Are you proud of a research paper you’re working on? If it’s for a Bibliographic Research in Writing class, consider applying for the James J. Kopp Library Research Award. Applications will be accepted beginning on April 25.
Curated by Orion Whitcher (’24) and Juliana Wullenjohn (’24), this exhibition examines the Centaur Press, a small printing press active in San Francisco during the 1940s and 50s, which facilitated freedom of expression and the capacity for self-representation, particularly women and queer individuals. Drawing from the Kermit Sheets Collection, archival materials reveal the Press’s Oregon roots, prominent female authors, and its focus on sexual and queer themes.
Watzek invites graduating seniors to share their favorite books.
Watzek Spins: Punky Highschool Love (Spring 2024)
For this semester’s vinyl mix, Watzek Spins brings you some punky classics and not-so-classics from across the globe, plus krautrock and disco beats. It’s the best thing since microfilm. Check out Punky Highschool Love, digitized and compiled by Center for Cassette Studies. See you in the stacks!
Celebrate Black History Month by reading about Black experiences, past and present! You’ll find a small selection of books from our collection in the Watzek atrium, all available for you to borrow.
Grab a free, custom copy of this year’s Everybody Reads title at Watzek Library and Boley Law Library! In support of Multnomah County Library’s community reading project, copies of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin are available on campus. Read, reflect, and learn together in online and in-person activities outlined in the accompanying project guide. Everybody Reads is a community-wide project that promotes shared reading and discussion around a single book. Watzek and Boley will facilitate book discussions in March.
Wellness Kits at Watzek
Wellness Kits are now available at the Library Service Desk! Each kit contains a light therapy lamp, a push pop sensory toy, and two hourglass timers. Kits are available for four hour check out.
Looking for extra quiet? There are ear plugs and noise canceling headphones available at the Service Desk too!
One of two winners of last year’s library research award offers this encouragement: “Everyone is required to take a Bibliographic Research in Writing class at L&C, and the Kopp Award provides a little extra push to polish that final product and make it something you’re proud of!”
The Himes & Duniway Society, a rare and antiquarian bibliographic society in Portland, is bringing their book collection competition to Lewis & Clark again this year! Current undergraduate and graduate students are invited to apply for the $500 prize, to be awarded to two students with the most compelling personal book collections and accompanying essays.
Schedule a Research Consultation
Need in-depth help with your research? Schedule a research consultation–a personalized session with a librarian on how to approach the research process for your project.
This fall we’ve been delighted to feature the art of Alex Nash ’25 on the library’s lamp posts. Alex, a psychology major and art/art history minor from Pasadena, California, created Watzek’s first set of welcome banners, meant to welcome students to the library and campus at the start of the academic year. Alex’s design was inspired by their own experiences as a new student on campus…
Books for Queer History Month
In celebration of Queer History Month, a selection of books brought to you by Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement (IME) and Watzek Library are on display in the library atrium. All titles are available to check out.
Happy Fall! This semester, Watzek Spins dusts off some of our favorite retro synth jams from across the globe. Guaranteed to enhance your library study habits. Compiled and digitized by Center for Cassette Studies from analog sources.
Celebrate the wonder of poetry with a book from Watzek’s new display, just inside the gates! All titles may be borrowed for a normal amount of time.
Honoring Black History Month through the Sciences
Students enrolled in CHEM 330 during Fall 2022 present their research in the poster exhibit “We are all the same, but we are all different”. In collaboration with Dr. Jean-Philippe Gourdine, Mia Hernandez ’23 discusses the Diversity of Human Hair & Methods of Categorization, and Lara Koyshman ’23 and Maryam Al-Ghezi ’23 present on Tracing Human Migrations with the Microbiome, in and out of Africa. The posters will be on display in the Watzek Library atrium through March 3.
Elliott Smith, Best-of Live
For the Spring 2023 term, Watzek Spins and Center for Cassette Studies presents a special set of Elliott Smith’s essential live recordings. Features both full-band lineups and solo shows, from 1994 to 2003. Enjoy!
Lewis & Clark Libraries support Everybody Reads 2023
Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale for the Time Being is the Multnomah County Library Everybody Reads 2023 title. In support of this community reading project, free custom copies are available for pick up at Watzek Library and Boley Law Library. Read, reflect, and participate in online and in-person activities outlined in Multnomah County Library’s accompanying project guide. Explore the power of books to create a stronger community!
Noise Canceling Headphones
Watzek Library now has four pairs of noise canceling headphones that can be checked out for 4-hour loan. They have cords so you can use them to listen to a device, or you can just turn the power button on to have silence. They are located at the library service desk.
In recognition of Indigenous Peoples’ Heritage Month, a selection of titles by and about Indigenous peoples are on display in the Watzek Library Atrium. All titles are available to check out.
Katherine Dunn died in 2016, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript of her novel, Toad, in the Special Collections of Lewis & Clark College. The digital exhibit The Goldfish Won’t Complain explores Naomi Huffman’s editorial process as she worked to bring Dunn’s novel to life and to print.
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Find a selection of borrowable books and a community created banner just inside the gates of the library from the Office of Health Promotion and Wellness and Watzek Library.
Need to focus? Watzek Library has 10 study rooms that are available for reservation up to two weeks in advance. A widescreen display monitor with connection for laptops is now available in Room 302.
Watzek Spins for Fall: Nigerian Disco and Boogie
Happy Fall 2022! This semester, Watzek Spins highlights the phenomenal disco and boogie scene that took Lagos by storm throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. Pictured is Joe Moks (a.k.a. Josephine Mokwunyei), from the front cover of her landmark 1979 album Boys and Girls. She is now a professor of musicology at the University of Benin, in Nigeria. Digitized and curated by Center for Cassette Studies from analog sources.
Check out Watzek’s new subscription to Kanopy BASE, a new academic package that provides streamable access to approximately 10,000 films across a wide variety of subject areas. Watzek recommends The Exiles, Killer of Sheep, I Am Not Your Negro, and Shanghai Triad.
Overnight access to Watzek
Beginning September 6th, a Lewis & Clark ID card will be required for entry between 10 PM - 7 AM. The library’s ID card reader does not support the magnetic stripe on student ID cards issued prior to Fall 2022. If you have an older ID card, please visit Campus Safety to request a free replacement that supports contactless reading.
Visit the main floor of Watzek to see the art show responding to this year’s Lake Oswego Reads selection, C. Pam Zhang’s How Much of These Hills Is Gold.
Are you writing a research paper this term? You may be eligible to apply for the James J. Kopp Library Research Award! Students in classes with a Bibliographic Research in Writing designation are invited to apply for the award between April 28 and May 8.
Tell us your DataStories
We invite submissions to our annual data visualization contest! Send us your figures, graphs, charts, maps, etc…. together with an abstract written for a public audience.
During April there is nationwide recognition ofSexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM).Demonstrate your commitment to supporting survivors and creating a safer campus by contributing to the Paper Chain Project in the Watzek Library atrium. This initiative collects anonymous responses to prompts related to support for survivors and community safety. These will be linked together to create a paper chain at the end of the month in a visual display for reflection, community building, and contemplation.
Fans of former Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford can get a never-before-seen look at early drafts of his poetry—and the folk art and Americana that informed them—at an exhibition devoted to the Kim Stafford Archive. The exhibition, located in Watzek Library, will be on view through the fall semester.
Laptops at Library Service Desk
Laptops are now available for 3 day checkout at the Library Service Desk. Computers have all lab software plus the Adobe Creative suite.
Gender Studies Exhibition
Explore the exhibition created by Watzek Library Special Collections practicum students for the Gender Studies Symposium, titled Development & Deconstruction: Gender Identity in Fantasy. The physical exhibition is on the 3rd floor of Watzek Library, and the online version is here.
The Natural History Club invites you to join in celebrating the 4th Annual Moss Appreciation Week.
On Wednesday, February 16 at 4:30 PM, join us in front of Watzek Library for a Lichen Walk with LC alumna Angelia Romano.
At 6 PM, Laura Briscoe from the New York Botanical Garden shares Friends Underfoot: Bryophyte Bedtime Stories.Zoom: 948 3719 9546 Passcode: mossweek Note: Xanthoria parietina or Maritime sunburst lichen collected and imaged by Alex Young ’15
Vinyl rips of our favorite U.S./U.K. 70s-80s postpunk bands fronted by women. Digitized and compiled by Center for Cassette Studies. Watzek Library wishes you a swell semester.
On campus book discussions will be held in early March, including:
Thursday, March 3 at 12:00 in Akin Lounge (LC ID needed to access Residence Hall) Thursday, March 3 at 3:30 in Watzek Classroom 245 (RSVP for headcount)
Are you writing a research paper this term? If so, you may be eligible to apply for the James J. Kopp Library Research Award! Students doing research in classes with a Bibliographic Research in Writing (BRW) designation are invited to apply for the award between December 8 and December 19.
In recognition of Indigenous People’s Heritage Month in November, Watzek is displaying a selection of titles by and about Indigenous peoples. A selection of titles may be found near the library service desk and are available to check out.
The theme of “Joy and Justice” in this year’s Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies is represented by student art exhibited in Watzek Library through the end of November. The complete exhibition is available to view as a virtual gallery
This exhibit explores joy and community as forms of resilience for Vietnamese Portlanders by showcasing photographs, writings, and quotes from a diverse range of Vietnamese voices.Curated by L&C students Ben Warner ’22 and Mei Bailey ’22, it is on display on the top floor of Watzek Library through the end of the fall semester and is available to view online.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded Lewis & Clark $331K in American Rescue Plan (ARP) funds for Building Humanities Collections for the Community. Under the leadership of Project Director and Head of Watzek Library Special Collections and College Archivist Dr. Hannah Crummé, this project will rebuild the Special Collections program of Watzek Library and help reinvigorate related curriculum post pandemic shutdown.
Visit the collaborative space in Watzek Library to view local artists’ responses to Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. The pieces were created and assembled for the traveling Lake Oswego Reads Art Exhibition. The exhibition will be in place through the end of the month.
Kim Stafford, founding director of Lewis & Clark’s Northwest Writing Institute and former Oregon poet laureate, has gifted his personal archive to Watzek Library Special Collections and Archives. It will be available to the public in 2022.
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, a selection of books brought to you by Inclusion & Multicultural Engagement (IME) and Watzek Library are on display in the library atrium. All titles are available to check out.
Celebrate the Freedom to Read during Banned Books Week, September 26-October 2. Watzek Library has a display of challenged titles located in the New Books alcove. All titles are available for check out.
Stream our mixtape for Fall 2021! Original vinyl rips of ’60s -’80s pop and psychedelic women singers from Asia, Europe, and Africa. Link to the playlist:
Watzek welcomes new and returning students to campus this fall! We invite you to take part in a Choose Your Own Scavenger Hunt Photo Adventure! Participating enters you in a drawing for a limited edition Watzek Library coffee tumbler.
Do you have any digital objects related to the pandemic year at Lewis & Clark? Please consider submitting ANY digital object that symbolizes something about your experience of the pandemic year to the forthcoming LC Covid Archive. Visit https://bit.ly/lccovidarchive to make your digital contribution.
With the help of Watzek Library Special Collections, students Margarete Maneker, Lily Schaffer, Ashley O’Leary, and Olivia Weiss created an online exhibit for their History independent study project, “The Nuremberg Laws: Nazi Race Laws”.
Two exhibitions in Watzek Library are celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the gender studies symposia. One, located online and on the top floor of the library, examines “Lack and Absence”. The other, found near the writing center and online, examines the history of the symposia.
Please take a moment to swing by the Watzek Library Atrium to view the winning photos of the LC Overseas and Off-Campus Programs 5th Annual International Photo Contest!
Albina was the center of Black life in Portland through most of the twentieth century. City-led urban renewal efforts and systematic disinvestment by financial institutions have led to displacement of the neighborhood’s Black residents. Yet through all this runs a thread of resistance by Albina’s Black community.
This digital exhibit, created by Watzek’s Special Collections and Archives in support of the 17th Annual Ray Warren Symposium at Lewis & Clark, seeks to depict ninety years of Albina’s history with a special focus on acts of resistance by Albina’s Black residents.
On the night of October 10th, 1974, political activist, Angela Davis spoke to a packed audience at the Portland State University auditorium. As reported for the Lewis & Clark College Pioneer Log newspaper by managing editor Rob Rowe ’77, in attendance was a mix of “Old grey radicals, middle-aged revoltationaries, and dissent college students.” Davis, a well known activist, author, and academic, has spoken and taught on the subjects of class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system and was actively engaged with lefitis causes including the Black Panther Party, the Communist Party, and Marxist Feminism.
Lewis & Clark College has a strong record of teaching that relies upon the medieval and early modern works housed in Special Collections produced during this moment.This year, thanks to the Breslauer Foundation Grant and to Professor Karen Gross for collaboration on our application, we have acquired aBook of Hoursproduced in the Italian city of Ferrara in the late fifteenth century, a moment when several of the most severe outbreaks of plague ravished the city.
Katherine Dunn (1945-2016), an award-winning author, poet, and journalist, is best known for her critically acclaimed novelGeek Love, first published in 1989. A National Book Award finalist,Geek Lovepropelled Dunn to cult-figure status and amassed a fan base for its unusual characters and imaginative story of the Binewski family carnival. Lewis & Clark College is home to the Katherine Dunn Literary Collection and Archive, which celebrates Dunn as writer, and her novelGeek Loveas a landmark text.
The workes of Beniamin Ionsonappeared in the fall of 1616 in a large, imposing folio volume. Running nearly 575 leaves, Ben Jonson’sWorkesis a testament to his skills, popularity, but most primarily his determination to have his writings published together in a single volume, demonstrating his flexibility and progression as an English writer. At Lewis & Clark we use our copy of the folio - one of only two held at a liberal arts - to teach lessons about print culture in the sixteenth century.
The Vietnamese community comprises 2% of the population of Portland, one of the largest among major U.S. cities. The experiences of this community in Portland offer an important corrective to the traditional picture of Oregon’s past. In an effort to create a more rounded history of Portland, Lewis & Clark students created podcasts using our growing archive, Vietnamese Portland: History, Memory, Community. From accounts of immigration to the experiences of later generations born in the US, they tell stories from our community.
All international pop beats 1968-1988 for remote dancing and cramming, custom crafted for the Watzek Library crowd. Artists from Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, and more. 70+ minutes. Watzek wishes you well! Stay safe.
Dr. Alan L. Hart’s life and career was devoted to medical science, including groundbreaking research in radiology and tuberculosis treatment. As a fiction novelist, Hart wrote five books on the subject of medical practice, opening the door of socialized medicine and medical research to the public. He traveled, taught, and spoke on the medical profession for over 40 years. Beyond his medical career, Hart was also a social pioneer as he underwent one of the first female-to-male gender transitions in the United States in 1917.
You know that E&D research project you worked so hard on? You should submit it for this prestigious award that the library gives to the two best submissions! It’s easy to apply for the award, and you are already doing the work! The deadline to apply is Monday, May 11.
Poetry inspired by the coronavirus crisis by Kim Stafford, Oregon’s poet laureate and director of Lewis & Clark’s Northwest Writing Institute, was recently featured in the Oregonian.
Watzek Library’s Special Collections contain a number of stories that seem to parallel aspects of life during quarantine. A ship’s log, detailing in manuscript the exciting voyage of an English ship, the Duke of Grafton, seems to offer a perspective on isolation, exhaustion, and the threat of illness, while meanwhile offering a lens on contemporary politics and British colonialism.
Twenty-five years before he relocated to Portland, Oregon to become the first president (1942-1960) of the newly renamed Lewis & Clark College, Morgan S. Odell, a strict Methodists and pacifist, enlisted into the U.S. Army. Only 23 when he enlisted, he drove with the ambulance service in Italy through the end of the Great War. Stationed in Oné di Fonte thirty miles northwest of Venice, Odell participated in the Battle of Vittorio-Veneto. Serving on the front lines, he saw the ramifications of poison gas, but also illness as the “Spanish flu” pandemic began to take hold both in Europe and on the homefront.
ASLC are putting together resources to help students during this difficult time. Follow the link to learn About the Emergency Funds Applications and the Resource Pantry.
Watzek Library’s Special Collections and Archives has recently added another rare book, an Italian book of hours, to its growing collection of archival materials. The book was acquired thanks to a highly competitive grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation. Starting next spring, students will have the opportunity to examine the text in depth in Professor Karen Gross’s manuscript analysis course.
Watzek Library is proud to host the exhibit But we’ll have our rights: Black Suffragists and Their Push for the Vote from February 1 through April 15, 2020.
With finals just around the corner, it’s a good time to check in with SAAB. They offer personalized tutoring sessions on a variety of course topics. Check out this list of course offerings.
Exhibition curated in Lewis & Clark College’s Special Collections by Emma Celebrezze (’20) and Ashley O’Leary (’22), and in conjunction with the Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnicity, examines Cheryl’s story. This exhibition can be found on Watzek Library’s 3rd Floor, outside room 336.
Watzek Library Director Mark Dahl has been awarded a Fulbright Specialist appointment to visit the National Library of Kosovo. During October 2019 he will work with the National Library and other departments within the Kosovo Ministry of Culture to develop a strategic plan for the National Library.
Thanks to support from Jeremy McWilliams at Lewis & Clark’s Watzek Library Digital Initiatives Office, the team used the college’s HPC cluster (lovingly named BLT for its three servers: bacon, lettuce, and tomato - better together) to crunch data analyzing 9 proteomes and 22 transcriptomes. The use of high-performance computing not only provided otherwise unattainable insights and discoveries, it also proved invaluable in training student-researchers.
Watzek Librarian Parvaneh Abbaspour recently presented new alumna Cyan Cowap BA ’19 with an intriguing opportunity to illustrate the biomedical imaging textbook that Professor of Physics Bethe Scalettar and Lewis & Clark law school alumnus James Abney are writing.
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) has awarded Lewis & Clark a $10,000 grant to produce a series of podcasts using material from Watzek Library’s Vietnamese Portland: History, Memory, Community archive.
Based on your feedback, study room reservations must now be made at least one hour in advance. This change allows students to plan ahead for group projects and study sessions while also respecting the needs of our drop-in users. For more information, please see our complete study room reservation policy.
Please welcome another new face at Watzek Library! Victoria is our Temporary Research & Instruction Librarian for spring semester. Click below for a short Q&A with Victoria.
Lewis & Clark’s high-performance computing (HPC) system has been propelled by a collaborative initiative driven by professors, staff members, and students. Although many are unaware of this HPC system—named BLT for its worker nodes “bacon, lettuce, and tomato”—it is paving the way for current and future research opportunities.
Please welcome the newest face at Watzek Library! Robin Anderson is our Student Employment Coordinator and her hours are Sunday-Thursday 3:30pm to midnight! Click below for a short Q&A.
At first glance, chemistry and English have little in common. Yet two courses from these disciplines are now intertwined, thanks to a rare tome acquired in 2014 by Watzek Library’s Special Collections: an illuminated 15th-century book of hours.
Lewis & Clark Senior Art Majors are pleased to present the traveling bookcase show, Artcase. The exhibition has moved from Fields and is now located in Watzek Library through Thursday, November 29… and then it will move to another location on campus. There are things to read and some art you can sit with.
Stressed out from that project deadline? Rejuvenate yourself with our specially-prepared mix of rare vinyl psych-pop beats from Indonesian & Malaysian girl groups! Pattie Bersaudara, Zaleha Hamid, Elly Kasim, and more. Stream it at our Mixcloud account here.
Do you need something ironed? What do you want to say? What is worth what and why? Losing things, sharing things, caring for things … visit the public kiosk in Watzek Library and through services rendered, let art change what you think you know.
November 1st-14th, please come visit the kiosk (across from the circulation desk in Watzek).
Two Lewis & Clark seniors have crafted a new Special Collections exhibit to present religious texts spanning 500 years. The students used an interdisciplinary approach to understand the impact that annotation and translation have had on how societies view and engage with Christianity. The final exhibit showcases their efforts in a detailed and nuanced analysis of how religious materials have influenced broader participation.
Are you a little confused searching for your items? We’ve got your back with this suite of short video tutorials to help both students and instructors use Watzek’s online resources such as Primo, the library catalog!
Since the Reformation, editors, printers, and scholars have experimented with the text, creating volumes that are more appealing, easy to understand, and readily accessible than they had been before. Our current exhibit can be found in the Atrium of Aubrey R. Watzek Library through July 2019.
Elaine Hirsch, associate director of Watzek Library, has been elected as the incoming vice president/president-elect of the Oregon Library Association (OLA).
The State Library of Oregon has awarded Lewis & Clark a $30,100 competitive grant in support of the first year of a multi-year project entitled “Vietnamese Portland: Memory, History, Community”. Supported with funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), this project will be led by Dr. Hannah Crummé, Head of Watzek Library Special Collections and College Archivist.
Kim Stafford, associate professor and founding director of the Northwest Writing Institute, has been chosen to serve as Oregon’s ninth poet laureate, Governor Kate Brown JD ’85 announced this morning. Stafford will serve a two-year term as “an ambassador of poetry across the state.”
We have a fresh new shipment, so swing by the Watzek Service Desk to get your copy! What a great way to decide your summer reading list!
In honor of Watzek Library’s 50th anniversary, we are releasing the second edition of the Faculty Best Books List. The List is a collection of book recommendations by College of Arts and Sciences and Graduate School of Education and Counseling faculty plus recommendations by the staff of Watzek Library.
This List is a diverse collection of favorites that range from the popular to the scholarly and includes fiction as well as non-fiction. It is full of great ideas for summer reading. Pick up your copy at the Watzek Circulation Desk and find the book of your choice at Watzek.
We know it’s the end of the semester, and you’re busy. REALLY busy. But check out this prestigious award that the library gives to the two best E&D research projects. It’s easy to apply for the award, and you are already doing the work! The deadline to apply is Sunday, May 6.
This exhibit, located above the water fountain on the main floor of Watzek Library, will provide both hydration and knowledge!
Waterfacts was developed by Ian Douglas, Computer Science, ’18 and supported by Watzek’s Digital Initiatives. Special thanks to Alan Younis for technical advising.
This project is a result of the Microcomputing Workshops hosted by Watzek in February 2017 with funding from the Library Ed-Tech Committee.
Watzek Library will be open 24 hours a day starting at 9 a.m. on Sunday, December 10th through 9 p.m. on Tuesday, December 19. Happy studying and good luck! You’ve got this!
Did you know that indoor plants reduce anxiety and promote feelings of friendliness?Help us welcome a tree into the library atrium by purchasing a handmade tote at the Library Service Desk ($10 cash only) - all proceeds go towards the purchase of a tree.
Interested in learning how to create herbarium specimens or just love pressing plants? Hannah Machiorlete ’20 & Sami Zimmerman ’19 from Lewis & Clark’s Natural History Club will be hosting a plant pressing workshop in the library classroom on two Fridays in the coming weeks!
Our chat service is now available to patrons Monday-Friday 8 am to 9 pm, Saturdays Noon to 5 pm, and Sundays Noon to 9 pm. Just look for the chat icon anywhere on our website.
Are you interested in learning how to draw different types of plants, bugs, and mammals? Do you have an interest in exploring how to tie together the arts and sciences? Then a Scientific Illustration workshop is for you! A Scientific Illustrator will be visiting campus the weekend of April 7-9 to lead three Workshops. If you are interested and want to sign up for one of these sessions, or want to learn more, click here!
Thank you to SAAB, the Biology Department & the Watzek Library for supporting this event.
The Horror of Normalcy: Katherine Dunn, Geek Love, and Cult Literature opens to the public April 4. This exhibition provides a first look at the literary archive of the cult Portland author, who arranged to bequeath her collection to Lewis & Clark before her death in 2016.
This exhibit was curated by Angela Mele, Sophia Horigan ’16, Cora Layman ’19, & Kellsy Nava-Lopez ’19 and populates wooden cases in the library atrium.
Anna Lorton is serving as a Reference and Instruction Librarian for Dan Kelley as he is leading an overseas program in Australia this semester. Click to learn
Today Watzek Library is launching the new and improved Senior Projects site. The site contains electronic theses and studio art capstone images submitted to Watzek Library over the past several years.
Watzek Library would like to thank research assistants Tawny Bright, Nathaniel Hamlett, Heather Schadt, and Naomi Goldman-Nagel for helping us staff the reference desk Sunday through Wednesday evenings from 7pm-9pm this semester.
Art227: Useful Art is pleased to present various works that are in circulation from now until Wednesday, November 23rd. Check out the art in Watzek Library. Literally.
This HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world.
History major, Sam Bussan ’18 recently discovered a rare 1599 English Bible in the basement of Watzek. This Oregonian story includes some great pictures and briefly interviews him and our new Head of Special Collections, Hannah Crummé.
Watzek Library would like to thank research assistants Lauren Krumholz and Nick Hensel for helping us staff the reference desk on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7pm-9pm this semester. Thanks for helping us extend our hours!
Watzek Library is excited to announce that our DVDs and VHS tapes are now available for browsing. You can stroll through the stacks in the A-D9999 section and look for video treasures to check out and take home. Don’t have a VHS player? No problem, we have one at our Audio Visual Stations in the back of that section.
Looking for video content on your research topics? Try out Watzek’s new streaming service via Kanopy, which offers documentaries across many subject areas and select international films. Try it.
Watzek Library would like to thank research assistants Cade Brewster, Sarah Mills, Melissa Dean-Treseler, and Lindsay Mulcahy for helping us staff the reference desk Monday through Thursday evenings from 7pm-9pm this semester.
Oxford calls these “hybrids of annotated bibliographies and high-level encyclopedias.” We agree. Watzek has them for Buddhism, Classics, International Relations, Medieval Studies, Renaissance, Philosophy and Victorian Literature. Vetted by scholars. A solid starting point for digging deeper into these topics. Try it.
ProQuest’s digital archive of The NAACP Papers covers six decades of the inner workings of America’s foremost civil rights organization. It contains over a million scanned images of internal memos, legal briefings and direct action summaries from the association’s national, legal and branch offices. TRIAL ACTIVE UNTIL OCT. 8!
Poetry Foundation audio program Poetry Off the Shelf explores poet William Stafford and his actions on walking and writing for peace. Produced by Curtis Fox the program includes remarks by Kim Stafford, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Philip Metres.
This month’s cover of College & Research Libraries News features the “Mouth of the Willamette River, Oregon” from The West Shore: An Illustrated Western Magazine. The image is part of the Lewis & Clark College Digital Collections and was provided courtesy of Watzek Library’s Special Collections and Archives Department.
After 24 years of service, Doug Erickson will leave Watzek Library at the end of January to become the Director of West Linn Public Library. Read more about Doug’s accomplishments and his new role at the College in the Source.
We are excited to introduce you to Parvaneh Abbaspour, Watzek’s new Science & Data Services Librarian. In this position Parvaneh serves as the liaison to Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Economics, and will develop the library’s data services program.
Caleb Dahl (LC ’17) caught up with Watzek’s Assistant Archivist, Zach Selley, about the library’s most remarkable resources. Selley routinely points both seasoned writers and Lewis & Clark first-years to the countless historical photographs, journals, and illustrations in Watzek’s special collections and archives.
Did you know you can find Watzek’s movies, TV shows, music, and audiobooks by browsing our audio and video pages? Well, you can. And it’s easy. From HBO TV shows to dub reggae music to Western films to movies in Arabic… we’ve got you covered!
It’s time for the 17th Annual Environmental Affairs Symposium, We the Anthropos. So for our latest round of featured items, we lined up a selection of books supporting the symposium’s theme. Browse them in the library atrium or in our online pinboard.
In this candid interview, The Portland Tribune talks to Doug Erickson, Watzek’s Associate Director for Special Collections, about Monica Lewinsky, the college’s acquisition of one of the greatest Lewis & Clark collections in the world, and more.
September 21-27 is Banned Books Week. Celebrate our freedom to read by picking up one of the frequently banned and censored books on our Pinterest board or on display in the library atrium.
PDX, Rip City, the City of Roses, Bridgetown, Stumptown! Once the Atlantic City of the Northwest, Portland, Oregon today is a place of aggressive bike commuters, near constant rain, and far too many coffee shops. Get to know your weird, wacky new home through this list of books available at Watzek!
In observance of the Labor Day holiday, Watzek Library will be closed Saturday, August 30 - Monday, September 1. We hope you take the day off too to enjoy the fruits of your labor and savor the end of summer. We will open 8 a.m. on Tuesday, September 2 for regular hours.
Did you know our new Special Collections & Archives Librarian EJ Carter wrote his dissertation on German gambling casinos? The Source caught up with him to find out more about his expertise and cutting-edge developments in his field. Check out his interview in The Source.
Instruction Services Librarian Kate Rubick teaches research skills to students, helps professors build collections of resources for their classes, and chairs the Watzek Student Advisory Committee. The Source caught up with her to find out more about her expertise and cutting-edge developments in her field.
LC Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Oren Kosansky, has salvaged a trove of Jewish manuscripts in his NEH funded digital project: The Rabat Genizah Project. Watzek Digital Initiatives and several LC students have collaborated with Kosansky over the past few years to provide access to these documents.
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new web site, profiling student-faculty research and creative activities at the College of Arts & Sciences. In addition to fostering awareness of these activities, we hope the projects on this site will spark the interests of students and encourage them to pursue the many opportunities available for student research at Lewis & Clark.
We want to see your point of view! Share your photos of Watzek on Instagram and tag them #watzek for a chance to win a finals survival pack! Check out our instagram feed right here and on Instagram.
Watzek Special Collections introduces a new digital collection of historical photographs, depicting Lewis & Clark College campus buildings and construction, dating back to the 1940s. In addition to photographs, the collection includes architectural sketches, drawings of campus grounds, and drawings of campus facilities.