Impact Report 2025

In this Impact Report, you’ll find detailed insights into our services and collections usage, strategic initiatives, and the progress we’ve made toward our long-term knowledge stewardship goals. We’ve also included stories that highlight the impact of our work on the communities we serve and our contributions to the University’s broader goals of student success and research impact. Scroll down to find links to the full stories and other resources. At the bottom, you can request a print version of the report, download a PDF, and give to keep this great work going.

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UO Students Excel in Their Library Positions
UO Libraries employs 160+ students each year. Learn how some of those students contribute.
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Free Workshops Make Academic Life Easier
Each term librarians lead free workshops on topics from data analysis to citation management.
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Oregon Sports History Program Names First Athletics Archivist
Special collections archivist Lauren Goss becomes first to hold this position on the west coast.
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Meet the New Special Collections Fellows
Learn more about the latest cohort and their research interests from science fiction to transnational networks. 
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Data Deposits Now Free to UO Researchers
UO Libraries is now a member of the Dryad Data Repository, allowing researchers to make free, unlimited data deposits of up to 300 GB.
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University Senate Honors Salaz with Prestigious Award
Vice Provost and University Librarian Alicia Salaz is recognized for shared governance, transparency, and trust.
1.7M+
Electronic Articles Acccessed
Top 10
Student Employers at the UO
2.2M+
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New Website Makes Discovering Libraries Easier
UO Libraries launched its new website, designed with all users in mind, in December 2024.
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ODNP Expands African American Collection
The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program digitized the complete run of the Portland Observer, published in Oregon from 1970 to the present.
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Archivists Process Dozens of Unique Collections
The Special Collections and University Archives archivists and student employees made more than 150 linear feet of materials available for researchers.
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Pop-Up Public Library Shares Space at UO Portland
The Multnomah County Library system set up a temporary branch at the new Portland Library.
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Le Guin Goes to London
Several items from our Ursula K. Le Guin collection were loaned to the British Library.
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Your ABCs Just Got Even Easier
A new reservable study space for families and caregivers opens in Knight Library.

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The Big Ten university libraries united into a single digital and physical library, shared and fully networked, called the BIG Collection. 

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The University of Oregon is located on Kalapuya Ilihi, the traditional indigenous homeland of the Kalapuya people. Following treaties between 1851 and 1855, Kalapuya people were dispossessed of their indigenous homeland by the United States government and forcibly removed to the Coast Reservation in Western Oregon.
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The UO Libraries’ Strategic Design: A Five-Year Foundation for the Future (2023–28) gives us the opportunity to benchmark against peer libraries and to work collaboratively to achieve goals that will help us fulfill our purpose in ways that are sustainable and reflect our size and budget.