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Strategic Plan 2018-23 Oregon State University Libraries and Press
Strategic Plan 2018-23 Oregon State University Libraries and Press Version May 15, 2019 I. Preamble The previous Strategic Plan (2012-17) for Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) garnered an official compliment from the visiting onsite evaluation team for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities, the regional accrediting agency for OSU. This recognition acknowledges that strategic planning is a strength of our organization. OSULP still proceeded to work on and improve its processes for the next period covering 2018-23. We’re proud of adopting an even more inclusive process than previously utilized. Representatives from across the organization comprised the OSULP Strategic Planning Committee (Appendix B). Their leadership in directing broad participation ensured that classified staff and faculty members throughout the Libraries and Press had multiple opportunities to provide input during various stages of the planning process (Appendix C). There are a myriad of ways that OSULP could move forward to shape our future and have meaningful impact. This Strategic Plan charts the four broad goals that we identified for our focus in the next 3-5 years: 1. Excellence in services and personnel 2. Durable collaborations 3. Continuous improvement and experimentation 4. Responsible stewardship of critical resources We’ll emphasize several important internal and external priorities that we expect to evolve. To determine these priorities, it was imperative that we scrutinize trends as well as challenges affecting research libraries and university presses and higher education in general. We describe several significant threats and opportunities in Appendix A, but here are a few that influenced our priorities: • Higher education in the U.S. -
DICTIONARY of the HISTORY of SCIENCE Subject Editors
DICTIONARY OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE Subject Editors Astronomy Michael A. Hoskin, Churchill College, Cambridge. Biology Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Chemistry William H. Brock, Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester. Earth sciences Roy Porter, W ellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. Historiography Steven Shapin, & sociology Science Studies Unit, of science University of Edinburgh. Human Roger Smith, sciences Department of History, University of Lancaster. Mathematics Eric J. Aiton, Mathematics Faculty, Manchester Polytechnic. Medicine William F. Bynum, W ellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. Philosophy Roy Bhaskar, of science School of Social Sciences, University of Sussex. Physics John L. Heilbron, Office for History of Science & Technology, University of California, Berkeley. DICTIONARY OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE edited by W.EBynum E.J.Browne Roy Porter M © The Macmillan Press Ltd 1981 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1981 978-0-333-29316-4 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. First published 1981 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Associated Companies throughout the world. ISBN 978-1-349-05551-7 ISBN 978-1-349-05549-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-05549-4 Typeset by Computacomp (UK) Ltd, Fort William, Scotland Macmillan Consultant Editor Klaus Boehm Contents Introduction vii Acknowledgements viii Contributors X Analytical table of contents xiii Bibliography xxiii Abbreviations xxxiv Dictionary Bibliographical index 452 Introduction How is the historical dimension of science relevant to understanding its place in our lives? It is widely agreed that our present attitudes and ideas about religion, art, or morals are oriented the way they are, and thus related to other beliefs, because of their history. -
OSU Libraries and Press Annual Report, 2012-2013
OSU Libraries and Press Annual Report, 2012-2013 PROGRAMMATIC ACHIEVEMENTS 1A. Student engagement and success Instruction: Center for Digital Scholarship Services (CDSS) faculty taught several workshops and conducted numerous consultations for graduate students on copyright permissions and fair use. These activities led to a number of graduate students strengthening their research through the use of copyrighted images, which they'd either been advised to remove or had decided to remove themselves because of copyright concerns. Special Collections and Archive Research Center (SCARC) faculty: engaged with more than 2,000 people, an increase of 64 percent over 2011-2012. This includes 1,226 students in course-related instruction and 755 people (including students) in tours or orientations of SCARC. co-taught the Honors College course TCE 408H “Sundown Towns in Oregon” with Professor Jean Moule, fall 2012. The class's four students co-curated a display featured in The Valley Library’s 5th floor exhibit area. worked with SOC 518 “Qualitative Research Methods” students to develop six oral histories of individuals important to OSU history. These student-conducted interviews have since been deposited in a dedicated SCARC oral history collection and were featured in a Valley Library exhibit case. collaborated with students in the History course HST 415/515 “Digital History” to develop a web site on the history of Waldo Hall – based on research in SCARC collection by undergraduates who selected content and wrote text for the Waldo Hall online exhibit. OSU Press staff met with the following classes at OSU and other universities and schools: WR 362 Science Writing, in the OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film; John Witte’s editing class at the University of Oregon; Scott Slovic’s editing/publishing class at the University of Idaho; Roosevelt High School Publishing and Writing Center in Portland. -
Reflections on the Historiography of Molecular Biology
Reflections on the Historiography of Molecular Biology HORACE FREELAND JUDSON SURELY the time has come to stop applying the word revolution to the rise of new scientific research programmes. Our century has seen many upheavals in scientific ideas--so many and so varied that the notion of scientific revolution has been stretched out of shape and can no longer be made to cover the processes of change characteristic of most sciences these past hundred years. By general consent, two great research pro- grammes arising in this century stand om from the others. The first, of course, was the one in physics that began at the turn of the century with quantum theory and relativity and ran through the working out, by about 1930, of quantum mechanics in its relativistic form. The trans- formation in physics appears to be thoroughly documented. Memoirs and biographies of the physicists have been written. Interviewswith survivors have been recorded and transcribed. The history has been told at every level of detail and difficulty. The second great programme is the one in biology that had its origins in the mid-1930s and that by 1970 had reached, if not a conclusion, a kind of cadence--a pause to regroup. This is the transformation that created molecular biology and latter-day biochemistry. The writing of its history has only recently started and is beset with problems. Accounting for the rise of molecular biology began with brief, partial, fugitive essays by participants. Biographies have been written of two, of the less understood figures in the science, who died even as the field was ripening, Oswald Avery and Rosalind Franklin; other scientists have wri:tten their memoirs. -
“Other Histories, Other Biologies.” in Philosophy
Gregory Radick, 2005. “Other Histories, Other Biologies.” In Philosophy, Biology and Life, ed. Anthony O’Hear. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 21-47. Supplement to Philosophy, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement: 56. Other Histories, Other Biologies GREGORY RADICK 1. Taking the counterfactual turn When philosophers look to the history of biology, they most often ask about what happened, and how best to describe it. They ask, for instance, whether molecular genetics subsumed the Mendelian genetics preceding it, or whether these two sciences have main- tained rather messier relations.1 Here I wish to pose a question as much about what did not happen as what did. My concern is with the strength of the links between our biological science—our biology—and the particular history which brought that science into being. Would quite different histories have produced roughly the same science? Or, on the contrary, would different histories have produced other, quite different biologies? I shall not endeavour to address the whole of biology or its history. I will concentrate on genetics, the headline-grabbing branch of biology in our time. The claims of this science on our future have given its history an unusually high public profile. Newspaper articles on the completed Human Genome Project came with timelines of genetic achievement, stretching back into the pre- Mendel mists, and forward to a future where, thanks to genetics- based medicine (we were told), the average person will live to more than ninety. Even more recently, the fiftieth anniversary of the introduction of the double-helix model of DNA in 1953 prompted books, symposia, television programmes, even a cover story in Time magazine. -
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Doug Oxsen Oral History Interviews, December 30, 2015 Title “Raising the Bar for OSU Athletics” Date December 30, 2015 Location Valley Library, Oregon State University. Summary Interview #2 begins with Oxsen's broader memories of his basketball career at Oregon State. These memories include the quality of play in the Pac-8 during Oxsen's years as a competitor, the knee injury that he suffered during his freshman year, and the contrasts that he has observed between the culture of basketball during that era with what evolved later on. A major topic of conversation is Oxsen's recollections of playing against Bill Walton's UCLA Bruins and Oregon State's upset of UCLA in 1975, a win that broke UCLA's 49-game conference winning streak. He likewise comments on his interactions with Bill Walton in later years, as well as other noteworthy players against whom he competed. The session then shifts its focus to Oxsen's life following his graduation from OSU. These reflections include a discussion of Oxsen's two years touring the world with the Athletes in Action Christian ministry; his brief stint playing professionally in England; and his private sector work with Universal Gym Equipment and the BikeE Corporation. The remainder of the interview is chiefly devoted to Oxsen's return to OSU and his activities as a fundraiser with the OSU Foundation. Specifically, Oxsen details his involvement with the Raising Reser project as well as the construction of the Basketball Practice Facility, the launch of the Everyday Champions program, and the revival of track and field as an intercollegiate sport at Oregon State. -
Spring 2007 News for Alumni and Friends of the College of Pharmacy
Spring 2007 News for Alumni and Friends of the College of Pharmacy Evolution of the Portland Campus See story on page 3. .edu e t egonsta .or y macy mac phar Matt Ito, OSU Pharmacy Practice department head, explains his research at the OHSU Open House. 4 Mark Leid’s mighty mouse 6 Dancing the night away Also inside: 5 Fred Stevens’ hop research 11 Bob Adams scholarship 10 Dean for a day 13 Alumni survey Phar From the Dean Dear Alumni and Friends, teach the professionals of tomorrow. Their research creates new drugs, new dosage forms, You can tell it is spring: besides enjoying the helps us understand drug actions, and enables flowers in bloom and the longer days, the P4s us to bring cutting edge knowledge to the are preparing for graduation, the P3s are classroom. Other faculty are creating new receiving their clerkship assignments, the P2s drug policy or experimenting with innovative are getting ready to move to Portland, and the practice models that will be examples for the P1s are arranging their first internship jobs. future. One emphasis at the Corvallis campus The long process of admissions interviews is the discovery of novel, naturally occurring, and decisions are nearing an end. and semi-synthetic antibacterial molecules. The Portland-based faculty, staff, and students This group is part of an evolving statewide moved into their new offices, classrooms, and signature research center entitled the Oregon research labs in the Oregon Health & Science Translational Research & Drug Discovery A University (OHSU) Center for Health and Institute (OTRADI), in collaboration with Healing in December. -
The Development of Horticultural Science in England, 1910-1930
The Development of Horticultural Science in England, 1910-1930 Paul Smith Department of Science and Technology Studies University College London Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy July 2016 I, Paul Smith, confirm the work presented in this thesis is my own. Where information has been derived from other sources, I confirm it has been indicated in the thesis. 2 Abstract This thesis explores how horticultural science was shaped in England in the period 1910-1930. Horticultural science research in the early twentieth century exhibited marked diversity and horticulture included bees, chickens, pigeons,pigs, goats, rabbits and hares besides plants. Horticultural science was characterised by various tensions arising from efforts to demarcate it from agriculture and by internecine disputes between government organisations such as the Board of Agriculture, the Board of Education and the Development Commission for control of the innovative state system of horticultural research and education that developed after 1909. Both fundamental and applied science research played an important role in this development. This thesis discusses the promotion of horticultural science in the nineteenth century by private institutions, societies and scientists and after 1890 by the government, in order to provide reference points for comparisons with early twentieth century horticultural science. Efforts made by the new Horticultural Department of the Board of Agriculture and by scientists and commercial growers raised the academic status of -
Oregon State University Libraries
OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES VOL.20NO.2 OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES The Valley Library IN THIS ISSUE: Main Campus, Corvallis Marilyn Potts Guin Library From the University Librarian Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport OSU-Cascades Campus Staff and Faculty News 4 Bend Instruction THE MESSENGER Writing 121 6 OSU Libraries Oregon State University 121 The Valley Library Oregon Multicultural Archives Corvallis, OR 97331-4501 Documenting the Cultures in Oregon's Communities 8 (541) 737-4633 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.eduhnessenger/ Campus News Karyle S. Butcher OSU Diversity Book Club 9 Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian Sabbatical NewsRichard Sapon-White Editor: Kevin Bokay Land of the Double-tailed Lion 10 Assistant Editor: Kerrie Cook [email protected] Student Videographer Editorial Committee: OSU Libraries on the Big Screen II Larry Landis Cliff Mead Donor Profile Chris Petersen Marjorie Guerber Jessup Sara Thompson Ruth Vondracek Library News Photos by: Kevin Bokay International Visitors; Author Readings; University Archives 13 Kerrie Cook Stephen Meyer Northwest Art Collection OSU Archives The Art of David Nez Richard Sapon-White 14 David Simmen The Messenger is published biannually. Page 8 Page 12 Ruth Namur° Donor profile in Japanese Costume. Photograph by John Garman (OSU Archives, P95:93 John Garman ON THE COVER: Photograph Collec- Chief Hash-Nash-Shut, 1901. Photograph tion). Oregon Page 9 Page 14 by Benjamin A. Gifford (OSU Archives, Multicultural Diversity Book Club David Nez artwork P218: BAG #214 Gifford Photograph Archives. Collection). Oregon Multicultural Archives. 2 THE MESSENGER, FALL2005 FROMTHEUNIVERSIT' ARIAN ...I decided that basedonthis year's accomplishments, Iwould giveus asolid 'A." Hello Library Supporters, FIRST, LET ME WISH EACH OF YOU HAPPY HOLIDAYS! As we end the term and think of grades I thought about how I might grade the library. -
Bio-R/Evolution in Historiographic Perspective: Some Reflections on the History and Epistemology of Biomolecular Science
VOLUME 11 ISSUE 1 2007 ISSN: 1833-878X Pages 4-13 Howard HsuehHsueh----HaoHao Chiang Bio-R/Evolution in Historiographic Perspective: Some Reflections on the History and Epistemology of Biomolecular Science ABSTRACT Does the molecular vision of life signify a unique revolution in biology or a more general evolution of the life sciences in the twentieth century? This paper visits this ‘big question’ by reflecting on a series of major debates in the historiography of molecular biology, especially those regarding its origins and the periodization of its development. For instance, while some have suggested that the discipline emerged in the 1930s, others have argued for its birth in the post-WWII era. Above all, the impact of the Rockefeller Foundation and the physical sciences on the formation of molecular biology remains a central topic of discussion among historians of biology. Unlike earlier historians of biomolecular science, recent scholars have also started to pay closer attention to the laboratory and material cultures that had conditioned its historical shaping. This paper argues that, ultimately, these debates all rest upon one fundamental historiographical problem: the absence of a unifying understanding of ‘molecular biology’ among historians (and practitioners) of biological science. This heterogeneous conceptualization of ‘molecular biology’, however, should be viewed as valuable because it allows for multiple approaches to resolving the ‘revolution versus evolution’ debate that together enrich our interpretation of the twentieth-century biomolecular vision of life. 4 BIOGRAPHY Howard Chiang is currently a Ph.D. student in the History of Science Program at Princeton University. He holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and a B.A. -
A Preliminary Container List
Accession 95:064, Accession 95:064, and Accession 2007:089 Box 1 Library Photographs (P 083) Preliminary Container List P083:100 - P083:107 Centennial speakers, circa 1968 P083:100 D.G. Aldrich P083:101 C.C. David P083:102 Dr. Linus Pauling P083:103 President Barnaby C. Keeney, Brown University P083:104 Roger Revelle P083:105 Dr. Philip Abelson P083:106 Roger Revelle P083:107 Charles Frankel P083:108 - P083:121 William Jasper Kerr Library - Outside, before 1970 P083:122 - P083:162 William Jasper Kerr Library - Interior, before 1970 P083:163 - P083:166 William Jasper Kerr Library - Exterior, before 1970 P083:167 - P083:170 Kidder statue cast P083:171 Kidder Hall 1950’s P083:172 Benton Hall with people gathered on the lawn, March 29,1910 Accession 95:064 Groundbreaking for Construction of Kerr Library, ca. 1961 Construction of Kerr Library, 1961-1963 [b/w negatives] Construction of Kerr Library, ca. 1961; removal of trees [color negatives] Bandstand Removal, ca. 1963 Kidder Hall library interior, ca. 1963 Move to new library, 1963 Kerr Library interior, 1963 Other libraries; Bellingham fountain (?), ca. 1963 Kerr Library construction - addition of 2 floors, 1969-1971 Accession 2007:089 P 83-Library Photographs, 1963-2002 (S) Prints and negatives in separate folders Box 1 Valley Library (after expansion/remodel) Interior Shots, 1998-2002 (S) All color prints (2nd Floor computer area -- called Information Commons and later Electronic Reference Center) (Left stack of prints) Accession 2007:089 Box 1 16Jul98 2 students studying in 2nd floor -
Mendel's Opposition to Evolution and to Darwin
Mendel's Opposition to Evolution and to Darwin B. E. Bishop Although the past decade or so has seen a resurgence of interest in Mendel's role in the origin of genetic theory, only one writer, L. A. Callender (1988), has concluded that Mendel was opposed to evolution. Yet careful scrutiny of Mendel's Pisum pa- per, published in 1866, and of the time and circumstances in which it appeared suggests not only that It Is antievolutlonary In content, but also that it was specif- ically written in contradiction of Darwin's book The Origin of Species, published in 1859, and that Mendel's and Darwin's theories, the two theories which were united in the 1940s to form the modern synthesis, are completely antithetical. Mendel does not mention Darwin in his Pi- [Mendel] in so far as they bore on his anal- sum paper (although he does in his letters ysis of the evolutionary role of hybrids." to Nlgeli, the famous Swiss botanist with Olby's (1979) article, entitled "Mendel whom he initiated a correspondence, and No Mendelian?," led to a number of revi- in his Hieracium paper, published In 1870), sionist views of Mendel's work and his in- but he states unambiguously in his intro- tentions, although no agreement has been duction that his objective is to contribute reached. For instance, some writers, un- to the evolution controversy raging at the like de Beer, Olby, and Callender, overlook time: "It requires a good deal of courage or minimize the evolutionary significance indeed to undertake such a far-reaching of Mendel's paper, while others maintain task; however, this seems to be the one that Mendel had little or no interest in he- correct way of finally reaching the solu- redity, an interpretation that has been op- tion to a question whose significance for posed by Hartl and Orel (1992): "We con- the evolutionary history of organic forms clude that Mendel understood very clearly must not be underestimated" (Mendel what his experiments meant for heredity." 1866).