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The Wonderful World of Pop-Up Books: The Stanley W. Hess Collection
Collins Library is delighted to announce the gift of 150 pop-up books from retired art librarian, Stanley W. Hess. Hess currently lives in Bremerton and is the curator of the Aurora Valentinetti Puppet Museum, a division formerly of Evergreen Children’s … Continue reading
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Celebrate National Poetry Month
April is National Poetry Month! Launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996, National Poetry Month reminds the public that poets have an integral role to play in our culture and that poetry matters. Visit https://poets.org/national-poetry-month to find … Continue reading
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Essential Reads on Feminism
Looking for your next feminist read? Check out these recommendations from the New York Public Library and look up the titles in Primo to find the book at Collins Library or request it from Summit.https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/essential-feminism
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Feminist Periodicals
Wondering what’s new in the field? Feminist Periodicals is an open access repository of digitized contents pages of 150 academic journals and pop culture magazines for researchers and scholars to view what is currently being published in the fields of … Continue reading
Peggy Firman, Associate Director for Resource Management Services for the Collins Memorial Library Retires
Peggy Firman, Associate Director for Resource Management Services for the Collins Memorial Library, is retiring after a career that has spanned over three decades. I recently had the chance to sit down and talk to her about her work and … Continue reading
Celebrating Women’s History Month: Independent Voices: Feminist Newsletters
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. The Feminist Collection includes over 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped … Continue reading
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
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
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
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