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Published: Wed, 09/26/2012 - 13:12
The Portland State University Library is excited to offer a new, convenient service to our students and faculty. This new feature allows you to place a request on any available book in the library and we will get it for you and place it on hold. You will receive an email when the item is ready and you may pick up your books at the Circulation Desk on the first floor. You may place holds on as many items as you like. Requests will be processed and ready for pick up within 24 hours. Books will be held for 7 days.
Published: Wed, 09/26/2012 - 13:10
The Portland State University Library now offers an online booking system for students to reserve study space. Rooms may be reserved in three hour blocks of time, up to a week in advance. There are 27 rooms for students to use, including two Practice Presentation Rooms and a Family Friendly Study Room. The rooms vary in size from small, individual rooms to large rooms that hold up to 15 people. Study rooms are dedicated for individuals needing a quiet space to study and reflect or for groups working together on projects. To book a room, go to library.pdx.edu/studyrooms. When you are ready to check out the key, come to the Circulation Desk on the first floor. Walk in reservations will be accepted, if rooms are available.
Published: Tue, 09/11/2012 - 13:54
“Public opinion in this country is everything.” Abraham Lincoln. September 16, 1859
 And what would President Lincoln think of public opinion now? Whether opinion is related to personal technology use or presidential approval ratings, the media, academicians, and think tanks study and analyze this uniquely democratic beast: public opinion. For Portland State students and faculty, finding historic and current public opinion has just gotten easier by using Roper Center for Public Opinion’s iPoll database.
iPoll provides researchers with up-to-date public opinion survey results from academic, commercial and media opinion surveys. Would you like to know what surveys revealed regarding Americans' views of Michelle Obama just last month? iPoll can tell you. Would you like to know if American supported the creation of uniform traffic laws for all states in 1935? iPoll has that, too.
As we enter into the full-swing of election season, Roper Center for Public Opinion’s iPoll database is your resource for exploring historical and current public opinion. See what gems you can find in this new resource!
Published: Tue, 09/11/2012 - 09:50
Check out the Library hours for Fall 2012 below. You can always see current hours at http://library.pdx.edu/hours.html.
Hours: Millar Library Building
Monday, September 24 – Sunday, November 25
Monday–Thursday: 7:30am–Midnight
Friday: 7:30am–7pm
Saturday: 10am–7pm
Sunday: Noon–Midnight
Monday, November 26 – Thursday, December 6
Open 24 hours a day
Friday, December 7
7:30am–7pm
Saturday, December 8 – Sunday, January 6
Monday-Thursday: 8am–6pm
Friday: 8am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: Closed
Closed
Monday, November 12
Thursday, November 22
Friday, November 23
Saturday, December 22, 2012 – Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Hours: Reference Desk (2nd Floor, Millar Library)
Monday, September 24 – Friday, December 7
Monday-Thursday: 9am–9pm
Friday: 9am–6pm
Saturday: Noon–5pm
Sunday: Noon–7pm
Saturday, December 8 – Sunday, January 6
Monday-Thursday: 9am–6pm
Friday: 9am–5pm
Saturday–Sunday: Closed
Closed
Monday, November 12
Thursday, November 22
Friday, November 23
Saturday, December 22, 2012 – Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Published: Thu, 09/06/2012 - 11:10
 The Library’s University Archives regularly receives requests for yearbooks, course catalogs, and schedules from Portland State's past. While anyone is welcome to make an appointment to visit the archives and consult any of these materials, most of the materials are also more readily accessible in the stacks on the third floor of Millar Library.
When searching for these items, keep in mind the name of our school and the titles of these documents have changed a few times over the years. Here are the call number locations of some popularly requested Vanport, Portland State College, and Portland State University publications:
LD 4349 .A2 C322 Portland State University. Bulletin : general catalog issue (course catalog, also linked to Vanport course catalog). Note: More recent copies (1996- ) are available digitally at http://www.pdx.edu/oaa/psu-bulletin.
LD 4349 .A22 S3 Portland State University. Schedule of classes.
LD 4349 .A75 V5 Viking (yearbook). This call number encompasses every title change of the annual yearbook during its years of publication (1946-95, with hiatus 1979-89). Volumes from 1948 on are in the stacks; 1946-48 are held in University Archives.
LD 4349 .A27 B8 Portland State Bulletin (a faculty newsletter that was a precursor to the Currently, and distinct from the course catalog Bulletin listed above)
Published: Tue, 09/04/2012 - 12:10
The Oregon Cultural Trust has awarded the University Library $5,000 to support the Portland JACL historical records project. The University Library’s Special Collections is the steward of over 23 boxes of historically important records from the Portland JACL. Funding from the OCT, matched by a donation of an additional $5,000 from the Portland JACL, will be used to identify, organize and preserve these aging and often fragile materials and launch an online searchable finding aid that will be made available to the public, including researchers, educators, students, and community members. The Japanese American Citizens League is the country’s oldest Asian American organization dedicated to preserving civil rights in the United States. The Portland chapter’s records cover a pivotal period in national and local history from the 1930s to the 1980s.
The Oregon Cultural Trust is an innovative public-private fundraising and grant-making program that will celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2012. In 2011, the Oregon Cultural Trust granted $1,543,092 to 60 organizations, 42 county and tribal coalitions, and 5 partners across the state. Through these contributions, the OCT helped 500,000 Oregonians participate in arts, heritage, or humanities experiences. To learn more about Oregon Cultural Trust, visit: www.culturaltrust.org.
Portland JACL is the Portland chapter of Japanese American Citizens League, a membership-driven national organization, founded in 1928, whose mission is to secure and uphold the human and civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and others and to promote and preserve the cultural heritage and values of Japanese Americans. To learn more about the work of the Portland JACL and how you can support their mission, visit: www.pdxjacl.org.
Published: Fri, 08/31/2012 - 10:20
 This week, the University Library welcomes our new leader Marilyn Moody. Following a 6-month-long national search, Portland State University appointed Moody, former Dean of the Library at Boise State University, as PSU’s new University Librarian.
Moody has more than three decades of experience in academic library administration. She stepped into the Library at a time of both building and technology evolution. It has been less than a year since the innovative technology space, the Learning Ground, was completed and PDXScholar, the Library’s digital repository, was up and running.
“I am excited to be assuming the position of University Librarian at Portland State,” Moody said. “I have been impressed with the vibrancy of the University and the dedication of the Library faculty and staff. I am looking forward to working with the campus community on Library initiatives to enhance student success, support teaching and learning, and provide increased access to scholarly and research materials.”
Before joining Boise State in 2006, Moody served in administrative positions in the libraries at the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Buffalo; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York; and Iowa State University. She is the co-author with Jean L. Sears of three editions of the reference work “Using Government Information Sources.” She has a master’s degree in library science and a bachelor’s degree in teaching social studies, both from the University of Illinois.
Published: Fri, 08/31/2012 - 09:22
 The basement will remain closed through early October. New compact shelving will be installed in the basement during the first two weeks of fall term. Once books have been placed on the new shelves, we’ll re-open the basement.
In the meantime, you can complete a Basement Request Form and submit it to the Circulation Desk. Circulation staff will retrieve the item for you. Request forms are available at the Reference desk and the Circulation desk.
Learn more about the project here: http://library.pdx.edu/ml_3rdfloor.html
Published: Tue, 08/28/2012 - 08:49
 Help the Library improve its website by participating in our ongoing usability testing. Each participant will help us test a specific part of our website, and this feedback will inform our decisions on where to make improvements. Participants will receive a $15 gift card as thanks for their help. Sign up now for one of our upcoming tests.
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The Library is happy to serve as a host site for this year's Archives Crawl. Check out our schedule of programs and on-site film screenings "from the vault" to see what's happening at the Library this Saturday.
