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Four Bookshelves and a Microphone: Maximizing Collections in a Minimal Space
Get PDFOSU-Cascades opened a two-building campus in 2016, following several years of co-housing programs and student services (including library services) at Central Oregon Community College. Tykeson Hall was designed to be the first strictly academic building on the new site, with lab space, classrooms, and—tucked away at the end of the second-floor hallway— the library. With the main library area—containing stacks, seating, and computers—only measuring 830 square feet, it’s easy to understand why students are often surprised when first walking into the snack-sized space. With a 20-year background in public libraries, I have experience with both collection development and space management, skills which serve me well as I work on the puzzle of maximizing our limited resources
Gifts of Sun and Stars. Souvenirs of the North American Northeast: Essays in Tribute to Michael G. Johnson, by Richard Green (2020)
No full textThe Blue Beads of St. Eustatius: New Perspectives from Archaeology and Oral History
Get PDFThe blue beads of St. Eustatius are a famous symbol of the island’s heritage, evoking both positive and negative emotional responses in local stakeholders. Archaeologists often encounter oral historical accounts to explain the functions of the blue beads in colonial society. Until now, these accounts have not been thoroughly recorded, investigated, or integrated with other sources of data. Oral historical interviews conducted in 2016 provide information on the role of the blue beads in enslaved and free communities. We discuss these findings and their relation to archaeological evidence on the island as well as elsewhere in the Americas and West Africa. Such involvement of local people in the interpretation of their own heritage encourages the decolonization of archaeology, and we hope that this approach will become standard throughout the Caribbean region
Heirloom Beads among the Dayak of Borneo
Get PDFResearch on Borneo’s heirloom beads has so far largely focused on the Dayak tribes of Sarawak in Borneo’s north. To expand the study area, the author has undertaken fieldwork in both Sarawak and Kalimantan and focused on Borneo’s links with regional and international trade routes along which its heirloom beads traveled. A further area of research has been British and Dutch colonial literature and collections of heirloom beads outside Borneo
Adaïma IV. La parure en contexte funéraire : technique, esthétique et fonction, by Mathilde Minotti (2021)
No full text"Adaïma IV. La parure en contexte funéraire : technique, esthétique et fonction.
Minotti, Mathilde. Fouilles de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 88. 2 vols. 2021. xiii + 520 pp., 514 color figs. ISBN: 978-2-7247-0777-9. 48€ (paper), 33€ (pdf).
Glass Trade Beads in the Northeast, and Including Aboriginal Bead Industries, by Gary L. Fogelman (1991)
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Orbis Cascade Alliance: LGBTQ+ Training Series and Diverse Collections
Get PDFIn the face of record-breaking book challenges and loud cries for book banning and removals, primarily aimed at LGBTQ+ and BIPOC stories, voices, and books, attention to these topics is paramount. In response, this year the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Standing Group from the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a library consortium serving academic libraries in the Pacific Northwest, hosted four trainings centered on LGBTQ+ voices and representation within the academic library sphere. 
The Beads of Cameroon
Get PDFGlass beads have long played an important role in the art and culture of Cameroon, a country situated on the east side of the Gulf of Guinea in West Central Africa. This article reviews the different kinds of drawn and wound glass beads that have found broad acceptance in west-central Cameroon and discusses their diverse applications. Beads of other materials, as well as cowries and buttons, are also dealt with
A Beaded Hair Comb of the Early Ming Dynasty
Get PDFThis article describes an unprovenanced artifact: a 700-year-old beaded hair comb probably entombed with a woman who died between 1405 and 1446 during China’s early Ming dynasty. It is intended to establish basic facts and stimulate further research. The comb may be the first intact example of mainland Chinese beadwork to undergo radiocarbon dating as well as laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analysis. The lead-potash (Pb-K) composition of the comb’s glass coil beads resembles that of coil beads recovered from jar burials of the 15th-17th centuries in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains. Thus, the comb links glass coil beads ostensibly made for use within China to coil beads exported to Southeast Asia