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Clark Library: Resources for Anti-Oppression Topics

For UP community members interested in learning about and acting against discrimination, the Clark Library offers a guide about anti-oppression as a starting point to resources on ableism, racism, sex/gender identity discrimination, and classism. The guide was inspired by the human dignity concept in Catholic social teaching and includes resources on this concept, as well as resources on holding civil conversations. Contact Heidi Senior to suggest additional resources or offer feedback.

Clark Library: A Few Things for the Holidays

Looking for something to do over the break from the comfort of your home? Visit our December Holidays guide to listen to a selection of holiday music or browse related eBooks and streaming videos. Then hop over to the Leisure Reading & Watching guide to see available fiction and memoirs from our eBook collections, as well as feature films from streaming video collections. Two of these collections offer video of performances from Broadway and the National Theatre in London.

If you find yourself reflecting on the past year, we invite you to submit any type of creative work related to your experience of events in 2020 to our All Together project. Examples of creative works are photographs, videos, essays, poems, drawings, paintings, etc. We are collecting these to create an archive of this historic time.

Clark Library: Winter Break Hours

You can still pick up and check out Clark library materials during the Christmas break, but hours vary. The building will open a few hours per day Mondays through Thursdays in December. However, the building will be closed from December 24 through January 10. Pick up hours will resume January 11 through the end of the month. Please visit the schedule for more details.

Questions? Contact us at 503.943.7111 or library@up.edu.

Clark Library: Spring Course Reserves

Get some of your spring semester prep out of the way! Library staff are ready to tackle spring semester course reserves, which can now include print materials for local students to check out. Library staff handle copyright screening and scan materials for electronic reserves to meet accessibility standards.

If you plan to reuse items that were previously on reserve, let us know and we can find that list in our archive. For new items, email a list of citations to library@up.edu or use the online form. Please include the course name, course number, instructor, and number of students enrolled in each section.

Questions? Call x7111 or email library@up.edu.

TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: TLC for Library Research

Could you (or your students) benefit from some TLC for library research? Reference librarians are available for Zoom or phone consultations to assist UP students, faculty, and staff with their research. Ask us questions about getting started, choosing the best places to search, creating an efficient search strategy, identifying relevant resources, organizing and managing your sources, or citing tricky sources.

To make an appointment to meet with a librarian, go to: http://library.up.edu/meet. Choose an online or phone appointment, then choose your preferred date and time from the online calendar. If the listed times don’t work for you (or for your students who may be in a different time zone), email refererence@up.edu to request an alternate meeting time. Lastly, fill out the brief form to tell us a little bit about you and your research question; both you and the librarian will receive an email confirming the appointment. We look forward to assisting you or your students with your research questions!

For more information contact Stephanie Michel, Clark Library, at x7418 or michel@up.edu.
 

Clark Library: New Multimedia Guide 

Want to learn more about graphic design, photography, film, or audio? The Clark Library’s Digital Lab has a new guide for anyone interested in creating and using multimedia. The Multimedia guide provides a wealth of information including self-paced online courses and eBooks, as well as links to image collections and professional organizations for each discipline. For more information contact dlab@up.edu.

TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Using Clark Library During Fall 2020 

The Clark Library continues to support teaching and learning during remote instruction.  For full details, please visit our Fall 2020 Library Services guide.

Here are a few highlights:

  • Borrow a laptop (for local users only). Perhaps your work laptop needs repair, or a student in your class indicates that their laptop stopped working. Visit the library during our open hours to borrow a laptop; advance reservations are not needed. Laptops checkout for 24 hours, with the possibility of longer loans if laptops are available. See the Equipment page of the Fall 2020 guide for more information.
  • Borrow Digital Lab equipment (for local users only). Cameras, tripods, sound recorders, etc. are available. Call the Digital Lab (943.7796) on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 10am-1pm to discuss your equipment needs. Requested equipment will be held for you to pick up at the library’s Service Desk during open hours. For more information, see the Equipment page of the Fall 2020 guide.
  • Request scans of book chapters. The library is offering a new service where you may request scans of chapters from books owned by UP; we will deliver them to you online as PDFs. You may also request chapters from books not owned by UP, which we will obtain from other libraries. Under fair use guidelines, up to 10% of an entire book may be scanned. To make your request, use the Book Chapter request form in our interlibrary loan system, UP ILLiad. For more information, see the Items We Can Deliver Online page of the Fall 2020 guide.

Do you have other questions about using the library during remote instruction?  Visit the Fall 2020 guide or contact the library at 503.943.7111, library@up.edu, or use Library Chat.

Clark Library: Resources for Latinx Heritage Month

The Clark Library has a Latinx Heritage guide highlighting eBooks and streaming videos available through our collection, as well as related events hosted by DIP (Diversity & Inclusion Programs). Latinx Heritage Month, September 15 through October 15, is dedicated to a celebration of Hispanic and Latinx Americans’ heritage and culture, and to recognizing the contributions they have made to the United States.

For more information contact the library at x7111 or library@up.edu.