Primary Source Gifts Make a Lasting Impression
eNews Edition: Winter 2016
CSUN student and Oviatt Library eNews Intern Lesley Zambrano gives a firsthand account of her inspiring introduction to the many unique Special Collections and Archive resources that are available to our campus community and researchers from around the world.
What's Up: Open Access in the Future of Libraries
eNews Edition: Fall 2016
Read about how the Open Access movement is beginning to impact the important, everyday work of academic librarians, and then join us at the Oviatt for a Day of Data to learn even more.
Message from the Dean: Our 100 Year Plan
eNews Edition: Fall 2016
The venerable Chinese philosopher Confucius said that if you think in terms of a year, plant a seed, and if you think in terms of 10 years, plant a tree, but if you think in terms of 100 years, teach the people. In a world with potentially cataclysmic challenges like climate change, our future well-being is directly tied to our passionate resolve to teach.
Now more than ever, educating the students at CSUN remains one of the primary facets of the Oviatt Library mission, and this edition of the eNews will highlight the many ways that we accomplish this goal through hard work, innovation, and dedicated service.
We Would Like You to Meet: Timothy Chu
eNews Edition: Fall 2016
Oviatt Cataloging Coordinator, Luiz Mendes, highlights the value of Library internships when he introduces readers to his former MLIS student and recent Librarians Legacy Intern, Timothy Chu.
Thanks & Recognition: Rick Nupoll and Mara Houdyshell
eNews Edition: Fall 2016
Dr. Karin J. Duran’s lifelong, passionate and impactful commitment to CSUN and the Oviatt Library inspires a gift that will honor her remarkable legacy and support student success for generations to come.
Oviatt Spotlight: Moving Library Research from Palm Trees to Gondolas
eNews Edition: Fall 2016
From California to the canals of Venice, Italy, Oviatt librarians Ahmed Alwan and Joy Doan share their impactful research on Microaggressions & Academic Libraries, and discover some darn good noodles along the way.
Featured: Innovation Takes on a Whole New Dimension
eNews Edition: Fall 2016
The Oviatt continues to stay on the trending edge of shared technological resource delivery with the recent addition of 3D printing services and related workshops in the library’s Creative Media Studio.
You have likely noticed by now that there’s an ever-increasing current of transformative energy pulsing through the heart of CSUN’s campus. For the past few years, the steadfast and iconic façade of the Delmar T. Oviatt Library has contrasted the sweeping renovation of its now flexible, lively, and modern first floor interior.
A Message from the Dean: Unearthing our Flourishing Network
eNews Edition: Spring 2016
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said that "all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.”
As Dr. King observed, there is a certain coherence to the world that seems to often stay hidden below the surface and then occasionally pops up like a spring daisy. Similarly, the stories in our Spring 2016 issue of the Oviatt Library eNews have a number of connective elements. These elements are surprising, inspiring, and thought-provoking.
We Would Like you to Meet: Darryl Hood
eNews Edition: Spring 2016
Three, two, one, action! What was once a childhood dream has become an everyday reality for author, award winning broadcast journalist, and former Oviatt Library student assistant Darryl Hood.
Hood personifies the old story of hard work leading to success. Even before graduating from CSUN with a degree in journalism in 1996, he began his career as a reporter for the Orange County News channel.
Thanks & Recognition: Library Staff and Faculty
eNews Edition: Spring 2016
When CSUN asked Oviatt employees to consider giving back to the university, the faculty and staff who work in the very heart of the campus found a few inspiring reasons to say yes.