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 […]
Adriene Lim (PSU) has been elected Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Councilor for 2010-2013. She will serve on the LITA Board of Directors as well as the American Library Association (ALA) Council.
Gretta Siegel, PSU Science Librarian, has been appointed to the U.S. Department of Education’s new Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) library committee. The committee consists of 10 academic, special, and K-12 librarians with a mix of skills and experience from across the country, who will advise the Department on such topics as: journals and grey […]
The growth in e-books in library collections has been both boon and frustration for many patrons, since electronic items are typically excluded from interlibrary loan sharing. University of Oregon and Oregon State University recently began a new sharing partnership that extends to e-books. Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence is the first e-book title OSU has loaned, […]
In celebration of National Library Week at NCU we requested photos from interested faculty and staff to create READ posters, using software purchased from ALA a couple years ago. We ended up with a total of 10 submissions (which is pretty good for our small institution), all very creative and fun. Students are asked to […]
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