The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is now available to the PSU community online. The library’s online subscription to NEJM includes access to research articles from 1990 to the present, as well as multimedia content such as videos and images in clinical medicine, audio interviews and clinical practice, and more. Take a tour of NEJM Online today!

Millar Library will be open 24/7 during Winter 2013 Dead Week and Finals Week. We will stay open from Monday, March 11, when we open at 7:30 am, until Thursday, March 21, when we close at midnight. On Friday, March 22, the library will be open 7:30am – 7pm.

From 11 pm - 7 am, only Portland State students, faculty and staff are allowed to be in the Library. Please bring your PSU ID card with you if you wish to be in the building during that time.

Shuttle and Escort Services Update:

College Housing NW has added extra service to support PSU students using the Library overnight. Every half hour from 10:30pm-6:30am, they will pick up students at the Library and make drops off at Clifton House, Palladian, Cambrian, Clay & Tiffany buildings before returning to Goose Hollow.

CPSO is offering escort service to other locations on campus. Call 503-725-4407.

Thanks to a generous grant from Juan Young Trust, the University Library has renovated and redesigned the Family Friendly Study Room. Established under the will of Juan Young, the Juan Young Trust is dedicated to providing grants to 501(c)(3) organizations that promote the health, education, and welfare of children in the state of Oregon. We are grateful for the support of the Juan Young Trust and investment in this critical space at the University Library.

Funds from the grant have been used to upgrade the space with new furniture, toys, books, and décor to provide an entertaining and comfortable experience for PSU students and their children. The new additions enhance the technology-equipped room that already provides two computer stations, personal scanners, and connection to the printing network. New additions include a television and DVDs. Along with many children’s books, new toys have been added, including a play kitchen, animal figurines, and toy vehicles. To show our school spirit, the room has been repainted PSU green with “Go Viks” decorative letters.

Between classes, PSU student parents often find themselves on campus with their children and need family-friendly spaces. The Family Friendly Study Room helps meet the need of these students and their children. The study space is the result of the Library's collaboration with the Helen Gordon Child Development Center, and with the support of the Office of Information Technologies. While the room does not provide childcare, it does offer a place for student parents to study and work on projects while their children are kept stimulated and entertained by a variety of play options.

The room is open and available for checkout now. You can reserve a room by visiting Reserve a Study Room. The room can accommodate two family groups at a time.

Update 3/11/13: Check out the Vanguard's story about the renovations at http://psuvanguard.com/news/family-study-room-makes-learning-easier/.

When School of Social Work students graduate, they lose off-campus access to the Library's subscription databases and full text journals. But, as practicing social workers they still need the latest research, and they may not have access through their employer or professional association. In an effort to help School of Social Work alumni and other practicing social workers in Oregon find the research they need, Librarian Kimberly Pendell created the Open Access Social Work guide. This research guide provides links to free, online research journals and other resources in social work and related fields, organized around content areas like addictions and mental health. You can find the Open Access Social Work guide through the Library's Research Guides or at http://guides.library.pdx.edu/opensocialwork.

The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is now available to the PSU community online. The library’s online subscription to JAMA includes access to research articles from 1998 to the present, as well as multimedia content such as author interviews, videos, and interactive graphics. It also features polls and quizzes. Take a tour of JAMA Online today!

PDXScholar, Portland State University's institutional repository, now contains over 1,000 Faculty publications. Congratulations to Associate Professor Kristi Yuthas (School of Business Administration), whose article was the 1,000th publication archived in PDXScholar. The lucky article, "Management accounting and control: Lessons for and from the world's tiniest businesses" can be viewed online here: http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/9125

"We're very excited about reaching 1,000 faculty publications" said Karen Bjork, Digital Initiatives Coordinator. "PDXScholar is transforming into a fantastic way to show off the research, scholarship and the diversity of activities and accomplishments at PSU."

Faculty can use PDXScholar as their own personal PR tool. Each item receives its own permanent URL. Integrate the URL into your CV, personal or departmental homepage, and citations.

PDXScholar also enables author name searching to generate lists of links to full text of your work in PDXScholar. Scholarly works archived in PDXScholar are indexed in Google, Google Scholar, and other search engines and harvesters -- both popular and more scholarly -- making them highly visible to any web user.

To get started send Karen Bjork (kbjork@pdx.edu), your CV and PDXScholar staff will check publisher copyright permissions and archives your research.

From Tuesday 2/12 through Thursday 2/14, the Library's collection of DDA books in EBook Library will be accessible only through Vikat (vikat.pdx.edu). These ebooks will be unavailable in Portland State Worldcat during this time, while that system is updated to include current information about the collection.

The comment period for the Bonneville Power Administration's draft environmental impact statement for its proposed I-5 Corridor Reinforcement Project available has been extended to noon on Monday, March 25, 2013. The multi-volume draft impact statement is located along the curve on the fifth floor in Millar Library. The draft also can be found on the Bonneville Power Administration's website at: http://www.bpa.gov/Projects/Projects/I-5/Pages/Draft-EIS.aspx.

Portland, OR – Portland State University Library is one of 840 libraries and state humanities councils across the country selected to receive the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the American Library Association (ALA). The program aims to familiarize public audiences in the United States with the people, places, history, faith and cultures of Muslims in the United States and around the world.

The Muslim Journeys Bookshelf includes the following titles, organized by theme:

American Stories

• A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed
• Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford
• The Columbia Sourcebook of Muslims in the United States, edited by Edward E. Curtis IV
• Acts of Faith by Eboo Patel
• The Butterfly Mosque: A Young American Woman’s Journey to Love and Islam by G. Willow Wilson

Connected Histories

• The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance by Jim Al-Khalili
• In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh
• When Asia Was the World: Traveling Merchants, Scholars, Warriors, and Monks Who Created the “Riches of the East” by Stewart Gordon
• Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf, translated by Peter Sluglett
• The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal

Literary Reflections

• Minaret by Leila Aboulela
• The Arabian Nights (anonymous), edited by Muhsin Mahdi, translated by Husain Haddawy
• The Conference of the Birds by Farid al-Din Attar, translated by Dick Davis and Afkham Darbandi
• Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
• Snow by Orhan Pamuk, translated by Maureen Freely

Pathways of Faith

• Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan A. C. Brown
• The Story of the Qur’an: Its History and Place in Muslim Life by Ingrid Mattson
• The Children of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam by F. E. Peters
• The Art of Hajj by Venetia Porter
• Rumi: Poet and Mystic, edited and translated by Reynold A. Nicholson

Points of View

• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• Dreams of Trespass by Fatima Mernissi
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• House of Stone by Anthony Shadid
• Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie

Art Architecture and Film

• The Art of Hajj by Venetia Porter
• Islamic Arts by Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair
• Islamic Art Spots (short films designed, written, and presented by D. Fairchild Ruggles, and produced by Twin Cities Public Television)
• Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World (2011)
• Prince Among Slaves (2007)
• Koran by Heart (2011)

The books and films comprising the Bookshelf were selected with the advice librarians and cultural programming experts, as well as distinguished scholars in the fields of anthropology, world history, religious studies, interfaith dialogue, the history of art and architecture, world literature, Middle East studies, Southeast Asian studies, African studies, and Islamic studies.

For information about these new materials, please visit http://library.pdx.edu/ or contact Elisheva Cohen, Portland State University Middle East Studies Center Outreach Coordinator, 503-725-5054, e.cohen@pdx.edu. To obtain copies of program materials, please contact Elisheva Cohen. Additional information is available at http://library.pdx.edu/muslimjourneys.html.

The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Major support for the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

The Portland State University Library will partner with the University’s Middle East Studies Center to present a series of programs to introduce, promote, complement and contextualize the collection. Events will include presentations by Muslim Journeys Project Scholar, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Reed College; Dick Davis, Professor of Persian and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Ohio State University; Stephen Dale, Professor Emeritus of History, Ohio State University; Aria Menu-Sepehr; author of We Heard the Heavens Then, a memoir about the Iranian Revolution; and Bishupal Limbu, Assistant Professor of English, Portland State University. Additional information is available online at http://www.pdx.edu/middle-east-studies. This programming is supported by the U.S. Institute of Peace Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative.

The Portland State University Library is at the heart of the Portland State community, and is committed to providing excellence and innovation in research, teaching, and learning support. Along with its diverse collection of information resources, the University Library offers special collections and archives that feature unique materials of regional and scholarly interest; produces an extensive array of user-centered information services; and delivers a strong instruction program dedicated to improving students’ academic success. Located in an iconic building in the beautiful South Park Blocks, the Portland State University Library serves the largest student body in the Oregon University System, providing collaborative study spaces and technology-enabled environments designed to enhance students’ learning experiences.

The Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University promotes understanding of the people, cultures, languages and religions of the Middle East. As a National Resource Center for Middle East Studies under the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI program, the Center serves as a resource on issues pertaining to the Middle East through activities that reach students and scholars, as well as businesses, educators, and the media. The Middle East Studies Center supports academic conferences, workshops, cultural events, lectures, and a resource library.

Portland, OR – The Portland State University Library has received $2,000 in funding support from the Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The support will enable the Portland State University Library and Middle East Studies Center to present programming to introduce, promote, complement and contextualize the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys, a collection of books, films, and other resources chosen with a view to familiarizing the American public with Islam and the cultural heritage of Islamic civilizations around the world.

Events will include presentations by Muslim Journeys Project Scholar, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Reed College; Dick Davis, Professor of Persian and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures, Ohio State University; Stephen Dale, Professor Emeritus of History, Ohio State University; Aria Menu-Sepehr; author of We Heard the Heavens Then, a memoir about the Iranian Revolution; and Bishupal Limbu, Assistant Professor of English, Portland State University. Additional information is available online at http://library.pdx.edu/muslimjourneys.html or http://www.pdx.edu/middle-east-studies.

Portland State University Interim Vice Provost for International Affairs remarked, “As Oregon’s largest and most diverse public university, located at the heart of on of America’s most progressive cities, Portland State places students in a vibrant and varied cultural center. The Middle East Studies Center squarely aligns its public programming with the University’s motto, ‘Let Knowledge Serve the City’.”

“The United State Institute of Peace is pleased to support organizations like Portland State University and their contribution to the national conversation around international conflict – and methods for resolving those conflicts nonviolently,” commented United States Institute for Peace President Jim Marshall.

The United States Institute of Peace is the independent, nonpartisan conflict management center created by Congress to prevent and mitigate international conflict without resorting to violence. USIP works to save lives, increase the government’s ability to deal with conflicts before they escalate, reduce government costs, and enhance national security. The United State Institute of Peace is headquartered in Washington, DC with offices in Baghdad, Iraq, and Kabul, Afghanistan.

As part of its congressional mandate, the United State Institute of Peace devotes a portion of its budget to support organizations that will advance the field of conflict management by developing new techniques, establishing best practices, and professionalizing the field through education and training. The Public Education for Peacebuilding Support is a program of USIP administered by the Institute of International Education.

As a National Resource Center for Middle East Studies under the U.S. Department of Education’s Title VI program, the Middle East Studies Center promotes understanding of the people, cultures, languages, and religions of the Middle East. Under this mandate, Portland State University supports collections, scholarship, research, teaching and programming about Islam and the cultural heritage of Islamic civilizations around the world.

Recent and ongoing events in the Middle East underscore the growing need to understand the region. As audiences continue t be bombarded by media images of war, violence and protests, it is critical to put a human face on the Middle East and Islam and to promote knowledge about the diversity of its cultures and societies. The Muslim Journeys collection and associated programming will provide audiences with insight into Islam from a variety of perspectives. Participants will work to break down traditional stereotypes and assumptions held about Islam and the Middle East.

The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art.

The Portland State University Library is at the heart of the Portland State community, and is committed to providing excellence and innovation in research, teaching, and learning support. Along with its diverse collection of information resources, the University Library offers special collections and archives that feature unique materials of regional and scholarly interest; produces an extensive array of user-centered information services; and delivers a strong instruction program dedicated to improving students’ academic success. Located in an iconic building in the beautiful South Park Blocks, the Portland State University Library serves the largest student body in the Oregon University System, providing collaborative study spaces and technology-enabled environments designed to enhance students’ learning experiences.

The Middle East Studies Center at Portland State University serves as a resource on issues pertaining to the Middle East through activities that reach students and scholars, as well as businesses, educators, and the media. The Middle East Studies Center supports academic conferences, workshops, cultural events, lectures, and a resource library.