Appointments, honors and activities

• Faculty and staff honors:

- Ilana Stonebraker, assistant professor and business information specialist for Purdue Libraries, has been selected as a Library Journal Class of 2017  “Mover & Shaker.” According to Library Journal, its “Movers & Shakers” project “provides an annual snapshot of the transformative work being done by those in libraries of all types and sizes across the field.” The LJ project started 16 years ago, and this year, Stonebraker was one — and the first ever for Purdue Libraries — of more than 50 individuals recognized.

-Michael Witt, associate professor in Purdue Libraries, has been recognized by the American Library Association (ALA) with the Oberly Award for Bibliography in the Agricultural or Natural Sciences. He shares the award with Frank Scholze, from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, for their collaboration on re3data, which is an online registry of research data repositories. The registry has been widely adopted and is referenced in guidelines by such funders as the European Commission, National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Transportation, as well as publishers, including Nature, PeerJ, Copernicus and the Public Library of Science. The Oberly Award is given every other year by the Science and Technology Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries, which is a division of ALA. It will be presented in June at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.