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As a direct result of patron requests, OSU students and Faculty can now make reservations for a three hour Study Room in the Valley Library through the Library catalog. A title search using Valley Rooms will display 3 Hour Study Rooms, or use the link provided above.

One advanced booking per person, per day is allowed.

3 Hour Group Study Rooms may be booked fourteen days in advance.

Keycards are available for check out at Circulation.

Keycards must be claimed within 15 minutes of the reserved time, or the study room will be available for check out to others.

As previously announced, OSU Libraries must reduce the collections budget in 2008-2009 for the Library to stay within its allocation for the coming year. Although we have supplemented and will continue to supplement the budget with gift funds, we are still facing the need to implement this significant reduction in the collections budget. Though this reduction is necessary in order for us to create a sustainable collections budget, we intend to continue delivering content to the OSU campus and to complement our subscription base with the cost-effective delivery of research material through interlibrary loan (ILL), pay per view, or other resource sharing venues.

The Libraries would like to thank the faculty and students who commented on the original proposed cancellation. While we are unable to save all of the journals identified in these comments, we were able to save a number of the titles through alternate cancelled titles identified by departments and the use of additional gift funds. In addition, there are 88 titles that we will continue to have access to through consortial deals, open access, and aggregator databases like Academic Search Premier.

The final cancellation list is available at

http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/collection_development/OSUJournalCance...

While the magnitude of this cut is large, we will continue to add new journals even while letting other titles go. We can do this through a judicious use of state funds and through gift funds. We remain committed to sustaining access to research materials through our available funding to support research, teaching and extension.

An FAQ with more information on the need for this reduction and the methods we are taking to meet our budget allocation is available at

http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/collection_development/librarybudgetFA...

If you have any questions, please contact the subject librarian for your department. View a list of subject librarians at: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/staff/sublist.html. You may also contact: Laurel Kristick, head of Collection Development, 541-737-7276,

laurel dot kristick at oregonstate dot edu

and Faye A. Chadwell, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Content Management, 541-737-8528, .

University libraries have historically been hushed, orderly places where patrons hear only whispers and the sounds of turning pages. But in a world awash in instantly-available information, librarians are restructuring spaces and rethinking how they serve people.

A $2.6 million gift from alumnus Frank McEdward a 1957 electrical engineering graduate, is ensuring that changes at OSU's Valley Library will be directed by one of the nation's leading scholars of student learning.

Anne-Marie Deitering, an OSU assistant professor of library science, will hold the new Franklin A. McEdward Endowed Professorship for Undergraduate Learning Initiatives, the library's first endowed professorship.

"In the library world, Anne-Marie is one of the leading stars in the pedagogy of undergraduate learning," says Karyle Butcher, the Valley Library director and holder of the Delpha and Donald Campbell University Librarian Endowed Chair.

The McEdward gift, the second largest from an individual ever given to the OSU library, will also fund a new reading room, and a portion will support the College of Engineering, naming a lounge in the Kelley Engineering Center.

McEdward lived a quiet life in a suburb of Seattle and filled his house with books. A Boeing engineer, McEdward could fix "almost anything," according to Sam Rondos, who lived next-door for 40 years.

"When Frank took a fall and broke his arm at age 78, I asked if he had a will, but he just laughed," recalls Rondos, who urged McEdward to have one drawn up. "Frank never married or had children, so I suggested he give whatever he had to his school, because he loved books and learning so much."

McEdward, who died in 2007 at age 82, took his neighbor's advice to heart, giving the vast majority of his estate to OSU.

Deitering says today's students learn in very different ways from a few years ago - from multi-tasking and small group learning to online social networking. "That completely changes how students use the library. Today, a library has to accommodate talking and moving furniture for use by small discussion groups."

Deitering and Butcher both know that students view the library as an integral part of their learning experience at OSU. If that experience is good, they say, OSU benefits in the future.

The gift from Frank McEdward is a perfect case in point.

OSU Libraries is conducting this survey to analyze library usage. The survey includes a print survey as well as the web survey. Users will be surveyed at the Valley and Guin Libraries. The survey will be conducted over the course of a year (July 2008 through June 2009) for two hours each month. We appreciate user participation in this effort. If you have questions or problems about the survey, please contact

Valley Library
Faye A. Chadwell

faye dot chadwell at oregonstate dot edu

; 541-737-8528
Cheryl Middleton ; 541-737-3627
Guin Library
Janet Webster ; 541-737-0108

Work is currently underway on an upgrade to the Summit catalog, which allows you to request books and materials from regional academic libraries. As a member of the Orbis Cascade Alliance (the consortium that supports and maintains the Summit catalog), Oregon State University is actively involved in ensuring that services to you and other library customers will continue seamlessly during this transition.

The new and improved Summit catalog will make it easier for you to find the items you’re looking for. With one search, the new catalog will present results from the collections of regional academic library catalogs, followed by results from libraries around the world: in all, more than 100 million records for books and other materials from around the world can be searched and requested for delivery.

To learn more, read the FAQ on the new Summit catalog.