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The Art of the Trade: A New/Old Take on Resource Sharing
Get PDFThe Salem Public Library had been awarded a grant from the American Library Association and FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. The award included a six-week installation of a traveling exhibit called Thinking Money, designed to introduce basic concepts of financial literacy to teens, tweens, and young adults. The 50 libraries that received the Thinking Money grant were charged with partnering with community organizations to create at least four programs based on the exhibit’s theme.
Finding community partners was not at all difficult. Credit unions and financial planners were only too happy to conduct classes and give presentations, but I wanted to have at least one program that approached the topic a bit more obliquely, something that would soft-sell the benefits of good money management skills. Marion County Environmental Services turned out to be the perfect partner for this endeavor. MCES’s basic charge is to keep materials out of the waste stream. Through their innovative outreach activities, they challenge residents to reduce, reuse, and recycle. Their program director, Jessica Ramey, and I hatched a plan for a back-to-school blue jeans swap, reasoning that conservation of resources applies as much to the environment as it does to families’ wardrobes and bank accounts, and that people who would come to the library for free back-to-school clothes might not be the same people who would sign themselves up for a class on budgets or investments. Our theory was that if we could get people into the building for free jeans, they would discover the fabulous Thinking Money exhibit and perhaps learn something new
Wild Wild Archive: Analog Videotape of the Rajneesh Movement at the Oregon Historical Society
Get PDFIn 1989, local Portland television station KGW donated 512 U-matic videotapes to the Oregon Historical Society (OHS). Shot between 1983 and 1985, the collection consists of more than 300 hours of footage related to the Rajneesh movement in Oregon—when followers of the spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh set up an intentional community three hours southeast from Portland. The donation included minimal documentation and no finding aid. The tapes were the end result of several years’ worth of work by local camera operators and reporters at the news station. Ranging in location from downtown Portland to Berlin discos to the building of the town of Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, the tapes are a thorough documentation of a specific moment in history. For Oregon, it was an engaging story—one which the stations recognized as newsworthy almost immediately, though no one at the time could imagine how it would end.
By the time the tapes were donated in 1989, the story of the Rajneesh movement was a recent memory. Rajneeshpuram no longer existed, the ranch had been sold, and many of its followers had moved on. KGW, in looking to maximize the physical space at its station as well as ensure that the tapes wouldn’t be erased for re-use, reached out to OHS to provide long-term access. The tapes were accessioned and moved to an environmentally-controlled storage facility for long-term care
Outgoing Loans, November 2018
Get PDFA record of outgoing specimen loan for the month of November, 2018 the Oregon State Arthropod Collectio
More Pipeclay Beads from Norton St Philip, England
Get PDFDuring the 17th century, Norton St Philip was a major production center for clay tobacco pipes. As a sideline, they also made such items as wig curlers, gaming pieces, and beads. A previous article discussed six beads recovered from pipe-making wasters in fields adjoining the village. Here are described an additional five specimens, each with different decoration
Not Just for Show: The Archaeology of Beads, Beadwork and Personal Ornaments, by Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Clive Bonsall, and Alice M. Choyke (eds.) (2017)
Get PDFBuilding the Ladder: Developing Leadership Skills Without the Title
Get PDFThe leap to library leadership can be difficult if you have no experience in supervision. While larger library systems may have a deep structure that allows employees to start on step one of the ladder and progress one rung at a time to that director position, most of us in Oregon work for smaller libraries where there are few or no successive steps between circulation clerk and director. In these types of organizations, how does someone gain the experience necessary to make one a viable candidate for the job? Because of the diversity of functions from library to library and position to position, experience with a specific set of tasks really does not assess someone’s success in a job. The viable candidate, especially in supervisory positions, does not necessarily have a specific operational skill set as much as a set of characteristics that will help one succeed as a leader.
There is a distinction between management and leadership. While both are necessary, management tends to focus on hard skills while leadership is more about the soft skills. Leadership establishes a direction for the organization by creating a vision, by aligning people to the vision through superb communication and team-building skills, and by motivating and inspiring the team to follow the vision (Kotter, 2008). Managers plan and budget, establish rules and procedures, develop incentives, and take corrective action. John Kotter (2008) separated the two in this way: management produces order and consistency; leadership produces change and movement. While libraries tend to value order and consistency, those individuals who can produce change and movement will be of the most value to the 21st-century library
North American Lepidoptera in the Oregon State Arthropod Collection: Hesperiidae, Pieridae and Papilionidae
No full textA dataset is presented containing 40,008 specimen-based records for North American Lepidoptera. The basis for all these records are dried preserved specimens in the Oregon State Arthropod Collection. This dataset represents one of series of contributions by the OSAC to the LepNet project which is creating an aggregated dataset of North American butterflies and moths
Sharing for the Greater Good: A High School and Community College Partnership to Cultivate Information Literacy in a Rural Community
Get PDF“Mind the gap” is a phrase heard umpteen times when riding the London Underground subway system. That same advice was heeded in eastern Oregon, where it prompted an Information Literacy (IL) collaboration project between a high school and a community college librarian who forged a “dynamic duo” in an attempt to bridge noticeable gaps in the information literacy skills of their students.
Students in both high school and college struggle with aspects of information literacy. These knowledge and habit “gaps” are wide ranging—from initial question asking, to entering the scholarly conversation and finding their voice, to evaluating the myriad resources at their fingertips to seeking help when needed. Narrowing these gaps is a daunting task, but the desire to address these critical needs for our students is what prompted Delia Fields, Hermiston High School librarian, and Jacquelyn (Jackie) Ray, Director of Library and Media Services at Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC), to join forces this past year
Redetermination of select dragonfly specimens (Insecta: Odonata)
Get PDFA record of specimens re-determined by Mr. Johnson during a recent visit to the Oregon State Arthropod Collection to verify historical records