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 [...]
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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!
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Web enabled cell phones are becoming more and more ubiquitous, especially among students. In response to this, we’re unveiling our new mobile-friendly version of the Hannon Library Website. If you’d like to see it, go to http://hanlib.sou.edu/m. The goal of this site is to distill our main site content into the most useful portions for [...]
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Registration is now open for this year’s combined Washington and Oregon ACRL Chapter conference. It is scheduled for October 27th and 28th at the Center for Sustainable Forestry at Pack Forest near Eatonville, WA. Preview the Conference Schedule - http://acrlwa.org/2011-schedule Browse the presentation descriptions - http://acrlwa.org/Resources/Documents/ACRL%20WA%202011%20Presentations.pdf Proposals for Lightning Talks will be accepted through Oct. 3 - https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/elcoe/141301 [...]
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“Live long and prosper: Sustainable solutions for today’s academic libraries” 2011 Joint Conference of the Washington & Oregon Association of College and Research Libraries Scholarship Applications are now open! Applying is easy and includes a short essay (500 words or less) on your interest in attending the conference and in academic librarianship. ACRL-OR awards two [...]
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