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Celebrating Black History Month
Check out the 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 museums, archives, and private collections. To commemorate … Continue reading
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Happy Holidays! from the Collins Memorial Library
Best Wishes for the New Year!
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Events at Collins Library – Spring 2017
*Check back later this summer for exciting fall 2017 programs! FEBRUARY Saturday, February 25: Celebrate African American Storytelling in the Rocking Chair Room with Kimi Irene Ginn. Kimi Irene Ginn will join the Rocking Chair Reading Room to share … Continue reading
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The Nest
Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life in a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this … Continue reading
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From the Archives & Special Collections: Students’ home destroyed 67 years ago!
This is the time of the year for winter storms, but most of them do not cost students their homes. A Sound Past includes a photograph of married College of Puget Sound juniors Gerald Perry ’51 and Ruth (Matlock) Perry … Continue reading
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Pieces of History: What I learned From a Collection of Vintage Bookmarks By Carlisle Huntington
Last Summer Collins Library received a generous donation of vintage bookmarks, ranging in age from the 1800’s to the 1950’s. For the past few weeks I have been given the privilege to work with these tiny treasures. The sheer size … Continue reading
Join Laura Russell from 23 Sandy Gallery for a Pop Up Extravaganza, Dec. 14th, 11-12:30, Collins Library
Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016 11am-12:30pm Collins Memorial Library, Second floor, Archives Lecture Space Pop-up books captivate and excite the child in all of us. They come to life as three-dimensional works of art hidden inside the pages of a book. … Continue reading
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A Blog on Zines: From Anarchism to Vacations By Chase Hutchinson
Introduction: This blog was made for the class Humanities 399: Library as Collaboratory. Students had the choice to select from a variety of different projects to expand their knowledge as liberal arts students and grow their knowledge about a small … Continue reading
How to Judge a Zine by its Cover – And Other Things I Learned from Metadata. By Ada Smith
As I wrap up the Library as Collaboratory course and reflect on what I learned, I am amazed at the stark contrast from what I expected when I signed up for this course. All it took for me to add … Continue reading
Hidden Figures
The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA at the leading edge of the feminist and civil rights movement, whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. A powerful, revelatory contribution that is as … Continue reading
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