-
Recent Posts
- Celebrate International Women’s Day & The World Through Abby’s Eyes exhibit! Join us for a talk by Professor Tiffany Aldrich MacBain (March 8, 2-4pm, Tahoma Room, Thomas Hall bldg.)
- The World Through Abby’s Eyes exhibit, January 8, 2024 – April 30, 2024, Collins Library
- Banned Books Week 2023
- Dreams: An International Juried Artists’ Book Exhibition
- Collins Library Links: A New Chapter for the Library!
Categories
Archives
Meta
Monthly Archives: September 2013
You’ll Like Tacoma!
So many people have expressed interest in the You’ll Like Tacoma poster so we wanted to provide a bit more information! The Tacoma Public Library has a postcard of the iconic image in their collection and you can find it … Continue reading
Posted in Recommended Reading
Leave a comment
Did You Know? The sculpture in the study commons
The sculpture in the Study Commons is this year’s Library Art Award winner!
Posted in Did You Know?
Leave a comment
From the Archives: It’s the Anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s Historic Visit to Tacoma
On September 27, 1963 President John F. Kennedy visited Tacoma and gave a speech on education and conservation at a joint convocation held by Presidents R. Franklin Thompson of the University of Puget Sound and Robert Nortvedt of Pacific Lutheran … Continue reading
Posted in From the Archives
Leave a comment
From the Archives: Poetry from Persia, The Rubáiyát of Umar Khaiyám
Amongst our rare book collection is a translated book of short poems written by poet, mathematician, and astronomer Umar Khaiyám in the eleventh century. The poems (four-liners called rubáiyát or quatrains) are very mystical, a quality attributed to Khaiyám’s roots … Continue reading
Posted in From the Archives
Leave a comment
Bamboo DiRT (Digital Research Tools)
Looking for digital tools to enhance your research efforts? Bamboo DiRT is a digital humanities initiative that helps you match your needs to specific tools. From creating a mashup to organizing your research, from visualizing data to analyzing texts, Bamboo … Continue reading
Infamous Book Burnings In History
PHOTOS: 11 Infamous Book Burnings In History Eighty years ago today, 40,000 people gathered in the Opernplatz in Berlin to witness one of the most famous book burnings in history. Books by authors including Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht and Karl … Continue reading
Posted in Recommended Reading
Leave a comment
Friday Fun! Recommended Film – “Star Wars Trilogy”
Maybe you’ve seen it, but who doesn’t want to see it again and again! The “Star Wars Trilogy” is here at Collins! Enjoy a Friday movie night with the Dark side. Nineteen years after Anakin Skywalker is seduced by the … Continue reading
From the Archives: Georgina Rowland’s “The Tacoma Community House: A Social Settlement” – Sociology at UPS in the 1930s
Among the student papers in our Archives & Special Collections is the Sociology I paper of Georgina Rowland, a freshman at the College of Puget Sound in 1932. The document is intriguing because the writer simultaneously expressed prejudice towards non-white … Continue reading
Posted in From the Archives
Leave a comment
The 50 Greatest Campus Novels Ever Written
This Fall, Return to school day nostalgia by reading 50 of the best campus novels ever! These are books concerning the lives of students, professors, and miscellaneous academics, generally in or around a college.
Posted in Recommended Reading
Leave a comment