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From the Archives: Do You Know What Day March 19th is?
If your first answer to that question was “not today,” you’d be entirely in the right. Additionally, if your first answer was “the birthdate of Wyatt Earp, legendary lawman of the Wild West,” you’d also be correct. However, there is … Continue reading
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April is Student Employment Month!
Did you know that April is Student Employment Month? We want to take a minute to say a huge THANK YOU to our student employees. You keep the library running on evenings and weekends, shelve thousands of books each year, … Continue reading
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New in Humor – One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories, by B.J. Novak
You may recognize that name from the credits of NBC’s hit series The Office. Novak played Ryan Howard on the show while also serving as a staff writer and producer. In this collection of stories, Novak reflects on an impressive … Continue reading
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Collins Memorial Library’s Spring Exhibition Stan! Celebrates Professor Lyle S. “Stan” Shelmidine (1906-1966)
Collins Memorial Library’s spring exhibition Stan! celebrates the life of Professor Lyle S. “Stan” Shelmidine (1906-1966), a well-loved member of the University of Puget Sound and Tacoma communities. The professor of Near and Far East history left the Archives & … Continue reading
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Coming Summer 2014: New Library Search
Big changes are in store for Collins Memorial Library! A new library system will debut in mid-June 2014. We are moving with our partner libraries in the Orbis Cascade Alliance from 37 stand-alone systems to one powerful, shared system. Through a … Continue reading
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Behind the Archives Door: The Joy of Book Collecting, April 3, 2014
The Joy of Book Collecting April 3, 2014 4 p.m. Archives & Special Collections area, 2nd Floor, Collins Library Ian Fox ’14 and Jane Carlin, Library Director. The 2013 Book Collecting Contest winner, Ian Fox ’14, will share his love … Continue reading
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From the Archives: The letter ‘A’
The staff of the Archives & Special Collections recently voted to purge the collection of all material containing sentences that begin with the letter ‘A.’ This decision was adopted in response to the growing need for sentences beginning with ‘S.’ … Continue reading
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From the Archives: Photographs of Philosophy by Peter Yung Wal-chuen
Autumn Floods is a collection of photographs and philosophical quotations published by Peter Yung Wal-chuen in 1989. The book documents the artist’s visual interpretations of Chuang Tze’s traditional Chinese fables. He expresses his motivation behind the collection as both political … Continue reading
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VIDA – Annual Gender Tally of Literary Publications and Book Reviews
The VIDA count for 2013 was published recently. The VIDA count is an annual tally of literary publications and book reviews that looks at the gender of authors published in these sources. If you are interested in seeing how your … Continue reading
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Stan! Exhibit – The Life of Professor Stan Shelmidine (1906-1966), April 3-May 30, 2014
The Collins Library is pleased to feature the exhibit Stan!, April 3-May 30, 2014, documenting the life of Professor Stan Shelmidine (1906-1966). The exhibit will feature items from Professor Shelmidine’s personal and research papers, the travels he undertook, the artifacts and … Continue reading
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