Steve Silver begins sabbatical

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Steve Silver (NCU)

Northwest Christian University library director Steve Silver has begun a sabbatical that will extend over the summer. Silver is researching the history of NCU’s rare Bible collection. NCU’s founding president Eugene Sanderson went to  England 100 years ago this summer to purchase Bibles, which became the foundation for the current collection. Silver hopes to recreate and [...]

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LJ coverage of MHCC librarian layoffs

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Amanda Bird

As noted in a previous post, all three of the full time faculty librarians at MHCC have been given layoff notices. The situation has not been resolved. Library Journal has published two articles about this situation: one in which the librarians were not asked to comment, and a second in which they were offered a [...]

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Torah scroll dedication service attracts local media attention

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Steve Silver (NCU)

Early in 2009 the library at Northwest Christian University received a donated 150 year-old Holocaust survivor Torah scroll. The scroll needed some repair work, so we contracted with a local Jewish craftsman to do the repair work and construct a storage/display case for it. On Friday, April 15, during our usual chapel service, we held a service [...]

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New article on demise of Data.gov

Posted on April 11, 2011 by communicationscoordinator

Got Government Data? Not Anymore!   (For full article click this link) by Barbie E. Keiser Less than 2 years ago (on June 4, 2009, to be precise), Laura Gordon-Murnane wrote an Information Today NewsBreak describing an experiment in making government datasets available to the public, including scientists and researchers, at the then-new Data.gov website. Last [...]

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support MHCC librarians

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Amanda Bird

Last week, all three full time faculty librarians at Mt Hood Community College–Teresa Hazen, Julia Longbrake and Anna Johnson–were given layoff notices. Yep, you read that right: 100% of the full time professional library staff has been pink slipped. This news came as a shock to the library and the campus, where faculty, students, and [...]

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New Scholarly Communication Interest Group – Orbis Cascade Alliance

Posted on March 24, 2011 by gilmani

A new interest group has just been formed for library staff/faculty from Orbis Cascade member institutions.  While the group has an initial charge, we are looking for interested participants to help shape our activities – and to let us know what is important to you.  If you are interested in joining the group, visit the [...]

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Library Snapshot Day

Posted on January 17, 2011 by diane

Have you been considering ways that you could be an advocate for Oregon’s libraries?  If so, volunteer to help launch Oregon’s first Library Snapshot Day.  Hannah Gascho Rempel is looking for people interested in joining an OLA task force to create a pilot version of Library Snapshot Day in Oregon later this spring. Library Snapshot [...]

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Oregon Digital Newspaper Project in beta

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Elizabeth

The beta version of the Historic Oregon Newspapers content site has now gone live. You can test the interface and start viewing more than 130,000 pages here: http://oregonnews.uoregon.edu The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) is an initiative to digitize historic Oregon newspaper content and make it freely available to the public through a keyword-searchable online [...]

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New Map/GIS Librarian at UO Libraries

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Elizabeth

Kathy Stroud recently joined UO Libraries as our new David and Nancy Petrone MAP/GIS Librarian. Kathy comes to us from the University of California, Davis, where she worked in a biological/agricultural sciences and map services reference department and in the Government Information/Maps department in the Shields Library. Prior to that, she served as a Government [...]

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UO Library New Home for Oregon Folklife Network

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Elizabeth

The Oregon Folklife Network is the result of a new partnership between the University of Oregon Libraries and the UO Folklore Program. Envisioned as a  “hub of museums, tribal organizations, libraries, state agencies, academic programs and artists,” OFN’s goal is to “sustain Oregon’s cultural heritage,” and will provide a host of programs and services including [...]

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