Don't have any plans for Valentine's Day yet? Make a date with a book! Can you guess what you'll be getting? Stop by the display in the Watzek atrium to see if your guesses are correct, to see other books on display, or to pick up a hot date.

Join L&C Law professor, Lydia Loren, from 3-4 pm on Wednesday, April 24th in the Library Classroom for a faculty workshop on open access publishing in the scholarly environment. Loren, a Lewis & Clark Law School faculty member with a specialization in intellectual property and copyright will provide an overview on the topic, followed by a discussion about the relevance of open access to various academic disciplines and the Lewis & Clark environment as a whole.

Join Professor of Philosophy, Becko Copenhaver as she shares her Research as a Process Sequence (RPS) in a faculty workshop at 3:30 pm on Tuesday, March 19, in the library classroom. Copenhaver developed RPS to engage students in research over the course of a semester. Her sequence is a useful for students ranging from first-year to seniors.

Join Watzek librarians Jim Bunnelle & Dan Kelley at 2 pm on Wednesday, February 13, in the Library Classroom for a faculty workshop on the future of e-books! Bunnelle (Collection Development Librarian) and Kelley (Research Librarian) will share the results from a local e-books survey, then lead a discussion about the act of reading and changes in scholarly publishing. We hope to gather input from faculty to inform the way we purchase content for our academic community.

Tonight, Thursday Feb 7 starting at 6pm, Interlibrary Loan will not be available for a few hours. If you are trying to make requests please wait until later in the evening. We apologize for the inconvenience this system improvement may cause. If you have any questions please contact ill@lclark.edu.

To celebrate the state of Oregon's 154th birthday, we've assembled a collection of books all about the wonders and quirks of Oregon history. Browse our selection on the Diversions bookshelf or on Pinterest. On February 14, 1859, President James Buchanan signed a bill that officially admitted Oregon to the United States of America. Happy 154th, Oregon!

Join us in the LC Bookstore on February 26, at 3:30 pm, as we celebrate the latest book from Law School Faculty Member, Erin Ryan. Coffee and cookies will be served.

During the Gender Symposium, join us in the LC Bookstore, March 14, at 2:15 pm to celebrate this release from LC '95 Alumna Susan E. Kirtley. Coffee and cookies will be served.

Join us in the LC Bookstore on April 16, at 3:30 pm, as we celebrate the latest book from Associate Professor of Theater and Department Chair, Stepan Simek. Coffee and cookies will be served.

February 5 at 2:30 pm, visiting scholar and poet Jesse Nathan will engage students in a dialogue about careers in creative writing, publishing, and editing in the Watzek Library classroom. The conversation will be followed by a poetry reading at 4 pm in the Armstrong Lounge, Frank Manor.

During the week of February 4, the William Stafford Archives will be hosting Jesse Nathan, whose poems have been published in jubilat, the Nation, the American Poetry Review, Gigantic, and many other magazines. He is the author of a chapbook of poems, Dinner (Milk Machine, 2009). Nathan’s essays and journalism have appeared in Adbusters, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tin House, Poetry International, McSweeney’s, the Believer, and elsewhere. Nathan is an editor at McSweeney’s, and for several years was managing editor of the Best American Nonrequired Reading. A founding editor of the McSweeney’s Poetry Series, he is working on a PhD in English Literature at Stanford. He lives south of San Francisco.