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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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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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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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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