New Image Search and Catalogue Pages

Continuing the theme from our last post, Redesigning our Web Presence, here is a closer look at how we built the new Image Search feature as well as what it takes to create the catalogue pages showing the detailed holdings of our collections.
New Image Search Feature
Our main web search feature, now on all of our [...]

Redesigning our Web Presence

In September 2007, we decided that the time had come to redesign our home page and department web presence.  Last month, three graphic designers, dozens of mock-ups, hundreds of work hours and almost exactly two years later, we released our new look, complete with scads of fresh content.  For those interested in many of the [...]

Toshihiro Higuchi, Resident Scholar

Toshihiro Higuchi is the second individual this year to conduct research in Special Collections under the sponsorship of our Resident Scholar Program.
Originally from Japan, Higuchi first attended the University of Tsukuba on the Japanese island of Honshu. In 2002 he graduated with an M.A. in International Political Economy, after which he again entered the University [...]

Peter Murray-Rust and the Concept of “Pauling Numbers”

We are delighted, on many levels, to have added Peter Murray-Rust’s blog to our gradually expanding Blogroll.  A faculty member of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Murray-Rust shares our interests in, among other topics, chemistry, xml and open access to information.
He and his team have developed a Chemical Markup Language, or CML, [...]

The Pauling Blog Gets Social Media Savvy

Over the course of the past year, the Pauling Blog’s sidebars have grown expansively. Between the blogroll, our “Today in Linus Pauling” feature, and our archives section, things can get lost. Today, we’d like to highlight some of our reader-friendly utilities.
On the right, you will notice a “Feeds & Bookmarks” section containing two [...]

Linus Pauling Online Featured by Voice of America News

The Linus Pauling Online portal has been selected as Website of the Week by Voice of America news.  You can listen to the two-minute broadcast feature using the player below or click here to read the accompanying article.
Website of the Week

Ten Years of the Valley Library

Today marks the ten-year anniversary of the dedication of the Valley Library, home of the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections.
The importance of the Valley Library construction effort – a $40 million project that was at least five years in the making – is difficult to overstate.  The transformation from the old Kerr Library (remembered [...]

Resident Scholar, Dr. Burt Davis

For several weeks in April, there was a new yet familiar face roaming the stacks of the OSU Libraries Special Collections. It was Dr. Burtron “Burt” Davis of the University of Kentucky’s Center for Applied Energy Research, who had traveled across the country to research his former mentor, Dr. Paul Emmett. Dr. Davis [...]

OSU Libraries Special Collections Seeks Applicants for Resident Scholar Program

We here at the Pauling Blog would like to draw attention to an excellent opportunity for conducting research within the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections.
Research grants are being made available to scholars interested in conducting work in the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers in Special Collections. Stipends of $2,500 per month renewable for [...]

Paradowski’s Pauling Chronology

“According to Zelek S. Herman ‘the best biography in my opinion is the short one by Pauling’s only authorized biographer, Robert J. Paradowski who has extensively studied Pauling’s scientific work and who knew him for many years.’ Unfortunately this biography/chronology, though written in English, was published in a hard-to-find Japanese volume. Paradowski’s 1972 University of [...]