Did you know that the library publishes a newsletter each term? It is always full of helpful information and reminders about your library. This term’s issue includes information about our new art exhibits, new equipment available for checkout, library services at the new WOU Salem campus, WOU’s textbook affordability initiative, and more. You’ll also find […]
The Press is open the following hours for fall term. Come get your Starbucks coffee and goodies! MONDAY – THURSDAY: 8am-8pm FRIDAY: 8am-3pm CLOSED SATURDAY & SUNDAY
EasyBib phased out its institutional accounts as of Aug. 31st, which means that you are no longer able to access any citations, bibliographies, or other data in your EasyBib account. The library now subscribes to Noodle Tools for citation management.
Spring/Summer 2018 Workshops and Development Opportunities Are your fellow employees leaving you in the dust with their snazzy Google drive skills? Is your personal WordPress website in need of some work? Are you interested in publishing your own textbook, academic work, or something else? This spring, the Digital Media Center is offering both group workshops […]
You may know about Summit, the “lending club” of academic libraries in our region, but in this term’s library newsletter we pull back the curtain a bit to talk about the bigger picture of resource sharing among libraries. The Interlibrary Loan (ILL) cooperative involves over 10,000 academic, public, and special libraries across the United States […]
Last spring, almost 1,000 of you responded to the library’s survey evaluating the use and quality of the our collections, services, and facilities. That’s 584 WOU students, 143 faculty, 128 members of staff, and 100 graduate students. Thank you so much for your participation! We’ve crunched the numbers and created an executive summary with the results […]
Digital Commons@WOU (online at digitalcommons.wou.edu), home to WOU’s scholarship and research, is getting noticed by a worldwide audience. The numbers on the readership map (below) illustrate the popularity of student and faculty work, but it’s the stories behind the numbers that make compelling reading. Read more in our library newsletter.
Did you know you can check out a digital camera from Hamersly Library? A laptop for in-library use? A USB microphone? In fact, the library manages over 500 items in its Equipment Lending program. Most equipment has an initial loan of 4 days, with a 3-day renewal possible. A few items have a 4-hour loan. Library […]
About Together, the library’s archives & scholarly communication units ensure that the scholarship, research, historical records, and creative activities by, about, or in some way related to Western Oregon University is accessible to current and future audiences. Staff and faculty in these units are responsible for Omeka, Technical Services, and University Archives. We are not currently […]
DigitalCommons@WOU (DC@WOU) is Western Oregon University’s digital service for collecting, managing, making available and storing the intellectual outputs of the campus community. Materials related to the history, organization and management of the University are also found in DC@WOU. Materials found in DC@WOU are openly available to anyone with an Internet connection. Users do not have […]