News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
May is Asian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and pays tribute to the history, accomplishments, and contributions of people with Asian and Pacific Islander heritage in the United States. We invite you to visit our latest guide to discover more through the Clark Library’s books, eBooks, and streaming videos.
Want us to add an item? Send suggestions to Heidi Senior, Clark Library, at senior@up.edu.
Librarians and the digital lab coordinator are available to meet with your classes online, or through asynchronous videos, to cover information literacy and multimedia topics. Now is a great time to schedule us for Summer semester. Please send instruction requests to reference@up.edu (information literacy) or velazco@up.edu (multimedia).
Librarians and the Digital Lab Coordinator are available to meet with your classes online, or through asynchronous videos, to cover information literacy and multimedia topics. Now is a great time to schedule us for Summer semester. Please send instruction requests to reference@up.edu (information literacy) or velazco@up.edu (multimedia).
Beginning to think about summer? Library staff are ready to tackle course reserves, which includes online items as well as print materials for local students to check out. Library staff handle copyright screening and scan materials to meet accessibility standards for electronic reserves.
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 and section(s), instructor name(s), and number of students enrolled in each section.
Questions? Call 503.943.7111 or email library@up.edu.
The upcoming Earth Day on April 22 is the impetus for the library’s most recent guide to resources. Earth Day is an annual event to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970 and focused on the United States, it now includes events coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network in more than 193 countries.
We invite you to visit our Earth Day 2021 guide to discover a selection of Clark Library books and videos about caring for the Earth.
As we approach the end of spring semester, your students may be working on major research projects. (Or, looking ahead to summer, you may have some research and writing projects of your own planned). Citing sources is often a less-favored aspect of the research process; the library’s RefWorks database can help! As an alternative to creating citations from scratch or using free online citation generators, RefWorks is a web-based tool for collecting and organizing your sources and creating pre-formatted bibliographies in hundreds of citation styles (including all the major styles, as well as many journal-specific citation formats). As a bonus for students, RefWorks allows alumni to continue to access their RefWorks account after they graduate.
Clark Library’s RefWorks guide offers guidance and brief online tutorials about getting started, organizing references, reading and annotating, and sharing and collaborating with RefWorks. Additionally, learn about tools for writing papers with RefWorks; these optional plug-ins integrate into Microsoft Word or Google Docs to assist with formatting in-text citations (or footnotes) as well as bibliographies.
If you or your students would like a guided overview of RefWorks, please contact us at reference@up.edu or make an appointment to meet with a librarian.
The Clark Library is pleased to announce the launch of an online UP Student Newspapers Collection. In October 2019, the library received an Oregon Heritage Grant to digitize and preserve UP’s student newspapers: The Columbiad and The Beacon. It took a year and a half to digitize the print newspapers which are housed in the University Archives. Now, eleven decades (1902-2016) consisting of 2,242 issues and over 26,000 pages are accessible through the Clark Library’s Digital Collections portal. Anyone with an Internet connection can browse the newspapers, try the keyword searching feature to look up specific people and events, or see a selection of highlighted issues including the popular April Fool’s “The Bacon” issues.
For more information, contact Philip Vue, Clark Library, at vue@up.edu.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we invite you to visit our guide highlighting women who have been pioneers and champions in sports in the United States. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of the initial Title IX draft to Congress (became law in 1972). Please use this guide to discover more through the Clark Library’s books, videos, and public websites.
Want us to add an item? Send suggestions to Heidi Senior, Clark Library, at senior@up.edu.
If you reserved a copy of this year’s ReadUP book selection, How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, head over to the Clark Library to pick it up. You can check the library’s open hours here.
Didn’t reserve a book? No worries. You can read one of the many digital copies available through the library.
Book discussions for staff and faculty start Friday, February 26. You can find out more about them and register here. Other resources, including a reading guide, are available on the ReadUP website.
And don’t forget to mark your calendar for the conversation with Dr. Kendi via Zoom on Wednesday, March 31, at 5:15 p.m. as part of the Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series.
The library is still collecting creative works reflecting your experience of the events of 2020-2021 for the All Together project. Examples of creative works are photographs, videos, essays, poems, drawings, paintings, etc. Visit the site to see some submissions and consider adding yours!
Questions? Please contact José Velazco, Clark Library, at velazco@up.edu.