Description
In this interview, University Librarian James E. Morgan talks about his tenure at OHSU. The third director in the Library's nearly ninety-year history, Morgan led it through implementation of the grant which created the Biomedical Information Communication Center. He comments on its development and the administration of constituent parts. Topics of funding and grantsmanship are followed by discussion of facilities and space allocation, and a brief history of the Library from its earliest incarnation at the Northwest 23rd and Lovejoy location. The relationship of the Library to other campus and departmental libraries is explored, as is its cooperative work with hospital libraries across the state. Morgan talks at length of the staff he has been privileged to work with during his tenure, declaring that he has 襱he best staff that anyone could ever want.� Finally, he considers his longevity here and attributes it to his continual desire to make a contribution to the development of the Library.