Discover Auburn Lecture Series

Perceptual Drawing:  A Handbook for the Practitioner

Conrad Ross, Professor Emeritus of Art

Date and Time:  Wednesday, October 12 (the real Columbus Day) at 3 p.m.

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

Co-Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, University Bookstore, and Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities

Discover Auburn Lecture Series

Struggles and Hardships - Dedication and Commitment:  Alabama Women's Experiences during the Civil War

Dr. Jennifer Trevino of Troy University In Montgomery earned her Ph.D. at Auburn University under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Noe, Draughon Professor of History.  Dr. Noe will introduce Dr. Trevino.

Date and Time:  Thursday, October 6 at 3 p.m.

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

A reception will follow the lecture and all are welcome to attend.  This event is part of the Discover Auburn Lecture series .

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts.

The Happy Table of Eugene Walter:  Southern Spirits in Food and Drink

A presentation by the authors Donald Goodman and Thomas Head

Date and Time:  Wednesday, October 5 at 3 p.m.

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

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the reception following the lecture.  All are welcome.

Sponsors:  Auburn University Libraries, the Auburn University Bookstore, and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts

Please take note of the following information in regard to construction work affecting the Mell Street Entrance area of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.

Starting on the afternoon of Thursday, September 29, work will begin to remove the dome lights and drop the ceiling in the area of the Second Floor Information Desk.  At around 12:30 that afternoon the Auburn University Facilities Department will put up a plastic barrier that will close off access to the Information Desk and the Lobby Lab instruction lab.  The Information Desk will be relocated to a temporary table just outside the barrier but will only have limited service.  The Lobby Lab will be inaccessible except for an EndNote  citation software class scheduled for Saturday, October 1. 

On Friday, September 30 the barrier will be extended to include the area in front of the CopyCat photocopying service office.  The self-check-out machine will still be operational but CopyCat will be closed.  Copy Dat will re-open Sunday, October 2 as normally scheduled.  A path will be made through the plastic barrier for Sunday and part of Monday, October 3.  The work may not be completed by the end of Monday, but the plastic barriers will be removed.  The Administrative Office area can be accessed through the West side entrance.

In response to demand, the Media and Digital Resources Lab, located on the First Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library, now offers the Apple iWork software package on its Macintosh computers.  This package includes applications:  Pages, a page design, layout, and word processing applicaiton; Numbers, a charts and spreadsheet application; and Keynote, a presentation application.  (Keynote is the presentation software that Al Gore used to create the visuals for An Inconvenient Truth).

Although many students have already purchased iWork applications (which prompted the library's purchase), some may ask about how to obtain the software.  It's easy.  Apple sells the licenses for $19.99 per application on its App Store.  The App Store is part of Mac OS X 10.6.6 and later, so it's just a click away.  Click here  for more information.

Capital Punishment in the United States, 1973-2009

This data collection provides annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and prisoners whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the period 1973-2009. Information is supplied for basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, education, and state of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the capital offense. Additional information is available for inmates removed from death row by year-end 2009 and for inmates who were executed.

This dataset is available through the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) database which 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 abstract, or study number. Browse major research categories..  Auburn University students, faculty, and staff only may create an account that will allow access to the membership-only data.

Please contact Barbara Bishop at bishoba@auburn.edu or (334) 844-1690 if you need more information concerning ICPSR .

This is a 13-reel set on microfilm that documents the history of the Army Air Forces policy governing race and the combat histories of the 99th Fighter Squadron and other units in the records of the Army Air Forces.  This collection is located in the Microfilm Collections under call number D 810 .N4 R43 2005.  The microfilm collections are located in the Media and Digital Resources Lab, First Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library.  Be sure to consult theRecords of the Tuskegee Airmen microfilm collection guide, compiled by Daniel Lewis, located in the Microfilm Guides section of the Media and Digital Resources Lab under call number D 810 .N4 R43 2005 Guide.  An online copy of the collection guide is also available (click here ).

Animal Behavior Desk Reference:  A Dictionary of Animal Behavior, Ecology, and Evolution

By Edward M. Burrows and published by Taylor & Francis in 2011, this is the Third Edition.  This volume is located in the Cary Veterinary Medical Library under call number QL 750.3 .B37 2011.

Lecture:  A Look at the First Amendment

Speaker:  Gene Policinski, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the First Amendment Center, Vanderbilt University

Date and Time:  Wednesday, September 21 at 3 p.m.

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

   A reception will follow the lecture.

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs.

Contact:  Amanda Carr at (334) 844-2976 or carrama@auburn.edu .

An exhibit concerning the First Amendment is currently on display in the Special Collections and Archives Department.  The exhibit concerns two Auburn University controversies concerning free speech:  one on the appearance of anti-war activist, William Sloane Coffin, Yale University Chaplain, in early 1969 during the height of the Vietnam War and one on Auburn University Professor of Economics and Business Administration Bud R. Hutchinson, who was fired due to the publication of his letter to the editor in The Auburn Plainsman in 1957 concerning racial integration.  Both exhibits contain newspaper clippings and photographs; the Coffin exhibit also has on display a signed petition in regard to his freedom to speak at Auburn.

This exhibit is located in the two glass flat cases located on one's left side past the three tall display cases featuring the Kathryn Tucker Windham exhibit upon entering the Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library.