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Game Nite, a Classic Valley Library Event

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...

Reflecting on Free Comic Book Day 2024

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!...

Albina Music Trust Community Archive Open House

This May, Albina Music Trust and OSU’s Special Collections Archives and Records Center presented an afternoon of historic regional arts activation. The OSU community joined in this celebration the recent release of a community...

OSU Press Book Wins Burroughs Medal

Halcyon Journey: In Search of the Belted Kingfisher by Marina Richie has received the 2024 Burroughs Medal for Distinguished Natural History Writing.  Created in 1926, the John Burroughs Medal is awarded annually to the year’s most...

Librarians from Fujian Province Visit

Oregon State University Libraries and Press was excited to host librarians from the Fujian Province of China to Oregon State University to present on a variety of topics about librarianship in Fujian. Presenter: Huang, Zhaohui, Fujian...

Composting for All

The Valley Library has welcomed public composting thanks to a partnership with OSU Sustainability and Waste Watchers. This composting bin is located in the Goddard Memorial Lobby on the second/main floor of the library, nearby the main entrance...

Beth Filar Williams Plans for Sabbatical

Beth Filar Williams will be taking a 6 month to allow her to dive deeper into their UX Research Librarian role. After 1.5 years in this position, creating it from scratch, testing ideas, talking to library units, Beth feels that it is time to get...

Tiah Edmunson-Morton Promotion

Tiah Edmunson-Morton was promoted to Senior Faculty Research Assistant II.  This is the highest level of professional distinction that one can earn as an OSU FRA. Over the last decade, Tiah built the Oregon Hops and Brewing Archive (OHBA)...

A Message from the Library Dean

I am writing this message from the new combined circulation and information desk in the Valley Library.  It is 10:30 pm and the Valley Library is a calm and active place tonight. We are in that time of the term where midterms have ended, and...

OSU Institutional Repository Hits 80K Items!

Oregon State’s institutional repository, ScholarsArchive@OSU, crossed a milestone this week by adding its 80,000th item. Operated by the Valley Library, ScholarsArchive@OSU makes the scholarly output of OSU openly available online. It holds...

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