Welcome to the OSU Libraries News and Events page!
Oregon State University Libraries and Press is pleased to announce the following new employees: David Irvin, Director of the Marilyn Potts Guin Library, Shoshana Patocka, Faculty Research Assistant at the Valley Library, and Katherine White, OSU Press Marketing Director.
We'll soon announce other new employees as they join us at OSULP.
Guin Library generously helped prepare for Marine Science Day by helping the planning committee and coordinating the dispersal of MSD posters and bookmarks through library couriers: Summit, Lincoln County Library, and the Lincoln County School District. This innovative idea saved the committee hundreds of dollars!
Not only was Guin instrumental in providing this behind-the-scenes assistance, the library also worked to ensure attendees of Marine Science Day felt welcome by adding bilingual English/Spanish signage for their self-checkout, children’s puzzles, and games collections.
The library had around 115 visitors during MSD and plenty of places for them to enjoy with Reading Nooks, book displays, a new children’s play area, and much more.
Guin Library generously helped prepare for Marine Science Day by helping the planning committee and coordinating the dispersal of MSD posters and bookmarks through library couriers: Summit, Lincoln County Library, and the Lincoln County School District. This innovative idea saved the committee hundreds of dollars!
Not only was Guin instrumental in providing this behind-the-scenes assistance, the library also worked to ensure attendees of Marine Science Day felt welcome by adding bilingual English/Spanish signage for their self-checkout, children’s puzzles, and games collections.
The library had around 115 visitors during MSD and plenty of places for them to enjoy with Reading Nooks, book displays, a new children’s play area, and much more.
Guin Library has been hard at work to improve the lives of OSU students by adding new editions, extra copies of popular titles, and adding laminated field ID guides! These great improvements emerged from a collaboration between Guin and Valley librarians.
Guin Library has been hard at work to improve the lives of OSU students by adding new editions, extra copies of popular titles, and adding laminated field ID guides! These great improvements emerged from a collaboration between Guin and Valley librarians.
Professor of History, Jacob Hamblin and History Senior Instructor, Linda Richards led a conversation on their new book Making the Unseen Visible: Science and the Contested Histories of Radiation Exposure on Wednesday, May 15th.
Hamblin and Richards implored participants to engage with original primary sources on radiation exposure from the nuclear history collections in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center Reading Room, located in the fifth floor of the Valley Library.
Honors College students in Braden Engel’s Buildings of Bend seminar designed a new campus library!
They used both thematic design elements and functional considerations to craft a building that can accommodate the myriad experiences students would look for in a full-scale university library.
Pictures of this fascinating redesign can be found on the OSU Cascades Library Instagram post.
Honors College students in Braden Engel’s Buildings of Bend seminar designed a new campus library!
They used both thematic design elements and functional considerations to craft a building that can accommodate the myriad experiences students would look for in a full-scale university library.
Pictures of this fascinating redesign can be found on the OSU Cascades Library Instagram post.
Game Nite has a proven track record of quality engagement and community building at the Valley Library. Spring term Game Nite featured many of the classic activities that this event has been known for such as a Smash Bros tournament and video game room, crafting, and board games from the Valley Library’s collection!
While these board games can be borrowed (for up to a week) anytime, there’s a magic to sharing a board game in the library with friends, family, and soon-to-be friends from around the OSU community. This Game Nite featured the first ever puzzle race! Teams gathered together to speedily put together their book themed puzzles for a special prize.
In partnership with Hui o Hawai’i, the Valley Library offered free Crafternoon crafting of glow-in-the-dark leis!
If you haven’t been to a Game Nite before, you’ll have to join this wonderful community soon.
Free Comic Book Day 2024 at the Valley Library was a great success, with 234 attendees comprised of families, students, groups, and community members. Folks stopped to craft and engage with the library’s display of borrowable graphic novels! Sasquatch made an appearance to promote the event around the library. Corvallis-Benton County Public Library tabled with resources and button-making. The OSU Pride Center provided zines, resource handouts, and swag. Matt’s Cavalcade of Comics generously donated comics for all to enjoy. With the momentum from this year’s Free Comic Book Day, it’s safe to say that the library and community are looking forward to this annual activity for many years to come.
121 The Valley Library
Corvallis OR 97331–4501
