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    Welcome to the OSU Archives Please visit us our blog to share your stories and suggestions! ************************************************************************ HISTORIC SITES DATABASE NOW ONLINE The State Historic Preservation Office has made its master database of historic buildings and sites in Oregon available online. There are almost 45,000 records in the database, including National Register properties, surveys, and inventory records. "This is still a rudimentary version," said Roger Roper, the deputy state historic preservation officer. "There are many features we will be adding over the coming weeks, including the ability to run more complex searches and printout both site-specific data and summary data for groups of buildings. Please read the Disclaimer page for details about the limitations and the 'coming attractions.'" They are interested in your feedback, so please send your comments to ORsurvey.feedback@state.or.us. ... Read More >
  • H 2.0 - water meets web
    from catachresis by margaret
    NRIC, August 10, 2008 University of Oregon, Eugene. Andrea Wirth Margaret Mellinger Links to examples used in our presentation Wiki example Encyclopedia of Earth http://www.eoearth.org/ Blog example WaterWired (blog) http://aquadoc.typepad.com/waterwired/ Water Communities Scientists and Engineers for America http://sefora.org/ Nature Network http://network.nature.com/ Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (uses Omeka http://omeka.org/ ) http://www.hurricanearchive.org/ Flickr http://www.flickr.com/ SciLink http://www.scilink.com/ Custom Search Engines Rollyo http://rollyo.com/ Google Custom Search Engine http://www.google.com/coop/cse/ Social Bookmarking Connotea http://www.connotea.org/ de.licio.us http://delicious.com/ Yahoo ! Search MyWeb http://tools.search.yahoo.com/about/forsearchers.html RSS Feeds On Water http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/wrca.php American Water Works Association Breaking News http://www.awwa.org/Publications/BreakingNewsList.cfm Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (journal example of RSS) http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/volumes_and_issues.html Bloglines (RSS reader example) http://www.bloglines.com/ Chat widget Meebome http://www.meebome.com/ Videos SciVee http://www.scivee.tv/ Mashups Yahoo Pipes http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ Image Mashups Trippermap http://www.trippermap.com/ Yahoo Pipes with Flickr http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2007/05/pipes_flickr.html Mapping Mashups USGS Real-Time Water Data for Oregon http://waterdata.usgs.gov/or/nwis/rt Oregon Explorer. Oregon Watershed Restoration Inventory Visualization Tool. http://oregonexplorer.info/OWRI/OWRI.aspx?Res=17100 Links discussed by attendees... Read More >

  • from osu_archives by osu_archives
    ************************************************************************ Finding Aid Additions: July 2008 We’re starting a new feature on our blog, designed to let you know when we add to our existing online resources and descriptions of our collections. Additionally, and as a means of providing some background information, we thought we’d share a bit about or arrangement and description process. In our effort to get as many collections described and online, we create collection level descriptions for most collections. What is a collection level description? It means that you’re not likely to find a detailed inventory; it’s more in line with the levels of arrangement and description suggested by Greene and Meissner in their “More Product, Less Process” article. This means that you’ll find a note following many of the titles in this list that tells you whether the finding aid is a preliminary guide or in its final form. For example, in this round most (11) are collection-level finding aids 2 are full finding aids (RG 062 and P 259) 5 are for collections received in 2007 (Bartholomew, King, Packard, Williams, and RG 235) one is for a collection received in 2006 (P 259) most (11) are new finding aids 2 are updates of existing finding aids (FV P 069 and FV P 182) 5 are for collections for which we previously had no information available online, other than a title (RG 062, P 053; P 090, P 146, and Gilkey) In the list that follows, you’ll also notice that we give you a link to both the NWDA guide and the locally hosted PDF—you choose your view, both are the same! Finally, when we create a new finding aid, we load the file to the Northwest Digital Archives, provide a locally hosted PDF on our site, and produce MARC catalog records that are accessible through the OSU Libraries catalog, Summit, and Worldcat. For July, the following 13 finding aids were completed: Bartholomew, Frank H., Collection, 1983-1985 http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv43455 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREbartholomew.pdf College of Engineering Records, 1930-2002 (RG 062) [full] http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv45167 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/ORErg062.pdf College of Engineering Videotapes, circa 1995-1996 (FV P 069) http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv76285 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/film/documents/OREf069.pdf Gilkey, Beulah, Collection, 1905-1960 [preliminary] http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv38665 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREgilkeybeulah.pdf Horticulture Department Photographs, 1900-1980 (P 090) [preliminary] http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv05836 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp090.pdf King, David B., Papers, 1982-1994 http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv73207 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREkingdavid.pdf Nolan, J.M., Photograph Collection, 1889-1902 (P 053) http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv74918 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp053.pdf Packard, Earl, Papers, 1913-1980 http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv41743 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREpackard.pdf Sewell, James A., Photograph Album, circa 1902-1904 (P 259) http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv07543 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp259.pdf Student Affairs Moving Images, 1963-1995 (FV P 182) http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv40379 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/film/documents/OREf182.pdf Western Center for Community College Development Records, 1979-2004 (RG 235) [preliminary] http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv08915 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/ORErg235.pdf Williams, Gerald W., Collection, 1855-2007 [preliminary] http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv77995 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/mss/documents/OREwilliams.pdf 4-H Photograph Collection, 1913-1988 (P 146) [preliminary] http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv10621 http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/archives/archive/documents/OREp146.pdf ... Read More >
  • Testing inline images
    from inlinetestblog by jaf
    This is a test of inline images test test test... Read More >
  • Hello world!
    from inlinetestblog by jaf
    Welcome to OSU Libraries Blog Central. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!... Read More >
  • New features in Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports, and EndNote Web
    from enews by kristick
    ISI has made several enhancements to their products.The next time you access ISI Web of Knowledge resources, you'll find enhancements that provide you with totally new options for research:Web of Science: Citation Mapping - be the first to see the beta version of this powerful new Web of Science® visualization tool. Visualize citation relationships and understand the meaning of a cited reference search. Map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more!Web of Science and Biosis: Additional All-Database search options - now you can sort by Times Cited and search for specific addresses within an All-Database search, making this powerful feature even more flexible and convenient.Journal Citation Reports: New 2007 Data for Journal Citation Reports® - the new 2007 data provides the most current information available to determine a publication's impact and influence in the global research community.EndNote Web: Collaborate and share material easier with EndNote®Web • Designate read/write access for shared EndNote Web folders. Link to the full text of articles directly from EndNote Web records.... Read More >
  • Library Instruction 2.0: Building Your Online Instruction Toolkit
    from notes & links by deiteria
    2008 ALA Annual Conference Rachel Bridgewater, Reed College Anne-Marie Deitering, OSU Libraries Karen Munro, University of Oregon Links to our examples, and many more resources to browse can be found at our Library a la Carte page: Library Instruction 2.0 Web pages, CMS tools, LMS tools LibGuides (SpringShare) Library a la Carte (Oregon State University) Haiku (web-based LMS, free service is limited) NetVibes PageFlakes Viviti (still in private beta) Widgetize-able tools and applications Sprout - use Sprout to create widgets out of RSS feeds and more del.icio.us Karen's del.icio.us links Anne-Marie's del.icio.us links Rachel's del.icio.us links CiteULike MeeboMe Karen's post comparing chat widgets: Web-based chat widget face-off LibraryThing SlideShare SlideShare tutorial on adding audio to slideshare YouTube's Embeddable Custom Player (you must be signed into YouTube) VodPod (to include videos from providers other than YouTube) Resources for Keeping Up Google Reader Official Google Reader Blog Wikipedia's page on RSS aggregators - lots to choose from! Infodoodads Information Aesthetics Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day Read/Write Web Blackboard blogs ... Read More >
  • Northwest Archivists 2008 Annual Conference: New Frontiers in Archives and Records Management
    from osu_archives by osu_archives
    Session 10: Breaking the Ice: Protocols for Native American Archival Materials and Archivists in the Northwest. (submitted by OSU Staff Archivist Karl McCreary) A provocative examination of proposed protocols for Native American archival materials from three different perspectives formed the focus of this session. The protocols emerged from a 2006 meeting of 15 Native American and aboriginal information professionals and four non-native archivists. They were developed in large part to encourage dialog between Native American and non-Native American archivists regarding the best practices for the culturally responsive care and use of Native American archival material held by non-tribal organizations. The Northwest Archivists board has committed to revisiting these protocols at every annual meeting for at least five years, a process that began in 2007. To read the protocols, follow this link: http://www2.nau.edu/libnap-p/index.html. The session began with a presentation by Linda Wynne, records manager for the Sealaska Corporation, who illustrated through stories from her native Tlingit nation the importance of the repatriation of Native American artifacts to tribal cultures and identities. Telling the story of artifacts from her tribe sold to private collectors that were later returned (after years of lawsuits) to form the core of a tribal cultural heritage center, Linda emphasized that Native Americans view their historical material culture as having real value in contemporary society, and “don’t want to see our artifacts as something of the past” by being inaccessible in a distant museum. Monique Lloyd, the second presenter in this session and a member of the Ojibwe nation and MLIS candidate in the Emporia State University program, gave a basic overview and history of the protocols that included some personal thoughts regarding what she’s learned “working in two worlds” as an archivist/librarian. Monique voiced the hope that the protocols can lead to a greater understanding of the different traditions of information access between the Native and non-native cultures, and that these differences can be respected over time. Emphasizing further communication as the key element in this process, Monique described how a tribal member might answer a question with a story rather than a linear “yes” or “no.” This presentation seemed to re-iterate the importance of historical materials to Native American culture, which was summed up by Monique’s comment: “We belong to the property; the property doesn’t belong to us.” John Bolcer from the University of Washington offered a very different perspective on the protocols in the third and final presentation in this session. Looking at the protocols from the position of a non-tribal archives, John expressed concern that the protocols as currently written challenge the autonomy of archivists working in Non-Native American repositories and museums. According to Bolcer, one of the major problems is that the protocols define key concepts like “culturally sensitive” materials so vaguely that non-tribal institutions are forced to regard anything affiliated with Native American history or culture as culturally sensitive. Bolcer coupled this concern over the lack of guidelines for non-tribal archivists to follow with opposition to the protocols’ central assertion that Native American communities have primary rights to all materials referencing their culture, rather than just those directly generated by them. In Bolcer’s view, this basic tenet seeks to “control what is studied and written about Native American communities” and threatens “the practice of free and open inquiry upon my own institution depends.” Despite voicing serious reservations about the protocols, John ended with several suggestions for their revision. One of the suggestions centered upon defining the concepts of “culturally affiliated” and “culturally sensitive” in much more detailed and “nuanced” way and recognition of the fact that being respectful of Native American perspectives and knowledge systems does not necessarily mean adaption of them. The common theme throughout all three presentations seemed to be that further communication and understanding between Native American communities and non-tribal heritage professionals needs to continue and be encouraged. All the presenters agreed that the Protocols have definitely helped in starting and stimulating the discussion about tribal artifacts and archival materials. ... Read More >

  • from osu_archives by osu_archives
    ************************************************************************ New Summer Hours for the OSU Archives Start Monday The summer brings a change in our hours for the OSU Archives, Maps, and Microforms reference desk. Monday June 16th through Friday September 26th we will be open 10:00 a.m-4:00 p.m. Please call or email with questions: (541) 737.2165 or archives@oregonstate.edu. ... Read More >
  • Newsbank Oregonian access ends July 31
    from enews by kristick
    The statewide contract for the Oregonian ends July 31 and will not be renewed due to a massive price increase. Access to Oregonian articles will continue to be available through LexisNexis Academic.... Read More >

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