Links to My Essay

Some sharp-eyed classmates noticed links to my essay and sent them to me. One is AL Direct , an electronic newsletter sent to American Library Association personal members by e-mail (I think the link will work only if you are an ALA member), and the other is the U.S. Department of Education, Office of English Language Acquisition which can be found here.

Oregon State Library Photo Website is Live!

Merrialyce Blanchard, the Special Collection Librarian at the Oregon State Library, sent me an email to say that the Oregon State Library Photo Website is now available for viewing. You can see it here.

The photo on the homepage is the very first one I entered into PastPerfect last summer and looking through the collection was like finding old friends.

March of the Librarians

If you're having a stress-filled week take a look at March of the Librarians . Filmed at the ALA Mid-Winter Convention in Seattle last month, this is a take off on March of the Penguins.

Library Student Journal Essay

My essay has been published in the February, 2007 issue of the open access Library Student Journal .

Oregon State University Library Archives

I've been offered and accepted a position working part-time at the Oregon State University Archives located in the Valley Library in Corvallis. I begin this week and will be working there Wednesday and Thursday evenings and the Saturday afternoons I'm not attending class. This is in addition to my position at the LBCC library and my volunteer work at the senior center. My duties in the archives include data input, creating html-encoded documents, scanning photographs and other historical materials, and providing reference services to researchers using the Archives’ collections and the Libraries’ Map Collection.