affected.  This course of action is needed to prepare for the new combined Wiley-Blackwell service that will appear in 2009.

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Homes through American History

Edited by Thomas W. Paradis and published by the Greenwood Press in 2008, this four-volume work is located in the Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction (Dudley Hall) under call number NA 7205 .G745 2008.