Impact Report 2012‐2013: Giving Power Message from the University and OSU Press Director It would be easy for OSU and Press to rest upon our laurels, but we have been busier than ever this past year. One huge accomplishment was the completion of a new strategic plan for 2012‐2017. This plan establishes four goals for us:

reimagine the learning and service environment enrich academic impact and educational prosperity play a fundamental role in knowledge creation and dissemination sustain an intentional and inclusive organization.

These goals will direct our efforts to face the challenges of research libraries and university presses like OSU Libraries and Press. They will guide us as we make crucial contributions to State University’s drive to be a top ten land grant institution. They will position us as a successful example for other research libraries and presses to emulate.

This impact report highlights the ways that our friends and supporters have contributed to our accomplishments in 2012‐13 through their generous investment in our services, collections, spaces, and personnel. Their commitment supports our efforts to enrich the learning experiences of OSU students, advance access to scholarly resources, contribute to the University’s teaching and research mission, pursue innovative programs and services, and continually develop our talented staff.

We are thankful for the tremendous support of a growing community of supporters. Such ongoing support will enable us to keep making a difference for the OSU community and beyond.

Faye A. Chadwell Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian and OSU Press Director The OSU Libraries and Press Strategic Planning Committee began working in May 2012 to create a new strategic plan. Committee members from across our organization worked to identify crucial issues and environmental factors for academic libraries and university presses. Because stakeholders are critical to our long‐ term success, the committee sought frequent input. Both internal and external stakeholders contributed their thoughtful reflection and experience with the Libraries and Press throughout the planning process. The plan is available at: http://library.oregonstate.edu/administration. Learning Environment

In spring 2013, OSU Libraries began lending Nexus tablets. This pilot program is intended to help OSU students explore and use new technology. The program’s promotional site said, “They're going out the door like hotcakes!” Within three hours of beginning to circulate the tablets, all had been lent, and at least 85 users were waiting to borrow the tablets upon their return. OSU Libraries constantly seeks to understand how new tools affect students’ ability to find and use information. This tablet lending program will improve our understanding of how students discover and interact with electronic books and other digital content via mobile devices. Learning Environment

We listen and respond to the evolving needs of our most important constituency—the students of OSU. When the Valley needed a new online reservation system to easily book study rooms, we had a unique opportunity. We could meet the needs of students and engage a library student worker in applying his academic training to develop the new system. Steve Hill, a senior computer science major, accepted the challenge. The result was a win‐win situation. The use of study rooms has tripled at the Valley Library because they are easier to reserve. Since spring 2013, new kiosks are allowing students to check the rooms out by themselves. Steve described the impact on his course of study, "The stuff I learned this summer was really great, and I've been applying it everywhere." Intellectual Engagement

We enhance the learning experience of OSU students through our teaching endeavors and support for undergraduate research. Every fall we play a vital role in helping new students make valuable connections on campus and transition successfully to life at OSU. In the fall of 2012, during OSU’s Connect Week, we offered new students a fun opportunity to sharpen their tracking skills to find evidence of the big‐ footed hominoid Sasquatch while learning how to use the Valley Library.

In partnership with the Libraries Advisory Council, we sponsored the 7th annual Undergraduate Library Research Award. This award recognizes OSU students’ use of library resources to demonstrate outstanding scholarship. In 2012, the Program awarded $1000 each to Ingrid Ockert, AnnaRose Adams, and co‐winners, Thea Matos and Lauren Graebner .

We regularly engage with students to identify their evolving needs. We respond by continually updating our spaces to create excellent learning spaces. In the summer of 2012, as a result of students’ requests, we upgraded all the seating in the Valley Library. We also purchased new tables and chairs for the 5th floor in the Reading Room of the Special Collections and Archives Research Center. The results paid off. Once again, OSU students selected the Valley Library as the Best Place to Study on campus in 2013. Intellectual Engagement

OSU students make regular use of our facilities for independent study and to support collaborative learning. On‐site library use has soared with gate counts increasing 24 percent between 2009 and 2012 for the Valley Library. Students also take advantage of our instructional program offerings. Approximately 10,000 students attend instruction sessions or workshops yearly. Library Faculty Research and Scholarship

Endowed funds, as part of the McEdward Professor for Undergraduate Learning Initiatives, supported travel to London, England, for Anne‐Marie Deitering and Margaret Mellinger (pictured). In September 2012, these two library faculty members presented preliminary research findings on how mobile information technology, such as the iPad, can transform the research and study habits of students.

The Robert Lundeen Library Faculty Development Award encourages and supports meaningful library faculty development through the pursuit of scholarship or professional capacity‐building activities. The Lundeen Award provided opportunities for several OSU library faculty:

• Hannah Rempel and Margaret Mellinger studied students’ adoption and use of bibliographic management tools. Their research has great potential to strengthen the Libraries’ understanding of the impact that such tools have on graduate students’ research productivity. • Larry Landis and Tiah Edmunson‐Morton participated in the onsite investigation of special collections and archives facilities at UCLA, the University of Chicago, and Iowa State University. Their report will contribute to the proposed development of physical facilities on the 5th floor of the Valley Library, the home of the Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Research Center. • Steven Sowell’s study of how OSU students use overnight hours in the Valley Library seeks to increase our understanding of the contributions our spaces make to undergraduate students’ academic achievements. Recognition for Outreach and Engagement

Natalia Fernandez, Tiah Edmunson‐Morton, and Larry Landis, all faculty members in the Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Research Center, developed the Oregon Tribal Archives Institute. Graduate student Laura Cray joined this team to host the Institute in August 2012 on the Corvallis campus. Representatives from each of Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes attended the week‐long intensive training sessions to address the specific needs related to archives and records management within Oregon’s tribal communities. This OSU Libraries’ team was the 2012 team recipient of the Diversity Award, one of several awards given by the OSU Vice Provost of Outreach and Engagement.

OSU Libraries collaborated with the Oregon State Library to launch the Libraries of Oregon in late March 2012. The Libraries of Oregon portal connects Oregon residents to statewide library resources as well as their local public libraries. This partnership solved a critical information and access gap for the 21 percent of Oregonians who were not receiving adequate public library services Terry Reese, the Libraries’ Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services, played a principal role in the development of this innovative project. In November 2012, Professor Reese and the Libraries of Oregon project team won an Association of College and Research Libraries ‐ Oregon Award for Excellence for this project.

http://librariesoforegon.org Library Faculty Development

Evviva Weinraub and Steven Sowell attended Harvard University’s Leadership Institute for Academic . The Leadership Institute provides tools and training needed to develop leadership effectiveness for library managers as they respond to a rapidly shifting landscape.

Terry Reese, the Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services, had the unique opportunity to participate in the Frye Leadership Institute during the 2012 summer. The Frye Institute is a prestigious leadership training academy for developing leaders in library technology. Selection is highly competitive for the two weeks’ worth of intensive sessions with other thought leaders from around the country.

Rick Stoddart and Uta Hussong‐Christian were selected to participate in the Immersion Program sponsored by the Association of College and Research Libraries. This program provides instruction librarians the opportunity to participate in one of six unique tracks focusing on aspects of information literacy.

Tiah Edmunson‐Morton was selected as a member of the 2013 Cohort for the Archives Leadership Institute, a program funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Heightening the Special Collections and Archives Research Center

The collection of Albert and Ruth Parr joined the rare book collections of the Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) in the fall of 2012. The Albert and Ruth Parr Rare Book Collection contains more than 350 titles, ranging in subject from religious thought to literature to the history of science. Highlights include a 1498 printed version of the Bible and the first English translation of Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia, titled A Treatise of the System of the World, and dating from 1728. The Collection will complement the McDonald Collection, OSU’s original rare book collection, which contains more than 2,500 rare books, artifacts, and fine bindings. The Parr Rare Book Collection has already begun to have impact on our teaching and engagement in SCARC.