Portland Aerial Tram pictures added to OHSU Digital Resources Library

The OHSU Library is pleased to announce the online publication of digital images from the Kent Anderson Collection.

Kent Anderson, OHSU Fire Suppression Systems Technician and freelance photographer, has generously donated nearly 1300 images to the OHSU Digital Resources Library Main Collection. These images cover recent OHSU expansion including the construction and opening of the Portland Aerial Tram, the Peter O. Kohler Pavilion, and the Biomedical Research Building. This initial batch of 100+ images concentrates on the Tram in order to provide high-resolution images of this historic landmark for non-profit educational purposes.

Follow the link below to view the images:
http://tinyurl.com/23wf4b

Or navigate your browser to:
http://drl.ohsu.edu/index.html , scroll down and click on the Advanced Search button, enter "Kent Anderson Collection" in the Exact Phrase box and click on Search.

The OHSU Library is honored to have been chosen as the repository for these images from Mr. Anderson. Questions about the collection or the OHSU Digital Resources Library may be addressed to Friday Valentine, Serials and Metadata Librarian (valentif@ohsu.edu).

The OHSU Digital Resources Library houses collections of multimedia digital objects. Faculty, staff, and students of Oregon Health & Science University may use this digital library for nonprofit, educational purposes, such as teaching, staff training and conference presentations. Items are free to use for non-profit educational purposes and we ask that you give credit to the creators as listed on the individual digital object description.

Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture

Announcement for local lecture titled:

"*A Convergence of Pathways: Re-imagining Image Collections for Tomorrow's Teachers and Learners*."

Maybe some of us could carpool?

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Please join us for this year's Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service. *The lecture will take place on Thursday, November 15, 2007, at 4:00 p.m. in the Gordon H. Smith Hall in Albany Quadrangle on the campus of Lewis & Clark College*.

We are pleased and fortunate to have Elisa Lanzi as our presenter this year. Elisa is Director of the Imaging Center at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. She leads a team in the building of digital collections and tools for teaching and learning across the Smith campus. Prior to her position at Smith College she was a founding partner of a consulting firm that helped develop information management practices for improved access to collections. Her clients included the Smithsonian Art Museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Harvard University Visual Collections. She also was manager of the J. Paul Getty Trust's Art & Architecture Thesaurus and is the author of Introduction to Vocabularies: Enhancing Access to Cultural Heritage Information (1998). She served as president of the Visual Resources Association and has been involved in several important projects, including the cataloging of cultural objects, a project sponsored by the VRA, the Digital Library Federation, the Getty Grant Program, and the Mellon Foundation. /Cataloging Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images/ was published by the American Library Association in 2006.

The title of Elisa's presentation is "*A Convergence of Pathways: Re-imagining Image Collections for Tomorrow's Teachers and Learners*." Using image collections as the model, she will discuss the need for interdisciplinary, collaborative approaches to pedagogical information across the college; faculty engagement with content and collection building; and strategies for creating sharable content.

The Johannah Sherrer Memorial Lecture in Library Service was established in 1999 to commemorate the contributions and legacies of a respected friend, colleague, and champion of service. Johannah Sherrer served as Director of the Aubrey R. Watzek Library from July 1993 to September 1998 when she passed away.

Please feel free to share this invitation with others who may be interested in this presentation.

To assist us in determining possible attendance, we ask that you contact Bonnie Okamoto in the Library Administration Office at okamoto@lclark.edu or 503-768-7275 if you plan to attend. If you have any questions or require additional information, please let me know.

Jim Kopp
Director, Watzek Library
kopp@lclark.edu
503-768-7348

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