Daily Archives: February 26, 2009

Two New Flickr Sets

We wouldn’t want you all to think it was all Flickr Commons all the time in the University Archives, so we’ve put up 2 new sets on our osu.archives Flickr account.

The first is part of a new collection dedicated to baseball at OSU. This set of images, celebrates the first hundred years of baseball at OSU. A big thanks to Elizabeth Nielsen for choosing some of her favorites from the “OREGON STATE BASEBALL: 100 Years to a National Championship, 1907–2006” digital collection.
The second, the first in our new “Then & Now” Collection, is a set called “Fashion on Flickr: “Revamp, Remix, Rewear.” It includes “Now” photographs I took at the Recycled Fashion show Tuesday night (featuring three library students workers as designers!) as well as several “Then” images from our own photographic collections.

While you are on the Flickr site, be sure to check out our “History in the Making” set and “What did you see, Where did you go: History in the Making” group — who knows what else our friends have captured on “film”…

What else is there? Spend some time and check out all the osu.archives collections in Flickr.

And mark your calendars to check the OSU Flickr Commons site next Wednesday for a new set of Gerald Williams images. The new release will be 43 images of Celilo Falls (read a bit of background here).

Northwest History & Heritage Extravaganza

Breaking news for all those interested in the 2009 Northwest History & Heritage Extravaganza– the full preconference program has been released.
What’s worth seeing? In addition to hundreds of really great attendees, here what to look for:

Informative and inspiring presentations, including one by Pulitzer Prize winning author M. Scott Momaday
More than 40 panels and tours devoted to the important topics and challenges of Northwest history and heritage
Great interactive workshops
Unique interdisciplinary panels that challenge your understanding of historical information and heritage practices
Young scholars and veteran historians showing their recent discoveries
An exhibit hall and poster sessions full of information, ideas, and networking

See you there!

Oregon’s 150th Anniversary

In honor of the 150th anniversary of Oregon’s statehood, the University of Oregon Libraries and the Oregon State University Libraries collaborated to release Oregon Maps, a digital collection of approximately 200 scanned maps illustrating many characteristics of the state’s history and physical makeup.

The resource is available online at http://boundless.uoregon.edu/digcol/ormaps/index.php.

To read more about it, read the “University libraries release online collection of state maps” press release!