ICONDA:  the International Construction Database

ICONDA is the  bibliographic database of the International Council for Building Research, Studies and Documentation (CIB) and it covers worldwide technical literature on all fields of building construction, civil and construction engineering, architecture and town planning.

ICONDA contains references taken from sources in more than 20 different countries. Sources include periodicals, books, research reports, conference proceedings, business reports, theses, and non-conventional literature that is normally outside the public domain, with coverage dating back to the launch of the database in 1976.

Please NOTE:  access is limited to ONE simultaneous user.

Edited by David Levi-Faur and published by Oxford University Press in 2012, this massive volume (803 pages) is located on the Third Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number JA 71 .O946.

The TigerAdvisor service, offered by the Office of Undergraduate Studies, is now available in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library in the Second Floor Consultation Room located near the dark wooden walls by the Reference Department offices .  Watch for the large sign on display during TigerAdvisor @ the Library operating hours:  Monday - Thursday, 3 - 9 p.m.

For more information concerning the academic information resources offered by the TigerAdvisor @ the Library service, please click here or contact them by e-mail at tigeradvisor@auburn.edu .

Two photocopiers are now located in the recently-opened branch of the Auburn University Bookstore in the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.  Photocopies cost 10 cents per page for black and white copies and 35 cents per page for color copies.  Payment will be accepted in the form of cash, credit cards, and  activated Tiger Club cards.

The A.U. Bookstore branch is located on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library in the space formerly occupied by the CopyCat photocopying center on the south side of the floor opposite the Caribou Coffee Cafe.

Currently, the AU Bookstore branch maintains the following hours of operation:

Monday - Thursday:  7:30 a.m. - 11:oo p.m.

Friday:  7:30 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Saturday:  Opens at 11 a.m. (Saturday schedule not yet finalized)

Sunday:  1:oo - 11:00 p.m.

Discover Auburn Lecture Series

The Confederados:  Old South Immigrants in Brazil

Dr. Cyrus B. Dawsey, Department of Geography, Auburn University

Date and Time:  Thursday, October 11 at 3 p.m.

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

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries

 Humans vs. Zombies will take place at the Ralph Brown Draughon Library this Friday, October 12^th from 8 p.m. to midnight. Registration will take place all this week on the concourse from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. , and the game is open to the first 250 registrants.

Book Talk

William Alexander Percy:  The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker

Dr, Benjamin E. Wise

There will be a booking signing and reception after the presentation.

Date and Time:  Thursday, October 4 at 3 p.m.

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

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, Auburn University Department of History, and Auburn University Bookstore.

American Colonial Wealth Estimates, 1774

This study was the outcome of an extensive research project that cataloged and analyzed the various types of wealth that existed in the American colonies in 1774, just before the Revolution. Data about 919 decedents having resided in 21 colonial counties in both rural and urban settings were collected from county probate records in the New England colonies, the Middle Colonies, New York, and the South. WEALTH OF A NATION TO BE: THE AMERICAN COLONIES ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION (see Related Literature associated with this study) discusses the entire project, providing tables, graphs, summaries, and conclusions. AMERICAN COLONIAL WEALTH, DOCUMENTS AND METHODS includes some documentation for the codes used as well as the verbatim listings of the probate files of the 919 persons studied.

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 .

PILOTS includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health manifestations of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations. It also covers literature on the provision of mental health services to a traumatized population or a population at risk of experiencing traumatic events and issues of professional ethics, scientific methodology, or public policy relating to traumatized populations.