Steve Silver awarded sabbatical to research Rare Book and Bible Collection

Steve Silver, library director at Northwest Christian University, has been approved for a sabbatical during the summer of 2011 to research the founding history of NCU’s Rare Book and Bible Collection. Silver will be researching the details of the initial gift of $1000 and subsequent trip to England in 1911 to purchase Bibles that became [...]

ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence – Nominations Now Open!

The ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence is given annually to an individual or group whose project or ingenuity has significantly improved Oregon academic libraries or librarianship. The award will be presented at the ACRL-Oregon / Washington Joint Fall Conference (October 28-29, 2010 – Menucha Retreat and Conference Center) and the winner(s) will also be recognized at [...]

OLA Awards – Please submit nominations

Hi there, We in ACRL-OR are, naturally, excited about our new Award for Excellence and we will be calling for nominations for that award later in the year.  But you do not have to wait until summer to nominate deserving academic librarians for awards because OLA just issued their call for nominations for the OLA [...]

ACRL National E-learning Scholarships

ACRL e-Learning Scholarships ACRL is pleased to announce our new e-Learning scholarship program.  ACRL is funding twenty e-Learning webcast scholarships in order to help librarians, library school students, and staff maximize their professional development dollars during these challenging economic times. Purpose To provide opportunities for librarians, library school students or support staff to update their [...]

Congratulations, scholarship winners!

Congratulations! Join us in congratulating Jen Klaudinyi (Instruction Librarian and Cooperative Library Instruction Project Coordinator, Western Oregon University) and Kim Read (Library School Student, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine) – winners of ACRL-OR’s 2009 Joint Fall Conference Scholarships! See the ACRL-OR website for more information on the 2009 Joint Conference with ACRL-OR, our other activities, [...]

ACRL OR names recipients of first annual Award for Excellence!

Congratulations to our 2009 ACRL-Oregon Award for Excellence Winners: Janet Webster and Michael Boock! Project: Library Faculty Association Open Access Policy @ Oregon State University Libraries About the project (from the nomination essay): “On March 6, 2009 the library faculty at Oregon State University adopted an open access mandate requiring deposit of all their scholarly [...]