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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 and OSU Press Director...... 3 IN THIS ISSUE DID YOU KNOW? Students Find Their Direction at the Concierge Station . . . . . 4 ART AT THE Focus on Rick Bartow ...... 4 WHAT’S NEW AT THE LIBRARY NEH Grant Supports Feminist Literature...... 5 OSU Libraries is Awarded Grant from 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 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 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, 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 . 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 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 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. Questions about where to go within the library to get in Newport, was a member of the Wiyot tribe of Northern help with laptops and other technology California, and had close ties with the Confederated Tribes 3. Questions about course reserves and where they’re of Siletz Indians in Oregon. Bartow graduated from Western located Oregon University with a degree in secondary arts education, 4. Questions about library study spaces and their and then he was drafted and served in the Vietnam War from locations 1969-71. He spent 10 years working in classrooms with chil- The findings were then used to inform changes in dren with disabilities before devoting himself full time to art. signage and other wayfinding tools, and additionally to Bartow’s art is tied to his native culture and frequently in- improve other projects already underway in the library. volves animals and transformation. These themes are clearly This is one of many ways that we solicit feedback di- evident in his work in the Valley Library. rectly from students, and then we utilize the feedback to Please visit our extraordinary collection of more than 120 pieces update library space, services and resources. of Northwest art. A brochure with maps of our art collection is With the success of the concierge station during this available inside the front entrance of the library, or there’s an school year, there are preliminary plans to offer this ser- online tour at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/nwart. vice again next year at the beginning of terms. For an online tour of art across the Oregon State campus, visit http://artwalk.library.oregonstate.edu/.

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CALYX Press and OSU Libraries and Press Receive National Endowment for the Humanities Grant to Support Feminist Literature

CALYX Press and OSU Libraries and Press have been award- art. This project is an acknowledgment of our great debt to ed a grant of $96,437 from the National Endowment for the these often controversial, always passionate, and incredibly Humanities to digitize at-risk literature published through powerful leaders.” CALYX Press, a feminist press in Corvallis. Jane Nichols, Instruction and Emerging Technologies This grant enables important literary works from the last Librarian, and Dr. Korey Jackson, Gray Family Chair for 50 years of the feminist movement to be transformed into Innovative Library Services, both of OSU Libraries and openly licensed e-book formats. The Press, offered this statement: “We project’s goal is to foster wider read- “Feminist presses of the combine CALYX’s independent lens ership and a renewed interest in the last 50 years have been and feminist literary connections with impact of the small independent press our dedicated infrastructure, forward- on national and international feminist a fundamental part of thinking personnel, and support for movements. Taking advantage of the cultural discourse, open access. Our hope is to inspire contemporary e-book technology, the and we are dedicated to new audiences and foster new readers project will digitize and distribute out- preserving those voices in of feminist literature by making these of-print texts by authors now central texts openly available.” to contemporary feminist literature. a digital world.” CALYX, Inc. was founded in 1976 to “Feminist presses of the last 50 —Alicia Bublitz, publish art and literature by women. years, including CALYX Press, have Managing Editor, CALYX Press As one of the nation’s oldest feminist been a fundamental part of the cultural presses, it has published diverse au- discourse,” says Alicia Bublitz, Manag- thors including Barbara Kingsolver, ing Editor of CALYX Press, “and we are Julia Alvarez, Chitra Divakaruni, dedicated to preserving those voices in a digital world. The Sharon Olds, Linda Hogan and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. work of these presses is disappearing, and maintaining their CALYX publishes the award-winning CALYX Journal twice foundational texts is essential for scholarship, history and a year.

OSU Libraries is Awarded Grant from Oregon Cultural Trust

The Oregon Cultural Trust has Grice’s 1985 film, Black Fami- awarded a grant that will en- lies and the Railroad in Oregon able OSU Libraries and Press and the Northwest. to transfer the oral histories The grant project will of African American railroad include the creation of porters to digital form. The webpages to feature the oral $5,000 grant from the Oregon histories. The interview audio Cultural Trust will support and transcripts will be avail- the digitization of 29 oral his- able online to researchers, tories that came to OSU’s Val- students, teachers and the ley Library in 2014 and that general public. form the African American “The information gained Railroad Porter Oral History through the interviews can Collection, 1983-92. be used to broaden the level These historic recordings of understanding of how Af- offer great insight into the rican Americans played a lives of African Americans significant role in the social in Oregon in the early and mid-20 reel-to-reel sound recordings contain- and economic changes to the Portland century, which was a time when job ing interviews between filmmaker area and the state as a whole during opportunities for African American Michael Grice and African American the 20th century,” according to Natalia males were largely limited to service- railroad porters employed in the Port- Fernández, Curator and Archivist with related jobs. land area. These recordings form much the Oregon Multicultural Archives at This collection is made up of 29 of the background research used for the Valley Library.

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Historic Corvallis Newspapers Brenda McComb Is Named Senior Now Available Online Vice Provost for Academic Affairs by Daniel Moret She oversees the Libraries and Press among other areas It’s now easy to access Corvallis newspapers from more Brenda McComb was announced in January 2016 as than a century ago. A collaborative effort of OSU Libraries the new Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. One and Press, the Benton County Historical Society and Mu- of the areas that she now oversees is the Libraries and seum, and the ’s Knight Library has Press. Brenda is a longtime Oregon State University digitized Corvallis newspapers from 1863-1909 and made faculty member and served as Dean of the Graduate them available online for free. School from 2011 until beginning her new position. Now anyone with Internet access can go to oregonnews. Before being selected to head the Graduate School, uoregon.edu and have an issue of the Corvallis Times or McComb led the Department of Forest Ecosystems Corvallis Gazette from 1908 appear before their eyes. Prior and Society in Oregon State’s College of Forestry. to 1909, the Gazette and the Times were separate newspa- “OSU’s Libraries and Press are a vital part of pers. The recent microfilming and digitization of Corvallis Oregon State University,” according to McComb. newspapers from this period adds to the Oregon Digital “Whether you’re a new undergraduate student or Newspaper Program, which totals more than 700,000 pages a longtime faculty member, the Valley Library is a of Oregon newspa- valuable resource and a beautiful and inspiring place pers. The collection’s to study and do research. We should all be proud of online holdings are the exciting work that’s happening every day at OSU primarily from 1922 Libraries. and earlier because “OSU graduates will shape the world, and they these are in the pub- will be shaped by the quality of their time on campus, lic domain and may including the many, many hours that our students be freely copied. choose to spend in the libraries. To continue to offer “We are absolute- all that is required to be a top-notch academic library, ly thrilled with the OSU Libraries will continue to need our support. I availability of online hope that you will join me in supporting OSU Librar- digital newspapers,” ies, so that the OSU community continues to have says Irene Zenev, access to the best information, facilities, and services Executive Director of that our library faculty and staff can provide.” the Benton County Historical Society and Museum. “This Streaming Movies? Try This Collection is a powerful re- source for researchers, genealogists and historians, not OSU Libraries is currently providing access to 399 mov- to mention students of all ages. We are proud of the fact ies including powerful current films from Europe, the that the bound volumes of the Gazette and the Times that Middle East, Africa, Asia and Latin America. Also in we collected and preserved were of use in this important the World Cinema Streaming Video Collection are many project.” classic American and European films from 1915 through “The time period covered by these newspapers was the ‘50s including It’s a Wonderful Life, Joan of Arc and important for both Corvallis and Oregon State University,” Invaders from Mars. Many revered directors are repre- according to Larry Landis, Director of Special Collections sented including Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Akira and Archives Research Center at OSU Libraries and Press. Kurosawa, Jean Renoir, Erich Stroheim, Satyajit Ray, “Having this content available online will be a boon to Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rosselini and Charlie Chaplin. many researchers, especially as OSU moves toward its Access the World Cinema Collection at http://proxy. 150th anniversary in 2018. Students at OSU have already library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://digital.films. used the online newspapers for doing research papers on com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?SubjectID=1709&aid=45239. OSU history.” The foreign-language films have subtitles or closed The digitization relied on original newspapers in the captioning in English, and most of those with closed collections of Oregon State’s Valley Library and the Benton captions have searchable, interactive transcripts. Movies County Historical Society and Museum. The digitization in this collection are made available from funding from was supported by funding received by the University of OSU’s Ecampus to support online access to course con- Oregon from the National Endowment for the Humanities. tent. Access to this movie collection is available through at least July 2016.

6 OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND PRESS THE OSU PRESS

Publishing on Politics and Public Service in Oregon by Faye A. Chadwell

While politics may not be suitable rivalry between former Governors Portland’s eventful path to becom- for polite conversation, politics—es- Tom McCall and Robert Straub is just ing not just Oregon’s largest city, but pecially Oregon politics—represent one important component of Reporting the 28th-largest city in the United fertile ground for historical research the Oregon Story. It defines the Oregon States. Organized around the reigns of and analysis. Oregon State University political era between 1964 and 1986 Portland’s mayors, the book provides Press’ books have contributed to the along with progressive accomplish- rich—even quirky—anecdotes about understanding of Oregon’s political ments like beach protection and bottle the unique individuals, 42 men and landscape for almost 20 years. We pub- deposit legislation. two women, who have led the City of lished our first political biography, An Tom Marsh’s To the Promised Land: Roses. Lansing was also co-author with Editor for Oregon: Charles A. Sprague A History of Government and Politics Fred Leeson of Multnomah: The Tumul- and the Politics of Change by Floyd J. in Oregon is a more comprehensive tous Story of Oregon’s Most Populous McKay, in 1998. A major contribution political history covering major po- County. The Multnomah book, another to the state’s political history, An Edi- litical figures, campaigns, and social definitive history, highlights Oregon’s

tor for Oregon chronicles the life and and economic forces. Marsh tells the tiniest and most populous county; it career of Charles Sprague, a newspaper state’s story from the time when the covers political scandals and public editor and Oregon governor. U.S. and Great Britain jointly owned spectacles like the disastrous Vanport Floyd McKay’s latest book with OSU 285,000 acres known as Oregon flood of 1948 that wiped what was Press, Reporting the Oregon Story: How Country through our statehood and then Oregon’s second-largest popula- Activists and Visionaries Transformed up to Governor ’s third tion center off the map. a State, provides McKay’s first-person term—nearly 200 years of Oregon’s At the heart of most politics are pol- account of Oregon’s late 20th-century political evolution. iticians and their distinctive personal political landscape. McKay, now re- Two other OSU Press titles delve and professional lives. Chuck John- tired, was a political reporter for the into the narrower political scene of son’s Standing on the Water’s Edge: Bob Salem newspaper, The Oregon States- Portland and Multnomah County, Straub’s Battle for the Soul of Oregon man, and a commentator for KGW-TV respectively. Portland: People, Politics has been an essential addition to the in Portland. He won the prestigious and Power, 1851-2001 by Jewel Lan- state’s political literature. Johnson’s duPont-Columbia Award, broadcast sing was a finalist for the Oregon Book book offers important perspectives on journalism’s highest award and the Award in 2004. Lansing’s fascinating Straub’s legacy as Oregon governor and equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. The history is the definitive source on his stands on environmental and land

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use issues, many of which he shared service as well as her three-term stint with Tom McCall, the Oregon governor in the Oregon House of Representa- he succeeded. The book also reveals tives in Remembering the Power of Straub’s personal struggles, including Words: The Life of an Oregon Activ- the bouts of depression he endured ist, Legislator and Community Leader. while serving as governor. Written with Patricia A. Schechter, A lesser known but nevertheless this important biographical account pivotal Oregon politician, Monroe relays Gordly’s challenges growing up Sweetland, is the subject of William African American in mid 20th-centu- Robbins’ A Man for All Seasons: Mon- ry Portland. The third of these books roe Sweetland and the Liberal Paradox. about Oregon women in politics, Up A Distinguished Professor Emeritus the Capital Steps: A Woman’s March to of History at OSU, Robbins covers the the Governorship, recalls the journey seven decades of Sweetland’s political of , Oregon’s first and life that span the Great Depression, only woman governor elected to of- Cold War politics, and the tumultu- fice. Roberts’ memoir is characterized ous Vietnam War. Robbins’ book also by glimpses into her life as a woman highlights Sweetland’s lifelong activ- political leader and intimate details ism against racial, social and economic about life outside public service. inequities. With more than 250 books in print Three OSU Press books capture the in a range of subjects, these titles are exceptional contributions of women examples of the critical role that we political leaders in Oregon. With Grit play in documenting our state’s po- and by Grace: Breaking Trails in Poli- litical landscape. Without OSU Press, tics and Law, A Memoir tells the warm many of these stories might go unre- and engaging story of Betty Roberts. corded. For 55 years, the OSU Press has Oregon’s first woman Supreme Court been publishing exceptional books in Justice, Roberts was indeed a trail- our signature areas: the historical, blazer who served during complex cultural, environmental and political times that saw the emergence of the landscapes of Oregon and the North- civil rights movement, the second west. We remain the longest-running wave of feminism, and growing university press in the state. anti-Vietnam War sentiment. Another trailblazer, Avel Louise Gordly, was elected in 1996 as the first African OSU Press books can be purchased via American woman in the Oregon State our website, osupress.oregonstate.edu, or by calling 1-800-621-2736. Senate. She reflects on this three-term

8 OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND PRESS STUDENT FOCUS

Libraries and Press Provide Scholarships to Attend Open Access Conferences by Michael Boock

OSU Libraries and Press has provided lowered while improving its quality these amazing students dedicated scholarships to OSU graduate students through open models that promote to making their research, and the re- to attend the first two International the free flow of information among search of their peers, available to the OpenCon conferences. OpenCon is an institutions. citizens of the state and the world. We international conference designed for Austin Fox, a doctoral student in look forward to continuing to spon- graduate students and early career Materials Science and Engineering, sor motivated graduate students and/ researchers to support education and and Brittany Klemm, a master’s student or early career researchers to attend collaboration in three areas: open ac- in College Student Service Administra- future International OpenCon events. cess, open education, and open data. tion, attended the 2014 conference in Rachael Kuintzle, a PhD student in OpenCon brings together faculty, Washington D.C. Austin described the the department of Biochemistry and graduate students, librarians and oth- event as “life-changing.” Biophysics, attended the 2015 event ers from around the world to examine OSU Libraries and Press is thrilled in Brussels, Belgium, and offers a sum- how the cost of education can be to have had the opportunity to sponsor mary of her experience below.

Dear Michael Boock/ implementing solutions to these OSU Libraries and Press, problems. Here are some of the things that I took away from the I don’t know where to start in conference, other than practical thanking you for sending me to advice and strategies for furthering OpenCon 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. the objectives of my current open It was such an honor to be there education efforts: I will strive to be among all the amazing movers and more transparent throughout the shakers in the open movement. I whole research process, and will not made some connections that I hope only share raw data but also pro- will last throughout my profes- cessed data when possible. When sional life, and I got fresh ideas for I am a professor, I will use open ways to make more of a difference. educational resources or create my Even though I didn’t need to be own when possible, and always convinced of the value of open license my material under creative science, I found myself to be chal- commons. I will make an effort to lenged daily by the practices of share my small scripts used for data other scientists and educators who analysis, not only the more sub- are truly living out the open mission every day. stantial programs that I create. I will deposit images from One of the main reasons that I wanted to attend Open- my publications to Wikimedia. I will communicate the Con was to learn how to expand my current effort to grow importance of open science to my peers and colleagues, the Scientists and Teachers in Education Partnerships and I will be proud and vocal about publishing in open (STEPs) program at OSU and to give schoolteachers access access journals. to free training in basic computer science and program- Once again, thank you so much for sending me to ming. I definitely did learn some important strategies OpenCon. I know it has equipped me to make a bigger for reaching out to teachers and for eventually getting difference in furthering open education, open data, and other universities involved. However, I found that what open access, and it will affect the way that I practice sci- I took back from the conference was much broader than ence for the rest of my career. I had anticipated; it far exceeded my already very high expectations. Sincerely, One thing that really struck me at the conference Rachael Kuintzle was that people weren’t merely talking about what was Graduate Research Assistant the “problem.” This was a group of highly creative and Hendrix Lab, Oregon State University passionate individuals that had ideas for and are already November 22, 2015

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Q-and-A with Student Employees

KYLIE THALHOFER What is your major and year in school? I am a senior in the Graphic Design program in the College of Business.

What area of the library do you work in? I work in the third floor workroom for the library’s Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC).

What is your job at the library, and what does it encompass? I am the sole graphic designer for the Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC). My job ranges from updating current marketing materials and creating event posters to developing logos for collections and branding exhibits.

What do you like most about your job here? What project for the library are you most proud of or was I love the people I work with. There’s always something the most satisfying? interesting happening around the office, and I love that it’s I’ve enjoyed the projects that allow my own personality and not all design-related. Diving into OSU’s history and learn- creative freedom to shine through. These include the Book ing from the archivists has been such an enjoyable part of Collection Contest poster, the Film Fest and Bake Sale poster, my job. and the Collections at the Center logo.

What useful skills and knowledge have you learned from What would you want other students to know about the your library job? library? What services at the library could other students One of the most valuable skills I’m learning is how to work really benefit from if they knew about them? with non-designers. My job is to find the best way to repre- I know a lot of people who have never checked out a book sent the goings-on at SCARC. There is so much partnership at the library. I encourage everyone to use real books as and trust involved in that process. It’s been a fun challenge resources for their next research paper! I think everyone to work with content that is precious to someone else and should take some time to explore the library and find a sec- partner with them to create something beautiful out of it, in tion of books that really speaks to them. For me it’s the fifth order to share that content with others. floor near the Rotunda. That’s where the art and design books are, and I can spend hours sitting in the aisles looking at different books. There are also a lot of neat events that happen at the li- brary, so I encourage people to keep an eye open for those. Many times there’s free food involved!

“I love working with Kylie because she brings her incredible creative talents into every project, melding them with the project vision in a really seamless way. In addition to being cheerful and hard-working, Kylie shows an immense capacity to roll with the punches and adapt to projects as they evolve.”

—ANNE BAHDE, History of Science Collections Librarian, Special Collections and Archives Research Center at the Valley Library

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A New Vision for Special Collections in the 21st Century by Faye A. Chadwell and Daniel Moret

“Expanding the research space for Special Collections and Archives would support the mission of the History depart- ment on several fronts. A high- end classroom within Special Collections and Archives would increase the number of class sessions we can hold in the library and will enhance hands-on instruction by putting students in close proximity to the collections in which they will be working. Architect’s rendering of new exhibit space A new digital exhibit space would also open exciting pos- IMAGINE A TRANSFORMED SPACE for the Libraries’ Special Collections and sibilities for our department’s Archives Research Center that showcases its strengths and makes the collections curriculum in public history, a more accessible. series of courses aimed at In 2011, OSU Libraries created the Special Collections and Archives Research Center (SCARC) by combining the outstanding resources, personnel and strengths training students to interpret of two units, Special Collections and University Archives. The primary goal in cre- history to a broad, non-expert ating the Research Center was to develop a space that integrated the rich resources audience. In particular, this of these two units more deeply into OSU’s teaching and international research space might provide students mission. Located on the fifth floor of the Valley Library, the department’s beautiful in our public history courses Reading Room serves as a portal to the library’s unique and rare holdings. with the opportunity to create The Special Collections and Archives Research Center introduces OSU students and curate special collections to the research potential of the Libraries’ extensive collections of rare books, exhibits, giving them valuable archives and manuscripts. It provides them with unique opportunities to work with digital as well as analog materials while collaborating with other students experience as they seek and library faculty. Special Collections and Archives also attracts OSU faculty and careers in archives, museum researchers from around the world. Scholars are drawn to the Libraries’ invaluable and public history work.” holdings in the history of science, Oregon multicultural communities, and the his- —DR. STACEY SMITH, tory of Oregon State University. It’s a great center that now needs to expand and Associate Professor, add new technologies. OSU Department of History Due to the library’s popularity and growing use, more teaching and exhibit space is now needed to augment the Reading Room. To solve this challenge and “I meet colleagues all over prepare for the future, library personnel have developed a plan to remodel space the world who have come to for the Special Collections and Archives Research Center. Corvallis to use this facility, and I have taught many students Here is the vision for upgraded space: whose most exciting academic • Create state-of-the-art classroom facilities that emphasize collaborative experience at OSU has been learning doing research in Special • Add the latest digital technology including visualization capabilities and Collections.” touch-screen monitors —DR. MARY JO NYE • Create ample and secure work space for library faculty, staff and students former Horning Professor in the to work with collections and other students and faculty Humanities and Professor Emeritus, • Add a vibrant event space for hosting library, OSU Press and university OSU Department of History special events as well as lectures inspired by research within the center

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• Create spaces for appealing physical and virtual exhibits that showcase “During my time as an under- the center’s distinctive collections or traveling exhibits related to our collections graduate at Oregon State, the OSU Special Collections The number of students using the Valley Library has been increasing each year. In served as a laboratory the Special Collections and Archives Research Center, the number of class sessions where I engaged directly per year has increased by 35 percent since 2012, and the total number of student with rare books and histori- contacts has increased by more than 40 percent. These increasing numbers are a cally significant manuscript very positive development. This growth has also led to a crunch for teaching and collections—an experience research space. unavailable anywhere else on campus. Since then, the Create a legacy space by making a gift department has grown The space in the Valley Library is an incredible asset, and as teaching and learning dramatically (having merged is evolving, our space needs to evolve. We’re seeking support to make our vision with University Archives in for this transformed space possible because it will support the preservation mis- 2011) and the research and sion of the Special Collections and Archives Research Center, support where the educational opportunities it university wants to go in providing unique learning opportunities for students, offers have skyrocketed, far and improve access to the valuable collections for our students, OSU faculty and exceeding its physical capac- visiting scholars. This fund makes naming opportunities possible for donors who want to honor ity. A renovation of SCARC’s their loved ones, associate their corporate name with a state-of-the-art space within facilities will afford OSU OSU’s intellectual center, or establish their legacy at Oregon State University. Sup- students new and expanded port for the Special Collections and Archives Research Center will make a lasting opportunities for hands-on impact on preserving the materials of the center while making them available to learning in a dedicated enrich the scholarship of students and scholars. educational environment.” To make a gift to establish this fund for the Special Collections and Archives —TREVOR SANDGATHE Research Center at OSU Libraries, please contact Faye A. Chadwell or Don Frier Library Technician III, Special using the contact information on the next page. Collections and Archives Research Center

“SCARC’s transformed facili- ties on the Valley Library’s fifth floor will enable us to provide a more compelling learning experience for students, the ability to offer a broader range of SCARC, library and university special events and exhibits, Architect's rendering of new classroom space improved services for the hundreds of researchers “The Special Collections and Archive Research Center at Oregon who use our collections in State shaped my personal and professional identities. As a student the reading room each year, archivist, I spent a lot of time talking to patrons about student life and work spaces for SCARC and local Corvallis history. Through this work, I realized that I liked faculty, staff and students helping others connect to the past. Similarly, Oregon State’s rich that will make working with collections in the history of science stimulated my interest in the our collections more collab- history of modern science. After graduation, I was inspired to apply orative and efficient.” to graduate school and to pursue a career in history. Currently, I’m —LARRY LANDIS pursuing a doctorate degree in the History of Science at Princeton Director of Special Collections University.” and Archives Research Center —INGRID OCKERT, OSU graduate

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Your Gifts Have a Wide Impact

Want to reach the most students with your donations? OSU Libraries support students and faculty in every academic dis- cipline and in every college and department. We provide resources, services and environments that support their academic goals. Your gifts contribute to the success of students at Oregon State. As we aspire to be at the center of intellectual engagement and scholarship at Oregon State University, we are undertaking several initiatives, and the philanthropic support of our friends and stakeholders will enable us to reach these goals:

• Develop a robust internship program for OSU graduate and undergraduate students • Create more flexible learning and teaching space in the Valley Library to support both collaborative and individual learning needs • Plan and design space within the Valley Library to increase student interaction with our signature holdings in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center • Expand our efforts to document the history of the university and the broader social, cultural and environmental landscape of the Pacific Northwest and Oregon through the Libraries’ collections and the publications of Oregon’s oldest university press

To learn the best way for you to give to OSU Libraries and Press, please contact:

Faye A. Chadwell, the Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian and OSU Press Director, [email protected], 541-737-7300; or Don Frier, Executive Assistant to the University Librarian and OSU Press Director, [email protected], 541-737-4633

Donors to OSU Libraries and Press in 2015

We’re very thankful for every one of our donors. The honor roll below recognizes supporters who made outright gifts or pledge payments totaling $100 or more to Oregon State University Libraries and Press in 2015.

$100,000+ $1,000-$4,999 Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services Elizabeth J. & George H. Arscott ‘49 at Oregon State University Fund of the Oregon Barbara Cummins Bullier ‘52 & Albert R. Bullier Community Foundation Shirley & John V. Byrne Kay Campbell $10,000-$99,999 Cascadia Foundation Burlingham Trust, Inc. Georgeann Brown Casey ‘91 & Verne Casey ‘65 Judith Harle Hector ‘65 Bonnie K. House ‘66 Nansie Gilfillan Jensen ‘57 & Robert G. Jensen ‘57 Yukiko K. & Robert L. Innes ‘69 Betty E. Miner Jan True & Jerry Jacoby ‘62 Molly O’Connor Niebergall ‘54 & Tom Niebergall ‘54 William D. Kaufman ‘82 C. W. Knodell ‘52 In Memoriam: Gary D. Manners ‘61 Mark A. Hector Ruth E. & Albert C. Parr ‘64 E. Roxie Howlett ‘45 Maria E. & Frederick J. Sterk ‘64 Gale A. Taylor $5,000-$9,999 Sheila Griep Van Zandt ‘59 Betty Goddard Betty Kizer Walker ‘49 & John N. Walker Ellen Gilfillan Johnson ‘54 & Frank Dean Johnson ‘78 Janet Gray Webster ‘95 & Stephen A. Webster Mary Nash Roberts ‘77 & Paul A. Roberts Judith Atwood Youde ‘62 & James G. Youde ‘62

In Memoriam: Donna M. Knodell

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$500-$999 Rita Karambelas Brooks ‘72 & Allen G. Brooks ‘74 Andrea & David Arlington Nancy M. & Charles E. Bubl ‘73 Karen Wadsworth Barton ‘89 & Craig A. Barton ‘89 Donna J. & Ronald H. Buchner ‘59 Amy Chadburn ‘79 Andrea K. & Robert C. Buckley ‘68 Karen L. Keough ‘85 & Charles D. Croy ‘84 Donna Watts Burt ‘87 & Earl W. Burt Kathleen Taylor Davis ‘55 & Richard C. Davis ‘55 Sherrill Carlson ‘54 John A. Drexler, Jr. Alzora Albrecht Carlstrom ‘57 & Ted Carlstrom Patrick Dwyer ‘83 June K. & Victor Casupang Judith Walls Freeman ‘63 & Peter K. Freeman Beverly Orton Chadburn ‘52 Gayle Goschie Janet G. Chaykin ‘81 & Alice Runk Diane & James A. Hallstrom ‘74 Craig Clodfelter Nancy & John A. Harris Shelley Thompson Connelly ‘82 & Timothy M. Connelly Nealan R. Henderson ‘79 Alan Contreras Marilyn Hill Chandler ‘51 Regina & Joseph W. Cox Sanford L. Hurlocker ‘76 Donna Davis Crosiar ‘70 & John R. Crosiar ‘69 Adriana Huyer ‘71 & Robert L. Smith ‘64 Helen Rasmussen Dale ‘58 & Alan Dale Katherine Miller Jackmond ‘54 Lydia Watkins Deane ‘92 Constance Lamb Kirby ‘77 & William B. Kirby Anne L. & Gary E. DeLander Janet Armes Koupal ‘57 Gerald T. Donnelly ‘81 Delia V. & Ronald W. Lyons Joyce Nonken Dunn ‘51 & James W. Dunn ‘51 Eric McDonald Steven P. Ferraro Randy Naef ‘74 David V. Finch Sue & Mark Petersen Carole A. & William L. Finley III ‘75 Jane M. Peterson Mary E. Flahive Helen Padulo Polensek Kai A. ‘07 & Andy G. Foster ‘07 Patricia M. Prenter ‘62 Bonnie M. & Andy F. Frazier II Mark A. Raleigh ‘84 Anne Sigleo & Walter E. Frick ‘94 John Richen Don E. Frier Julie A. & Lauren K. Stanley ‘58 Leland G. Gale ‘60 Mariol R. & Thomas Wogaman Del C. Gerber ‘80 Johanna A. & Jeffrey A. Zinn ‘73 Dennis M. Golik ‘71 Helen A. Goodwin ‘73 In Memoriam: Pamela A. Woodruff & Richard D. Graf ‘73 Oliver B. Jackmond ‘56 Edna & Jeffrey B. Grass ‘86 Dale R. Greenley ‘69 $100-$499 Gail & Gary G. Grimes ‘67 Roberta Donahue Abrams ‘51 & Thomas L. Abrams ‘51 Judith Adair Gutoski ‘63 & Peter C. Gutoski Janet Crosby Adams ‘57 & Laurel M. Adams ‘64 Michael P. Hanel ‘72 Frances & George Alderson Penny Miller Hardesty ‘71 & David P. Hardesty Brenda A. & Leonard A. Aplet ‘76 Molly K. & William S. Hastings ‘71 Laurel Jensen Araghi ‘68 & Mehdi N. Araghi ‘69 Gary L. Hausken ‘76 Margaret Riggs Arndt ‘41 & Rudolph P. Arndt Gilbert L. Hawes ‘49 Beverly & John R. Arthur, Jr. Leonard E. Held ‘66 Brian M. Auld ‘75 Marilyn Hewitt ‘56 Karen J. & James A. Bailey Kathryn Fredricksen Hledik ‘73 & Randall S. Hledik ‘73 Nancy E. & Kenn P. Battaile Gilbert W. Holzmeyer ‘65 Lisa Ahrens Baumann & Christopher A. Baumann ‘78 Howard H. Horiuchi ‘67 Allison Logan Belcher ‘52 & Robert H. Belcher Gail Fleming Hunt ‘61 & Jim F. Hunt Florian G. Bell ‘86 Neal C. Jaarsma ‘81 Monica & Steven Bland ‘78 Alfred E. Janssen ‘63 June Jarmin Bleile ‘47 & Earl K. Bleile ‘48 Karen K. Jernstedt ‘74 & Anthony J. Barkovich Helen Madsen Bliss ‘49 Margaret A. Hadaway & George A. Jobanek ‘93 Ann L. Boucher ‘70 Anna M. Johnson Kathy C. Bremer ‘76 Mary L. & Leland P. Johnson ‘47

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Heather Palmer Johnson ‘80 & Mark A. Johnson ‘79 James H. Okubo ‘61 Roger E. Jolma ‘71 Jerryann & Robert E. Olson Elizabeth & Jeffry A. Jones ‘77 Suzanne Lathrop Olson ‘64 & Donald G. Olson Wendy Andersen Jones ‘83 & Daniel Jones Elaine L. Pedersen Ann Scott Kachmarek ‘93 & Mark J. Kachmarek ‘91 Jane Chadburn Powell ‘84 & Gary D. Powell Anne R. Kapuscinski ‘80 Douglas B. Price ‘77 Beth & Brian P. Kelly Elisabeth Steidel Reckendorf ‘68 Lee F. Kilbourn ‘63 & Frank F. Reckendorf ‘73 Chika & Christopher W. Koida ‘85 Carol Diggs Reich ‘80 & Ulrich M. Reich ‘86 Chooi N. & Moon-Seng Kok ‘82 Esther Petzoldt Rimbault ‘51 Carlene Rhea Krueger ‘61 & Herbert Krueger Mary & Philip Rioux-Forker Rebecca L. & Lawrence A. Landis Linda R. Ashkenas & Jeffrey D. Rodgers ‘86 Thomas S. Landis Kimberly A. & Steven M. Rohrberg ‘85 Susan Filler Lane ‘56 & Jack Lane Barbara Tensen Ross ‘73 & Gary A. Ross Lois Van Orsdall Lanthorne ‘65 & Rodney Lanthorne Donna Morse Ryman ‘58 & Roger K. Ryman ‘59 Ho L. Li Sandra L. Brooke & Henry M. Sayre Shaw-Shya ‘88 & Chung-Han Lin ‘85 Mary L. Scarpino ‘75 Donald B. Lindhorst ‘87 Nancy Lillig Scheel ‘69 & Randall L. Scheel ‘74 Mark Lindner Lisa Robinson Schessler ‘75 & Rick Schessler ‘73 Marcia A. & Charles A. Logan ‘65 Mary Alice Seville Harold Lorz ‘71 Douglas D. Shaw ‘74 Carol B. & Michael S. Lucas ‘63 Shell Oil Company Martha Taylor & Dennis H. Lund ‘83 Joyce A. & Nathan M. Smith ‘65 Helen M. & Robert P. Mack ‘51 Linda W. & James A. Sommers Barbara Pinkerton MacMillan ‘78 Joanne D. Stettler ‘56 & Paul C. MacMillan ‘64 Alan R. Stoebig ‘64 Maletis Beverage Loretta Robb Thielman ‘76 & Peter J. Thielman ‘76 Barbara King Marcoux ‘49 & Roger Marcoux Georgianna Birch Thurber ‘59 & Jack W. Thurber ‘61 Mary J. Markland Kathleen A. Kilcoyne & Jon Vanderheyden ‘80 Teresa A. Martin ‘74 Freda Teitzel Vars ‘66 & Charles Vars, Jr. Laurel S. Maughan Jeanne Kaye Wallberg ‘71 & William C. Wallberg Janice K. & Dean L. McCargar ‘62 Roberta A. Bigelow & William H. Warnes Donna Hepp & Jeffrey F. McKillip ‘76 Bonnie E. Avery & John C. Weber ‘89 Karen Kirkendall Metzler ‘61 & Lewis L. Metzler ‘62 Nancy S. Weber Jean Matsumura Miyahira ‘63 Alexa Aho West ‘66 & Neil E. West ‘60 & Richard S. Miyahira ‘65 Ken Wheeler Mary Jean Goosman Mohn ‘58 & Herbert D. Mohn ‘58 Wendy Tomlin Williams ‘70 Mary E. & J. Anthony Mohr ‘64 Kathleen Wisdom-Winthers Bonnie Morihara ‘94 Ruth Jones Young ‘66 & J. Lowell Young Nancy & John D. Murakami ‘75 Betty S. & Christian W. Zauner Zenobia W. & Ronald T. Nagao ‘72 Tai H. Nguyen In Memoriam Elizabeth A. & Roger L. Nielsen Dorette M. Lemon Wendy Adams Niem ‘76 & Alan R. Niem

Every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of this list. However, if you notice an error, please contact Penny Hardesty, Director of Donor Relations, OSU Foundation, [email protected] or 541-737-1469.

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New Employees

BA in History from Patrick Henry Col- on the important and exciting work of lege in Virginia. Most recently, she was fines, appeals, and claims of return in working as the Business Research and addition to working at the Circulation Instruction Librarian at the University Desk. Before starting here in Febru- of Colorado at Boulder. ary, Emma provided circulation and technical assistance to patrons at the Camano Island branch of the Sno- Isle Library system in Washington state. Her previous work experience includes retail stores such as Eddie Bauer and Reebok as well as the book- M. BROOKE ROBERTSHAW started as store at Western Washington Univer- the Assessment Librarian at the Valley sity. Emma received her bachelor’s in Library in December. Her job entails Classical Studies from Western Wash- working throughout the library to as- ington University. sess different services and programs, as well as across the university to help measure the impact of the library on the university community. Brooke came from Purdue Univer- JOSHUA GUM joined OSU Libraries sity where she was part of the Office of and Press in February as an Analyst Institutional Assessment. She received Programmer 3 in Emerging Technolo- her PhD in Instructional Technology gies and Services. Josh came to us after and Learning Sciences from Utah State a 15-year career at Hewlett-Packard University, after earning a master’s where he was working in small teams degree from the University of Georgia as an engineer developing web ap- in Instructional Technology, and she plications. He has an associate of has a BA in Elementary Education from Applied Science degree in Computer Oglethorpe University. Information Systems from Portland Community College, and he intends to complete his bachelor’s in Computer MARGARITA “MEGGIE” ZAMORA- Science here at OSU. SAUNDERS began working at the Valley Library in October as the Man- ager of the Acquisitions and Collection Maintenance Unit. She is responsible for the management of electronic and physical resources, along with daily operations related to licensing and ne- gotiation, managing vendor relation- ships, and tracking the acquisition process for electronic materials. Meggie has a BA in Chicano/a Stud- ies from California State University, MICHAELA WILLI HOOPER is the Northridge and an MS in Library and new Scholarly Communication Librar- Information Science from San Jose ian and an Assistant Professor for the State University. Prior to working Center for Digital Scholarship and EMMA KRIDLER is a new Library at OSU, she worked in the research Services. She started in February. Mi- Technician 2 in the Library Experi- library for The Capital Group Compa- chaela earned her MS in Information ence and Access department (LEAD) nies, an investment firm based in Los from the University of Michigan and a at the Valley Library. She has taken Angeles.

16 OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND PRESS RETIREMENTS AND REMEMBRANCES

My Thoughts on Retirement by Susan Gilmont

ZAC LAUGHEED joined the Valley Li- After more than 36 years of working including the chair. Service with brary in October as our new Building in the OSU Libraries, it is time for OLA’s Support Staff Division gave Maintenance Coordinator, a Library me to retire. Space here is limited, so me a chance to contribute to a larger Technician 3 position in the Library I’d like to focus on one aspect of my good and to discover my limitations Experience and Access department work: the changing roles of library and weaknesses. It turns out that (LEAD). support staff. My era in the librar- I’m a lot better at ticking people off Zac earned a bachelor’s degree in ies coincided with the arrival of the than I ever thought! For me, the best English Literature from Purdue Univer- personal computer, the development thing about SSD is the opportunity sity, a master’s degree in Environmental of computer networks, and the rise to network with outstanding library and Natural Resources Law from the of the Internet. These changes trans- workers from all across Oregon. University of Denver Sturm College of formed libraries. They moved many I mention these things because I Law, and a master’s degree in Library support staff into doing work previ- don’t think support staff are always and Information Science from the ously only done by librarians; and given the opportunity to see the larg- University of Wisconsin. He completed they also led to increased support er picture and how what we do fits a graduate assistantship in the Univer- staff activism. in. We have tremendous potential, sity of Wisconsin’s Special Collections This first wave of support staff ac- but too often that potential remains Department, was a security/safety of- tivism probably peaked around 2003 latent. We have a lot to contribute. ficer at the Denver Public Library, and with the American Library Associa- Thank you. It has truly been an worked as a reference librarian at the tion’s Third Congress on Professional honor to be part of the OSU Librar- Denver Public Library prior to joining Education: Focus on Library Support ies. And now, I’m off. I’ll just echo the Valley Library. Staff (COPE III). One result of these Stanley Kunitz: “I dance, for the efforts is the national Library Sup- joy of surviving, on the edge of the port Staff Certification program. road.” My energies were largely focused SUSAN GILMONT worked at the on the Oregon Library Association’s Marilyn Potts Guin Library in Newport Support Staff Division. I served on that houses the research and teaching many committees from 1995 for- collection of Oregon State University’s ward, and held a number of offices, Hatfield Marine Science Center.

Remembering Maureen Kelly The first librarian at OSU’s Cas- brave, fiercely independent cades Library in Bend, Maureen and truly genuine people I have Kelly, passed away on December known,” said Tina M. Hov- 15, 2015. ekamp, Library Director for the SARAH SCHUCK started work in Maureen worked at the Barber Library at Central Oregon November as a Library Technician 2 in Cascades Library, which shares Community College. “Her battle the Library Experience and Access de- space with the Barber Library of with cancer will always be an partment (LEAD) at the Valley Library. Central Oregon Community Col- inspiration to me for the way She moved to Corvallis to attend OSU lege, until 2011 and contributed she confronted the challenges of and graduated from Oregon State with significantly to launching our both life and death with humor a degree in psychology. Sarah worked library services there. Maureen as well as courage and determina- as a Circulation Student Assistant at had a master’s of Library Science tion. Maureen will be very much the Valley Library for several years, from the University of Washing- missed but continue to live in and, after graduation, she worked at a ton and earned an undergraduate the thoughts and hearts of those local private school as an Administra- degree in English from Portland she touched with her presence, tive Assistant. She returned to OSU State University. She had also friendship and support.” this past fall and is beginning the MBA worked at the University of Maureen was born on October program this spring where she plans Puget Sound as their library’s 29, 1951. A memorial and party an emphasis in marketing. Reference Coordinator before in Maureen’s honor was held on taking the Cascades job in 2002. May 7 at the Skyliner Lodge near “She was one of the most Bend.

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Library is Planning Dedicated Space for Grad Students by Hannah Rempel

Graduate students at Oregon State are • Meeting rooms extremely productive and fill a range • Secure storage of roles from teaching term-long class- “I share an office with • A sense of community es to conducting groundbreaking re- four people, but you The team used this list to draft search in the lab and in the field—not can’t do group projects floor plans and to seek furniture op- to mention taking classes themselves. without annoying your tions that could meet these needs in Graduate students are also a growing officemates—you need to a single space. The proposed space population here: in the 2014-15 aca- design would comfortably accom- go somewhere else.” demic year, 4,410 graduate students modate 90 students. A combination of attended Oregon State, making up 15 —graduate student, study booths, open seating areas for Mechanical Engineering percent of the student body. group work, individual study cubicles Librarians and other campus sup- and individual computer stations are port professionals, such as staff at the “I don’t have a space included in the design to best meet Graduate School, increasingly recog- outside of the library, and the various study needs that graduate nize the unique needs that graduate students have. there’s nothing available students have. Dedicated spaces are Most graduate students rely on one of those needs and fit with the in my department unless their own laptops for their study and university’s goals. In the university’s you’re a teaching assistant, writing needs. But graduate students strategic plan, one goal is to increase but then you have to share often need to use more than one the quality and capacity of graduate that room with many other monitor to visualize their data, require programs at OSU. TAs.” bandwidth-intensive software to ana- Many campus common spaces have lyze data, and need reliable printing —graduate student, been designed with undergraduate Public Health options. All of these technology in- student needs in mind. But graduate frastructure needs must be considered students often require spaces separate in the plans for a dedicated graduate from undergraduate students so they “It would be nice to student space. can study, write and analyze data for separate teaching issues With the merger of OSU Libraries’ extended periods without interrup- from my other research University Archives and Special Col- tions from the students that they teach. lections departments, the former third issues, so that I could In addition, graduate students need floor archives reading room has opened access to high quality information and do things separately; it up as an option to provide graduate technical support and opportunities would be nice to turn the students with a dedicated study space. for interaction with graduate students teaching side off, but the To make this space a reality, some re- outside of their departments. While students are constantly modeling is needed. Materials will be some departments are able to provide trying to find you.” moved to storage, and new carpeting their students with well-equipped of- will need to be installed. New furni- fice spaces, there is still a wide dispar- —graduate student, ture and wall partitions will be added Writing ity among the space options available along with new technology such as for many graduate students. printers and monitors. To ensure that The Valley Library is a logical place only graduate students use the space, to offer a space dedicated to gradu- many graduate students. signage and special graduate student- ate student research and study. Not A team from the Graduate School only access options will be provided only does the library have a fantastic and OSU Libraries partnered to explore to make this truly a space for graduate collection of books, journals, special the feasibility of creating a graduate students to study. collections and equipment that gradu- student space in the library, and to Oregon State’s graduate students ate students can borrow, but library learn what graduate students really are key contributors to providing faculty also regularly host workshops want and need in such a space. Based transformative educational experi- and hold research consultations to on graduate student focus groups and ences and strengthening the impact provide graduate students with the conversations, as well as explorations of of the university’s research. Providing information skills that they need to what other universities have done, the our graduate students with the spaces succeed. Plans are also being discussed following top needs were identified: and tools that they need to thrive will for data visualization studios in the • Individual computer work spaces help the entire university community library that would directly impact • Collaborative study spaces continue to be successful.

18 OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES AND PRESS LIBRARIANS AND RESEARCH / FROM THE ARCHIVES

Opening Access to Information: Librarians Examine the Barriers by Kelly McElroy and Laurie Bridges

Although access to information is have hidden obstacles. campus. There are more than 500 inter- widely considered a human right, Even if you’re able to read it, the cost national scholars at OSU at any given there exist many barriers to access of scholarship can put it out of reach. time, both permanent and visiting. internationally. For a recent article The scholarly publishing industry The library is a natural place for these that we had published in the Inter- is largely concentrated in the United scholars to acclimate to the scholarly national Review of Information Ethics, States and Europe, and prices are set in environment in the United States, as we examined some of the barriers that those regions. Imagine converting each well as expand their own knowledge. disproportionately affect scholars in paywall request for $50 for an article OSU Libraries has expanded its popu- the global south. using a currency that is weak against lar speed-friending event from inter- Language can keep researchers both the dollar. national students to scholars. Visiting from finding information and from Librarians are natural allies to help scholars are paired with Americans for sharing their own research effectively. overcome these challenges. First, by short spurts of conversation, a chance English is overwhelmingly the interna- supporting open access (OA) publish- to make connections on campus, and tional language of scholarly publishing ing, libraries can support the free ac- potentially a chance to sharpen English around the world: in 1998, 98 percent cess to information to anyone with the language skills in an informal way. We of the articles in Science Citation Index technology to get online. OSU Librar- also look forward to hosting a visiting were published in English (Thed N. ies and Press supports open access in a librarian this summer from our sister Van Leeuwen et al., “Language Biases variety of ways. The library maintains library in Nigeria. in the Coverage of the Science Cita- OSU’s institutional repository, Scholars Barriers to information access, like tion Index and Its Consequences for Archive, where faculty and students barriers to other human rights, affect International Comparisons of National are encouraged to deposit copies of all of us. When knowledge does not Research Performance,” Scientometrics their scholarship, where it can be dis- get created or disseminated where it is 51, no. 1 [2001]: 344). Scholars who covered from the web. A recent pilot needed, it can be hard to measure the do not speak or read English may be provided a $15,000 fund to help OSU loss. By supporting open access and greatly limited in accessing research. faculty cover publishing fees required international scholars, we can support For those who have learned the lan- by some open access journals. the core mission of librarians: to ensure guage, publishing in a non-native Librarians can also help to foster an access to information for all. language can still be intimidating or international scholarly community on

From the Archives

Beaver yearbook staff hard at work, circa 1927. Although this photo is obviously staged, this shot reminds us of the teamwork involved in producing a yearbook—or an issue of The Messenger. In 1927, the year- book office was located on the second floor of Shepard Hall. Today, the Orange Media Network offices are located in the Student Experience Center, east of the Memorial Union. The network consists of (the student newspaper since 1896), Beaver’s Digest (which replaced the Beaver yearbook and is published once a term), Prism magazine (which showcases student art), and KBVR-FM and KBVR-TV. This photo is from A School for the People: A Photographic History of Oregon State University, by Lawrence A. Landis, director of the Libraries’ Special Collections and Archives Research Center. The book is available from OSU Press.

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Valley Library by the Numbers

Students and faculty rely on OSU Libraries as the place to access an amazing and growing range of resources. With the valued support of our donors, OSU Libraries will continue to build on this success. • Voted #1 place to study on campus for the third year in a row in a survey by The Daily Barometer, OSU’s student newspaper since 1896 • Open 24 hours a day, five days a week during the regular school year • 28,000 visitors a week on average—during busy weeks, we’ll have 45,000 visitors. • 19 percent increase in visitors: Use of the Valley Library has soared with the number of visitors rising by 19 percent between academic year 2008-09 and 2014-15, and the need for additional space for collaborative and individual study continues to rise.

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