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Ecampus News
Welcome to the OSU Libraries News and Events page!
Please join us for a celebration of the publication of Robert
Michael Pyle's new book, The Tangled
Bank: Writings from Orion.
September 27, 7 p.m., Corvallis
A conversation, reading, and book signing with
Robert Michael Pyle and Orion editor
Jennifer Sahn
Old World Deli, 241 SW 2nd, Corvallis
...
Join Special Collections and Archives in celebrating history
at OSU in with these four events in
October:
Terry Baker on Film - Thursday, October 4th (12:00-1:00;
Willamette Room West) - In honor of the OSU athlete extraordinaire and Heisman
Trophy winner Terry Baker, we’ll going to show the 1963 TV documentary produced
by KATU-TV “A Day in the Life of Terry Baker.” We’ll also show clips
from football games played by Baker...
The Oregon State University Library Faculty Association
invites all interested colleagues and friends to attend the first presentation
of the 2012/2013 Seminar Series on Friday, October 12, 2012 from 10:00-11:30am.
Moving from Institute to Network: Reflections on the Oregon Tribal Archives
Institute chronicles a two-year project including the culminating event,
the OSU-hosted Oregon Tribal Archives Institute held August 19-24, 2012. Made
possible by a two-year Library Services &...
The
Oregon Multicultural Archives is celebrating Latino/a Heritage Month with a photographic exhibit documenting the Bracero Program in Oregon. The
102 photos in the collection document the migrant workers brought to Oregon by
the Mexican Farm Labor Program in the 1940s.
Find out more on
the Oregon Multicultural Archives Blog Post
Be sure to check
out the...
The Special Collections & Archives Research Center has
partnered with the Benton County Historical Museum and Ball Studio to create
“The Ball Studio Centennial Photography Exhibition.” The exhibit features the work of four
generations of the Ball Family who have operated Ball Studio, which has
chronicled daily life in Corvallis and other Oregon communities since 1912. Included are portraits; views of businesses,
street scenes, landmarks, and of course OSU; aerial views...
Special Collections
& University Archives Research Center announces the first Resident
Scholar lecture of the 2012-13 academic year, which is scheduled for Wednesday,
September 5th at 2:00 in the Willamette
Room (3rd floor of the Library). We are proud to welcome our Resident
Scholar, Dr. Pnina Abir-Am of Brandeis University.
Title: "Pauling's Boys" and the
DNA Structure Mystery
Abstract: The talk...
The
Special Collections & University Archives Research Center has created
a display of illuminated manuscripts on the 5th floor of the OSULibrary.
These works are final projects from students in Priscilla West's ART 494
class from Spring 2012. After studying the history of manuscripts and
visiting SCARC to see our illuminated Gradual, students created their own
illuminated manuscripts as a final project. The display of the
students’ projects will...
A
recent OSU Spotlight blog post features Special Collections & Archives
Research Center student assistant Hannah Mahoney, who describes how her recent
internships and the basic archives course taught by SCARC faculty Tiah
Edmunson-Morton and Larry Landis earlier this year have helped to shape her
career path. http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/spotlight/2012/08/27/from-past-to-present/
