Hannon Library Celebrates American Archives Month with an Open House

Hannon Library Celebrates American Archives Month with an Open HousePicture of statement "October is American Archives Month"

Join us on Thursday, October 10, from 2-4 pm in Hannon Library’ Special Collections and University Archives area. Stop by the Open House to see some of our treasures that include historic documents, photographs, maps, and manuscripts. Refreshments will be available at 3:30 pm.

American Archives Month is a collaborative effort by professional organizations, libraries, and repositories around the nation to highlight the importance of records of enduring value. Archivists are professionals who assess, collect, organize, preserve, maintain control of, and provide access to information that has lasting value, and they help people find and understand the information they need in those records.

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Hannon Library Celebrates Pride Month

In honor of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Pride Month, Hannon Library is currently presenting two displays that celebrate the LGBTQ community. The display on the first floor, closest to the reference desk, is the LGBTQ Monuments and National Historic Places in the United States Display. This display includes information on the Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain, Vicksburg National Military Park, Stonewall National Monument, Governor’s Island National Monument, Eleanor Roosevelt Historical Site and the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. Students and Patrons who are interested in the National Parks Service and learning more about LGBTQ historic locations in the U.S. can view the display in the Hannon Library Research Lab. The display is put on by the Hannon Library Government Publications office.

The first-floor display near the library’s Humanitarians for Justice, Nonviolence, and Peace art collection showcases books with LGBTQ themes and characters from Hannon Library’s collections. Featuring titles included on 2018’s Top Ten Most Challenged Books list including George by Alex Gino and This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman, this exhibit curates books from the library’s collections that are available to borrow. The display also highlights items on loan from Southern Oregon University’s Queer Resource Center.

The displays will be available for viewing for the next few weeks. If you have a question about the Pride Month exhibits, please email Hannon Library at libraryevents@sou.edu. If you need disability accommodations to visit and view the displays, please contact Disability Resources at (541) 552-6213 or dss@sou.edu.

Into the Woods Costume on Display in Hannon Library

Hannon Library has a new costume on display, on loan from the Southern Oregon University theatre program.

Designed by Brandon McGowan, the costume is from the 2018 production of Into the Woods by James Lapine. Gracie Jurczyk wore the garment as The Transformed Witch, and it was draped and built by Madison Queen.

To view the costume, visit the second floor of the library. For disability accommodations, please contact Disability Resources at 541-552-6213 or dss@sou.edu.

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.

 

Fourmile Lake ltbut creek

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.