Accessible Archives is devoted to primary source material in American history. Information archived is from leading historical periodicals and books, and includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically. Covers the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Edited by Martin J. Manning and Clarence R. Wyatt and published by ABC-CLIO in 2011, this two-volume work is available in electronic format. (Type the title into the Search blank on the Auburn University Libraries homepage, click on the grey down arrow and highlight "Title" instead of "All Fields" and then click on the grey "Find" button).

Presentation

The Saint John's Bible

The first illuminated handwritten Bible commission by a Benedictine monastery in more than 500 years.

Location:  Special Collections and Archives, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Date and Time: Thursday, March 7 at 3 p.m.

"One of the extraordinary undertakings of our time." - Smithsonian Magazine.

An exhibit concerning Ralph Brown Draughon (after whom the R.B.D. Library is named) is on display in the two glass cases recently placed on the First Floor near the Atrium staircase and elevator.

The exhibit features numerous photographs of Ralph Brown Draughon (1899-1968) plus memorabilia and informative captions.  Draughon served as President of Auburn University from 1947 through 1965.  The exhibit covers important events of Draughon's presidency including the transition of Auburn from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute to Auburn University in 1960 and the desegregation of the University in 1964 when Harold Franklin was admitted as the first African American student.  The photos cover Draughon's life from a 1925 scene where he was serving as a teacher at Sumter County High School in 1925 through his retirement.

TRID Online is a comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation research information from the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies' Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) and Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development's (OECD) Joint Transport Research Centre's International Transport Research Documentation (ITRD) databases.

Edited by Edward G. Gray and Jane Kamensky, this volume was published by Oxford University Press in 2013 and is available on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number E 208 .O94 2012.

Gale Encyclopedia of E-Commerce

By Laurie J. Fundukian, this two-volume work is available in electronic format.  Published by Gale, Cengage Learning in 2012.  Look it up by title in the Auburn University Libraries catalog and then click on the link displayed on the screen of the catalog record for access.

Meet Littleton-Franklin Speaker

Roger Thurow, author of

The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change

Date and Time:  Wednesday, February 20, 9 - 10 a.m.

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

Multicultural Center Lecture Series

I Hope I Join the Band: Narrative, Affiliation, and Antiracist Rhetoric

Frankie Condon (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Date and Time:  Wednesday, February 27 at 3 p.m.

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

Sponsored by:  Auburn Univeristy Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Auburn University Office of University Writing, and Auburn University Libraries.