The mornings have a chill, the leaves are starting to turn, and there is the distinct buzz of a new school year in the air.
We will return to our academic year hours for the Archives & Maps Reference Desk on Monday, September 24th.
University Archives Academic Year Hours
Monday through Friday: 9am-5pm
Maps & Microforms Academic Year Hours
Monday through Thursday 9am-9pm
Friday 9am – 5pm
Saturday 1pm – 5pm
Sunday 1pm – 9pm
Please visit our Location, Hours, & Staff page for more information.
Early/Other Instruction Models
Dynamic Systems
Dynamic Systems Teaching Model
Example: Use good keywords
Example: Use varied databases
Example of lesson plan for one-shot instruction session (library focus)
Visit the Wikipedia current events section for topics that are very recent and from the past couple of months.
How can archivists use this? Tiah’s Dynamic Systems lesson planning model
Upward Bound Students: Welcome to the OSU Archives!
Congratulations! You have found your first clue!
The map shown above is one that was drawn by a student for the 1934 Beaver yearbook. We don’t know much about the artist, Wayne Bagley, but we do know that he included all the clues on his map that you will need to finish this scavenger hunt.
In your hunt for Oregon State University history, you will use Wayne’s map to find buildings in the main quad of campus, going from building to building in search of clues. On the second day of the hunt, you will spend some time investigating the Archives, looking for more information about Wayne and his roaring 1920s college life!
Wayne was a student at Oregon State College, as OSU was known in the 1920s, from 1926-1930. He was an active artist while at OSC, though he was an Engineering major! He was a member of Kappa Kappa Alpha, the Hammer and Coffin (the Oregon State chapter of the national honor humor fraternity), the National Honorary Fraternity in Art, as well as a member of Theta Delta Nu and an editor for the Beaver yearbook. In 1928, he was on the staff for the Orange Owl, which was a comic magazine on campus and a publication of the Hammer and Coffin.
The Orange Owl, Oregon State’s humor magazine for 8 years, was full of literary articles, verses, jokes, skits, cartoons, and pictures. In 1928, the same year Wayne was involved, the Hammer and Coffin decided to stop publishing the magazine because there were so many complaints by people who were offended by the articles; later that year, the magazine was shut completely down by a student interest committee.
To begin, click on the map, and then write down the “Item Number” on a paging slip and give it to the person at the Archives reference desk.
Good luck and have fun!
National Champions — for the second year in a row!
Please help us in congratulating the OSU Beaver Baseball Team as they return to Corvallis today after clinching the National Championship for the second time in as many years.
And while baseball is on your brain, please visit our digital collection Oregon State Baseball: 100 Years to a National Championship, 1907-2006.
From June 18 through September 21, 2007, University Archives and Maps reference desk will be open from 10am to 4pm, Monday through Friday. Special arrangements and appointments are available. For more information, please call or write us.
Northwest Archivists Annual Conference
Moscow, Idaho
18-19 May 2007
As always, it’s a pleasure to attend this small conference (about 75-100 attendees) and connect in person with regional colleagues. In 2008, the NWA will hold its first annual conference in Anchorage! Here’s a summary of the sessions I attended.
Friday Plenary Session: NARA (National Archives) Strategic Planning
Thomas Mills provided an overview of the National Archives collections and programs and the recent strategic planning process. Key challenges and strategies that have emerged are:
Panel: Building a National Archival Network: Roles of National and Regional Projects and Organizations
Panel members were: Ann Lally (UW); Leigh Grinstead (CDP@BCR); Max Evans (NHPRC); and Steve McCann (Digital Projects Librarian at UMontana). The panel chair/facilitator was our own Jodi Allison-Bunnell.
Most of this discussion focused on how to move regional projects and organizations to sustainable programs. Some of the ideas from panelists:
Session: Regional Film Preservation Projects
This was a more traditional session with presentations about several regional projects:
Alex Merrill (WSU) described a film preservation project recently undertaken at WSU for the J. Elroy McCaw Memorial Film Collection. A subset of the Collection (55 films) was transferred to digital format and described with detailed metadata. The digital files currently reside in an “unpublished” ContentDM collection – planning to provide streaming files.
Nicolette Bromberg (UW) described the Washington Film Preservation Project, lead by UW, which preserved films from 9 institutions in Washington; offered preservation clinics; and transferred a subset of films (92 reels) to digital masters. UW and OCLC have applied for a $0.5 million grant from IMLS for a 2-year project in Washington, Idaho, and Montana.
Anne Frantilla (Seattle Municipal Archives) described her repository’s successful participation in the Washington Film Preservation Project. As a result of the project they had about 11,000 feet of film preserved (cleaned, cored, and canned) and 3-5 films transferred to digital master. Through the project they gained experience working with films; learned more about their film holdings; and are able to provide better access to films.
Session: Using Expressive Metadata Formats to Support Preservation in Digital Repositories
Presenters were Al Cornish, Greg Matthews, and Jon Scott — all from WSU Libraries. This session was way over my head. But what I did learn was the distinction between metadata used for resource “discovery” and metadata for resource “harvesting”. The presenters talked about metadata schemes that are more robust that OAI-PMH – such as mpeg21 didl and mets as well as the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) protocol, which supports harvesting so that an an object can be re-used, re-purposed, etc.
Saturday Plenary Session: The White Glove Treatment: Using Special Collections in the Literature Classroom
Augusta Rohrbach, a WSU English faculty member, eagerly described her use of special collections materials for a history of American literature class. She has taught a similar course at Oberlin, Brown, and WSU – and has learned that repositories at all of these places have primary source materials that are appropriate for this course which focuses on the material context for literary history. She emphasized the “situational and regional” approach to learning literature and the importance of students learning from period publications and published artifacts. For the most recent offering of the class (spring semester 2007), there were 8 students in a 300-level class; project was to prepare a display using primary materials for the special collections reading room. Their project report included not only what they chose to include (and why) but what they left out … or what they couldn’t find.
This was an excellent presentation and a great example of the way that primary sources can be incorporated into undergraduate instruction.
Session: Archivists in Web 2.0 World: How Can We Make Social Software Tools Work for Us?
This was an excellent session with two OSU presenters (Anne-Marie and Tiah). Anne-Marie introduced Web 2.0 by focusing on four main points:
See Ann-Marie’s blog for links. Tiah described various Web 2.0 applications that are being used by archivists:
She encouraged all to explore/experiment in order to become aware/familiar with the tools our researchers (and future donors of materials) are using.
Ann Lally (UW) described the project at UW to add links in Wikipedia articles to UW digital collections; also created Wikipedia articles where there was no appropriate article Strongly suggested becoming a “registered user”.
Here is a link to her May 2007 D-Lib magazine article about the project.
Elizabeth Nielsen
Forest History Society Photograph Collection Exhibit Features OAC!
The Forest History Society in Durham, NC, has posted a gallery of historic photos called “Early Forestry Education in America.” The photos come from the Society of American Foresters Collection, and depict forestry education activities, facilities, students and personnel at six different forestry schools from 1920-1923. In addition to OSU, other schools included are Michigan Agricultural College, Penn State, University of Washington (Seattle), New York State College of Forestry, and UC Berkeley.
The images from OAC were collected in 1923 by Col. Henry S. Graves, then Dean of the Yale School of Forestry. He intended to have them mounted in an album to be placed in the new library building at Yale. These 6 Oregon Agricultural College photos were submitted by Dean George W. Peavy on August 20, 1923. Dean Peavy wrote the following in his correspondence to Graves: “Possibly the more staid and dignified forestry students at Yale would be interested in more strictly technical matters. However, these prints seem to be the ones most readily available at the time.”
For reference assistance, please contact the Forest History Society Photographic Archivist, Elizabeth Hull. Mailing address: Archives, Forest History Society, 701 William Vickers Avenue, Durham, North Carolina, 27701. Phone: 919-682-9319. Fax: 919-682-2349.
It’s that special time of year, the time for NW archivists to congregate for our spring conference. Several OSU Archivists are heading east to the greater Pullman/Moscow area for the Northwest Archivists Conference this week: “Dynamic Archives: Preserving the Past and Speaking to the Future” will take place from May 17-19, in Moscow, Idaho.
On the program are two plenary sessions by Thomas E. Mills & Augusta Rohrbach, as well as sessions that address leadership skills for archivists, coordinating national and regional projects, online tutorials, disaster planning resources, the challenges in working with ephemera, MPLP processing standards, and how archivists can flourish in a Web 2.0 world.
Our hours on Friday, May 18th will be shortened, so please contact the desk at (541) 737.2165 or archives@oregonstate.edu with questions.
Congratulations to our own Erika Castano for her election to the position of Treasurer of the Northwest Archivists!
Welcome Adams Elementary students!
“Schoolhouses were among the first buildings erected once the settlers took care of the more pressing needs of food and shelter. The rural school site, which was often one acre, contained the schoolhouse, a wood shed, two outhouses, perhaps a horse shed, and sometimes play equipment. The schoolhouse was usually a rectangular, front-gabled building with one room. The outsides of schoolhouses ranged from crude, unpainted board, to exteriors finished with painted trim elements. Many of the first schools were of log construction, like the schoolhouse erected in 1848 on what is currently the northeast corner of Second and Jackson in Corvallis and the Gingles Schoolhouse, located in the North Albany area.”
“Most students walked, while some rode horses to the district schoolhouse– often a mile or more away but rarely more than five miles from home. Many schools were closed in the worst winter months because of deep mud and heavy rains. In the summer, farm work closed the schools, leaving several months in the fall and spring for classes.”
“Schoolhouses were also the social hubs of communities, because the schools sponsored many community events. Popular amusements included box socials, pie socials, and ice cream socials. Christmas, May Day, and graduation were among the most important days for school celebrations.”
From A Pictorial History of Benton County, found on the Archives Reference shelf on the 3rd floor of The Valley Library.