University of Oregon - Libraries and Museums

Libraries and Museums

The multi-branch University of Oregon Libraries serves the campus with library collections, instruction and reference, and a wide variety of educational technology and media services. The UO is Oregon's only member of the Association of Research Libraries. The main branch, the Knight Library, houses humanities and social sciences, Learning Commons, Music Services, Government Publications, Maps and Aerial Photos, Special Collections & University Archives, Media Services, the Center for Educational Technologies, and a Cinema Studies lab to be available in Winter 2010. Other branch locations are:

• The Architecture and Allied Arts Library in Lawrence Hall
• The John E. Jaqua Law Library in the Knight Law Center
• The Science Library in Onyx Bridge
• The Mathematics Library in Fenton Hall
• The Portland Library & Learning Commonsin the White Stag Block in Portland, Oregon
• The Loyd & Dorothy Rippey Library at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston, Oregon.

The UO Libraries hosts Scholars' Bank, an open access (OA) digital repository created to capture, distribute and preserve the intellectual output of the University of Oregon. Scholars' Bank uses open-source DSpace software developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hewlett-Packard.

The Libraries' Educational Video Group maintains the UO Channel, which uses streaming media to provide access to campus lectures, interviews, performances, symposia, and documentary productions.

The UO is the founding member and host of the Orbis-Cascade Alliance, a consortium of academic and research libraries in Oregon,Washington and Idaho. The combined collections of the Alliance exceed 20 million volumes and can be searched via the Summit union catalog. The Orbis Cascade Alliance serves faculty and the equivalent of more than 258,000 full-time students. In addition to its members, the Alliance extends selected services to more than 280 libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies in seven western states.

The University of Oregon is home to the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

There are multiple galleries around the main campus, including (but not limited to):

• The LaVerne Krause Gallery in Lawrence Hall
• The Adell McMillan Gallery in the Erb Memorial Union
• The Aperture Gallery in the Erb Memorial Union
• The art gallery on the second floor of the Knight Law Center
• The Washburn Gallery in the FAS Ceramics building.