Yizkor books were assembled by survivors from all over Eastern Europe to document their lives, those of their lost family members and friends and their obliterated shtetls (towns). Part memoir, part family tree, part family photo album, Yizkor books tell not only of a people and culture destroyed, but also of a people’s renewal and post-1945 regeneration that followed in Israel and the Diaspora.

Portland State University Library’s Special Collections is the steward of 136 Yizkor books—the largest collection of its kind in the Pacific Northwest. Its Yizkor holdings include a volume dating back to 1929, published in Pinsk, well prior to World War II, as well as unique copies not yet included in the recent digitization project undertaken by the New York Public Library’s Dorot Jewish Division. “Of Place and Memory” is curated by Natan M. Meir, the Lorry I. Lokey Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, with assistance from Special Collections.

The exhibit is in the first floor elevator lobby of the library and will be open until December 16.

Professor Schroeder’s article, “Valuing Information Literacy: Affective Learning and the ACRL Standards,” co-authored with Elyssa Stern Cahoy, was published in Portal: Libraries and the Academy.

Professor Lim’s article, “The Readability of Information Literacy Content on Academic Library Web Sites,” was published in the Journal of Academic Librarianship.

Congratulations to both!

Also in October, Molly Blalock-Koral was promoted to Access Services Manager. Molly began at the Library as a student in 2000, and has held the positions of Holds Clerk, Billing Clerk, Student Supervisor, and Circulation Supervisor. She earned her MPA and BA from Portland State.

And in December, Nathan Mealey started as Manager of Library Technologies. Nathan received his MLS from Simmons College in Boston, and worked in IT consulting for two years before returning to work at the Simmons College Library as the Information Technology & Systems Librarian from 2006-2010.

And here are Portland State Library faculty publications from 2010.

The Pacific Northwest Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to the publication of outstanding scholarship by undergraduates and their mentors from academic institutions of higher learning in the Pacific Northwest. The Journal accepts submissions of research articles, fiction, poetry, photography, videos, and other creative works from undergraduate students in all academic disciplines. Each submission must be the original work of at least one undergraduate student with at least one faculty mentor, although the work may be submitted shortly after the student(s) has graduated.

Additionally, the Journal provides an opportunity for undergraduates to gain valuable experience with the peer-review process. Faculty and students at institutions of higher learning in the Pacific Northwest review every submission. Whenever possible, reviews are done by student-faculty pairs so that student reviewers can be mentored through the process.

Thus, the purpose of the Journal is:

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Increasing recognition of the value of libraries and librarians by leaders in higher education, information technology, funding agencies, and campus decision making is one of ACRL’s six strategic priorities. Recognizing the sense of urgency around this issue, the report is intended to help academic librarians participate in the conversation and to identify resources to support them in demonstrating the value of academic libraries in clear, measurable ways.

In the week since the report’s release, it has received coverage from a number of higher education and library publications, including the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and Library Journal. Lisa Hinchliffe shares this press coverage, along with your comments and reactions to the report, in her blog post  A Week in the Life of the Value Report  

Please continue to let ACRL know how you are using, or plan to use, the report by leaving comments on the report website or discussing online with the tag #acrlval.

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Papers in Res Cogitans are selected from those presented at the Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, which has drawn students from almost 250 different schools since 1997.  David Boersema,  Douglas C. Strain Chair of Natural Philosophy and Distinguished University Professor is the general editor of Res Cogitans.