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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The George Fox University Archives, housed in and administered by the library, is part of a seven institution grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. The grant, administered through the Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Northwest Digital Archives program, will assist George Fox with archival development including the mentorship of a visiting archivist and [...]
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Columbia Gorge Community College Library is excited to have recently joined the Sage Library System of Eastern Oregon, a consortium of 63 – well, now 64 – libraries. And another move is soon ahead, as Sage itself is planning to migrate to an new ILS, Evergreen. There’s actually an article about Evergreen and Sage in the Fall [...]
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This Fall, the Cascade Campus library at Portland Community College is trying a trial program of having a copy of every required textbook (except workbooks and consumables) on reserve in the library. The library received a grant of $22,000 from the student government’s “Green Initiative Fund” that is aimed at making the college more sustainable. [...]
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