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OSU Libraries and Press seeks an Associate Dean of Libraries (ADL) who brings expertise and experience with library management. The ADL supervises five department heads responsible for core library functions and is a key member of the Library Administration, Management, and Planning group.

Working closely with the Dean of Libraries, the ADL helps create a healthy and sustainable work environment for library workers, fosters communication between library units, and engages in reflective and transparent decision-making.

OSULP encourages individuals from underrepresented or marginalized identities to apply. For full position/application details, please visit jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/132487

This job posting will close on March 29th, 2023

Attend Speed Friending for Book Lovers at the Valley Library on March 9th: 6PM - 8PM

Registration is required: beav.es/5tZ

Register quickly, only 40 attendees can participate! Pizza will be provided to attendees.

Reach out: for accommodations related to a disability contact Angela.Haney@oregonstate.edu, 541-737-1350 or via Library.Accommodations@oregonstate.edu a week in advance

A new book titled Visions of Linus Pauling has been released by World Scientific Publishers. Edited by Oregon State University Libraries archivist and faculty member Chris Petersen, the book primarily consists of chapters that were originally written as serialized blog posts by OSU students for publication on The Pauling Blog, which Petersen edits. Each of these students was employed by the OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center to conduct original research in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers for publication on the blog.

A 1922 graduate of Oregon Agricultural College, as OSU was once known, Linus Pauling (1901-1994) went on to a remarkable career as a scientist and peace activist, and remains history’s only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962). At twenty-three chapters and nearly 400 pages, Visions of Linus Pauling offers a selection of The Pauling Blog’s most unique contributions to the ever-evolving study of Linus Pauling’s life and work.

The book is intended for a general audience and is available for purchase in hardback and as an e-book. For more information, see: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12977

A new book titled Visions of Linus Pauling has been released by World Scientific Publishers. Edited by Oregon State University Libraries archivist and faculty member Chris Petersen, the book primarily consists of chapters that were originally written as serialized blog posts by OSU students for publication on The Pauling Blog, which Petersen edits. Each of these students was employed by the OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center to conduct original research in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers for publication on the blog.

A 1922 graduate of Oregon Agricultural College, as OSU was once known, Linus Pauling (1901-1994) went on to a remarkable career as a scientist and peace activist, and remains history’s only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962). At twenty-three chapters and nearly 400 pages, Visions of Linus Pauling offers a selection of The Pauling Blog’s most unique contributions to the ever-evolving study of Linus Pauling’s life and work.

The book is intended for a general audience and is available for purchase in hardback and as an e-book. For more information, see: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12977

A new book titled Visions of Linus Pauling has been released by World Scientific Publishers. Edited by Oregon State University Libraries archivist and faculty member Chris Petersen, the book primarily consists of chapters that were originally written as serialized blog posts by OSU students for publication on The Pauling Blog, which Petersen edits. Each of these students was employed by the OSU Libraries Special Collections and Archives Research Center to conduct original research in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers for publication on the blog.

A 1922 graduate of Oregon Agricultural College, as OSU was once known, Linus Pauling (1901-1994) went on to a remarkable career as a scientist and peace activist, and remains history’s only recipient of two unshared Nobel Prizes (Chemistry, 1954; Peace, 1962). At twenty-three chapters and nearly 400 pages, Visions of Linus Pauling offers a selection of The Pauling Blog’s most unique contributions to the ever-evolving study of Linus Pauling’s life and work.

The book is intended for a general audience and is available for purchase in hardback and as an e-book. For more information, see: https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/12977

Do you like history? Have you always wondered what an archive was?  Stop by and say hi every Wednesday, 10:00am - 1:00pm!

Find the Special Collections & Archives Research Center on the 5th floor of the Valley Library. 

Destress with a crafty study break when you get back to campus at the Valley Library. 

Join us for Crafternoons in the Donor's Foyer every 2nd & 4th Thursday 4PM - 6PM. 

We'll have free craft supplies & Take & Make Kits while supplies last. 

Crafternoons Schedule:
January 12th & 26th
February 9th & 23rd
March 9th
March 20th - 24th Take & Make Kits will be available.

Accommodations:
Accommodation requests related to a disability for library events should be made a week before the event to: Megan Lawrence: (541)737-4633 megan.lawrence@oregonstate.edu

From the Dean of Libraries - to the OSU community:

You have probably just read the Provost’s announcement that we are suspending our negotiations with Elsevier for the remainder of this year.  We did not make this decision lightly. Our Elsevier contract represents more than one-fifth of our entire collections budget at OSU, and we know that this decision will be disruptive. We do think that this action is an important step towards the equitable and financially sustainable future we described, and the Faculty Senate affirmed, in our Principles Guiding Negotiations with Journal Vendors

We are taking steps to ensure that everyone in our OSU community can continue to get the resources they need to do their work from the library. I’m going to outline some of these steps here, and I encourage you to consult this resource guide for more information.  There you will find important background, information on using alternative services to access articles, and a FAQ about the Elsevier negotiations. Check back often, this resource guide will be regularly updated.

Our primary strategy will be article-level fulfillment. We will build on our already outstanding Interlibrary Loan service (ILL), and add some additional tools that should improve those workflows and provide a more seamless user experience. Our average time to fulfill an ILL request is currently 13 hours. We expect that we can improve on that with tools that will allow us to find open access content where it is available, and to make article-level purchases of content where borrowing is too slow.

This is important for two reasons: 

  1. Article-level fulfillment is the only way that we will be able to take advantage of the rapidly-increasing amount of open access content available in subscription journals. We have not seen publishers adjust subscription prices to reflect this change, so we need to focus our efforts at the article level. 
  2. The tools we will use to do this give us data that we control.  Currently, we rely on vendors to provide us with the user data that demonstrates how often their products are used. These article-level tools will allow us to make more informed decisions moving forward.

In the summer of 2023 we will develop a timeline and goals for access to Elsevier content in 2024.  At that point, we expect that we will be looking to secure access to a curated list of titles, informed by the assessment I described above, and by the ongoing conversations we have been having with our OSU community about open and sustainable scholarly communication. We will also reach out to UO and PSU on shared timelines and goals for access moving forward.

In the last two years we have talked to a lot of you -- in department meetings, at the faculty senate, in 1:1 conversations, and in college and university leadership team meetings – about the ways that the consolidation of scholarly publishing into the hands of a few, large, for-profit entities is unsustainable for the library, and for OSU.   We have been overwhelmed with the support we have received in those conversations, and our understanding of the issues has been made deeper and richer by all of you who have participated in them.  We will be reaching out to you for more conversations in the next few months, and throughout the next year.

Anne-Marie

From the Dean of Libraries - to the OSU community:

You have probably just read the Provost’s announcement that we are suspending our negotiations with Elsevier for the remainder of this year.  We did not make this decision lightly. Our Elsevier contract represents more than one-fifth of our entire collections budget at OSU, and we know that this decision will be disruptive. We do think that this action is an important step towards the equitable and financially sustainable future we described, and the Faculty Senate affirmed, in our Principles Guiding Negotiations with Journal Vendors

We are taking steps to ensure that everyone in our OSU community can continue to get the resources they need to do their work from the library. I’m going to outline some of these steps here, and I encourage you to consult this resource guide for more information.  There you will find important background, information on using alternative services to access articles, and a FAQ about the Elsevier negotiations. Check back often, this resource guide will be regularly updated.

Our primary strategy will be article-level fulfillment. We will build on our already outstanding Interlibrary Loan service (ILL), and add some additional tools that should improve those workflows and provide a more seamless user experience. Our average time to fulfill an ILL request is currently 13 hours. We expect that we can improve on that with tools that will allow us to find open access content where it is available, and to make article-level purchases of content where borrowing is too slow.

This is important for two reasons: 

  1. Article-level fulfillment is the only way that we will be able to take advantage of the rapidly-increasing amount of open access content available in subscription journals. We have not seen publishers adjust subscription prices to reflect this change, so we need to focus our efforts at the article level. 
  2. The tools we will use to do this give us data that we control.  Currently, we rely on vendors to provide us with the user data that demonstrates how often their products are used. These article-level tools will allow us to make more informed decisions moving forward.

In the summer of 2023 we will develop a timeline and goals for access to Elsevier content in 2024.  At that point, we expect that we will be looking to secure access to a curated list of titles, informed by the assessment I described above, and by the ongoing conversations we have been having with our OSU community about open and sustainable scholarly communication. We will also reach out to UO and PSU on shared timelines and goals for access moving forward.

In the last two years we have talked to a lot of you -- in department meetings, at the faculty senate, in 1:1 conversations, and in college and university leadership team meetings – about the ways that the consolidation of scholarly publishing into the hands of a few, large, for-profit entities is unsustainable for the library, and for OSU.   We have been overwhelmed with the support we have received in those conversations, and our understanding of the issues has been made deeper and richer by all of you who have participated in them.  We will be reaching out to you for more conversations in the next few months, and throughout the next year.

Anne-Marie

From the Dean of Libraries - to the OSU community:

You have probably just read the Provost’s announcement that we are suspending our negotiations with Elsevier for the remainder of this year.  We did not make this decision lightly. Our Elsevier contract represents more than one-fifth of our entire collections budget at OSU, and we know that this decision will be disruptive. We do think that this action is an important step towards the equitable and financially sustainable future we described, and the Faculty Senate affirmed, in our Principles Guiding Negotiations with Journal Vendors

We are taking steps to ensure that everyone in our OSU community can continue to get the resources they need to do their work from the library. I’m going to outline some of these steps here, and I encourage you to consult this resource guide for more information.  There you will find important background, information on using alternative services to access articles, and a FAQ about the Elsevier negotiations. Check back often, this resource guide will be regularly updated.

Our primary strategy will be article-level fulfillment. We will build on our already outstanding Interlibrary Loan service (ILL), and add some additional tools that should improve those workflows and provide a more seamless user experience. Our average time to fulfill an ILL request is currently 13 hours. We expect that we can improve on that with tools that will allow us to find open access content where it is available, and to make article-level purchases of content where borrowing is too slow.

This is important for two reasons: 

  1. Article-level fulfillment is the only way that we will be able to take advantage of the rapidly-increasing amount of open access content available in subscription journals. We have not seen publishers adjust subscription prices to reflect this change, so we need to focus our efforts at the article level. 
  2. The tools we will use to do this give us data that we control.  Currently, we rely on vendors to provide us with the user data that demonstrates how often their products are used. These article-level tools will allow us to make more informed decisions moving forward.

In the summer of 2023 we will develop a timeline and goals for access to Elsevier content in 2024.  At that point, we expect that we will be looking to secure access to a curated list of titles, informed by the assessment I described above, and by the ongoing conversations we have been having with our OSU community about open and sustainable scholarly communication. We will also reach out to UO and PSU on shared timelines and goals for access moving forward.

In the last two years we have talked to a lot of you -- in department meetings, at the faculty senate, in 1:1 conversations, and in college and university leadership team meetings – about the ways that the consolidation of scholarly publishing into the hands of a few, large, for-profit entities is unsustainable for the library, and for OSU.   We have been overwhelmed with the support we have received in those conversations, and our understanding of the issues has been made deeper and richer by all of you who have participated in them.  We will be reaching out to you for more conversations in the next few months, and throughout the next year.

Anne-Marie

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