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Oregon State University

Valery King

Associate Professor, Social Sciences/Humanities and Government Information Librarian

The Valley Library

121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-4501
Phone: (541) 737-7318
Fax: (541) 737-8224
IM: VLibValery (AIM, MSN)
Primary Duties: Library instruction, research and reference services, Learning Commons team, government information services, collection development
Subjects: HDFS; Political Science, Sociology, Public Policy; Music, Speech Communications/Theater Arts; Maps; Law; Government Information
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Federal and state government information; Political Science, Sociology, Public Policy, HDFS, Theater Arts and Music; Maps.

Brief CV

  • B.A., General Humanities, University of Oregon (1978) M.L.S., University of Oregon (1979)
    Reference and virtual reference services Government information and intellectual freedom

Publications and More

  • "Cooperative Reference Desk Scheduling and Its Effects on Professional Collegiality." Co-published simultaneously in The Reference Librarian No. 83/84, 2003, pp. 97-118; and Cooperative Reference: Social Interaction in the Workplace (ed: Celia Hales Mabry) : Haworth Press, 2003, pp. 97-118. "Supporting a Culture of Scholarship for Academic Librarians" with Richard Sapon-White and Anne Christie. portal: Libraries and the Academy 4.3, 2004, pp. 407-421. "Music Research and Reference on the Internet." Guest column, Reference and User Services Quarterly, Volume 44, no. 2, Winter 2004 , pp. 111-115. "Internet Resources: Music." College & Research Libraries News, Dec. 2005, Vol. 66 Issue 11, p778-781. "Moving Back to Campus: Creating a Local Virtual Reference Service" with Jane Nichols and Greg Padilla. Internet Reference Services Quarterly Vol. 11(3) 2006. Available online at http://irsq.haworthpress.com. "Going Digital with Government Information." OLA Quarterly, vol. 12 no. 1 Spring 2006, Co-editor.

Committees

  • Instruction Workgroup
    Library Promotion and Tenure Committee
    Messenger Editorial Committee
    Research and Writing Group
    Subject Research Guides Task Force
    National Committees:
      Education Committee, Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), ALA 2005-2007
      Bibliography Committee, Anthropology and Social Science Section (ANSS), ACRL, ALA 2002-2004
    Statewide Committees:
      Oregon Library Association Conference Committee 2010-11: Registration chair
      OLA/WLA Joint Conference Committee 2008: Co-registrar
      Documents Interest Group of Oregon (DIGOR), OLA, 1999- --Chair, 2011-2012 --Chair-elect, 2010-2011 --Secretary, 2005-2006 --Past Chair, 2005-2006 --Chair, 2004-2005
      L-net Advisory Board member, 2006-2008
      L-Net Summit Planning Committee, 2010-2011
    Undergraduate Admissions Committee, 2008-2011 Faculty Senate Bylaws and Nominations Committee, 2007-2009 OSU Safety Committee, 2000-2006

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