Posted on May 28, 2009 by spcoll
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 [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by spcoll
A seven-part virtual tour of the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections is now available on the PaulingBlog.
The videos, which were originally shot for use by Terra Magazine, are hosted by Cliff Mead, Head of Special Collections. Viewers of the tour will receive fascinating insight into Dr. Linus Pauling and his legacy, and can look [...]
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Posted on August 25, 2008 by spcoll
We’ve recently added Gustav Holmberg’s blog, Imaginary Magnitude, to our blogroll. This sleek, no nonsense weblog is focused on the history of science. Holmberg himself is a historian of science at the Research Policy Institute in Sweden. He’s been in the blogging game since 2003 and the Imaginary Magnitude archives are filled with interesting little [...]
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Posted on August 22, 2008 by spcoll
If you’ll please turn your attentions to the right side of this page, you’ll note the long-awaited addition of three new links to our blogroll. Each represents a fantastic resource that, we’re quite sure, will make for some interesting reading.
The Culture of Chemistry is run by Michelle Francl, a chemistry professor at Bryn Mawr [...]
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Posted on July 1, 2008 by spcoll
“Pauling’s thinking was never cramped by traditional disciplinary boundaries. His investigations can be likened, not to a line drawn on a page, but to a drop of ink suffusing outward on the currents of curiosity and the tides of creativity.”
- Lee Sherman. “Like Looking Over His Shoulder,” Terra Magazine. June 2008.
We are pleased [...]
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Posted on March 4, 2008 by spcoll
Welcome to the PaulingBlog, the latest online venture of the Oregon State University Libraries Special Collections, home of the Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers.
Beginning with the launch of the Linus Pauling Research Notebooks website in February 2002, one of our primary missions has been to digitize and make available as much of the Pauling [...]
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