OLA-WLA 2013 Conference – Session Proposals Sought

Program proposals are being accepted for the 2013 OLA-WLA Conference, April 24-26, 2013. The theme for this joint conference is “The Future is NOW! (Networking OR & WA).”  Proposals are due no later than Friday, September 28, and the selection committee will notify applicants of the status of proposals by November 2. To submit a […]

News from Portland State U Library

Collection Development Librarian Jill Emery has an article in the latest Serials Review. In it, she interviews several people who worked on the Orbis Cascade Alliance demand driven e-book project. In May, Jill was awarded the NASIG Marcia Tuttle International Award for her project Techniques in Electronic Resource Management (TERMS). Social Sciences Librarian Kim Pendell […]

ACRL Value of Academic Libraries Summit White Paper

Just published yesterday on ACRL Insider (http://www.acrl.ala.org/acrlinsider/archives/5482?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+acrlinsider+%28ACRL+Insider%29) ACRL has released a new white paper, “Connect, Collaborate, and Communicate: A Report from the Value of Academic Libraries Summits,” which reports on two invitational summits supported by a National Leadership Collaborative Planning Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The report is freely available on […]

AAAS Pacific Division Conference Call For Papers: Library Science and Archives Symposium

AAAS, Pacific Division 93rd Annual Conference Boise, ID, June 24-27, 2012 Call For Papers: Library Science and Archives Symposium General and Interdisciplinary Section(Conference info: http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2012BOISE/index.html) Final deadline for submission: April 18, 2012.Submissions will be accepted on a rolling basis, so early submission is highly encouraged! The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Pacific Division is […]

PSU Library Exhibit: Of Place and Memory: The Yizkor Book as a Window into a World Destroyed

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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