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The University of Oregon Libraries, including the Knight Library and five branches, comprise the largest research library in Oregon. A member of the prestigious Association of Research Libraries, the UO Libraries house more than two million books; several thousand journal titles; one of the nation's largest collection of maps and aerial photographs; videos, musical recordings, and manuscripts; and a diverse offering of electronic resources.
Thanks to the generous support and vision of alumni and friends, the UO Libraries continue to grow and flourish. Your gift to the UO Libraries benefits students, faculty, and citizens of Oregon.
Here are some opportunities to enhance the collections:
Anthropology/Archaeology |
Complete our collection of
History of Humanity Volumes I, II, III, V |
Total $580 or $145 Each |
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This database will contain more than 100,000 pages of personal stories, many of which are previously unpublished, rare, or hard to find. The collection presents the entire spectrum of Indian and Canadian First People experiences from their own point of view. Firsthand accounts reveal how Indians lived, thought, and fought to protect their interests; how the tribes interacted with each other and the white invaders; and how they reacted to the constantly changing and challenging situations they faced. These rare and informative biographies are supported with historical materials that provide context for the personal stories. Also included is a detailed timeline of Indian events, cross-referenced by region and tribe, to further aid in contextual placement. |
| Amount: $28,000 (scheduled for release in spring of 2005) |
Art & Architecture |
Islamic ArtEstablish a core collection of materials focusing on art that Linda
Komaroff, curator of Islamic Art at the Los Angeles Museum of Art,
describes as "the art created specifically in the service of
Islam,"
but it is also characterized as "secular art produced in lands
under Islamic rule or influence, whatever the artist's or
the patron's religious affiliation." |
| Amount: $1,500 |
Multimedia Design |
| Foster the creative exploration of media where the combination of data, image, and sound create new and unique forms of art. Increase the collection's coverage of computer imagery, animation, and graphics applications. |
| Amount: $1500 |
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| Increase the diversity of our coverage in all areas of architecture, especially beyond English-language materials. These publications (often bilingual) provide important examples of architectural design essential for a better understanding of the built environment. |
| Amount: $2500.00 |
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| Broaden our coverage of all areas of architecture--architectural design, interiors, history of architecture, landscape architecture, and historic preservation. Help us add materials from trade associations (dealing with construction/engineering) of increasing value as the architecture program becomes more and more oriented to building technologies. |
| Amount: $25,000. |
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| Strengthen the holdings of the Portland Architecture Library and enhance the unique opportunity for UO architecture majors to pursue advanced study focusing on urban architecture. |
| Amount: $25,000. |
Cinema Studies |
100 Must-See Films of the 20th CenturyWe are already in the 21st Century and the UO Libraries wants to be sure it has copies, when available, of all the 100 must-see films from the last century. Help us complete our list of "must-see" films. Or if there is a film that you believe ought to be included that isn't, let us know. The average DVD price is $25.
(in chronological order* and derived *from Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 2000 by Leonard Maltin) |
| Amount: The average DVD price is $25. see also Middle Eastern Films for additional film requests |
Geology |
Geological Society of America Journal ArchiveExtend our coverage of two important journals in the field of geological sciences: Geology and Bulletin. An electronic archive for both of these publications, covering 1973-2004), is available from the publisher, the Geological Society of America. Founded in 1888, the GSA is actually a global membership society with more than 16,000 members in more than 85 countries. |
| Amount: $1000 for both titles |
History |
| Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans (1639-1800) is the digital reproduction of the most important Americana collection available to scholars. It covers virtually every book, pamphlet, and broadside published in America from 1630-1800. Evans is the definitive resource about every aspect of life in 17th and 18th century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, and just about any other topic imaginable. |
| Projected amount: $95,000. |
| Early American Imprints, Series II. Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819) is based on the noted American Bibliography, 1801-1819 by Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker. It provides a comprehensive set of American imprints published in the early part of the 19th century. Shaw-Shoemaker includes many state papers and early government materials which chronicle the political and geographic growth of the developing American nation. |
| Projected amount: $100,000 |
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| Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980 represents the single largest compilation of Spanish-language
newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The distinctive collection features hundreds of Hispanic American
newspapers, including many long scattered and forgotten titles
published in the 19th century. |
| Projected amount: $32,000 |
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The digitized Serial Set is now available from two different publishers, LexisNexis® (LexisNexis® U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection) and Readex (U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980). Digitization makes these primary documents of American history far more searchable and accessible to researchers than they have ever been. The U.S. Congressional Serial Set contains more than 50,000 titles published by Congress from 1789 to the present. The collection includes the reports and documents of Congressional committees; the Journal of the Senate and Journal of the House of Representatives; reports to Congress from federal agencies; messages from the President; and the American State Papers, 38 volumes of documents from the first thirteen congresses which collect the earliest scattered publications of our government. Some of the other important titles in the collection include original documents on the American Revolution, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the Aaron Burr Conspiracy, the impeachments of Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon, the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy, the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy, the Committee on Un-American Activities, the Pentagon Papers, and reports about Watergate and Iran-Contra. |
| Projected amount: $200,000 |
| see Anthropology/Archaeology, Literature, Women's Studies, Political Science for additional history requests |
Human Physiology |
American Physiological Society Journal Legacy Content (1898-1998)For a one-time fee, the UO Libraries can extend its access to important
physiology titles by purchasing the backfile of numerous APS journals.
APS' Journal Legacy Content supposedly saves libraries 200 linear
feet of shelf space while providing completely searchable scanned
images of the printed pages from this Society's journals. For more
information on the individual titles, see: |
| Amount: $2000 (if purchased in 2004) |
Literature |
Poetry-American |
Broaden our coverage of American poetry by helping the Libraries increase its holdings of contemporary poets. |
Amount: $270 |
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| Looking for a way to add art and literature to the library at the
same time? Graphic novels are a new breed of book, combining pictures
with text to tell their stories. Some of the best graphic novels include:
Maus, by Art Spiegelman. This novel uses cats
and mice to tell the story of a Jewish man learning about his father's
experiences in Nazi Germany. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. Like traditional novels, graphic novels span all topics and styles,
and many aren't even strictly fiction. But whether you prefer
the term "comic book,\" "graphic novel,\"
or "sequential art,\" you can find something to admire
in this genre. To help support increasing academic and popular interest
in these books, we would like to begin building a substantial collection
of graphic novels in Knight Library. |
| Amount: $500-$1000 |
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Literature from south Asia and the Indian subcontinent is a major and growing force on the global cultural scene. Within the last 20 years, North American readers have become familiar with the works of Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, V.S. Naipaul, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Rau Badami, and many other Indian and south Asian writers. Many of these authors have won major literary awards for their work, from Roy's 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things to Lahiri's 2000 Pulitzer for Interpreter of Maladies. Given that India alone supports almost a sixth of the world's population, it's no surprise that its national literature is enormous. While Western readers have easy access to the many popular works, there is a huge contingent of lesser-known writers not widely available in libraries or bookstores. Indian and south Asian literary criticism is also very hard to find, despite its importance to scholars seeking a rounded critical perspective. To provide the depth and breadth of a research-level collection, and to allow more readers access to little-known works and authors, we hope to build a signal collection of Indian and south Asian novels, poetry, drama, and criticism. |
| Amount: $1,500 to $3,000 |
see History, Theater, Women's Studies, for additional Literature requests |
Map Collection |
1999 Eugene (Ortho) Aerial Photography |
| Aerial Photography coverage of the City of Eugene taken in February-March 1999. Photos have been orthorectified and distortions removed. |
Amount: Complete coverage of the city (paper prints) is approximately $3,000 View a sample: |
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| Increase the holdings of one of our premier collections by helping the Libraries acquire recently produced (1990-) large-scale maps for any European country (with the exception of Britain). Whole or even partial sets for Germany, Spain, Portugal and Italy would be especially welcome. |
| Amount: Estimates of $8,000-$10,000 for a complete set though cost varies depending on scale and nation. |
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| Used widely across multiple disciplines including Geography, History, Landscape Architecture, and Environmental Studies, these property ownership atlases are published by county and provide a helpful means for determining property lines, ownership histories, and land development practices. The UO Libraries only have copies published between 1940s to 1970s and only for select counties. Help us update our collection with the current atlases. |
| Amount: The Metskers Company currently offers the current atlases for all 36 counties for the low price of $3005! |
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| Increase the diversity of our map holdings by supporting the purchase of 1:24,000 scale maps indicating Wetlands in the State. |
| Amount: Approximately $5,000 for the whole state of Oregon or $1000 for Willamette Valley. |
Middle Eastern Films |
Increase our coverage of films on Palestine and Israel and support
the study of Middle East politics and culture. For more info on each
title, see www.arabfilm.com
Palestine Feature Films
Films on Israel
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Amount: The price range for each film varies from $15 to $250. see also Cinema Studies for additional film requests |
Music |
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Composers' Standard Repertoire Collection: Scores & CD's |
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The School of Music's graduate composition students are required to know a myriad of pieces of music, some of which is in the current standard repertoire, and a large number that are not but are important pieces in 20th century music. Help the UO Libraries add the scores and recordings not currently in the collection. (To see what the composers' are required to know, see UO Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination in Composition ) |
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Amount: $2,083 |
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| Amount: $1,375 |
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Winds |
Amount:$1,833 Amount:776 Amount:$795 Amount:$2,732 Amount:$1,165 Amount: $428 Amount: $3,743 Amount: $4,763 |
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| Composer Anthologies Folk/Pop Choral Music Recorder Folk/Pop |
Amount:$1,163 Amount: $1,187 Amount: $850 Amount:$440 Amount: $685 Amount: $850 |
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| Rolling Stone Magazine, in the December, 2003 issue, came out with a list of the top 500 rock & roll albums of all time. The Douglass Listening Room, which is the UO's premiere listening facility, has about 27 percent of this collection. To see a list of what albums are recommended in this collection, see the following URL: http://www.mlscmusic.com/ and click on the cover of the Rolling Stone Special Collectors Issue. Help us complete our holdings of the top albums on compact disc so we can make them available to the community through the Circulating Compact Disc collection. | |
| Amount: $5,000 | |
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| For music scholars, manuscript facsimiles of music from the Middle Ages are the next best thing to seeing the actual piece of music. Increase our coverage by helping us to add these important facsimiles | |
Cantigas de Santa Maria, by Alfonso, King of Castile & Leon |
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| Amount: $2825 | |
| Das Graduale von Santa Cecilia in Trastevere: Cod. Bodmer 74 | |
| Amount: $2173 | |
| Die Miniaturen im "Liber Scivias" der Hildegard von Bingen | |
| Amount: $122 | |
| Moosburger Graduale | |
| Amount: $3615 | |
| The Organa Dupla and Two-Voice Clausulae in Wolfenbuttel. | |
| Amount: $735 | |
| Total Amount: $4265 | |
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| The sound effects collection to have! Though the UO Library owns one copy of this set, its tremendous usage by all departments in the University warrant our having another copy for circulation. Because this collection comes with performance rights, it is quite multimedia projects, as well as theatre productions and music sampling. To see the list of sound effects on these remarkable recordings, see http://www.films.com/id/9854/BBC_Sound_Effects.htm | |
| Amount: $599.95 |
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Music Items to Enhance the Music Library Resources: Collected Editions and Monuments of Music available as complete sets - the cornerstone of a great music library. Beethoven, Ludwig van. The Nine Symphonies (urtext) Dvorak, Antonin. Complete
Critical Edition. [Souborne Vydani] Farrenc, Louise. Kritische Ausgabe Orchester und Kammermusik sowie Ausgewahlte Klavierwerk Lanner, Joseph. Samtliche Werke fur Klavier Locatelli, Pietro. Opera Omina / Complete Works Lully, Jean-Baptiste. Tragedies Lyriques in facsimilie. Old English Edition (Renaissance madrigalists) Rameau, Jean-Philippe. Oeuvres Completes. Reger, Max. Samtliche Werke Strauss, Johann Sr. Werke fur Pianoforte Strauss, Richard. The Complete Stage Works Strauss, Richard. The Complete Orchestral Works |
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Political Science |
Soviet Union Historical Policy AnalysisThe Christian Science Monitor has described the National Security Archive as "the largest collection of contemporary declassified national security information outside the United States Government." With more than 40,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions spread across 20 complete collections, the archive allows you to explore policy across several different areas at once. New collections are added annually but the UO would like to begin its acquisition of these archives by purchasing the collection, entitled "The Soviet Estimate: U.S. Analysis of the Soviet Union, 1947-1991." With more than 600 intelligence estimates and reports, this collection provides unprecedented access to documents from the office of the Director of Central Intelligence, the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. For greater detail, see http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/marketing/collections.jsp |
| Amount: $6,200 |
see History, Law for additional Political Sciences requests |
Psychology |
Handbook of Psychology (12 Volumes)This 12-volume set will set the standard for psychology reference works and provide the UO's outstanding Psychology Department with complete and up-to-date information in the field of psychology. Volume 1 History of Psychology |
| Amount: $1,800 |
Theater |
Black Drama |
| With 908 plays by 171 playwrights, Black Drama contains together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. |
| Amount: $50,000 |
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| Bringing together more than 250 plays, along with related biographical, production, and theatrical information, Asian American Drama brings together a collection beginning with the works of Sadakichi Hartmann in the late nineteenth century and progressing to the writings of contemporary playwrights, such as Philip Kan Gotanda, Elizabeth Wong, and Jeannie Barroga. |
| Amount: $15,000 |
Women's Studies |
Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online. |
| Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books and periodicals in the late 1800s. Their collection reflected the evolution of a feminist consciousness and women's rights. By the time their successors finished their work in 1945, The Gerritsen Collection was the greatest single source for the study of women's history in the world. Materials span four centuries (1543-1945) and fifteen languages, and they present the anti-feminist as well as profeminist viewpoints. The collection's curators gathered more than 4,700 publications from continental Europe, the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, and New Zealand dating between 1543 and 1945. |
| Amount: $74,000 |
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 |
| Faculty in both Women's and Gender Studies as well as History have expressed interest in Women and Social Movements in the United States. This Web-based research collection brings together books, images, documents,scholarly essays, commentaries and bibliographies, documenting themultiplicity of women's reform activities. |
| Amount: $32,000 |
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North American Womens Letters and Diaries is the largest electronic |
| Amount: $50,000 |