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| 44°33′54″N 123°16′34″W / 44.56511°N 123.2760°W / 44.56511; -123.2760 | |
| Location | Corvallis, Oregon |
| Established | 1963 |
| Collection | |
| Size | 1.4+ million volumes, 14,000 serials, 500,000+ maps and government documents |
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| Website | http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/ |
The Valley Library is the primary library of the Oregon State University main campus, located in Corvallis, Oregon in the United States. The library stores more than 1.4 million volumes, 14,000 serials, and more than 500,000 maps and government documents. It is named for philanthropist F. Wayne Valley, who played football for Oregon State.
History
Oregon Agricultural College opened a new library in 1918, which was remodeled on several occasions, with a new wing added in 1941. Previously the library had been housed on the second floor of the college's administration building. The 1918 building was located on the southeast corner of Campus Way and Waldo Place.
Beginning in 1932, Mary J. L. McDonald made the then largest donation of books to the library when she donated volumes worth just over $10,000. She donated a total of over 1,000 items that included a complete works of Abraham Lincoln valued at $4,800. The library received a bequest of about 5,500 volumes valued at about $15,000 in December 1947 from William H. Galvani's estate. This was again the largest donation to the library up to that time.
In May 1960, the then Oregon State College was advanced $19,000 by the federal government to plan for a new $2,170,000 building. The library at its present location was completed in 1963 and named as the William Jasper Kerr Library. At that time the building was four stories tall, but the school planned for an expansion by placing the slabs to be used for two new floors on the roof during the original construction. Oregon State began construction in the Fall of 1970 to add these new floors, with completion coming in the Fall of 1971. The old library building was remodeled and became Kidder Hall, named in honor of former librarian Ida Mae Kidder.
In 1999, the building was re-named The Valley Library after expansion and renovations. Renovations took three years and cost $47 million to complete. That year the library was selected by The Library Journal as the Library of the Year.
Librarians at Valley Library began using text messaging in March 2010 to communicate with some library patrons, and earlier started to loan out Amazon's Kindle reader. In April, the school started allowing students to use the library 24-hours-a-day from Sunday through Thursday to test whether there was enough demand to allow 24-hour access on a permanent basis. The program was sponsored by the Associated Students of Oregon State University and paid for by university technology funds, and was due in part to the closer of some computer labs that had been 24-hour study areas.
Collections
- History of Atomic Energy Collection
- McDonald Collection
- Ava Helen and Linus Pauling Papers
- The University Archives
- Northwest Art Collection - exhibits 120 artworks by contemporary artists in Northwest.
References
- "The Valley Library". Retrieved 2007-12-08.
- ^ "OSC Library Gains Funds". The Oregonian. Associated Press. May 11, 1960. p. 7.
- ^ "Librarian Ends Long Service". The Oregonian. January 14, 1945. p. 11.
- ^ "Oregon State Gets Rare Lincoln Set". The Oregonian. February 11, 1934. p. 38.
- ^ "$15,000 Value Set on Gift". The Oregonian. December 14, 1947. p. 20.
- Edmonston, Jr., George P. “A Steady Hand” Back in the Day. Oregon Stater, Spring 2008. Vol. 93, No. 2. p. 40.
- ^ "Building Construction". OSU Archives. Retrieved 2009-07-02.
- "OSU Project Bids Listed". The Oregonian. September 17, 1964. p. 26.
- ^ Khanna, Roma. “OSU’s new library lets students kick back, plug in”, The Oregonian, May 28, 1999.
- "OSU librarian: ?4U". OregonLive. The Associated Press. March 25, 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2010.
- ^ Hatch, Cheryl (April 19, 2010). "Valley Library pulls an all-nighter". Gazette-Times. Corvallis, OR. Retrieved 21 April 2010.
External links
- The Valley Library Collection
- Photographs of the Valley Library on the Oregon State University Archives Flickr page
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