Please join us for the publication of

A Family Home:  A History of the President’s Mansion at Auburn University

by Nell Richardson (her husband, Dr. Ed Richardson, was Auburn University President, 2004-2007)

Thursday, May 7 at 3 p.m.

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

A reception will follow the author’s talk.  Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.

Located in the three large glass display cases upon one’s left when entering the Special Collections and Archives Department, is an exhibit on the Auburn University President’s mansion.  The exhibit features numerous photographs and captions with information on the President’s mansion and on the Presidents themselves.

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

Located in the five flat glass display cases on the east side (facing College Street) of the Special Collections and Archives Department, is an exhibit featuring watercolor paintings and drawings by William Bartram (1739-1823) of birds, plants, and Native Americans in the Southeast. 

The paintings and drawings come from William Bartram, 1739-1823:  Watercolours and Drawings, Including Those Made in his Travels in Carolina, Georgia, & Florida in the 1770’s.  This is the facsimile Alecto Historical Edition published in 2003 and is a gift from Helen and Dwight Carlisle.  When not on display, this work is housed in the Treasure Collection under call number folio QH 46 .B372 2003.

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

The Media and Digital Resource Lab, located on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, now provides a Lab Use link located in the upper left hand side of the MDRL homepage.  This is a convenient way to find out ahead of time which of the 18 DELL OptiPlex 755 computers and which of the 17 Apple Mac Pro computers  are in use and for how long they have been in use.

The Media and Digital Resource Laboratory (MDRL) at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library was established in the Fall of 2004 to help Auburn University students and faculty create and use multimedia materials in their class assignments, projects and scholarly research. By providing access to the latest multimedia hardware and software, together with the on-site technical expertise needed to use these resources, the MDRL has become a centerpiece of learning through technology at the Library. The MDRL staff consists of four full time employees each of whom brings a unique level and range of skills. The staff is supported by student employees from many different academic areas who work one on one with patrons to help them make their ideas a reality, and hopefully, teach them something about the technology along the way. The staff and students in the MDRL are committed to serving the multimedia technology needs of Auburn University students and faculty in all academic disciplines.

If you are interested in a quick guide for locating information on international topics, one handy resource is the newly-created International Resources subject guide .  It features a basic listing of books, journals, library databases, reference works, free Internet sources, and links to Auburn University resources pertaining to these continents:  Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.

The International Resources subject guide is located under the Subject Guides link located on the left hand side of the Auburn University Libraries homepage and then the All Guides link located in the upper left hand side of the Subject Guides page.

The microform readers, reader printers, and microform scanning equipment has been rearranged for more convenient access.  The equipment is now located on intersecting and joining tables on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library nearby the entrance to the Media and Digital Resource Lab.

For assistance in retrieving microforms and in using the microform equipment, be sure to stop by the Service Desk located next to the atrium stairwell and elevator.

The AUETD (Auburn University Electronic Theses and Dissertations) database has been redesigned for more convenient access.   It currently provides access to over 1600 Auburn University theses and dissertations, most produced from 2004 ownard.  In addition to advanced search capabilities, the AUETD database allows one to browse by iddue date, authors and advisors, titles, and department.

Encyclopedia of Soil Science

Edited by Ward Chesworth and published by Springer in 2008, this volume is located on the Fourth Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number S 592 .E512 2008.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

Edited by Peter N. Stearns and published by Oxford University Press in 2008, this eight-volume set is located in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library in the Reference Collection on the Second Floor under call number D 205 .O94 2008.

Edited by Michael Allaby and published by Oxford University Press in 2009, this is the Third Edition.  This volume is located on the Fourth Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number QL 9 .C66 2009.