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.

Formerly known as simply Dissertations and Theses, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses now provides full-text access to most American dissertations and master's theses from 1995 onward.  The database also includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.

By Ernest E. Burden, this is the Third Edition and it was published in 2012 by McGraw-Hill.  This large volume (564 pages) is located in the Reference Shelves section of the Library of Architecture, Design, and Construction in Dudley Hall under call number NA 31 .B83 2012 .

Supplied by the National Transportation Library, Research and Innovative Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation,   TLCat  is the Transportation Libraries Group online catalog and can be used to locate books and other materials located in many transportation research libraries.