OSU Libraries News

OSU Libraries now has access to the complete Berkeley Electronic Press (BePress) collection of electronic journals. These journals are in a number of subject areas, including Economics, Business, and Marketing; Law; Political Science, Policy, and International Studies; Health and Medicine; Science and Technology; and Education.

Participate in Open Access Week, October 19-23! Events throughout the week highlight the importance of freely available scholarship and research. Learn more about how you are affected and how you can become involved! Open to the OSU community and the general public.

Help us implement the instant message / chat tools that work for you!

Take our brief, two-question survey to let us know what service(s) you currently use to instant message / chat with OSU Libraries and what services you'd like to see us add. We appreciate your feedback!

http://www.tinyurl.com/osulibchatsurvey

The library student advisory council needs you! Whether you think we should add more popular materials or you have a suggestion for the way we use the space, we'd love to hear what you have in mind for your campus library. The library student advisory council is a leadership opportunity that will give you a chance to make a difference. Interested? Contact Librarian Kate Gronemyer kate [dot] gronemyer [at] osucascades [dot] edu for more information.

President Obama, in his official proclamation, called upon the people of the United States and educators, in particular, "to recognize the important role information plays in our daily lives, and appreciate the need for a greater understanding of its impact." Obama reminds us that "the ability to seek, find, and decipher information can be applied to countless life decisions, whether financial, medical, educational, or technical." [-Barack Obama, President of the United States of America]

Do your students have the ability to use the the resources available to them through Oregon State Unversity Libraries to both find the information they need and critically evaluate it? OSU Libraries can help! Contact your subject librarian to set up library instruction this term!

The Oregon State University Libraries have launched a new online catalog for mobile devices that enables students, faculty and other users to search the catalog from their mobile or smart phones. Users visiting the library website from a mobile device will be automatically directed to http://m.library.oregonstate.edu/ the mobile site.

"Students are always connected and on the go," says Karyle Butcher, the OSU Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian. "Our new mobile services are one more way for OSU Libraries to engage our users in ways that work for them."

The mobile catalog is the latest addition to the Libraries' mobile site, which was released in March 2009. OSU Libraries are the first in the Oregon library system to develop a custom mobile catalog and among the nation's leaders in doing so, as well.

The new catalog allows patrons to search for library materials by keyword, title, author, call number, and ISBN. When a patron finds an item in the mobile catalog, she can then email the record to herself or text the call number to her cell phone. Other features include the ability to search course reserves, limit searches to a specific library branch (Valley Library, Guin Library, and the OSU Cascades library), and set the number of results per search.

For more information please visit http://library.oregonstate.edu/about_mobile.

SciFinder Scholar provides integrated access to the following chemistry resources:

• Chemical Abstracts plus (CAplus): Literature (journals, patents, proceedings, etc.), 1907-present

• Medline: Biomedical literature, 1949-present

• CAS Registry: Structure database for finding chemical substances, 1957-present

• CASREACT: Reaction information on single and multi-step reactions

• CHEMCATS: Chemical source information

• CHEMLIST: Regulatory information, 1979-present

SciFinder Scholar use is restricted to current OSU faculty, students and staff. Use of the SciFinder Scholar web version requires registration using your ONID or oregonstate.edu e-mail address.

Access to the web version of SciFinder Scholar is restricted to 2 simultaneous users. If you are unable to connect, please try again later or try the traditional client server version of SciFinder Scholar.

Please remember to exit from SciFinder when you have finished so it is available to other users.

More information on SciFinder Scholar is available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/research/guides/sfs.html. If you have any questions, please contact your subject librarian.

A workgroup made up of folks from Central Web Services, University Housing and Dining, Enrollment Management, the TOUR office and Admissions have developed a serious upgrade to the campus map.
Some of the newer features include 360-degree shots at different campus locations, static campus pictures, and descriptions of buildings and programs within them.

OSU 360 allows you to click on buildings and icons on the campus map and explore by choice. Guided tours highlighting aspects of the University.

http://oregonstate.edu/campusmap/virtualtour/

The OSU Libraries and OSU Career Services have collaborated to provide access to the Vault Online Career Library, a career services site which includes:

• Occupational Profiles
• Industry Overviews
• Company Profiles
• Internship Database
• Diversity Profiles
• Career Surveys
• Career Advice Articles
• Videos on job searches and interviews, company recruiting videos, internship videos, and workplace diversity

Thanks in large part to your feedback, OSU Libraries has been able to identify the necessary cancellations that will allow us to meet the Library’s expected budget shortfalls in fiscal year 2009-2010.

The list of cancellations identified for FY2009-2010 is now on the OSU Libraries’ Collections Review page. These reductions will take effect on January 2010.

You may remember that we also identified titles that would be cut in fiscal year 2010-11. Given the budgetary uncertainty for OUS and/or OSU, we may have to cancel some of these titles earlier than we anticipate. We will notify you in the event that this reduction needs to be made.

Thank you for the assistance you provided in helping with the difficult decisions we have had to make in our current budgetary situation. We will be continuing our work with the University of Oregon and with other OUS institutions to reduce duplication, share access and develop strategies to reduce the impact of the budget.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Loretta Rielly, Head of Collection Development, Faye Chadwell, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Content Management, or your subject librarian.

It's the birthday party that never ends! Join us in saying "Happy Birthday, Oregon" -- you don't look a day over 150.

For the April 15^th launch, we're looking in new directions, exploring new pictorial frontiers, zooming through time and space, and partnering with Oregon Explorer to pull together 150 of our most stunning historic images of Oregon's 15 river basins.

It gets better! Not only are we showcasing natural resources, we are celebrating our state. This collection is more than a collection, it's an event: our project was also accepted as an official Oregon 150 sesquicentennial project!

No, that's not all! Because the Oregon Explorer is all about places and spaces, we've also geo tagged these photos, when and where we could, so check it out! To learn more about geo tagging in Flickr, visit the GeoTagging Group.

Step back in time, explore the state, and tell us what you think.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/collections/72157615940778814/

http://www.oregon150.org/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/geotagging/

In conjunction with Oregon Reads and the Deschutes County A Novel Idea, COCC is sponsoring this film which follows the lives of adult Japanese American men who were placed in the U.S. internment camps during World War II as children. A discussion to follow the film.

April 14, 2009
Hitchock Auditorium
6:30-8:30pm

Links:
Oregon Reads 2009
Children of the Camps
Directions to campus

The OSU Libraries has recently added nearly 80 e-books from EBook Library (EBL) and the Springer Computer Science Ebook Collection.

EBL is an academic and research collection with nearly 200 participating academic and university presses. Readers can search for specific information in a book or leisurely browse contents online. One of the benefits of this collection is that more than one person can use a book simultaneously, eliminating the need to purchase multiple copies for heavily-used or books faculty want to put on Reserve.

The Springer Computer Science EBook Collection includes monographs, proceedings, and lecture note published since 1995. Subjects covered include Computer Communication Networks, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Software Engineering and more. Look for titles marked with the green box.

Search for ebooks from EBL, NetLibrary, California Digital Library and elsewhere in the OSU Libraries Catalog by limiting your search to "Electronic Resources."

Faculty at Oregon State University Libraries are granting open access to their scholarship and knowledge.

On March 6, library faculty adopted a policy that requires deposit of final published versions of scholarly works in the libraries' institutional repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU. This is the first open access mandate adopted by a library faculty in the United States, according to Michael Boock, head of digital access services for OSU Libraries.

Since 2004, OSU Libraries has worked to collect the university's scholarship in digital form to ensure greater accessibility and long-term preservation of the scholarship. ScholarsArchive@OSU, which recently ranked fourth among U.S. digital repositories, contains dissertations, theses, a wide variety of university technical reports, working papers and series and increasingly, published articles, papers and presentations. The current contributions come from across campus, and are contributed on a voluntary basis.

The new policy means that the 42 library faculty will automatically contribute all of their scholarship to the archive. Faculty in other departments can continue to contribute on a voluntary basis.

No later than the date of publication or distribution, library faculty members will deposit an electronic copy of the final published version of their works in an appropriate format (such as PDF) to ScholarsArchive@OSU. The policy applies to articles, conference papers and proceedings, substantial presentations and internal reports of interest to a broader audience that are authored or co-authored by library faculty members.

"As faculty members at Oregon's land grant university the library faculty believes they have a responsibility to share their expertise and research with the public," Boock said. "As librarians, they believe in the widest possible access to information and its long-term preservation. The policy they've adopted supports these goals."

Shortened hours for spring break:

http://campuslibrary.cocc.edu/About+the+Library/Hours/default.aspx

Get Ready, Get Set, Launch!

On February 14^th, 2009 -- Oregon's 150^th birthday -- the Oregon State University Archives will become the 21^st institution to join the Flickr Commons.

Not only are we joining noteworthy North American institutions like the Library of Congress, Smithsonian, New York Public Library, and George Eastman House, we will sit next to international libraries and museums such as the National Library of New Zealand, the Powerhouse Museum, National Galleries of Scotland, and Bibliothèque de Toulouse. If that wasn't exciting enough, the OSU Archives is the first university to join The Commons!

So What is The Commons?

In January of 2008, Flickr launched a new project aimed at increasing access to publicly held photography collections in civic institutions around the world. They called it The Commons. The idea was to provide a space to show off hidden treasures and for the public to contribute their historical knowledge to compliment the information the institutions already had for these images, thereby creating even richer collections.

The Commons opened its doors on January 16th, 2008 with nearly 3000 images from two Library of Congress photographic collections. Twenty museums, public libraries, and other cultural heritage institutions from around the world have joined, releasing images to be perused, tagged, and researched by the public.

Why do we think The Commons is so important? The folks at indicommons have said it best, check it out!

OSU Archives in The Commons

In order to celebrate Oregon State University's rich heritage, the OSU Archives joined Flickr in the summer of 2008. It was a great place for images of current events, virtual tours and instruction, archival happenings, and eclectic historic photos; however, after seeing the connection the general public was having with historical images and the real impact the historic photographs in the Flickr Commons were having on both Flickr users and the larger community, the OSU Archives was more than eager to join this project. We will launch with Civilian Conservation Corps images from the Gerald W. Williams Collection.

In addition to the personal research library and papers of Dr. Williams, the Gerald W. Williams Collection includes over 24,000 photographs in a variety of formats (photographic prints, postcards, stereographic images, and glass lantern slides). Focusing on OSU's history of conservation and forestry, the photographs in this collection reflect a range of images. This is a history OSU is proud to celebrate; a complex story with chapters on forestry, geology, environmentalism, and the people that have inhabited and worked this land.

As time passes, the OSU Archives will be digitizing and releasing other images in our collections that showcase some of the amazing items that help to illustrate the complicated intersection of culture, natural resources, and history.

To learn more about The Commons, our contributions, and the Gerald W. Williams Collection, please read through the document I've attached to this email.

The Center for Research Libraries recently announced its 2009 acquisitions.

• American Religions Collection: Nontraditional American Religions
• Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files: Biafra-Nigeria, 1967-1969
• Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East
• Grassroots Feminist Organizations
• Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500
• Receipt Books, c1575-1800, from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Sex and Sexuality 1640-1940, Part 5: Gay Literature from Anacreon to John Addington Symonds from the British Library London
• Shanghai Political and Economic Reports 1842-1943: British Government Records from the International City
• Soviet Cinema Film Periodicals
• Vogue (London); also known as British Vogue

CRL is a non-profit consortium of research libraries whose collections include materials rarely held in North American Libraries. Because OSU Libraries is a member library, OSU faculty, staff, and students can borrow these collections through Interlibrary Loan. For complete descriptions of the new acquisitions, see http://www.crl.edu/PDF/pp09purchases.pdf.

Guides for these 11 OSU Archives collections were completed in October 2009.  Information about other OSU Archives collections is available at:
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/

Butts, Joseph S., Papers, 1931-1971
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv20343
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREbutts.pdf
The Butts Papers consist of research data, laboratory notebooks, and reprints of scientific publications documenting the biochemistry and agricultural chemistry research of Butts as a graduate student and professor at the University of Southern California in the 1930s and at Oregon State.  Butts was a faculty member at Oregon State from 1939 until his death in 1961.

Chambers, Othniel R., Papers, 1922-1951
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv99963
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREchambers.pdf
The Chambers Papers document Chambers' graduate education at Ohio State University and his teaching and research as a professor and head of the Psychology Department from 1929 to 1951.  The collection includes extensive materials documenting KOAC radio presentations by Chambers, many of which pertained to child development and parenting.

Committee on High School Relations Records, 1931-1956 (RG 006)
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv67443
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/ORErg006.pdf
These records document the activities to provide information to and recruit Oregon high school students for attendance at Oregon State System of Higher Education (OSSHE) institutions.  The records include correspondence, statistics, and annual reports.  The committee was formed partly in response to confusion among Oregon high school students about academic and degree programs after the formation of OSSHE and reorganization of higher education in Oregon in the early 1930s.

Gaither, James T., Photograph Collection, 1917-1922 (P 275)
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv29699
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp275.pdf
The Gaither Collection consists of 14 photographs taken and assembled by Gaither during his student years at Oregon Agricultural College from 1917 to 1922.  Most of the photographs depict the annual tug-of-war between the college freshmen and sophomores.  An oversize photographic print of the members of Delta Upsilon includes Gaither and Linus Pauling, both members of the fraternity.  The photographs were donated by Gaither's granddaughter in 2008.

Oregon Emergency Farm Labor Service Oral History Collection, 1992 (OH 08)
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv92456
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREoh08.pdf
This oral history collection consists of interviews conducted in 1992 by Oregon State University students of five individuals familiar with farm labor in Oregon during World War II.

Oregon State University Women's Basketball and Field Hockey Scrapbooks, 1964-1968
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv12304
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREwomenbbhockey.pdf
These four scrapbooks document the 1968 women's basketball and 1964 and 1966-1967 field hockey teams and include photographs, clippings and ephemera.  At this time, women's intercollegiate (and intramural) athletics teams were under the jurisdiction of the Women's Recreation Association.

Personnel Coordinating Committee Records, 1953-1958 (RG 050)
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv68240
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/ORErg050.pdf
These minutes and reports document the committee's oversight of academic guidance and other student personnel activities at Oregon State College during the mid-1950s.  The bulk of the materials pertain to the development of counseling and guidance services at Oregon State through the Counseling and Testing Center.

President's Office Motion Picture Film and Videotapes, 1961-1996 (FV P 092)
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv40109
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/film/documents/OREf092.pdf
Of special note in this small collection of 1 film and 7 videotapes is a film of statements by Oregon Governor Mark Hatfield and Oregon State President A.L. Strand at the signing of the 1961 bill to re-name Oregon State College to Oregon State University.  The videotapes are recordings of special events and speeches.

Schneider, Nicholas, Photograph Collection, 1912-1915 (P 148)
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv74719
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp148.pdf
This small collection of 11 images of fellow students and student activities was assembled by Schneider during his student years at Oregon Agricultural College prior to World War I.  Several of the images depict the annual tug-of-war and one is available online:  http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/u?/archives,1609

Story, Dale, Scrapbook, 1961-1962
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv80480
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREstory.pdf
The Story Scrapbook consists of clippings, ephemera, and photographs documenting Story's national cross country championship in 1961 and other OSU track and field athletes and events during 1961-1962.  Dale Story attended Oregon State from 1960 to 1965 and won the individual title at the 1961 NCAA Men's Cross Country Championships.

Zybach, Bob, Collection, 1972-1990
http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv62655
http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREzybach.pdf
This collection consists of business records generated and assembled by Zybach's reforestation companies.  Zybach was a reforestation contractor in western Oregon for 20 years in the 1970s and 1980s before becoming a graduate student at Oregon State University.

If you have any questions about these collections, please contact the Archives at archives [at] oregonstate [dot] edu or 541.737.2165.

http://oasis.oregonstate.edu/search/?searchtype=t&searcharg=Valley+Rooms...

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.

OSU Libraries is conducting a survey to analyze library usage. The survey includes a print survey as well as a 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 concerns about the survey, please contact:

Valley Library
Faye A. Chadwell (faye [dot] chadwell [at] oregonstate [dot] edu; 541-737-8528 )
Cheryl Middleton (cheryl [dot] middleton [at] oregonstate [dot] edu; 541-737-3627)

Guin Library
Janet Webster (janet [dot] webster [at] oregonstate [dot] edu; 541-737-0108)