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The Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center is the proud home of the Shannon Day Rettig Book Arts Collection, a generous gift of 75-volumes. While this collection of intricately handmade books is available for viewing by appointment, on October 18th, 2023, SCARC hosted a very special open house. 

This open house had over 60 attendees from the OSU community and beyond, creating a beautiful atmosphere of art admirers, who were delighted to hear heartfelt reflections on the acquisition and appreciation of the collection by donor Ed Rettig himself. 

This collection has already encouraged artistry at OSU. Karen Holmberg's ENG 217 "Reading for Writers" class visited SCARC to view the collection and were subsequently assigned writing prompts inviting them to revisit their respective books in the SCARC Reading Room. 

This event was part of the October Oregon Archives Month Celebrations. Learn more about these celebrations at the Speaking of History blog.

First Meal, an OSU Press book by Julie Green and Kirk Johnson is touring the PNW with the help of Kirk Johnson and Theo Downes-Le Guin. Though Julie has passed away, their co-author Kirk, a former NY Times correspondent and Theo, her gallerist and friend, will be hosting conversations about Julie's art and legacy. 

Join Kirk and Theo for the talks: Seeing Injustice: First Meal and the Art of Julie Green

  • November 15th, 7pm: Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon
  • December 8th, 10:30am: Corvallis Museum in Corvallis, Oregon
  • December 13th, 7:30pm: Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, Washington

Learn more about First Meal at the OSU Press website! There, you can order your own copy, read a summary, and enjoy all the other phenomenal books the Press is working on. 

 

First Meal, an OSU Press book by Julie Green and Kirk Johnson is touring the PNW with the help of Kirk Johnson and Theo Downes-Le Guin. Though Julie has passed away, their co-author Kirk, a former NY Times correspondent and Theo, her gallerist and friend, will be hosting conversations about Julie's art and legacy. 

Join Kirk and Theo for the talks: Seeing Injustice: First Meal and the Art of Julie Green

  • November 15th, 7pm: Powell's City of Books in Portland, Oregon
  • December 8th, 10:30am: Corvallis Museum in Corvallis, Oregon
  • December 13th, 7:30pm: Town Hall Seattle in Seattle, Washington

Learn more about First Meal at the OSU Press website! There, you can order your own copy, read a summary, and enjoy all the other phenomenal books the Press is working on. 

 

Clara Llebot Lorente, Data Management Specialist, who works with data curation, data stewardship, data management plans, and serves as a liaison librarian for the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences will be on sabbatical from August 2023 until August 2024.

Clara will be in Barcelona, collaborating with a consortium (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) that provides data services to researchers in Catalan universities. She will be learning new strategies that could be useful for research data services at OSULP. She'll also be reconnecting with family, friends, and sharing the love of where she's from with her kids and husband who are all happily joining her.

Other librarians will graciously be stepping in to provide assistance while Clara's away, but she'll be checking her email occasionally!

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Uta Hussong-Christian, Associate Professor & Librarian for College of Health, who focuses on research and design services that enable library users and staff to work more productivity, will be on sabbatical from October 2023 until October 2024. 

Uta will be using this time to transition out of her role as interim LEAD Head and into a more holistic liaison librarian role focused on the health sciences. She is going to create a plan for library support of health-related disciplines across OSU and will be working to build her skill set for supporting evidence synthesis projects, across OSU, particularly in the health-related disciplines. 

Uta is planning on doing a "stay-batical," she'll be in the area and may even pop into the library to work on the new dual-monitors in the Learning Commons and to chat with folks in the library. She encourages folks to send her an email if they'd like to be in touch during this time.

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Kelly McElroy, Student Engagement and Community Outreach Librarian, recently returned from a year long sabbatical. Kelly spent 8 months in Mexico taking in the sights, sounds, and tastes all while documenting the journey. While there, she focused on research around cognitive authority, a union book, and a paper for the La información en tiempos de post pandemia. Investigación, docencia y práctica profesional seminar.

As a zine librarian, Kelly crafted five zines titled "While You Were Out" that gave a heartfelt review of her Spanish classes, travels around Mexico City to Oaxaca de Juarez, the many murals she encountered, libraries she visited, and her thoughts on the trip.

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Jane Nichols, Associate Professor and Interim Resource Acquisitions & Sharing Director, returned from an eight month sabbatical this October. Jane's goal was to continue to work on publications, pushing them closer to completion. She also continued to work with Calyx Press as a member of the Board, served on the ACRL Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee, reviewed proposals for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium, as well as many other activities.

While Jane was busy with scholarship and community work, she also took time to travel to Florida, Minnesota, Massachusets, Colorado, and Arizona to visit friends and family.

Clara Llebot Lorente, Data Management Specialist, who works with data curation, data stewardship, data management plans, and serves as a liaison librarian for the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences will be on sabbatical from August 2023 until August 2024.

Clara will be in Barcelona, collaborating with a consortium (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) that provides data services to researchers in Catalan universities. She will be learning new strategies that could be useful for research data services at OSULP. She'll also be reconnecting with family, friends, and sharing the love of where she's from with her kids and husband who are all happily joining her.

Other librarians will graciously be stepping in to provide assistance while Clara's away, but she'll be checking her email occasionally!

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Uta Hussong-Christian, Associate Professor & Librarian for College of Health, who focuses on research and design services that enable library users and staff to work more productivity, will be on sabbatical from October 2023 until October 2024. 

Uta will be using this time to transition out of her role as interim LEAD Head and into a more holistic liaison librarian role focused on the health sciences. She is going to create a plan for library support of health-related disciplines across OSU and will be working to build her skill set for supporting evidence synthesis projects, across OSU, particularly in the health-related disciplines. 

Uta is planning on doing a "stay-batical," she'll be in the area and may even pop into the library to work on the new dual-monitors in the Learning Commons and to chat with folks in the library. She encourages folks to send her an email if they'd like to be in touch during this time.

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Kelly McElroy, Student Engagement and Community Outreach Librarian, recently returned from a year long sabbatical. Kelly spent 8 months in Mexico taking in the sights, sounds, and tastes all while documenting the journey. While there, she focused on research around cognitive authority, a union book, and a paper for the La información en tiempos de post pandemia. Investigación, docencia y práctica profesional seminar.

As a zine librarian, Kelly crafted five zines titled "While You Were Out" that gave a heartfelt review of her Spanish classes, travels around Mexico City to Oaxaca de Juarez, the many murals she encountered, libraries she visited, and her thoughts on the trip.

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Jane Nichols, Associate Professor and Interim Resource Acquisitions & Sharing Director, returned from an eight month sabbatical this October. Jane's goal was to continue to work on publications, pushing them closer to completion. She also continued to work with Calyx Press as a member of the Board, served on the ACRL Student Learning and Information Literacy Committee, reviewed proposals for the Global Digital Humanities Symposium, as well as many other activities.

While Jane was busy with scholarship and community work, she also took time to travel to Florida, Minnesota, Massachusets, Colorado, and Arizona to visit friends and family.

Transfer Students: Meet Your Librarians on Thursday, October 19th, 12pm - 3pm in The Nishihara Family Classroom located on the main floor of the Valley Library.

Librarians Beth Filar-Williams & Zach Welhouse are focused on transfer student success and have led focus groups and gathered data in efforts to support you. Now they're hosting an event with library resources and information to suit your needs.

For accommodations related to a disability contact Angela Haney at: LibraryAccommodations@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-1350

Check out this event and other upcoming events by going to the Oregon State University Events Calendar

Join the Valley Library October 9th - 13th for Safety Week! All events are free and open to the community. All events are located within the Valley Library, OSU Corvallis Campus. 

Safety Week Schedule
OCT. 9th, 9am - 11am: Mental Health Monday with CAPS @ Valley Main Floor
OCT. 10th, 10am - 11am: Fire Extinguisher Training @ Autzen Classroom (Main Floor)
OCT. 11th, 1pm - 3pm: Transportation Safety with ASOSU @ Learning Commons (Main Floor)
OCT. 12th, 3pm - 4pm: What is the Library Safety Council? @Willamette Rooms (3rd Floor)
OCT. 13th, 2pm - 5pm: Personal Health Safety @ Learning Commons (Main Floor)
 

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS

Accommodation requests related to a disability for library events should be made to: LibraryAccommodations@oregonstate.edu

Stop by the Valley Library to celebrate Oregon Archives Month with OSU Special Collections and Research Center! There will be events all month long both at our beautiful library and out and about in Corvallis!

Oregon Archives Month Events
OCT. 4: 10am - 1pm: Open House: Scrapbooks @SCARC 5th Floor in the Valley Library
OCT. 18: 10am - 1pm: Open House: Shannon Day Rettig Collection @SCARC 5th Floor in the Valley Library
OCT. 19: 4pm - 6pm: Add Glitter to the Archives, a Collab with Crafternoons @ Valley Library Main Floor
OCT. 26: 10:30am - 12pm: OSU Queer Archives Talk @ The Corvallis Museum 
OCT. 31: 12pm - 1:30pm: Archives Recipe Showcase @Willamette Rooms

DISABILITY ACCOMMODATIONS
Accommodation requests related to a disability for library events should be made to: LibraryAccommodations@oregonstate.edu

Visit The Valley Library to relax and craft together while supplies last. Enjoy the new Kow Lounge on the main floor while you spend time making bookmarks from The Valley Library cards, creating erasure poetry, coloring The Valley Library coloring pages and more.

 While you are here you can explore the best place to study on campus! But the Valley Library is more than just books and a quiet place to study. Check out reservable study rooms, textbook loans, flexible group study spaces, the largest computer lab on campus, a host of equipment from laptops and calculators to GoPros and craft kits and much, MUCH more! You can even borrow one of our 100s of board games to play here or at home.

OSU Events Page Link

This event will be happening all throughout Fall Family Weekend, October 14th with free crafts!

 

Join us at The Valley Library on September 25th during FORTE, OSU'S academic orientation!

Look for our trail of bulls from LINC to The Valley Library and stop by to visit us to learn about resources, services, and events at your library!

Check out the map here!

We're happy to have you back, beavs!

 

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