MHCC librarian Anna Johnson and Sally Wright–a Program Specialist at MHCC–recently received an award for excellence from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. Anna and Sally were nominated by their colleagues in the Teaching & Learning Cooperative (now the Community of Learners’ Enterprise). Hooray to Anna and Sally for their commitment to professional [...]
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Elaine Gass Hirsch from Lewis and Clark College is seeking your ideas on possible future speakers for the annual Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service. This lecture is regularly attended by academic librarians throughout the region, and she would like to know who you might be interested in hearing and discussing ideas with during [...]
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FYI – Robin Paynter (Communications Coordinator) ======================================= Over the last two years ACRL’s Racial and Ethnic Diversity Committee has been working to develop Cultural Competency Guidelines for Academic Libraries. These guidelines may be used by libraries to foster internal development as well as help articulate the library’s role in higher education in incorporating cultural competencies [...]
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Recently I have created a number of course specific research guides, e.g. Psychology 459/559: Infant Development, in which I inserted pre-formated subject searches in Portland State WorldCat to get students to relevant monographic content quickly (book links are at the bottom of the guide). Observation: pre-formatted searches can be set up so the result list [...]
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NewsBreaks for Monday, March 29, 2010 (from Infomation Today) Summary Judgment Motions Filed in Georgia State Copyright Infringement Lawsuit By George H. Pike The increasingly testy copyright infringement lawsuit between Cambridge University Press and other publishers and Georgia State University (GSU) over electronic course materials may be coming to a climax. Both sides have recently [...]
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Like many of you, we had to scramble this past year to deal with the change in the statewide database license, and ended up maintaining our Ebscohost subscription alongside the new Gale subscription, at dramatically increased cost. We have been reviewing use and usability of the two platforms this year to inform budgeting for the [...]
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Please pardon the delayed posting. We thought it might be useful to post about our February 5th Online Northwest presentation for other Oregon librarians who were unable to attend. Tricia Juettemeyer, Reference Librarian at the Art Institute of Portland presented with Dan McClure, Library Director at the Pacific Northwest College of Art, on free open [...]
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It’s been a while since I’ve been able to provide updates from the policy and legislative side of things. A few interesting things have come up in the past month or so that you might find of interest. Oregon Legislative Update The Oregon Legislature ended its session in February. Among the accomplishments cited in a [...]
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Four University of Oregon students have been named winners of the 2010 Undergraduate Research Awards sponsored by the UO Libraries. The annual competitive program honors UO students who produced outstanding original research and scholarship in the previous calendar year using resources available through the UO Libraries. Each award carries a $1,000 scholarship. To be eligible [...]
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Careful readers of the March issue of C&RL News will note that the ACRL Board of Directors has approved Portland as the official location of the ACRL 2015 National Conference, pending receipt of all letters of support. The dates are March 25-28, 2015. Exciting news!
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