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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

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

Library faculty and staff would like to thank Lynn Chmelir for her service to the Library and the University as Interim University Librarian during the past year. Lynn’s leadership helped guide the Library a time of significant change and challenges including recruiting and hiring new faculty and staff, the new budget process and reductions, the bid process for the new Orbis Cascade Alliance shared integrated library system (ILS), and the search for our new University Librarian, Marilyn Moody.

Lynn wrote of her experience as Interim University Library saying, “It has been an intense year for me, filled with interesting and challenging experiences. I am truly impressed by what happens every day at the PSU Library.”

Lynn now will move to a new position at the Orbis Cascade Alliance as Shared ILS Implementation Manager. We wish her the best and look forward to continue working with her.

Tom Larsen, Library faculty, has been awarded a grant from the Library Education Assistance Foundation for Vietnam (LEAF-VN) for $3,000 to conduct cataloging training in a new program in Vietnam. Larsen will travel in Fall 2012 to Vietnam and conduct a one week training program for the cataloging staff of an academic or public library.

“[The award] provides us the opportunity to recognize outstanding cataloging and training skills while providing Vietnamese libraries the opportunity to benefit from the expertise of an outstanding cataloger,” said Ms. Lien Huong Fiedler, President of LEAF-VN.

LEAF-VN is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping the Vietnamese people achieve excellence in education by providing assistance in developing the country's library systems and services.

The Library continues to shift materials to make room for the new home of the Center for Online Learning (COL) and the Center for Academic Excellence (CAE).

Here is a list of what is moving between August 13 and August 17:

• LPs moved to Annex.
• Remaining microform cabinets on 3rd floor will be moved to the Annex.

Starting August 16, the basement will be closed to all patrons. Patrons can go to the Circulation Desk to have items retrieved for them.

Learn more about the project including maps of the Library’s basement and third floors showing how materials are shifting at http://library.pdx.edu/ml_3rdfloor.html.

Students who are writing term papers frequently ask librarians for help finding statistics that help strengthen their arguments. This has just gotten a bit easier for students since the Portland State Library purchased State Stats, an online resource that compiles statistics in the areas of: agriculture, crime and law enforcement, defense, economy, education, employment and labor, energy & environment, geography, government finances, health, households and housing, population, social welfare, and transportation.

Want to know arrest rates for arson by state? Want to compare it with data from another state? Want to make graphs and reports of what you find? Well, State Stats makes that easy. Have a look and see for yourself.