You may have seen the story in the July-August 2022 SIETAR newsletter about the new home(s) for the Janet Bennett Library and wondered how it came to be that Purdue University's CILMAR was a recipient of a portion of the library.
Like many of you, we at CILMAR were aware of the library and its tremendous value because various members of our staff attended the Summer Institute For Intercultural Communication (SIIC). We never dared to dream that a portion of the library would come to live at Purdue University until Dr. Bennett discussed the library's move from the Intercultural Communication Institute to her home at a fireside chat hosted by Sandra Fowler at the 2019 Sietar USA conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
At that time, Janet revealed where the library would be going when it moved from her home, but, when that plan did not come to fruition, CILMAR's director Dr. Kris Acheson-Clair made inquiries as to how CILMAR might help to facilitate its relocation.
