Monthly Archives: February 2015

Valentine’s – Spice up your Life Quiz!

It’s time for the annual Valentine Trivia Challenge sponsored by Collins Library.  This year’s theme is the Spice of Life!  Try your hand at answering these trivia challenge questions using online resources and no Wikipedia!  The first three to submit … Continue reading

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From the Archives: Greek Life

The Sigma Chi fraternity house in 1954. Check out more photographs on A Sound Past!        

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Popular Reads – “Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains”

Mind Change: How Digital Technologies Are Leaving Their Mark on Our Brains By Susan Greenfield We live in modern world that offers instant information and new forms of reality right at our fingertips. World renowned neuroscientist Susan Greenfield in the … Continue reading

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From the Archives: Women from the Archives & Special Collections exhibit

Beginning February 3rd and running through May 29, 2015, the Archives & Special Collections is showcasing women authors, scientists, and artists whose works are found in the Archives & Special Collections at the University of Puget Sound. The exhibit includes … Continue reading

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Sound Ideas Reaches a Quarter of a Million Downloads

Sound Ideas, the University of Puget Sound’s institutional repository, reached the milestone of 250,000 full-text downloads since it was established in the summer of 2011. As an institutional repository, Sound Ideas increases access to and impact of a variety of … Continue reading

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Primo Search Simplified

Interested in a specific volume of a multi-volume set?  Or want to see if Collins Library has access to the specific date of a journal you’re interested in. Finding a green dot means your material is available.   But sometimes, … Continue reading

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Celebrating African American History Month

  This week’s blog post about Black History Month highlights collections of images in the ARTstor Digital Library. Some of the excellent resources on the African American experience are documented by photographs, paintings, illustrations, cultural objects, sculpture, and prints from … Continue reading

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From the Archives: Back to the Books

Now that classes have started back up, we must begin to conquer homework, schedules, and everything else. Take advantage of the many great resources at UPS and visit the Archives & Special Collections. In addition to rare books there are … Continue reading

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In the Popular Collection: “The Man Who Touched his own Heart” by Rob Dunn

Thought of as the seat of our soul, the heart is still more a mystery than it is understood. The Man Who Touched His Own Heart tells the history of the heart, from the first heart “explorers” who dug up … Continue reading

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Are you ADDICTED to books? Submit your collection to the 2015 Collins Library Book Collecting Contest!

Do you super-love superheroes? Got a deep love for romance? Enter your collection of books on a theme (up to 30 items – mostly books, but maybe also photos, illustrations, maps, ephemera, CDs, music scores, or posters) in the Collins Library … Continue reading

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