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KLCC covered the UO Libraries' recent presentation and panel led by Joe Whittle (Caddo/Delaware), a photographer and journalist promoting the Landback movement across the U.S. for territory ceded or taken during colonization. Photo courtesy of Joe Whittle. Learn more...
Did you know you can find new books by UO faculty in Knight Library?📚 They're on the New Books bookcase at the west end of the main lobby near the checkout desk. Check them out—literally—and learn more about faculty books in this story from the Office for Research and Innovation.
A century of music resonates within Beall Concert Hall, yet its namesake, Robert Vinton "Vintie" Beall Jr., a deaf 1897 alumnus of the University of Oregon, never heard its melodies.
UO Libraries has added two subscriptions to prize-winning periodicals to its catalog for the entire UO community: The Atlantic and The Economist. Read on for how to get yours.
At Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA), we take pride in fostering a spirit of collaboration, inquiry, and research. So, we are thrilled to announce the newest cohort of research fellows who will be joining us in our mission to explore, preserve, and discover scholarly insight.
Four archivists from UO's Special Collections and University Archives have been certified as Digital Archives Specialists by the Society of American Archivists.
Join UO campus partners in a compelling conversation on March 11 about the Landback movement, featuring Indigenous photographer and journalist Joe Whittle (Caddo/Delaware) alongside a panel of scholars, activists, and storytellers beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the Knight Library Browsing Room 105.
The UO's archivist and historian, Ben Murphy, plays a crucial role in deciding what to include in the University Archives and ensuring the preservation of those materials. He also introduces students to the collections and teaches them how to conduct research using primary sources. Learn more about Ben.
Read how Library Manager Michael Brown and his team of two staff and a dozen student employees spent eight months organizing, weeding, and deciding how to handle hundreds of thousands of items from the former Concordia library. Now, the UO Libraries collections in Northeast Portland are a seamless blend of former Concordia and UO Portland items easily available for students, faculty and community members.
The recently refurbished Asian Collection in Knight Library is already drawing students and others into its serene spaces to explore materials from graphic novels to ancient folklore across many Asian cultures.
The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program recently finished digitizing the complete run of the Portland Observer, an African American newspaper published in Portland from 1970 to the present. The Portland Observer joins the growing collection of African American newspapers in Historic Oregon Newspapers as well as other African American publications available through UO Libraries.
Since fall 2023, UO Libraries has systematically purchased eBook versions of required course materials for faculty-assigned courses, significantly reducing financial barriers for students. The program has provided access to more than 500 eBooks, benefiting more than 29,000 students across 800 courses.
Abby Johnson is a psychology and neuroscience subject specialist librarian you’ll find working primarily in the Price Science Commons Library. Through her work at UO Libraries, Abby is able to help students with narrowing their research topics and exploring the resources that the library provides.
In 1952 Elizabeth Findly, a UO librarian, set out to accomplish an audacious vision: to collect and preserve all Oregon newspapers on microfilm. To reach her goal she would need more than administrative buy-in, more than state-of-the-art equipment, more than funding. She would need a roadmap of Oregon and plenty of gas. Thus began the Oregon Digital Newspaper Program.
Joel Liesenberg, a self-described “life-long learner,” loves that as the Global Studies Librarian he gets to be a bridge between the UO Libraries’ resources and people doing research in the field.