| A Purdue Icon : Creation, Life, and Legacy James L. Mullins, PhD, is the dean of Libraries and Esther Ellis Norton Professor. In his role as an academic library administrator for over forty years, he has been involved in facility planning and construction at Indiana University South Bend, Villanova University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Purdue University. Since his arrival at Purdue in 2004, he has championed the construction of a building on the site of the Old Power Plant that would combine the science and engineering libraries and classrooms to address the changing use of libraries by Purdue students in the twenty-first century. |