Edited by Louis Kontos and David C. Brotherton and published by Greenwood Press in 2008, this work is located on the Third Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number HV 6439 .U5 E53 2008.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History

Edited by Bonnie G. Smith and published by Oxford University Press in 2008, this four-volume set is located in the Reference Collection on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number HQ 1121 .O93 2008.

Is English your second language?  Do you know someone for whom English is a second language?  If so, you will be happy to note that there are now foreign language translator links for the Auburn University Libraries homepage available for the following languages:  Chinese (Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Spanish.  When you click on the appropriate link, it will translate the Auburn University Libraries homepage from English into the selected language.

The links appear on the right hand side of the Auburn University Libraries homepage as icons bearing the flag of each country whose official language is represented.

Along with most other operations formerly located in the Foy Union building, the Auburn University Libraries Book Drop has moved to the new Student Center building.  The book drop is located on the Second Floor across from and to the right of the Foy Information Desk.  Book pick-ups are currently being made on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.  Please plan your library book drop-offs accordingly.

To help meet the demand for study and computing space, the Ralph Brown Draughon Library is making available two recently remodeled Instruction Labs for evening and weekend use.  The labs are normally in use for bibliographic instructions during weekdays between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.  After 5 p.m., the instructional laptop computers are securely locked away into “garages” that fold into the counters and a sign indicating that the labs are open to students is put on display.  Students may then bring in their own laptop computers (or check one out from the Circulation/Reserve Desk located on the First Floor), plug them in, and get to work.

The new wireless labs are located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library:  one lab is found immediately to one’s right upon entering the Mell Street entrance while the other lab is located in the middle of the Second Floor near the Atrium stairwell.

The exhibit, Celebrating 100 Years of Alabama 4-H featuring numerous photographs, informative captions, a timeline covering the period 1909-2007, scrapbooks, pamphlets, books, and other documents, as well as realia like t-shirts and a gavel, is located in the three large glass display cases found immediately on one’s left and in the three upright glass cases on the north side of the Special Collections and Archives Department. 

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

Located in the five flat display cases in the Special Collections and Archives Department, is an exhibit on Football Traditions at Auburn.  The exhibit features numerous photographs, yearbooks, sheet music, and even an issue of the Orange and Blue newspaper from 1915 concerning various Auburn football traditions such as rallies, cheers, cheerleading, and more.

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

Discover Auburn Lecture Series

A History of Auburn Engineering in the Nineteenth Century

Arthur Slotkin*

Wednesday, September 17 at 3 p.m.

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

*Slotkin received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Auburn University in 1968 and a master’s degree in flight structures from Columbia University in 1969.  At Georgia Tech he also earned another master of science degree in the sociology and history of technology and science.  Arthur Slotkin will discuss the history of engineering at Auburn University based on his upcoming book, They Came from Auburn:  A History of Engineering in the New South.

Sponsored by the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts at Auburn University, the Auburn University Libraries, and the Auburn University Bookstore.  For more information on the program and the Discover Auburn series, contact the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center at 844-4946.

Serial Set Maps includes maps originally published in the U. S. Congressional Serial Set .  The maps are indexed by the geographic areas they depict, the subjects they represent, their titles, and the names associated with the maps either as cartographers, explorers, or in some other capacity.  The maps cover diverse subjects such as military history, agriculture, forestry, and transportation.

The U. S. Congressional Serial Set is a major collection of United States federal government documents, consisting of bound volumes of all reports, documents, and journals of the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives.  The digitization of the Serial Set is being done in stages by the Readex NewsBank company and is part of the Archive of Americana series of databases and currently is available for the 15th. through 81st. Congress (1817-1952).  Eventually, the database will provide coverage through the 96th. Congress (1980).  This database can be searched and browsed.  PDF images of all documents are available for downloading and printing.

Edited by Michel Hersen and Alan M. Gross, and published by J. Wiley and Sons in 2008, this two-volume work is located on the Fourth Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number RC 467.2 .H357 2008.