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OSU Libraries and the response to COVID-19

OSU Libraries and Press, like other units of OSU, is maintaining essential functions onsite to support remote teaching and learning. As of March 20, public access to library spaces at the Valley Library (Corvallis campus), Cascades Library (Bend) and the Guin Library (Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport) is temporarily suspended. The libraries will not be open to the public nor to faculty, staff and students. Building access is being controlled to comply with COVID-19 restrictions. The limited access to OSU libraries will continue into the 2020 spring term for an indefinite period.

OSU Libraries is focusing on digital services and on delivering materials to all OSU students, staff and faculty at all campus locations and for OSU users who are off-campus. For those requests that cannot be met via digital access or delivery, we encourage you to contact staff to make arrangements for pickup. Users can contact Valley Library staff through email, text, phone or chat to make arrangements. Cascades Library users can contact library@osucascades.edu. Users of the Guin Library in Newport can make arrangements by contacting staff at hmsc.library@oregonstate.edu.

For current info on the libraries' services and hours during the response to COVID-19, see https://library.oregonstate.edu/valley-library-hours.

OSU Libraries and Press has prepared a guide with more details about specific services, access to collections, and, most importantly, contact information at https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/coronavirus. We update this site continuously, so please refer to it for current information about operations. 

Resources for Families

OSU’s Family Resource Center has developed a webpage with a lengthy and useful list of resources for families, especially those with younger children, This site is at https://familyresources.oregonstate.edu/COVID-19FamilyResources. It includes a homeschooling guide developed by OSU librarians along with lists for food resources, educational resources, entertainment options, and tips for coping and talking with children.

News and Research on COVID-19

For news and research (articles, databases, and other resources) about COVID-19, go to https://guides.library.oregonstate.edu/covid-19.

Protect your possessions while on campus

Don't leave your backpack or electronics unattended in the library or in other public areas on campus as thefts do occur. 

If you’d like to store your items in a secure place at the library, lockers are located throughout the Valley Library and may be reserved at the Circulation counter on the second floor near the library’s main entrance. 

If you see a theft or other crime in progress, immediately call 541-737-7000. For non-emergencies, such as to report a theft after it has occurred, call OSU Security at 541-737-3010.

Protect your possessions while on campus

Don't leave your backpack or electronics unattended in the library or in other public areas on campus as thefts do occur. 

If you’d like to store your items in a secure place at the library, lockers are located throughout the Valley Library and may be reserved at Circulation on the second floor near the library’s main entrance. 

If you see a theft or other crime in progress, immediately call 541-737-7000. For non-emergencies, such as to report a theft after it has occurred, call OSU Security at 541-737-3010.

Maps of the library are available

New to campus and unfamiliar with the Valley Library? In addition to the "Floor Maps" link on the upper right of the homepage, we also have an updated brochure that contains a map of each floor in the library to make your wayfinding much easier.

The oversize brochure is located in the brochure rack that is on the left as you enter the library's main entrance and elsewhere within the library. The brochure is called, "The Valley Library Services and Floor Maps." And you can always ask for directions from any library staff or faculty person when you'd like directions. 

Workshops offered on 3-D Scanning and Printing (8/18)

Satisfy your curiosity about 3-D Printing and Scanning at one of the workshops on 8/18. 

View all the offerings in the library’s summer workshop series at http://bit.ly/graduate-workshops. Registration is encouraged but not required. 

Questions? Contact Hannah.Rempel@oregonstate.edu.

Workshops offered on 3-D Scanning and Printing (8/18)

Satisfy your curiosity about 3-D Printing and Scanning at one of the workshops on 8/18. 

View all the offerings in the library’s summer workshop series at http://bit.ly/graduate-workshops. Registration is encouraged but not required. 

Questions? Contact Hannah.Rempel@oregonstate.edu.

Workshops offered on Copyright and Fair Use in Education (8/15) and SPSS Basic (8/16) and Intermediate (8/17)

We’re almost all both producing and using content regularly. Get a handle on balancing Copyright and Fair Use in Education on 8/15. Check out SPSS Statistics Basics on 8/16 if you have no experience or limited experience using this program for basic descriptive statistics (originally known as Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Want to dig a bit deeper? Check out SPSS Statistics Intermediate on 8/17.

View all the offerings in the library’s summer workshop series at http://bit.ly/graduate-workshops. Registration is encouraged but not required. 

Questions? Contact Hannah.Rempel@oregonstate.edu.

Workshops offered on Copyright and Fair Use in Education (8/15) and SPSS Basic (8/16) and Intermediate (8/17)

We’re almost all both producing and using content regularly. Get a handle on balancing Copyright and Fair Use in Education on 8/15. Check out SPSS Statistics Basics on 8/16 if you have no experience or limited experience using this program for basic descriptive statistics (originally known as Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Want to dig a bit deeper? Check out SPSS Statistics Intermediate on 8/17.

View all the offerings in the library’s summer workshop series at http://bit.ly/graduate-workshops. Registration is encouraged but not required. 

Questions? Contact Hannah.Rempel@oregonstate.edu.

Next Resident Scholar lecture focuses on the 1950s nuclear fallout debate and eugenics (8/5)

Our next Resident Scholar lecture will be happening on Friday, August 5 at 2:00 p.m. in the Willamette West room on the Valley Library’s third floor. Our speaker this time is Dr. Michael Kenny, professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. 

Dr. Kenny has been working with the Pauling Papers in developing his talk, “‘Fear of the Mutant: Recessive Genes and Racial Degeneration in the Nuclear Fallout Debate.” An abstract of this presentation is below. We hope to see you there. 

By the 1950s geneticists had come to partially understand the role that recessive genes play in certain hereditary disorders, some of which were obvious (such as sickle cell anemia), and others presumably concealed within morbidity and mortality statistics. These possible latent effects were very much on the minds of those — such as Hermann Muller, Linus Pauling and George Beadle — who were critical of atmospheric nuclear testing. Their concern was a latter-day expression of what had been a long-standing obsession of the eugenics movement: the fear of cumulative racial degeneration and decline. This presentation examines how these ideas were articulated in the context of the nuclear fallout debate.

Next Resident Scholar lecture focuses on the 1950s nuclear fallout debate and eugenics (8/5)

Our next Resident Scholar lecture will be happening on Friday, August 5 at 2:00 p.m. in the Willamette West room on the Valley Library’s third floor. Our speaker this time is Dr. Michael Kenny, professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. 

Dr. Kenny has been working with the Pauling Papers in developing his talk, “‘Fear of the Mutant: Recessive Genes and Racial Degeneration in the Nuclear Fallout Debate.” An abstract of this presentation is below. We hope to see you there. 

By the 1950s geneticists had come to partially understand the role that recessive genes play in certain hereditary disorders, some of which were obvious (such as sickle cell anemia), and others presumably concealed within morbidity and mortality statistics. These possible latent effects were very much on the minds of those — such as Hermann Muller, Linus Pauling and George Beadle — who were critical of atmospheric nuclear testing. Their concern was a latter-day expression of what had been a long-standing obsession of the eugenics movement: the fear of cumulative racial degeneration and decline. This presentation examines how these ideas were articulated in the context of the nuclear fallout debate.

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