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Health & Counseling Center Vaccine Clinic (Oct. 28)

The Health & Counseling Center is partnering with Safeway to bring flu and COVID vaccines to campus! This vaccination clinic is open to students and employees.  Safeway will bill your insurance for the vaccines and most major insurance plans are accepted.  Kaiser is accepted for the flu vaccine only.

Date: Monday, October 28

Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Location: Clark Library Conference Room (2nd floor, room 222) 

How to sign up and what you need to bring:

1. Use the link below to schedule an appointment.   

Appointment Sign Up

2. Bring a printed copy of your insurance card.

Hope to see you there!

Digital Lab: Fall Workshops (Sept. 23–26)

Want to develop your multimedia skills? Start with one of the Digital Lab’s introductory workshops on Canva, Graphic Design, Podcasting, or iMovie. Workshops will be offered during the week of September 23 and are free and open to current students, faculty, and staff. It’s also a chance to experience the new and improved Lab facility in the Shiley-Marcos Center for Design & Innovation!

Visit the Digital Lab’s site to see the detailed schedule and to register online.

Clark Library: Submit Your Course Reserves Requests

Library staff are ready to set up course reserves for Fall classes! Course reserves can be online or print items and films you wish to make available to your students. We also help you with copyright screening and scan materials to meet accessibility standards. Faculty often request that we scan chapters from print books for electronic reserve, but please note we are restricted to one chapter or 10% of an entire book.

If you plan to use items previously on course reserves, please indicate this in the Additional Information section of the course reserves form to streamline the process. For new items, complete the form with as much information as you can.

Questions? Email library@up.edu or call 503.943.7111.

Now Scheduling Library and Digital Lab Sessions for Fall

The Clark Library offers instruction in two areas: information literacy and multimedia skills. Now is a great time to schedule a session for Fall before our calendar fills up!

Librarians teach information literacy sessions and collaborate with faculty to ensure that key concepts and research strategies are covered.

To schedule a class meeting, please email reference@up.edu with your preferred dates and times.

The Digital Lab coordinator can advise on creating multimedia assignments and meets with classes that have projects such as creating videos, podcasts, digital posters, and digital photography.

Email José Velazco to arrange multimedia instruction through the Digital Lab.

Clark Library: 2023-2024 Year in Review

As the academic year wraps up, we invite you to check out the Clark Library’s 2024 Newsletter! Find out how things have changed with the Digital Lab move and learn about our new platform for online exhibits and scholarly works (now including the Spring semester Liberated Archives exhibit). We also advanced the university’s work in equity and inclusivity through an Inclusive Description cataloging project and an exploration of UP’s history with service and justice in the Museum’s PortLog.

For more information, contact Xan Arch, Dean of Clark Library, at arch@up.edu

Covert Gallery: Liberated Archives Reception (Mar. 21)

Mark your calendars—all are warmly invited to a reception on Thursday, March 21, from 4-6 p.m. in the Dr. James T. Covert Gallery on the main floor of the Clark Library to learn about our current exhibit, entitled Liberated Archives: Memory Work Partnership with Don’t Shoot PDX. Exhibit collaborators will speak about their work, including students and faculty in UP’s Social Justice Capstone course, Public Research Fellows, and local community organization Don’t Shoot PDX, with additional support provided by UP Ethnic Studies. The exhibit highlights themes of systemic oppression, displacement, and collective resistance in Portland, with an emphasis on the lived experiences of minoritized communities on UP’s campus and North Portland.

The exhibition will run from January to May 2024 in the Covert Gallery.

Questions? Email libraryevents@up.edu. Image courtesy of The Log, 1969.

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Library Guide Lunch and Learn (Mar. 25)

We invite you to a Lunch and Learn on March 25, 12-1 p.m. in the Teske room for a discussion on Trauma Informed Educational Practices (TIEP) and Inclusive Leadership Library Guides. All faculty and staff on campus are invited! Come learn about Trauma Informed Educational Practices (TIEP) and Inclusive Leadership practices and principles and explore the LibGuides with us!

TIEP Guide
Inclusive Leadership Guide

Our Room is limited to 30 persons and we would appreciate your RSVP at the link below so we can get a count for lunch. We will send you a calendar reminder.

RSVP

This offering is brought to you by a staff and faculty collaboration between faculty/staff in the School of Education, School of Nursing, and the UP Library.

Lunch and Learn is supported by the HHMI grant.

Questions? Reach out to Kala Mayer, mayerk@up.edu

Library Resources: Trauma Informed Educational Practices Guide

Welcome to the Trauma Informed Educational Practices guide! 

Here you will find resources to help you learn about TIEP: what it is, its interrelated concepts, and the institutional supports that are necessary for success. A “Quick Start” page has slides and notes that the authors invite you to use in your classroom.

This is a living document. We welcome your ideas and contributions. To contribute materials, please contact tiep@up.edu.

Trauma Informed Educational Practices Guide

Library Resources: Inclusive Leadership Guide

Welcome to the Inclusive Leadership guide, which provides citations and links to resources about inclusive leadership!

This LibGuide aims to serve as a resource for a broad audience of individuals interested in developing and enhancing their inclusive leadership skills. The resources provided will be useful to anyone who is interested in understanding their role in fostering inclusivity, creating cultures of belonging, and contributing to environments where everyone can thrive.

This is a living document. We welcome your ideas and contributions. To contribute materials, ask questions, or send suggestions, please use our feedback form or contact inclead@up.edu.

Leadership Guide

Inclusive Description in the Clark Library Catalog

Did you know that even the way books are described can show historical bias? Our library catalog contains many of these examples, either through problematic descriptions of a book’s subject or the deliberate omission of historically marginalized topics, such as LGBTQIA+ themes.

Bonnie Parks(Collection Technology Librarian) recently completed a sabbatical project focused on researching and updating these terms to provide more equitable access and make our catalog more inclusive for faculty and student study and scholarship. This project has updated over 500 catalog records so far, and more are coming, to create a catalog that is truly reflective of our institution and values.