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Oregon Information Literacy Summit – SAVE THE DATE!

communicationscoordinator — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:36:50 +0000

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

The Oregon Information Literacy Summit gathers together academic professionals who teach information literacy to undergraduates, from Dual Credit high school teachers to two- and four-year college instructors, particularly librarians and faculty teaching in writing-intensive disciplines.

With talks, panels, and presentations, the IL Summit offers Oregon educators a unique face-to-face opportunity to participate in an ongoing discussion about the importance of and techniques for embedded information literacy instruction within every discipline.

As the date approaches, registration details and a Call for Proposals will be circulated and posted to the Oregon IL Summit page of the ILAGO blog: http://ilago.wordpress.com/oregon-il-summit/

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

Joan — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:19:00 +0000

“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 manage to survive were often described as having escaped his “envious tooth.” This exhibition highlights original printed works from the Portland State University Library Special Collections, ranging from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries, including the collection’s latest Gordon Hunter Fund acquisition, a rare 1613 edition of Cesare Ripa’s celebrated iconographic handbook, Iconologia.

This exhibit is curated by Jesse Locker, Assistant Professor of Renaissance & Baroque Art, Department of Art, Portland State University.

Upcoming FREE ACRL Webinars – Mark Your Calendars!

communicationscoordinator — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:46:01 +0000

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 discussion and networking. Online access to the session URL will be emailed to ACRL-Oregon and ACRL-Washington members after each webinar.

From Idea to Publication Part One: Understanding the Research Question
February 7, 2012
Learn to formulate and define good research questions, select appropriate research methodologies and design the research study. Specific topics will include developing useful questionnaires, techniques used in conducting telephone interviews, working with focus groups and constructing surveys to get the information you need.

Location: Oregon State University, Willamette Meeting Room
Contact: Jennifer Nutefall (Jennifer.Nutefall@oregonstate.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA

From Idea to Publication Part Two: Analysis and Writing
March 7, 2012
Quantitative methods necessitate certain kinds of analyses, while qualitative methods operate on different assumptions and different kinds of data. It is essential to have an understanding of the appropriate forms of analyses (along with their possibilities and limitations). Learn learn to express their research in publishable form.

Location: Portland State University Library, Room 160
Contact: Amy Hofer (ahofer@pdx.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA

Shifting Sands: How Small Changes in Policy, Culture and Technology are Determining the Future of Libraries
March 27, 2012
Discover how changes in national and international policy, the growth of the free culture movement, and the rapid evolution of technology are having big impacts on libraries, and what you can do to help turn the tide.

Location: Washington State University at Pullman, Room TBA
Contact: Corey Johnson (coreyj@wsu.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA

From Idea to Publication Part Three: Submitting for Publication
April 3, 2012
Learn how to select an appropriate journal or publisher, learn how to prepare a manuscript for submission, and understand what the submission process will encompass.

Location: University of Washington at Tacoma Library, Room TBA
Contact: Erica Coe (elcoe@uw.edu)
Time: 10:30 am – 1:00 pm PST
Parking information TBA

Oregon Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committee Seeking Your Input

communicationscoordinator — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:46:34 +0000

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 of opinion.

http://goo.gl/XpfKl

Thanks!

Jane Nichols

Position #2 – Academic Library Representative

University System Term ending 6/30/2014

Statewide Database Licensing Advisory Committee
http://www.oregon.gov/OSL/LD/technology/sdlp/index.shtml

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Jane Nichols
Collection Development Librarian
& Associate Professor

Oregon State University Libraries
jane.nichols@oregonstate.edu
tel: 541.737.7269
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What has the Board been up to? September Meeting Minutes Posted

communicationscoordinator — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 20:42:15 +0000

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

gilmani — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 19:50:05 +0000

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 (November 2011).

Through its inclusion of student and staff voices, the University Council’s action represents a unique contribution to the growing number of statements and policies in support of open access to scholarship.

The ACRL Oregon Award for Excellence 2011 goes to …

communicationscoordinator — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:14:25 +0000

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 of content from 31 Oregon newspapers dating from 1846 to 1922. Samples of historical research by public users include such varied topics as the 1905 World’s Fair in Portland, Hawaiians in Oregon, bicycling, tattoos, salmon, and even peanut butter can be found on the ODNP blog.

ACRL-Oregon commends this team for their initiative in pursuing grant money to assist in funding the project and their commitment to making searchable historic content more widely accessible.

ODNP is funded through a combination of grants from the Library Services & Technology Act (LSTA), the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Oregon Cultural Trust, and the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.

Karen Estlund, Associate Professor and Head of Digital Library Services at the University of Oregon, will accept the award on behalf of the team at the ACRL Oregon & Washington Joint Fall Conference 2011.

The project database is available now in beta form (http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/)

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The annual ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence recognizes an individual or group who achieves excellence in the field by significantly improving Oregon academic libraries or librarianship.

Think you know someone that deserves recognition? Send in a submission next year for the 2012 award!

Oregon Digital Newspaper Project Wins Award for Excellence

Elizabeth — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 18:08:49 +0000

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 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, which offers users access to more than 180,000 pages of content from 31 Oregon newspapers dating from 1846 to 1922, is at http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/. Samples of historical research by public users on such varied topics as the 1905 World’s Fair in Portland, Hawaiians in Oregon, bicycling, tatoos, salmon, and even peanut butter can be found at the ODNP blog at http://odnp.wordpress.com/.

In receiving the ACRL-Oregon award, the program team was commended for its initiative in pursuing grant money to assist in funding the project and its commitment to making searchable historic content more widely accessible.

Interactive Historical SOU Campus Map

cedarface — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:30:09 +0000

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 might try clicking on a building to see a picture of it. If you’re curious to learn about the school before it came to be at this campus location, you can click on the Pre-1926 link.

Development of this site was a collaborative effort between one of our librarians, Emily Miller-Francisco, and her husband Grant Miller-Francisco, a GIS Analyst. Grant provided the map-making expertise and Emily contributed her web skills and historical research. Making the site work the way it does involved some sophisticated web programming including utilization of Google Fusion Tables, Google Maps API, jQuery, MySQL, and PHP. Images are from the University Archives.

Check out the historical background of the SOU campus. We hope you enjoy the new site! Questions? Contact SOU librarian Emily Miller-Francisco at millere@sou.edu.

SOU’s New Institutional Repository

cedarface — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:20:23 +0000

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 artifacts of faculty, students, and departments.

Each of the three areas of Scholarship@SOU – Faculty Scholarship, Student Scholarship, and eUniversity Archives – can be browsed by academic program or searched across all collections. To browse or find information about the Institutional Repository, go to: http://hanlib.sou.edu/ir/.