Abbott, 'Purrington Wins 1994 NCSU Libraries Faculty Award', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v22n03 (October 1994)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 22 no. 3
October 1994
Abbott, John
"Purrington Wins 1994 NCSU Libraries Faculty Award"


Suzanne T. Purrington, professor of chemistry at NCSU, is the 
recipient of the 1994 NCSU Libraries Faculty Award.  The 
award is presented annually to a faculty member who has 
notably and consistently contributed to the development of the 
Libraries.

Purrington, who joined the faculty in 1976, is actively engaged 
in chemical research that involves her directly with the 
Libraries and its essential role as the University's knowledge 
base for students and faculty.  She was instrumental in 
designing a chemistry curriculum that integrates the use of 
the literature and the library at the graduate and 
undergraduate levels.  In 1979 she became chair of the 
Department of Chemistry's Library Committee and in 1985 was 
appointed to the University Library Committee, serving two 
terms as its chair from 1992 to 1994.  Under her guidance, the 
committee addressed critical issues in the area of scholarly 
communication.  For more than fifteen years, Purrington has 
aided in the Libraries' transformation from a fundamentally 
print environment to the present multimodal environment of 
print and digital resources.

Purrington will be honored at the Friends of the Library's Fall 
Luncheon at the NCSU Faculty Club on November 17.  Past 
winners of the faculty award are Jerry Davis (Marine, Earth 
and Atmospheric Sciences), Norman Anderson (Mathematics and 
Science Education), Herman Berkhoff (College of Veterinary 
Medicine), Alexander De Grand (History), and Maurice Farrier 
(Entomology).