Monthly Archives: January 2014

Friday Feature Mystery: What on Earth Is Going On?

We received a strange black-and-white photo at SCARC from the College of Agricultural Sciences recently. No date for the photo was given, nor a description. Unsure of what the photo was depicting, our accessioning guru (Karl McCreary) chose to describe it as “shaving the fields.”

Our volunteer Clare thinks that someone decided that marshmallows were a good fertilizer, but wonders what the strange box is on the small table.

What do you think? Leave your guesses, funny titles, or captions in our comments. If you know what is really going on, please satisfy our curiosity!

Friday Feature: Fabulous Finding Aids

Winter storms and holidays limited the number of finding aids completed during December… But there were still guides written for 5 collections, including 3 new collections (received in 2012) and 2 map collections. Arrangement and Decription Archivist Elizabeth Neilsen says “we will return to our normal pace in January,” so be looking for an even bigger list next month!

Rep. Ben Westlund speaking at the dedication of Cascades Hall

Ben Westlund Papers, 1976-2010 (MSS Westlund)

  • http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv34484
  • http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/coll/westlund/index.html
  • This collection documents Westlund’s political career in Oregon. Ben Westlund served as a State Legislator and State Senator from central Oregon from 1997 until his election as State Treasurer in 2008, a position he held until his death in 2010. Westlund advocated for higher education in central Oregon and was instrumental in the establishment of the Oregon State University-Cascades campus in Bend. The collection includes a full range of formats including photographs, videotapes and DVDs, compact disks with digital photographs and sound recordings; and born-digital materials on floppy disks.

Leland F. Skillin Collection, 1935-1973 (MSS Skillin)

William H. Taubeneck Papers, 1881-2010 (MSS Taubeneck)

Maps collections:

Crater Lake National Park Maps, 1903-1962 (MAPS CraterLake)

Native American Maps Collection, 1875-1972 (MAPS Native)

All these guides are available through the NWDA finding aids database as well as on the SCARC website. MARC records for the collections are available through the OSU Libraries’ Catalog, Summit Navigator, and Worldcat.

All “new” collections received in calendar year 2012 now have a finding aid available through the SCARC website and NWDA as well as a MARC catalog record. As of December 27, 2013, the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center has 721 finding aids in NWDA.

Go team!