theOREGON STATE UNIVERSITYmessenger LIBRARIES AND PRESS W INTER/SPRING 2016 VOL 30 NO 2 IN THIS ISSUE A NEW VISION FOR SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN THE 21ST CENTURY HISTORIC CORVALLIS NEWSPAPERS NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE NEH GRANT SUPPORTS FEMINIST LITERATURE LIBRARY IS PLANNING DEDICATED SPACE FOR GRAD STUDENTS innovation, heart and ideas From the University Librarian and OSU Press Director. 3 IN THIS ISSUE DID YOU KNOW? Students Find Their Direction at the Concierge Station . 4 ART AT THE LIBRARY Focus on Rick Bartow . 4 WHAT’S NEW AT THE LIBRARY NEH Grant Supports Feminist Literature. 5 OSU Libraries is Awarded Grant from Oregon Cultural Trust . 5 Historic Corvallis Newspapers Now Available Online . 6 McComb is Named Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs . 6 Streaming Movies? Try This World Cinema Collection . 6 OSU PRESS Publishing on Politics and Public Service in Oregon. 7 11 STUDENT FOCUS The Valley Library is developing a Scholarships to Attend Open Access Conferences . 9 vision for transforming the fifth floor Q-and-A with Student Employees . .10 with new classroom and exhibit space. DONOR NEWS Above is an architect’s rendering. A New Vision for Special Collections in the 21st Century . 11 Donors to OSU Libraries and Press in 2015 . 13 STAFF NEWS New Employees . 16 Retirements . 17 Remembering Maureen Kelly . 17 online at OSULibrary.OregonState.edu LIBRARIANS AND RESEARCH Library is Planning Dedicated Space for Grad Students . 18 facebook.com/The Valley Library Opening Access to Information: Librarians Examine the Barriers 19 FROM THE ARCHIVES twitter.com/OSUValleyLib Beaver yearbook staff hard at work, circa 1927 . 19 Oregon State University the messenger On the Cover Libraries and Press Daniel Moret, Editor Benny Beaver has to study 121 The Valley Library [email protected] somewhere, right? And what Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 better place than the Valley Editorial Committee (541) 737-4633 Library. Here he is with http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/giving Don Frier, Valery King, students Aidan McKenzie Chris Petersen, Maura Valentino and Lauren Donovan. Photo Faye A. Chadwell Read The Messenger online at: by Hannah O’Leary. Donald and Delpha Campbell University osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/news/ Design Librarian and OSU Press Director messenger Steve Connell [email protected] FROM THE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIAN AND OSU PRESS DIRECTOR Student Success Initiatives at the Library In his 2016 State of the University the Orbis Cascade Alliance. We are address, Oregon State University Presi- partnering with OSU faculty to adopt, dent Ed Ray described OSU’s terrific adapt or create open educational re- momentum of donor support even af- sources as viable, low-cost substitutes ter our successful $1 billion capital for expensive textbooks. We will also campaign that ended in 2014. 2015 be expanding our offerings of experi- was OSU’s best fundraising year ever ential learning and internship oppor- with gifts totaling $130.8 million. We tunities across the Libraries and Press. at OSU Libraries and Press benefited One unit within the Libraries, our from thousands of campaign support- Special Collections and Archives Re- ers. In this issue of The Messenger, we search Center, offers unique research acknowledge the support demonstrated and learning experiences for OSU in 2015 by friends like Betty Emery students. Most often the center is as- Miner, our newest Library Advisory sociated with preserving extensive Council member, and Judith Harle Hec- collections of rare books, archives and tor and Mark A. Hector; Judith is an OSU alumnus, and Mark manuscripts in the history of science, Oregon multicultural passed away in January 2016. We are fortunate to have sup- communities, and the history of Oregon State University. porters like these who recognize that the Libraries and Press Recently, the center has become a vital learning space. are crucial to the university’s research and teaching mission. OSU students can hold incunabula from the McDonald Col- While President Ray provided numerous examples of lection or learn to create an online exhibit telling the story excellence at OSU, he also issued a call to action, the Student of Waldo Hall. The center’s beautiful Douglas Strain Reading Success Initiative. The call seeks to raise “the first-year re- Room is ideal for patrons pursuing general reading, research tention rate for all undergraduate students from 83.8 percent and study of specialized materials. However, as partners to 90 percent and OSU’s six-year graduation rate for all un- fulfilling the university’s teaching mission, SCARC librarians dergraduate students from 63.1 percent to 70 percent.” need a larger, technologically rich space to address increased OSU Libraries and Press has established a strong record demand for their specialized teaching focus—a space where for contributing to students’ academic success through our students engage with each other and with our unique materi- teaching, collections and spaces. Visits to the Valley Library als. I am excited at the potential to integrate primary research have increased by 19 percent since 2009. We loan 200,000 materials, like the letters of Ava Helen and Linus Pauling or items annually. Last year, more than 1,900 undergraduate sound recordings from the African-American Railroad Porter and graduate students took advantage of our workshops, Oral History Collection, into the university’s curriculum. and library faculty taught 158 sessions on research and in- Supporting the effort to create a transformed fifth floor— formation literacy skills. To learn more about our recent con- with state-of-the-art classroom and event space, an expanded tributions to student success, please read our 2015 Impact exhibits area, and collaborative materials processing area— Report at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/ represents an opportunity to create a legacy for future gen- files/impact_report_2014-15_final.pdf. erations of students and faculty, a space for them to discover, For insight into our plans to meet President Ray’s call to use and understand unique and rare scholarly and creative action, you’ll also want to read our revised Strategic Plan works. I invite you to join our efforts as described in this is- at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/sites/default/files/osulp sue. With your support, OSU Libraries can be well positioned strategicplanrevisedfall2015_0.pdf. Here are a few high- to expose students to transformative research opportunities lights: Like other OSU units, we need to diversify our work- that nurture curiosity and inspire the kind of original schol- force and increase outreach to targeted student populations. arship that OSU students are capable of pursuing. By fall 2016, OSU Libraries and Press expects to have hired We appreciate your commitment to helping us advance a new STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) our goals. As always, there is more to learn about the suc- Instruction and Outreach Librarian. She/he will work with cesses and aspirations of OSU Libraries and Press in the library colleagues and campus partners to develop programs pages to come. that support student retention and success for traditionally underrepresented students in STEM fields. All the best, We also intend to continue efforts to remove location and cost barriers to student learning. We can achieve this by leading or joining efforts to keep costs down. These ef- forts include a shared purchase program for thousands of electronic books, as part of the Libraries’ membership in Faye A Chadwell THE MESSENGER WINTER/SPRING 2016 3 DID YOU KNOW? / ART AT THE LIBRARY Did You Know? Students find their direction at the concierge station by Brooke Robertshaw and Daniel Moret Think about a time that you entered a building and won- dered how to find a specific room or other location. Did you seek out maps, signs or other visual clues to find your way? Navigation to or inside of a building—known as wayfinding—can lead to confusion and frustration for people. As in other large libraries, the Valley Library can present wayfinding challenges. To help alleviate some of this uncertainty for library visitors, a mobile concierge The Valley Library’s station was set up at the entrance to the Valley Library at the beginning of the terms for fall 2015 and winter and Northwest Art Collection: spring 2016. Focus on Rick Bartow Library employees who chose to staff the concierge by Daniel Moret station answered questions, provided directions, and had printed informational resources available. The questions One of the most well-known artists represented in the Valley asked at the concierge station were collected, and three Library’s art collection is Rick Bartow, who was considered librarians did a thematic analysis to categorize and tabu- one of the nation’s most prominent contemporary Native late the questions from library visitors. American artists. His piece at the Valley Library is a pastel entitled “Ship of Fools,” and it’s located on the second floor across from the Autzen Classroom. OSU’s Guin Library in Newport has another three pieces of his work. Sadly, Bartow passed away in April of this year. Rick Bartow had a major exhibition in 2015 at the Uni- versity of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, and this show is on tour and will appear at the Washington State University Museum of Art in late 2017. His work is in the permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum and many other American museums. Bartow’s monumental cedar sculptures called “We Were Always Here” stand on the Washington D.C. Mall at the entrance to the National The most common questions in order of popularity were: Museum of Indian Art. 1. Questions about printing, such as how to print and Bartow worked in painting, printmaking, sculpture and where the library’s printers are located other mediums at his studio in Newport, Oregon. He was born 2.