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Beyond Cost: Open Educational Resources and Critically Engaged Pedagogy: A Conversation with Dr. Robin DeRosa, March 29, 4-5:30 p.m.

Tuesday March 29, 4-5:30 p.m.Zoom Link: https://tinyurl.com/openpedtalk The University of Puget Sound’s AACU Institute on Open Educational Resources team invites members of the Puget Sound Community to a presentation and conversation about open pedagogy, and its usefulness as an approach … Continue reading

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Celebrating Women’s History Month: College Women

College Women is a searchable portal of diaries, letters, scrapbooks and photographs from the archives of a select group of the earliest women’s colleges in the United States, known as the Seven Sisters. Current contributors include the libraries and archives … Continue reading

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Women’s History Month: Bringing Women’s Studies to Puget Sound

Explore the history of the Women’s Studies Program (now Gender & Queer Studies) through university records! This digital teaching collection uses yearbooks, course bulletins, issues of The Trail, administrative documents, and more, ranging in date between 1969-1990, to explore the … Continue reading

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The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection

The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project from the Digital Public Library of America to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s … Continue reading

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National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Collection

Explore nearly 2000 digitized items, including newspapers, books, pamphlets, memorials, scrapbooks, and proceedings from the meetings of various women’s organizations in this collection from the Library of Congress that documents the suffrage campaign.https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suffrage-association

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Celebrate Women’s History Month

March is Women’s History Month! Celebrate and explore the vital role of women in American history through resources from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, NEH, Smithsonian Institution, and more. https://womenshistorymonth.gov/

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Collins Library Supports Open Education Resources!

What are OERs? OER are “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.” (From The William and Flora Hewlett … Continue reading

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Black History Month – Recommended Resource: Black Craftspeople Digital Archive

From 1619 to beyond, Black craftspeople, both free and enslaved, worked to produce the valued architecture, handcrafts, and decorative arts of the American South. The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive seeks to enhance what we know about Black craftspeople by telling … Continue reading

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Black History Month – Recommended Resource: The Hiphop Archive

The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University curates all forms of Hiphop material culture including recordings, videos, websites, films, original papers, productions, conferences, interviews, publications, research, etc. While the Archive is a record of all specific-to-Hiphop activity, it … Continue reading

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Black History Month – Recommended Resource: Black Film Archive

Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. They are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.BFA … Continue reading

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