The first floor computer lab in Portland State University Library has undergone a significant renovation over the past several months. The Learning Ground, the new name for this updated space, occupies the north corner of the Library building and traditionally has been the most popular computer lab on campus. The Library and Office of Information [...]
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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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Like most academic libraries, Portland State University Library has several study rooms for students. But we also have a few rooms that are a little bit different. The Family Friendly Study Room was designed for student-parents and their children. This room can accommodate two family groups at a time and includes two workstations for students [...]
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The exhibit “Of Place and Memory: The Yizkor Book as a Window into a World Destroyed” at the Portland State University Library tells the stories of Eastern European Jews and their communities destroyed in the Holocaust. It is the result of a first-time collaboration between the University Library and the Harold Schnitzer Family Program in [...]
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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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Hannon Library was bequeathed the book collection of Eugene Bennett, prominent Jacksonville artist who died on November 2, 2010. A Central Point native, Bennett graduated from Medford High School and attended the University of Oregon before serving in the Navy. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees at The Art Institute of Chicago, where he [...]
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Grinnell College hopes to implement a campus-wide digital initiatives program to support interdisciplinary teaching and scholarly research. This past April, they invited a Reed team to visit, share experiences, and collaborate. The Reed contingency was comprised of Joanna Burgess, Digital Assets Librarian, Jason Parker, Academic Web Specialist, and Douglas Fix, Professor of Asian Studies & [...]
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Claudia Weston, Government Information Librarian at Portland State Library, was selected by the U.S. Department of State to conduct an American Speaker Program in Uzbekistan. Through this program, the Department of State’s Bureau of International Information Programs arranges for American experts ranging from best-selling authors to Supreme Court Justices, former Secretaries of State, and professional [...]
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