Discover Watersheds of Southern Oregon with Special Collections

Are you working on your final research project of the year? Did you know that Hannon Library’s Special Collections and University Archives contain many sources that can elevate your research on a variety of different topics? Special Collections and University Archives is an area within the library that contains materials of significant historical and research value that are too valuable, rare, or fragile to place in the open stacks.

Special Collections Research Assistant, Julia Janson, has created a digital document that can provide you with information all about regional watersheds. The Scalar ‘book’ provides brief overviews of several watersheds and includes a list of select resources in Special Collections. Discover 50 years of research, photography, and maps produced by the federal government, local watershed councils, environmental scholars and alumni from Southern Oregon University. You can view the document, which provides a starting point for novice researchers curious about the watersheds in this area, at https://bit.ly/SOUwatershed.

Tincup Creek at Chetco River Confluence

Chetco River Watershed

The physical resources noted in the Scalar ‘book’ are located in Special Collections on the 2nd floor of Hannon Library, but many resources are included as links to the SODA digital version. Additionally, copies of some of the materials referenced may be available in Hannon Library’s circulating collection.

 

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Little Butte Creek Watershed

For more information or to schedule an appointment with Special Collections, email libspec@sou.edu, call 541-552-6841 or visit https://hanlib.sou.edu/speccoll/index.html. To view Special Collections’ hours before visiting, go to https://hanlib.sou.edu/speccoll/hours.html. 

For disability accommodations, please contact Disability Resources at 541-552-6213 or dss@sou.edu.

Campus Theme Presentation: Don’t Believe Everything You Read with Librarian Jim Rible

Join SOU and Hannon Library librarian, Jim Rible, for the Campus Theme Presentation—Don’t Believe Everything You Read: A View from 30 years at the Library Research Desk. 

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The presentation will take place on Wednesday, May 22, from 7 to 8 pm in Hannon Library, Room 117.

Rible will discuss how the sources we use for pursuing knowledge have dramatically evolved over the past 20 years. He will cover the fact that what is considered an authority has changed from something taking place among the relative few in the hallowed halls of universities, labs, and libraries amongst serious scholars to include anyone, anywhere with a mobile device and a Wi-Fi connection. Rible will offer his perspective on this shift and how it affects the way we pursue wisdom.

 

If you need disability accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Disability Resources at (541) 552-6213. For more information, contact Hannon Library Administration at libraryevents@sou.edu or 541- 552-6816.

New Digital Collection Highlights Terry Skibby’s Ashland Photographs

Terry Skibby: A Life with Camera is the newest collection available in the Southern Oregon Digital Archives. The collection recognizes Ashland Historic Commissioner and photographer Terry Skibby for his lifetime of photography here in Ashland.

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Celebrate the public release of the Terry Skibby Photograph Collection on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, from 4-6 pm in the Meese Room of the Hannon Library at Southern Oregon University. The event, which kicks off Ashland’s 2019 Heritage Preservation Week, is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

See some of Skibby’s photographic work at the event and also recognize the many individuals and agencies that are important to Ashland’s historic preservation initiative. Current and previous Historic Commission board members will be recognized as well as the architects who have made historic preservation a core priority in design and restoration. Land use planner Mark Knox of KDA Homes is the keynote speaker.

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For more information on the Southern Oregon Digital Archives and the Terry Skibby: A Life with Camera event on Tuesday, May 21 from 4-6 p.m. at the Hannon Library, Southern Oregon University, please call 541-552-6816. If you need disability accommodations to attend this event, please contact Disability Resources at (541) 552-6213 or dss@sou.edu.

Long Night Against Procrastination Returns!

The Long Night approaches, and as much as we love Game of Thrones, we don’t mean the Battle of Winterfell. The Long Night Against Procrastination returns!

Do you find yourself feeling stressed as due dates and deadlines creep ever closer? Fortunately, Hannon Library can help you make headway on your to-do lists and overcome your overwhelm this term:

Wednesday, May 8, 2019
8 pm to 12 am
Hannon Library, First Floor

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At this term’s LNAP event, you can expect:

  • Free pizza, popcorn, and soda to fuel your late night study session (while supplies last)
  • Math, science, and writing tutoring
  • Research assistance
  • A chance to win Dining gift cards

And from 8 to 10 pm in LIB 113, Hannon Library presents, “Are You Breathing?” an interactive workshop to learn strategies for successful oral presentation (perfect for SOAR and all of your end of term presentations coming up)!

If you would like more information about the Long Night Against Procrastination, email Hannon Library at libraryevents@sou.edu. If you need disability accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Disability Resources at (541) 552-6213 or dss@sou.edu.

FHL Speaker Series: Author Harry Fuller

Join the Friends of Hannon Library and author Harry Fuller for The Klamath Basin: Water and Waterfowl—

Thursday, May 9, 2019
4 pm
Meese Room, Hannon Library (SOU Campus)

During the event, Harry will discuss his books and explain why the Klamath Basin is such a rich birding location. He will also discuss how the area came to be one of the first wildlife refuges.

Harry Fuller has lived in Oregon since 2007. Before retirement, he managed both TV and internet newsrooms in San Francisco and London. Fuller has written three natural history books, including Freeway Birding and Great Gray Owls in California, Oregon and Washington. He has been leading bird trips and teaching birding classes since the 1990s. Annual trips that Fuller leads include trips in Oregon and Washington for Klamath Bird Observatory, Road Scholar and Golden Gate Audubon.

Next year Oregon State University Press will publish a book of essays about Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, titled Edge of Awe.  It will include his essay on the Common Nighthawks to be seen there in abundance.  Fuller’s birding journal can be accessed online at atowhee.blog.

As part of the Friends of Hannon Library Speaker Series, this event is free and open to the public. Attendees can get free campus parking for this event by visiting any campus parking meter and using this code: FHL1904.

If you need disability accommodations to participate in this event, please contact Disability Resources at (541) 552-6213. For more information, contact Hannon Library Administration at libraryevents@sou.edu or 541- 552-6816.