Construction Noise

The University will install tunnels in the vicinity of the Library from 8/26/2009 to 5/14/2010. During this period there may be loud construction noise in the basement and lower floors of the Library. Work hours are 7:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday

The tunnels will form a "campus loop" that will result in considerable energy, operational, and maintenance savings by consolidating boilers and chillers in central plants, and replacing equipment that is well beyond its useful life. It is an important step to making PSU a sustainable and efficient campus.

We apologize for the inconvenience

If you missed Lauren Kessler's presentation about her book, Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family at Portland State University, for Oregon Reads 2009, you can see it now at the Oregon Reads website:

http://www.oregonreads2009.org/video.html

This production is a Portland State Library partnership with Multnomah County Library and the Oregon Library Association.

The students of the Senior Capstone course "Living Beyond War" (UNST 421, Sec 562), have installed a display on the first floor of Millar Library in the New Books area. The display highlights books and films that provide alternatives to war. The display will remain in place until September 5. Taught by Debbie Kaufman, the course challenges students to examine their assumptions about war and to become part of an alternative solution to conflict.

ARTstor has been making the world’s great museum’s collections available digitally since 2004. In that time the database has grown from a few thousand images to more than one million and offers access to materials in the arts, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences. To that end, ARTstor has announced the addition of the following collections:
• Asian Art Photographic Distribution (University of Michigan)
• Carl Strom and Jennifer Strom: Korean Buddhist Monasteries
• Deepanjana and Arno Klein: Cave Temples at Ellora, India
• Ezra Stoller Archive (Esto)
• Ferguson-Royce: Pre-Columbian Photography (UT Austin)
• Gernsheim Photographic Corpus of Drawings
• James Conlon: Mali and Yemen Sites and Architecture
• Magnum Photos
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (Harvard University)
• Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art
• Warburg Institute
• Wayne Andrews Archive (Esto)

ARTstor offers benefits to authorized users that include reproduction, distribution, display, and performances with ARTstor content for: a) classroom instruction and related classroom activities; b) student assignments and research (including course reserves); c)research activities of faculty, scholars, and curators; d) public display or public performance as part of a noncommercial conference, exhibit, or workshop, or a similar noncommercial professional activity, if such use conforms to the customary and usual practice in the field; e) use in a student, faculty, or curatorial portfolio, including non-public display thereof, if such use conforms to the customary and usual practice in the field; and/or f) use in research or a dissertation, including reproductions of the dissertation provided such reproductions are only for personal use, library deposit, and/or used solely within the institution(s) with which the Authorized User and/or his or her faculty or curatorial readers are affiliated.

You can visit the newly released collections and many more. While visiting the site you might want to take advantage of the many services ARTstor offers to its authorized users. Click on the Using ARTstor tab at the top of the home page, choose one of the options and follow the directions
If you have questions or would like to know more about ARTstor or any other resources that PSU Library offers, please contact one of the library’s reference professionals.

Some of your favorite journals will be changing to Web-access only for 2010. Springer-Verlag, a major publisher of Science, Technology and Medical journals, books, and reference works, has acquired the rights to the titles listed below for 2010. Access will be available to PSU Library users on the SpringerLink platform/search engine, through Vikat and our Library Web site

Biophysics

Gender Issues

Israel Journal of Mathematics

JOM: The Journal of the Minerals, Metals & Materials Society

Journal of Genetics

Kew Bulletin

Philosophia

Society

Sports Engineering

Review of Black Political Economy

Studies in Comparative International Development

The Library will continue to receive both print and online formats of these titles through the end of 2009 and will change to online only for 2010. If you need additional information regarding any of these titles, please feel free to Ask Us!

Have you ever wondered which publications PSU Faculty publish in most often?

These are the top five titles with PSU faculty-authored articles since 1981:*

1. Oregon Historical Quarterly 119 articles
2. Biophysical Journal 70 articles
3. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 70 articles
4. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 67 articles
5. The Gerontologist 64 articles

If you would like to know more about a specific journal and its publishing history in relation to PSU researchers, just Ask Us!.

*Information based on the Local Journal Utilization Report, Copyright: Thomson Reuters, 2009.

In 2008, over two million searches were performed on the electronic resources that PSU Library provides for its users. From those searches, close to 300,000 documents were downloaded.

We’d like to encourage you to give us feedback on our electronic resources --- the ones you like or don’t like --- and give us suggestions for the resources you'd like us to add or trial for our collection.

If you have questions about the resources just click on the Ask Us link on the Library's Web site.

Due to the budget cuts the PSU Library will sustain in the upcoming fiscal year, the Library's subscription to Multi-Search will not be renewed when it expires on June 24, 2009. Multi-Search is the tool that allows simultaneous queries across selected research databases.

We know that our users appreciate having the capability to perform these types of multiple-database searches, so we are working hard to replace Multi-Search. Multi-Search will be replaced with our own in-house system called "PSU Synergy." The first phase of PSU Synergy is almost completed, and will be ready for beta-testing by June 24. At first, PSU Synergy will not be as fully functional a system as Multi-Search, but our in-house development of Synergy and the addition of more database connections to the new system will continue throughout 2009.

We hope you'll find the beta version of PSU Synergy to be a valuable searching tool, even as we continue to build a better system for the future!

Portland State University Library is a Federal Depository Library, and seeks to bring the best of government information to the Portland State University community. The official YouTube channel of the U.S. Government links you to videos from NASA, the Department of State, NOAA, and more! Videos include news updates, webcasts, videos from land, sea and space, explanations of the new GI Bill, and much, much more.

Go to the US Government YouTube Channel!

The Oregon Library Association (OLA) and the Oregon Center for the Book have launched a new Web site for Oregon authors: http://www.oregonauthors.org/

This Web site features Oregon authors' books, their Web sites, and their photographs or covers of their latest books! If you would like to create your own page about your book publications, just click on Browse Authors on the left-hand column, then click on "send us your information" to register for your page at the Oregon Authors Web site.

Once the Oregon Authors Committee of the OLA has vetted your information, you will receive a logon account and password to access your Web page. Log on and add your titles with the bibliographic information, then submit the entries for verification by the Oregon Authors committee, who will in turn, edit for further citation information.

The Oregon Authors Web site is a great way to get the word out about your work!

The Oregon Authors Web site is supported in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library.

Let's be sure Portland State University faculty, staff, and students who have published books are prominently featured at this new Web site!