Like many institutions, we had to quickly shift from print only to digital course reserves. With Ex Libris’s digital resources system we were able to provide electronic course reserves. Our experience with Alma-D shows how to launch programs creatively, working within your system’s constraints to support your patrons’ academic needs....
Presentation delivered at the 12th Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, 26-29 May 2020. The presentation covered a bibliographic review of the Web of Science using the following search parameters: TS=Wikipedia AND SU=Information Science & Library Science, Document type: Article.
In the summer of 2008, the Valley Library of Oregon State University was faced with a need to re-evaluate its access policies and decide whether to maintain the current policies or change the policies to address existing and potential issues. As part of this process, the Valley Library surveyed the...
Librarians support student success through partnership with academic success units such as writing centers. This roundtable explored a range of writing center-library models, some based in service design thinking. Discussants sought to highlight practices, such as studio pedagogy, that lead to sustainable, mutually beneficial outcomes for libraries and writing centers....
A zine created by attendees of the panel session "Zine Cultures as Critical Resistance: A Hands-on Workshop to Build Community Engagement and Student Learning" at the American Library Association Annual Conference, June 2018 in New Orleans. The panelists were Ziba Perez Zehdar-Gazdecki, Daniela Capistrano, Ann Komaromi, and Mark Yoffe. The...
In this presentation we discuss a digital publishing partnership between OSU Libraries and Calyx Press, Inc. An international non-profit feminist press, Calyx brought many now-prominent authors to international attention, including the poet Sharon Olds and Nobel Laureate Wisława Szymborska. Supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, this partnership...
A detailed biographical sketch of Ralph W. Spitzer (b. 1918), a graduate student of Linus Pauling's and promising academic who joined the Oregon State College chemistry department in 1946. Promoted to Assistant Professor in 1947, Spitzer was nonetheless fired from the OSC faculty in 1949 by President August L. Strand,...