This term, tutoring services offered on the 2nd floor of the Library will expand significantly, both in the breadth of subjects covered and the hours they are available. The schedule is as follows, and will begin Wednesday April 1:

Thanks to Lisa Hatfield and the tutors at the Skills Enhancement and Tutoring Center (SETC) for making these services more accessible to students!

Join us in celebrating the launch of Portland State: A History in Pictures on Friday, April 24, 2009!

The event will be held 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm on the second floor of Branford P. Millar Library at 1875 SW Park Avenue in Portland.

Three years in the making, the book Portland State: A History in Pictures, features more than 300 color and black-and-white photographs that document Portland State's history, events, and people from its early days as a temporary extension center to the nationally recognized urban research university that it is today. Join us at the Library to help celebrate and see if you can recognize any of your old classmates or professors!

A project of the Retired Association of Portland State (RAPS), Portland State: A History in Pictures was written by Richard Sanders'57, with photo editing by Brent Schauer with text editing by Charles White, Professor Emeritus, and Clarence Hein '65.

The Portland State Library in collaboration with Retirement Association of Portland State and the PSU Alumni Association invites you to attend this Inauguration event for President Wim Wiewel.

Bring your cup to the Library on Sunday night, 3/15, at 9:00 p.m. for free coffee sponsored by Starbucks, while supplies last. Using your own mug always helps reduce waste and your coffee will stay warm longer than in a paper cup!

In cooperation with the Goethe Institute, San Francisco, the Portland State Library hosts

IKONEN EINER GRENZANLAGE
ICONS OF A BORDER INSTALLATION
Photographic Search for Traces
in Today’s Berlin.

A touring photo exhibition designed and implemented by students of the University of Paderborn, Germany.

Mar. 3 – April 14, 2009 Portland State University Library

Film and Lecture Series

SMC 238, 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Films - April 1 - April 3:
- Nicholaikirche (1995) - Wednesday, April 1
- Der Irrationale Rest (2005) - Thursday, April 2
- Ein Volk Sprengt Seine Mauer (1990) - Friday, April 3

Lecture - Monday, April 6:

Professor Steven N. Fuller, Portland State University, presents,
"A Year in East Germany 1984-1985: Ein Jahr in Der DRR 1984 -1985."

The exhibit and the accompanying film series & lecture are sponsored by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Portland State University Library, Die Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik, The German American School of Portland and the Goethe Institute San Francisco.

Admission is free and open to the public.

The Skills Enhancement and Tutoring Center (SETC), in collaboration with the Portland State University Library, will expand hours for math tutoring in the Library this Spring Term. In addition to the current hours Monday and Tuesday evenings from 4:30-7:00 PM, the Center will offer Sunday hours 1:00 - 5:00 PM. The tutor is located on the second floor, behind the reference desk area. Thanks to SETC for providing this expanded service to students!

Thanks to those of you who participated in our 2008 Library quality survey (LibQUAL+)! The winners of the survey drawing are:

iPod nano
Jill Shoen, Graduate, Education
30 Tri-Met passes
Julia Person, Graduate, Urban and Regional Planning
$50 gift certificate to PSU Bookstore
Tracy Marsden, Graduate, Social Work
Atsu Nagayama, Coordinator of Business Operations, Campus Recreation
$10 gift certificate to Starbucks
Erin O'Halloran, Undergraduate, Physics & Pre-Medicine
Kelsy Haggblom, Undergraduate, International Studies & Pre-Medicine
Linda Newton-Curtis, Research Associate, Social Work
Anne McClanan, Associate Professor, Fine and Performing Arts
Kristi Hansen, Research Administrator, Urban and Public Affairs
Samaneh Zhian, Graduate, Biology
Tyler Roppe, Graduate, Education

To learn more about how your input shapes your library services, see our Measuring Quality Web page

Alton Takiyama-Chung’s Documentary, Okage Sama De is showing at the Fifth Avenue Cinema in Portland.

Friday, February 6, 7 pm
Saturday, February 7, 7 pm
5th Avenue Cinema
510 S.W. Hall St
Portland OR 97201

Through the history-based stories of five Japanese American men, Alton Takiyama-Chung explores the complexity of the Japanese American experience during World War II from the U.S. internment camps to the front lines in Europe and the Pacific. Takiyama-Chung introduces the film and answers questions.

Presented by Portland State Library & Multnomah County Libraries. Donations to the Oregon Food Bank accepted at the door.

Students and employees can join the much-anticipated myPSU portal on the Web, and access Library resources and services easily through the Library Tab. The new interface is a one-stop site for all PSU information and communications, including Banweb, employment, and news.

First time users need to initially synchronize their Portland State computer accounts at http://oam.pdx.edu. Once synchronized, using an Odin ID and new password, students and employees can go to http://my.pdx.edu and immediately use and customize their portal site.

Once you are logged in, you will see the library tab:

If you run into trouble logging in to MyPSU, please contact the OIT Helpdesk

Thursday, January 29 6:00 PM
Branford P. Millar Library, Room 160
1875 SW Park Avenue
Portland, OR 97201

A Gathering of Portland Poets
Come and celebrate William Stafford’s Birthday with Portland poets reading their favorite Stafford poems and a few of their own. Poets include Shelley Reece, Michelle Glazer, Verlena Orr, and Portland State graduate students Michael Achterman, Kate Bucko and Chris Cottrell.

William Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was a poet and member of the Lewis & Clark College faculty. He won a National Book Award (1963), was named Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1970), and named Oregon Poet Laureate (1975).

As part of the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at Portland State University, the Library will display key pieces from the Honorable Senator Avel Gordly's archives from Special Collections.

The exhibit can be viewed on the first floor of the Library from January 12 - April 22, 2009.