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The Interlibrary Loan and Scan & Delivery office is moving May 12-17th. We will continue to process your requests, however we may be slightly delayed in responding to email and phone messages. If you have questions about your request or account, please send an email or leave a voicemail and we’ll respond as quickly as possible.
valley [dot] ill [at] oregonstate [dot] edu
(541) 737-4488
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Congratulations to the following faculty members at OSU Libraries and Press for these achievements effective July 1, 2013:
Chris Petersen (SCARC) has been promoted to Senior Faculty Research Assistant.
Andrea Wirth (CRSD) and Hannah Rempel (TED) were granted tenure at OSU and promoted to Associate Professor.
The Oregon Library Association has awarded Janet Webster, Hatfield Marine Science Center Head Librarian, the 2013 OLA Distinguished Service Award. This award is given to an Oregon librarian or library staff member for exceptional service over many years. Webster is being recognized for her decades of outstanding leadership in a wide array of community and library organizations. She has been a particularly effective advocate for federal, state and local policy and legislation which allows libraries to better serve their communities. The OLA awards are announced each year at the association’s annual conference (held this year as a joint conference with the Washington Library Association). OLA is the state association of library professionals comprised of 1200 members pursuing a mission to promote and to advance library service through public and professional education and cooperation.
Thursday, May 9, 2013. 8 p.m.
Oregon Historical Society, 1200 SW Park Avenue, Portland
Join us for a celebration of the long-awaited biography of Ava Helen Pauling. "Ava Helen Pauling: Wife, Mother, Gadfly, Activist": A presentation by OSU associate professor of history, Mina Carson
Read more about Ava Helen Pauling: Partner, Activist, Visionary, just published by Oregon State University Press.
OSU News & Communications press release:
http://oregonstate.edu/ua/ncs/archives/2013/may/osu-press-publishes-first-biography-ava-helen-pauling
The Oregon Multicultural Archives is honoring the Japanese American students who were forced to abandon their studies at Oregon State College during WWII with the exhibit “The Fall of ’41: Students of Japanese Descent at Oregon State College.” The display includes background about Japanese immigration to Oregon and chronicles the events after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Find out more on the Oregon Multicultural Archives Blog Post
Check out the Digital Collection in Flickr
Physical Display: 5th Floor of the Valley Library,
Display Case
Date: May-June 2013
Exhibit Curated by OSU SCARC Student Worker Hannah Mahoney
The OSU Libraries’ Oregon Multicultural Archives (OMA) mission is to acquire, preserve and make available collections that document the lives of African American, Asian American, Latino, and Native American communities of Oregon.
OSU Libraries is hosting an online copyright workshop, "Policy Decisions in the Copyright Arena." Kevin L. Smith, Director of Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University will be discussing choices to be made while formulating copyright policy for higher education institutions.
DATE: Wednesday, May 1
TIME: 12 – 1 p.m.
PLACE: Autzen Classroom (2nd Floor), Valley Library.
For further
information contact Sue Kunda: sue [dot] kunda [at] oregonstate [dot] edu; 541-737-7262
The Spring Graduate Student and Faculty Workshop Series rounds out with sessions on Showcasing Your Research (5/6), Graduate Student Grant Financial Support (5/7) and Data Management (5/8). View session descriptions and register to attend at: http://bit.ly/graduate_workshops
Questions? Contact Hannah [dot] Rempel [at] oregonstate [dot] edu
Requesting items through the Summit Catalog will be unavailable from 11:00 pm of Tuesday, April 30th to 11:00 am on Wednesday, May 1st due to a software upgrade. Requests for items found in the Summit Catalog during that time can be submitted via Interlibrary Loan.
