Oviatt Spotlight: Learning Resource Center
eNews Edition: Fall 2013
We are excited and very proud to welcome the Learning Resource Center to its beautifully remodeled new home in the east wing on the Library’s third floor.
After a very ambitious summer-long renovation that resulted in a wall- to- wall transformation of the third floor’s east wing, the Learning Resource Center (LRC) is happily settling into its new digs in the Oviatt Library.
What's Up: "In Protest" Exhibition
eNews Edition: Fall 2013
From the Library’s vast archives, a carefully assembled array of unique items has been brought together to form the Oviatt’s provocative new yearlong exhibit, “In Protest: Shifting Paradigms and Collective Social Action.”
Protest actions-- in the form of boycotts, demonstrations, riots, property destruction, occupations, labor strikes, local activism, or works of art -- have spanned the political spectrum, defined generations, and shaped our uniquely American identity.
Featured: Unveiling the Extraordinary Commons
eNews Edition: Fall 2013
After years of planning, countless meetings, and months of construction, the Oviatt Library’s dynamic new Learning Commons is ready for its debut, and you are cordially invited.
Although the official ribbon cutting will take place at the Grand Opening on October 3, accompanied by all of the appropriate pomp and circumstance, the beautifully reimagined first floor of CSUN’s Delmar T. Oviatt Library has been buzzing with increased excitement and activity since fall classes began. “Response from the CSUN community has been overwhelmingly positive,” says Dean Mark Stover.
Message from the Dean: Reflecting on Foundations
eNews Edition: Summer 2013
If you begin with anything less than a solid foundation, the renovation of any structure can be a tricky enterprise. I believe that this observation regarding the importance of solid underpinnings holds true for both the physical edifice, as well as for the human organization that occupies a building’s interior.
So, while in the midst of a remodeling project that will profoundly change the Library’s physical appearance, and with the ongoing modifications required to keep our infrastructure up-to-date in a digital age, I think it is an apt time to revisit our core values: the true foundation of who we are and what matters to us most.
We Would Like you to Meet: Laurie Borchard
eNews Edition: Summer 2013
As a Digital Learning Initiatives Librarian, my primary focus is meeting the needs of our students in an online environment. This means that I collaborate with fellow librarians and campus faculty in planning initiatives relating to information competency, embedded librarianship (where the librarian is integrated into Moodle), open access repositories, and the creation of digital learning objects.
Thanks and Recognition: Ann and Dave Perkins
eNews Edition: Summer 2013
Even though retired librarians Ann and Dave Perkins recently relocated away from their long-time Northridge home, their continuing support of Library scholarships and their ongoing service to the campus as emeritus faculty keeps them closely tied to CSUN and the Oviatt.
Oviatt Spotlight: Student Awards Ceremony
eNews Edition: Summer 2013
Student employees are the backbone of the Library. Just ask any staff or faculty member, and they will tell you that their department could not possibly function without the small army of student employees who come to work every day in the Oviatt Library. Each year the Library employs an average of 145 CSUN students who work in part-time positions ranging from shelving books to greeting the public at service desks. They are loyal and hard-working, and many go on to work in the Library or even go on to become librarians after graduation.
What's Up: Marketing Transformation
eNews Edition: Summer 2013
When asked about the Learning Commons marketing slogan, ‘Share the Commons Experience,’ librarian Coleen Martin explains, “A Commons Experience refers to something that is accessible and identifiable to everyone. It’s a fun play on words thought up by one of our creative librarians.” Martin goes on to say that the catch phrase is meant to illustrate how the Library, through its current physical renovation as well as its ongoing technological advancements, continues to integrate and make available an ever-growing list of academic support services and resources.
Featured: What's in a Name?
eNews Edition: Summer 2013
Come this fall, much of the Library’s interior space will have been transformed to meet the expanding needs of faculty and students. The new Learning Commons will offer a far more open, multifunctional and dynamic space on the first floor; the lobby will boast an expanded and permanent Freudian Sip; and the University’s Learning Resource Center will have a new home in the third floor east wing.
Message from the Dean: Everything Oviatt
eNews Edition: Spring 2013
One of the things that I love most about being a librarian and library administrator at Cal State Northridge is the knowledge that every day will bring something new and exciting into my life. This issue of the Oviatt Library E-Newsletter exemplifies that feeling of sheer exhilaration when I think about the wide variety of initiatives that the Library is involved with this year.