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Travelers return, new tips, and some new content for the newsletter.
Kelly McElroy and Natalia Fernandez are back from their trip abroad as part of their class: Information and Global Social Justice: Italy 2017. Based on the pictures of the trip, it looks like they had a great time. You can check those pictures out on the share drive, at \Shared\UEXP 290 Photos .
There is a Unity Dinner on Thursday. Join OSU Classified Workers for a Unity Dinner. We’ll be providing up to the minute bargaining updates and discussing next steps. Wednesday, Aug. 9, at Old World Deli, 341 SW 2nd St, Corvallis, OR 97333, from 5 – 7 p.m. To RSVP contact campus organizer Siobhan Burke at burkes@seiu503.org or call/text 630-699-0281.
Summer BBQing Sustainility Tips: Heating up your grill to avoid heating up your kitchen? Here are some tips for incorporating sustainability into your summer BBQs.
The Corvallis-Benton County Public Library is holding an event on Tuesday at 6:30pm discussing the way that ancient Greeks used eclipses to measure astronomical distances. Check out more the story on the Gazette-Times webpage for more details.
Branding Tips from Daniel Moret
Last week, we looked at the many elements of the new brand that are available as downloads from University Relations and Marketing – including photos, fonts, model release forms and more -- and today we’ll look at requirements and wording for notices about accommodations for disabilities.
Here’s what the online brand guide says about accommodations for disabilities:
Posters and other notices for all campus events must include an accommodations for disabilities statement at the bottom: Accommodations for disabilities may be made by contacting 541-737-XXXX or email@oregonstate.edu. When appropriate, use: Accommodations for disabilities or dietary restrictions may be made by contacting 541-737-XXXX or email@oregonstate.edu. It is up to the event organizer to provide the phone number and email address for coordinating accommodations requests.
All printed materials must include the following accommodations for disabilities statement: This publication will be made available in an accessible alternative format upon request. Please contact [sponsoring department contact name], 541-737-XXXX or email@oregonstate.edu.
The above info is also online at http://communications.oregonstate.edu/brand-guide/our-voice/editorial-style.
SCARC's first resident scholar of 2016-17, Leah Aronowsky, began last week. She is a history of science Ph.D. student at Harvard U. Her presentation on her research will be August 16.
Larry and Natalia's work on the Building and Place Name Evaluation Subcommittee is ramping up in preparation for review of the names of four OSU buildings (Arnold, Avery, Benton and Gill). They will be attending weekly meetings through mid-September and participating in community engagement sessions in late September and into October.
We have another series of fantastic workshops ready for you coming up in August. The Diamond Law group will be putting on training on implicit bias and another workshop on race here at the Valley Library on August 10th, from 9 a.m. to noon. There are only 30 open seats for this training, so please sign up soon.
In conjunction with this, the same group is also putting on training at the University of Oregon in the afternoon, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on implicit bias as well as a workshop on gender dynamics. You can sign up for those workshops as well! Please ensure you talk with your supervisor if you intend on traveling down to Eugene for this training. Registration for the workshops can be done here.
The Roads Scholar Tour is coming soon. Are you a new OSU employee within the last three years? Join University Outreach and Engagement for a two-day road trip, Sept. 13-14, to the Portland area to gain a greater appreciation of community engagement and form relationships with colleagues. Cost: $50; includes meals, lodging and transportation. Learn more about the tour and register: bit.ly/2017RST. Space is limited.
Metadata LT3 – This position has been posted and will close on the 20th of August.
Monograph Acquisitions LT3 – No new updates.
Serials Acquisitions LT3 – The committee has been formed for this search.
Cataloging LT3 – No new updates.
Cataloging LT3 – No new updates.
Circulation LT2 – There is a finalist identified for this position. The search committee is vetting the candidate prior to offering them the position.
Circulation LT2 – There is a finalist identified for this position. The search committee is vetting the candidate prior to offering them the position.
Science Librarian – The committee has met with Faye, and is looking to post the position soon.
Resource Sharing/CM Unit Manager – Phone interviews are being conducted this week, and a decision on in-person interviews should be made by the end of the week.
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy …. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.”
— Germaine Greer
This is a new section where we’ll be taking quotes and testimonials from student workers in the library about their experiences working in the library, as well as weekly updates from the AULs.
"My name is Dani Tellvik and I work on the 5th floor in the Special Collections and Archives Research Center. I am one of the writers for the Pauling Blog and I have to say that doing the research for the blog posts has been one of my favorite parts of working for the library. Digging into the research and finding surprising details that fill in the gaps is immensely rewarding. This position has given me the opportunity to explore new avenues of research and pushed me to improve my writing, which has been excellent for my course work and my own personal writing endeavors. My other favorite part of this job is interacting with my coworkers, especially getting to hear about other projects in the department or sharing details from my own. There's a genuine camaraderie and interest in other peoples' work that I haven't seen too much in past jobs."
Cheryl and I aren’t sure what form this corner of the newsletter is going to take -we’ve been given quite a bit of freedom over it. In fact, we’re thinking we’ll rotate through a few different types of approaches. Today’s is mostly a travel diary. Last week, I was in Vermont (with Jane) at the ACRL Immersion program. And Cheryl spent the end of the week representing ACRL at the Society of American Archivists’ conference (where she was also joined by a number of OSULP folks).
Immersion was a really good experience. For the whole week, half of my brain was engaged with the content and thinking about how to apply different tools and models here at OSU. Having Jane right there to debrief with was a great opportunity. And then the other half of my brain was focused on the Immersion curriculum and how it was being taught. We’re going to be revising it in the next year, and being there to see how it works and what people respond to was really helpful. I was able to suggest an activity (and approach, really) that Hannah and I have developed for faculty workshops here — it went over extremely well and I think I am going to be able to draw heavily on the work we’ve done here around curiosity and reflective practice.
And then I got to meet every day for two hours with small cohort groups of participants — and that might have been the best part. It didn’t hurt, that this was the view from our meeting room window.
That’s a meeting room at the Champlain College Library that is open study when it’s not in use. I have no idea how early one has to get there to claim a seat!
The Society of American Archivist meeting in Portland, OR was a great experience. Their program was rich and varied and there were many opportunities for archivists and others to be certified in the practices of their profession. We had 4 people from OSULP presenting and a number of others attending the meeting. I was privileged to attend a session where Elizabeth Nelson presented a lightening talk about working with our microfilmed archival records. The topic was serious but she had a great wit that had the audience chuckling. We also got a shout out from the Oregon Historical Society for our collaboration with them to digitize their image collection and make it more discoverable. My big take away is the big overlap between the librarians, archivists and other cultural heritage preservationists and the impact that we can make if we work together to make our cultural heritage discoverable to our users. It was exciting and I felt like a new librarian at my first ALA conference as I navigated the conference.
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