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Purdue University has received a $40 million 
grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. 
to fund initiatives designed to foster 
groundbreaking research, expand high-
tech job growth throughout Indiana as 
well as nationally and globally, and en-
hance opportunities for students. A por-
tion of the grant will support the Pur-
due Libraries, including $5 million for 
the Active Learning Center, a facility 
that will fuse classrooms, libraries, and 
study and collaboration areas into one 
adaptable space—an innovation that no 
other American university offers. The 
active-learning approach encourages stu-
dents to be more active and engaged in 
their learning activities and the knowl-
edge gained. The facility will consist of 
38,000 square feet of study space and 
59,000 square feet of classroom space. 
The Active Learning Center, under con-
struction at the former site of the Engi-
neering Administration Building and the 
North Power Plant, will blend and inte-
grate centrally scheduled active-learning 
classrooms, library/information services, 
formal study spaces, collaborative work 
areas, and informal learning spaces. Dur-
ing the class day, 40 percent of the cen-
ter will be library/study spaces. During 
the evening and throughout the night, 
the study space will expand to nearly the 
entire building. Inside the center, six li-
braries currently located at various points 
on campus will come together to form 
the Thomas S. and Harvey D. Wilmeth 
Library of Engineering and Science. Stu-
dents will be able to tailor spaces to their 
own needs, pursuing information on 
their own or meeting in discussion and 

study groups. The Active Learning Center 
is scheduled to be ready for use in 2017.

A c q u i s i t i o n s

Kenneth Karmiole, a University of Cali-
fornia-Los Angeles (UCLA) alumnus and   
seller of rare books, has established an en-
dowment to create the Kenneth Karmiole 
Endowed Research Fellowship at the UCLA 
Library. The gift will support students, pro-
fessors, and researchers working with the 
rare primary-source materials in UCLA Li-
brary Special Collections. The endowment 
will allow scholars to spend up to three 
months working with UCLA’s collection of 
archives, rare books, manuscripts, photo-
graphs, and other unique resources. These 
scholars’ discoveries and the knowledge 
they create will also help bring UCLA Library 
Special Collections items to the attention of 
wider audiences and will support UCLA’s ed-
ucational and research missions. “I hope that 
this fellowship will create more awareness 
of the fabulous resources of the UCLA Li-
brary, both archival and printed book collec-
tions,” Karmiole said. Karmiole fellows will 
give presentations at the end of their time in 
residence and will be encouraged to share 
their research with other students, faculty 
and staff. These interactions are intended to 
inspire fellows and other UCLA scholars to 
write scholarly papers, articles and books, 
and to contribute to the academic and in-
tellectual life fostered by the UCLA Library. 
The endowment will be managed by UCLA 
Library Special Collections, and is expected 
to be awarded annually. It will complement 
several other short-term research fellow-
ships. Karmiole earned his master’s degree 
in library science from UCLA in 1971 and 
has owned and operated Kenneth Karmiole, 
Bookseller, since 1976. 

G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway