Hannon Library is proud to welcome Holly Gabriel to SOU. She has over sixteen years of professional library experience at the University of North Dakota. As Hannon Library’s Open Access and Government Information Librarian, Holly will coordinate the campus open educational resources (OER) activities by providing faculty guidance in finding OERs, open data repositories, and other open access resources. She will also serve as the point person managing the Open Oregon faculty grant opportunities on campus and championing a textbook affordability plan that seeks to improve college affordability for our students and their families.
She will also lead the coordination of our Federal Depository Library Program and our Oregon state depository collection. Holly has experience in promoting government resources and looks forward to helping students integrate these resources into their research. Holly holds degrees from Emporia State University (Portland Cohort) and Northern Illinois University. She is currently enrolled in the Certificate in OER Librarianship Program from the Open Education Network, in which she is gaining additional skills in open education and will strive to apply that knowledge to SOU’s specific culture and goals.
Having attended library school in Oregon, Holly is very excited to be back in Oregon and to live closer to her mother and sister, who reside in the PNW. She and her husband enjoy hiking, traveling, and standup paddleboarding, making them very eager to explore Southern Oregon. To get in touch with Holly, you can reach her at gabrielh@sou.edu.
Keepers of the Flame: Indigenous Burning Practices and the Future of Land Management
Library NewsThe Friends of the Hannon Library is hosting the second event of 2021-22 Speakers Series via webinar on November 11th at 7:00pm.
Join Beth Rose Middleton Manning and Chris Adlam as they discuss the ecological and sociopolitical importance of supporting cultural burning practices, share lessons learned from collaborative cultural burning workshops, and reflect on current opportunities and challenges facing cultural burning practitioners in both California and Oregon.
Beth Rose Middleton Manning is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis, with a background in Environmental Policy. Her research and teaching center on Native environmental policy and Native activism for site protection using conservation tools.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/NovEvent2021.
Blast Off! With Lowriders in Space: Graphic Novels, Equity, Diversity, and Lowrider Technology!
Library NewsThe Friends of the Hannon Library is hosting the first event of 2021-22 Speakers Series via webinar on Thursday, October 14th at 7:00pm.
Join Cathy Camper for a lively discussion about her award-winning Lowriders in Space graphic novel series, and her picture book Ten Ways to Hear Snow. Learn how graphic novels and picture books are created, the history of lowrider cars, the technology to make them hop, and some of the science and secrets in the books. We’ll also talk about the importance of diversity and equity in children’s books. If you love comics, cars, kids’ books, writing, drawing, science and silly stuff, this talk is for you! All ages welcome.
Register at https://tinyurl.com/OctEvent2021.
Need a Textbook for your class? Try the library!
Library NewsThe textbook for your SOU class may be available from the library for 4-hour checkout. Ask at the circulation desk, email reserves@sou.edu, or call 541-552-6860 for help finding your assigned book. If we don’t have the textbook you need, you can submit a purchase request. If it’s in stock at the SOU Bookstore, we’ll buy it for you and make it available within 4 business days.
This program, called TextShare, is generously sponsored by the Associated Students of Southern Oregon University (ASSOU) and supported by the Hannon Library.
18 Items to Check Out for Pride Month
Library NewsHappy Pride Month! Hannon Library’s faculty and staff members have curated books, e-books, and other items in honor of Pride Month.
We’ve highlighted 18 items to check out below, but you can check out our Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages for more recommendations.
1. Confessions of the Fox: A Novel by Jordy Rosenburg
Place a hold for in-library pick-up.
2. Detransition, Baby: A Novel by Torrey Peters
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3. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
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4. Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women by E. Patrick Johnson
Access the ebook online.
5. Imagining Queer Methods edited by Amin Ghaziani and Matt Brim
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6. Men without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation before Stonewall by John Ibson
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7. Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University by Matt Brim
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8. Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty by Ana-Maurine Lara
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9. Queer Resource Center Papers from Hannon Library’s Special Collections and University Archives
Find them in University Archives.
10. Real Life: A Novel by Brandon Taylor
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11. Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade by Justin Spring
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12. Stone Butch Blues: A Novel by Leslie Feinberg
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13. Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
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14. The Tradition by Jericho Brown
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15. Trans Allyship Workbook: Building Skills to Support Trans People In Our Lives by Davey Shlasko (Author) and Kai Hofius (Illustrator)
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16. Video Games Have Always Been Queer by Bonnie Ruberg
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17. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya V. Hartman
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18. Who’s Coming Out to Play: Disruption and Disorientation in Queer Community Sports by Claire Carter
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Meet Our Open Access and Government Information Librarian
Library NewsShe will also lead the coordination of our Federal Depository Library Program and our Oregon state depository collection. Holly has experience in promoting government resources and looks forward to helping students integrate these resources into their research. Holly holds degrees from Emporia State University (Portland Cohort) and Northern Illinois University. She is currently enrolled in the Certificate in OER Librarianship Program from the Open Education Network, in which she is gaining additional skills in open education and will strive to apply that knowledge to SOU’s specific culture and goals.
Having attended library school in Oregon, Holly is very excited to be back in Oregon and to live closer to her mother and sister, who reside in the PNW. She and her husband enjoy hiking, traveling, and standup paddleboarding, making them very eager to explore Southern Oregon. To get in touch with Holly, you can reach her at gabrielh@sou.edu.