Webster, Janet G.; Bartley, Devin(International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers, 2006)
One full day of the 2005 IAMSLIC Conference was
dedicated to papers and discussion about fisheries issues. Given the
setting at FAO, the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries and the
role of fisheries libraries in ...
Rempel, Hannah Gascho(Konstanz Workshop on Information Literacy Conference Proceedings, 2007-11-08)
Patrons are most open to library services when they have specific information needs. At Oregon State University Libraries, we addressed the information literacy needs graduate students have while writing their thesis, a ...
This article describes a grant-funded project with the final goal of creating information literacy collaborative partnerships among academic, school, and public libraries. The objectives of the grant as well as an overal ...
The International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) is a global network whose aim is to foster cooperation among researchers in all areas of forestry and related sciences. Provided here is an overview of th ...
OCLC recently announced a plan to implement MARC 21 Format for Holdings Data (MFHD) and invited holdings experts Frieda Rosenberg and Diane Hillmann to serve as advisors and to aid in the implementation process. In Decem ...
Bonnie Parks interviewed Steve Shadle, serials cataloger for University of Washington Libraries, in August 2002. In this interview Shadle provides a cataloger's perspective on the challenges he and other serials cataloge ...
In July 2005, Bonnie Parks spoke with Terry Reese, digital production unit head at Oregon State University’s Valley Library. In this interview, Reese shares his views on topics ranging from electronic journal management ...
McMillen, Paula S.; Rielly, Loretta(Haworth, 2003)
Reference services at Oregon State University’s Valley Library have undergone several reoganizations in response to institutional changes, shifting service needs and patron demands. Part of this history includes training ...
Bobal, Alison M.; Wirth, Andrea A.(Katina Strauch, 2011)
In this age of budget cuts, conversations with faculty do not always have a positive tenor. Faculty may feel that with the cancellation of many journals, library collections no longer reflect the research activities of t ...
Sapon-White, Richard E.(American Library Association, 2012-01)
Academic and public libraries have begun to purchase e-book readers and make them available for check-out to their users. The nature of the e-books on these devices necessitates new approaches to workflow for acquisition ...
McMillen, Paula S.; Miyagishima, Bryan; Maughan, Laurel S.(Pierian Press, 2002)
In the Spring of 2001, the Oregon State University Libraries began planning for a collaboration with the university’s Freshman Composition Program. In implementing this project, with no additional library resources, and ...
At Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries, librarians are evaluating the decade-old information commons in the transition to a learning commons. Visits to commons spaces at libraries across the country provided perspect ...
Measuring the effectiveness of library instruction poses many challenges, yet is essential to validating the time and energy dedicated to it. Over two years, how subject specific library instruction addressed the needs o ...
Using off-the-shelf search technology provides a single point of access into library resources,
but we found that such commercial systems are not entirely satisfactory for the academic library
setting. In response to t ...
Agrawal, Y. C.; Whitmire, Amanda L.; Mikkelsen, Ole A.; Pottsmith, H. C.(American Geophysical Union, 2008)
We present new observational data on small-angle light scattering properties of
natural, random shaped particles, as contrasted with spherical particles. The interest in
this "shape effect" on scattering arises from th ...