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The Portland State University Library welcomes you to explore our collected holdings of the winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature. We want to call specific attention to the works of 1993 Nobel Prize winner, Toni Morrison. She was the first American woman to be honored with this award and is the only African American … Continue reading the article: Nobel Prize Winners for Literature →

Portland State University is committed to providing the greatest possible reach and impact of the research produced by its faculty, staff, and students. The university recognizes the value of and supports university authors retaining the rights to their intellectual property, while encouraging them to make their works freely and widely available. The Library supports this … Continue reading the article: Open Access at Portland State University →

Missing your favorite study spots in the library and on campus? Use these Zoom backgrounds to virtually recreate those settings in your classes and study sessions! To download an image: Click on a desired thumbnail image to view the fullsize image. Right click on the fullsize image and select to save the image to your … Continue reading the article: Portland State University Backgrounds for Zoom →

Portland State University Library recognizes and celebrates the Black Lives Matter movement with this selection of ebooks on the Black Civil Rights movement in the United States. The struggle for Black freedom began in 1619, when the first ship with enslaved Africans arrived in colonial Virginia and continues in the current day, with the movement … Continue reading the article: Black Civil Rights Movement eBooks →

Statement on Textbooks Offered by the Portland State University Library August 5, 2020 As we approach the Fall 2020 quarter, PSU Library faculty and staff are working hard to provide alternative access to the print course reserves collection. A significant portion of the books on reserve are print copies of required textbooks. Due to the … Continue reading the article: Statement on Textbooks →

The Portland State University Library is sad to share that our beloved Dean Tom Bielavitz passed away last Friday after a long illness. All of us at PSU will remember Tom as a strong and compassionate leader and a kind and thoughtful soul who consistently elevated his colleagues and the students of Portland State. Tom … Continue reading the article: PSU Library Mourns the Loss of Dean Bielavitz →

The PSU Library is pleased to announce the publication of The Climate Toolkit: A Resource Manual for Science and Action by Frank Granshaw. This is a resource manual designed to help the reader navigate the complex and perplexing issue of climate change by providing tools and strategies to explore the underlying science. As such it … Continue reading the article: New Open Educational Resource →

This June, Portland State University Library celebrates Pride Month by featuring books that exemplify diversity in identity and expression. From classics to contemporaries, poetry to nonfiction, the global authors represented in this collection of e-books write from a wealth of queer, trans, and non-conforming positionalities and experiences that are powerfully informed by race, class, ability, … Continue reading the article: Pride 2020 eBooks →

The Portland State University Library celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month by featuring books illustrating the diversity of lives and experiences. From growing up in Chinatown to a famous cartoonist growing up in a Filipino household, our books capture the resilience, tears and humor of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, from Hawai’i to … Continue reading the article: Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month →