April 2012
125 Years in the Stacks
In anticipation of our 125th anniversary in 2013, we are embarking on a project to identify 125 items from our library collection that will provide a view of the University of Puget Sound through its library collections. Think of this as a tour of our open stacks, the Shelmidine Rare Book Room, our archives, and even occasional glimpses into our electronic collections.
The Library has close to one million volumes so it goes without saying that we have some very interesting publications in our stacks.
But don’t expect the expected. We are not trying to list the 125 most important scholarly works ever published. Like Puget Sound, we want to identify publications that delight, surprise, make you laugh, contemplate an idea, or even publications that are just a little bit quirky!
We would love your suggestions. Use this web form, Found in the Stacks Form – University of Puget Sound, to share your ideas, or if you like, just let us know a period or event that you would like our intrepid library researchers to uncover a special publication on. It could be a publication related to an important event in the last 125 years, or a key advance in your subject discipline, or a publication that focuses on the changing norms of society.
To get you thinking, here are a few gems we have already unearthed from our first decade!
Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine by William Hamilton Gibson, 1890
Beautifully bound by Alice C. Morse.
A beautifully illustrated book including a personal narrative
by the author about his ramblings in the great outdoors.
Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse, 1892
The librarian in me just could not resist this title!
The author, both a poet and librarian, provides this statement about the book’s content:
“I have been asked to gossip about my books for I also am a bibliophile.
But when I think of the great collections of fine books, of the libraries of the magnificent,
I do not know whether I dare admit any stranger to glance at mine.”
From the Land of the Snow Pearls by Ella Higginson, 1897
This small beautifully bound volume is a collection of tales from Puget Sound.
Need Information? Don’t forget the Collins Memorial Library Database List A-Z
Questions? Contact your liaison librarian
Comments: Contact Jane Carlin, Library Director
Remember – Your best search engine is a Librarian!