Oregon Information Literacy Summit – SAVE THE DATE!

ILAGO, the Information Literacy Advisory Group of Oregon, together with OWEAC, the Oregon Writing & English Advisory Committee, and ACRL-Oregon’s Library Instruction Round Table are pleased to announce the date for the 6th annual Oregon Information Literacy Summit! Oregon Information Literacy Summit Saturday, May 19, 2012, from 9:00-4:00 Chemeketa Community College: Yamhill Valley Campus, McMinnville [...]

New Exhibit at Portland State Library: “The Envious Tooth of Time”

“The Envious Tooth of Time”: Early Printed Works from the PSU Library Special Collections January 13 – March 23, 2011 Millar Library, 1st Floor Elevator Lobby Portland State University  In early modern Europe, Time was seen as a destructive figure, relentlessly gnawing away at the works of man. The remnants of the ancient past that [...]

Upcoming *FREE* ACRL Webinars – Mark Your Calendars!

ACRL-Oregon, ACRL-Washington, OHSU Library, and OSU Libraries are proud to co-sponsor the following ACRL National webinars to support continuing education for academic librarians in Oregon and Washington! Please note: We gather at a host library for each webinar – these sessions are open to EVERYONE (members and non-members alike) and are intended to encourage group [...]

Oregon Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committee Seeking Your Input

The Oregon Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committee seeks input on content gaps, needs and trends about the databases currently provided through the State of Oregon via LSTA. Please complete this 7 question survey if you wish to give your thoughts. It’s ok if more than one person from a single institution responds-this  can provide diversity [...]

What has the Board been up to? September Meeting Minutes Posted

To better engage with members the Board decided to announce via the blog when meeting minute notes are postedon the ACRL Oregon website. September 2011 minutes available here. Happy reading – and please email us your comments/thoughts!

Pacific University Open Access Resolution Passes

On December 8th, the University Council of Pacific University, a governance body composed of representatives from the undergraduate and graduate student bodies, the faculty and the staff and administration, voted unanimously in support of a resolution [PDF] that encourages more open and accessible scholarly practices.  The resolution had previously been approved by the Faculty Senate [...]

The ACRL Oregon Award for Excellence 2011 goes to …

This year’s award winner is the UO Libraries’ Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP).  ODNP is recognized for the program’s positive impact on Oregon libraries and residents in digitizing historic Oregon newspaper content and making it freely available to the public through a keyword-searchable database. The ODNP resource, offers users access to more than 180,000 pages [...]

Oregon Digital Newspaper Project Wins Award for Excellence

The UO Libraries’ Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) has won the 2011 Oregon Award for Excellence from the Oregon chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL-Oregon). The annual award recognizes an individual or group who achieves excellence in the field by significantly improving Oregon academic libraries or librarianship. This year, ODNP was [...]

Interactive Historical SOU Campus Map

Curious how the Southern Oregon University campus has changed over time? Check out our new website that features a campus map with a year slider at http://hanlib.sou.edu/historicalcampusmap/.    The new interactive map shows the addition (and sometimes subtraction) of buildings over time. You can change the year and see what buildings existed at that point in time.  You [...]

SOU’s New Institutional Repository

Hannon Library’s archive of SOU student and faculty scholarship is growing with the addition of recently completed capstones, projects, research papers, and theses.  Student scholarship from 2010-2011 is being added to the institutional repository, scholarship@SOU.   The new SOU Institutional Repository archives and makes accessible reports, theses, papers, presentations, University publications, and other scholarly and creative [...]

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