Excavation behind the Branford P. Millar Library is well under way. The hole is now close to 30 feet deep, with slide-rail shoring holding back the sides as digging continues. As the 29 ton rails are driven further into the ground, vibration and occasional shaking can be felt throughout the Library. Other than significant noise in classroom 160, Library operations have not been disrupted. We apologize for the noise produced during this phase of the project. Fortis Construction has been keeping the Library well informed as work progresses.

The excavation is part of the Campus Loop Project that will result in considerable energy and maintenance savings by consolidating heating and cooling functions on campus. For more on the project and how it helps make the Portland State campus more sustainable, see the article in today's Vanguard.

Portland State Library Presents
Spotlight on Faculty:
Christine Rose and Gina Greco's Translation,
The Good Wife's Guide: Le Menagier de Paris

4pm, Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Branford P. Millar Library

Room 160
1875 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97207

Portland State professors, Christine Rose and Gina Greco, will present their translation, The Good Wife's Guide: Le Menagier de Paris, the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text, which provides unique insights into the domestic life of women during the late Middle Ages.

Free admission and open to the public. More information? Call 503.725.4552.

American Institute of Physics Announces Social Networking for Researchers*

AIP UniPHY is social networking platform for physical scientists that is pre-populated with profiles of individual researchers based on their publication history. Users will find their colleagues’ research and will be able to follow a web of connections that shows each researcher involved in the project and their past collaborators.
Profiles include information such as the number of articles a person published in a given year, what specific fields these papers were in, and the number of co-author connections each has. If you are a researcher who has published at least two papers that are indexed in AIP’s SPIN database you will have a pre-populated profile which you can validate after registering at the site.
For more information or to validate or set up your profile, go to: http://www.aipuniphy.org/Portal/Portal.aspx

*AIP Library Matters : News for Librarians, Fall 2009

New Electronic Resource Provides CD-quality Recordings of Classical Music

October 14, 2009

The Naxos Music Library is now available to the Portland State University community. The service provides access to classical recordings in CD quality sound. Playlists created by PSU instructors will be available to anyone who visits Naxos Music Library from a PSU IP authenticated computer. While only instructors can create playlists, you can listen to some of the world’s top recordings of classical music on your own computer in your own time.

You can reach Naxos Music Library through this link: http://stats.lib.pdx.edu/dofd.php?url=http://pdx.NaxosMusicLibrary.com or from our database page.

Portland State Library presents the documentary, Welcome to Iran

Welcome to Iran
5th Avenue Cinema
SW 5th & SW Hall
Portland, OR

7:00 PM Friday, October 16, 2009

The Portland State Library presents a video project, Welcome to Iran, as part of of the September Project 2009 at the 5th Avenue Cinema, Friday, October 16, at 7 pm. A chat with filmmaker, Art Wright, will follow the screening.

Welcome to Iran is a video project by Art Wright, which explores Persian history by visiting sites both ancient and contemporary. It was taken during a trip with a group made up mostly of Oregonians to Iran in November 2008. Not quite a travelogue, not a slide show,it mixes digital stills and moving images in an attempt to explain the attitude of today's Iran. While not overtly political, (in fact discussions of contemporary issues were discouraged while in Iran), it nevertheless touches on issues now made relevant by the recent events in Iran.

For more information, please call 503.725.4552.

Free admission and open to the public.

The History of Middle East Studies in the Western World

Lecture by Gary Leiser, PSU ’69 with comments by Jon Mandaville, Professor Emeritus, History and Official Opening of PSU Library Exhibit (through Dec. 10)

Friday, October 9, 2009, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Smith Memorial Student Union, Room 101, PSU

Gary Leiser, PSU ’69, Middle East scholar and author, and Jon Mandaville, Professor Emeritus, History, are co-curators of a wonderful exhibit in the PSU Branford Millar Library on the history of Middle East Studies in the western world. Come see displays on the Midlde East Studies Center’s history, hear about the exhibit contents and theme from Leiser and Mandaville, then visit the exhibit in the PSU Library with information panels, rare books, and display of Middle East-related books by PSU alumni and current and former faculty.

Co-sponsored by PSU's Middle East Studies Center, Branford P. Millar Library, and Alumni Association, with support from the Tarbell Family Foundation, Fahad Al-Athel, Art Wright, Saudi Aramco, and the Gordon Hunter Fund. For more information, call (503)725-4074.

The Portland State Library has been receiving a matching grant award, the "Canadian Studies Library Support Grant," from the Consulate General of Canada since 1995. This annual grant award of $2,000 or more allows us to strengthen our Canadian Studies holdings in order to support teaching and research in Canadian Studies, including topics in social sciences and the humanities, such as business studies, economics, law, education, communications policy, environmental studies, architecture, and other related fields. We appreciate the generosity of the International Council for Canadian Studies in offering this matching grant opportunity, as it has alllowed us to develop substantial holdings of Canadiana materials over the years. (To find Candiana materials, search our Library Catalog-Vikat at: http://vikat.pdx.edu/.)

The Portland State University Library has opened a small Family Study Room, designed for student-parents and their children. Student-parents often find themselves on campus with their kids, and need family friendly spaces. The room is the result of the Library's collaboration with the Helen Gordon Child Development Center, and with the support of the Office of Information Technologies.

The Family Study Room has two workstations for students and a play/reading area for children. It can accommodate two family groups at a time, and is available on a first-come, first-served basis by checking out a key at the Circulation Desk on the first floor of the Library. The room does not provide childcare, but offers a family-friendly place for student-parents to study and work on projects.

The Journal Business Economics is now available online through the Library's Web site. We will continue to receive print issues through the end of 2009 and then in online format only. The Nature Publishing Group has taken over the distribution of this title, so it will join other NPG titles including Palgrave publications, on the Nature Platform.

Due to budget reductions, PSU Library has been forced to make some difficult decisions concerning our support of Electronic Resources. The following titles will no longer be available to PSU users [effective dates as noted]:

• Cambridge Journals online [access ends 12/31/2009]
• Global Books in Print [access ends 01/31/2010]
• Popular Culture Universe [access ends 10/31/2009]
• Book Review Index [access ends April 30, 2010]
• Virtual Reference Library [access ends May 31, 2010]
• Chicano database [access ends May 31, 2010]
• Essay and general literature online [access ends January 31, 2010]
• GDCS [access ends July 31, 2010]
• ITER : gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance [access ends 12/31/2009]
• PsycBOOKS [access ended 09/01/2009]
• ReferenceUSA [access ends 06/14/2010]
• SimplyMap [access ends 11/30/2009]
• SocIndex [access ends 10/31/2009]
• Weldasearch [access ends 12/31/2009]
• China Data online [access ends 05/31/2010]
• L’Annee philologique [access ends 04/18/2010]

If you need help finding alternatives to this content, please contact the Library (503) 725-5874.

The Portland State Library hosts the 50th anniversary exhibit of the Middle East Studies Center, "History of Middle East Studies in the West."

This exhibit will show books and other items from the 17th to the present and also works by Portland State University Faculty. It will be a great opportunity to learn more about the history of Middle East studies and the Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University. Gary Leiser, PSU '69 and Professor Emeritus Jon Mandaville have selected significant books and resources from the Portland State Library's Special Collections in collaboration with Cris Paschild, University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian.

See exhibit bibliography

Branford P. Millar Library, 1875 Park Avenue.
1st floor New Books / Exhibit Area
Friday, September 19 - Friday, December 10, 2009