Category Archives: Events

Each month, the Archives & Special Collections will hold a series of informal presentations on current research, unique resources, and rare books. Join us for informal discussion, refreshments, and the opportunity to handle documents and artifacts hundreds of years old! … Continue reading →

Please join us for our Music in the Library series: Harpists Friday, April 29th 3:30-3:50 p.m. Collins Library Reading Room Performances by: Christina Sumprer, Frances Welsh and Rosalie Boyle For more information contact: libref@pugetsound.edu

Relay for Life will be collecting canned food for the Northwest Tacoma location of the FISH Food Bank from April 16-29 in Collins Memorial Library.  We will be using the cans during our luminaria ceremony at 10 pm on April … Continue reading →

Please join us for our Music in the Library series: Wednesday, April 20th 3:30-4:00 p.m. Collins Library Reading Room Performances by Colin Babcock on flute and Tim Flock on Saxophone For more information contact: libref@pugetsound.edu

Do you love research? Love to read and develop programs? Intrigued by Archives and Special Collections? Love to read printed texts and eBooks? Can’t wait to see what the next new technology has to offer? Want to help people? Yes? … Continue reading →

Lecture with Timothy Ely – April 15th, 2016 Collins Memorial Library, Room 020 6:30 – 7:30 pm Collins Library, in association with the Puget Sound Book Artists, is pleased to sponsor a lecture by artist Tim Ely. Tim Ely is … Continue reading →

Washi Arts sole focus is Japanese papers, tools and supplies for creative artists and businesses, with papers in an incredibly wide range of fibers, colours, patterns, weights and sizes. Japan has a culture that honors excellence in craftsmanship and the … Continue reading →

Please join us! Cellist Anna Schierbeek Friday, April 1st 2:00-2:30 p.m. Reading Room, Collins Library For more information contact: libref@pugetsound.edu    

Tuesday, April 5, 2016, 7:00 p.m. Collins Memorial Library, University of Puget Sound Presenters:  Laura Edgar, Abby Williams Hill Scholar and Tiffany Aldrich MacBain, Associate Professor, English, University of Puget Sound In 1905, Tacoma landscape painter Abby Williams Hill enjoyed … Continue reading →

 James Allen was a guest of the Puget Sound Book Artists at Collins Memorial Library in January, 2015.  Whether you missed his presentation and his excavated books or would just like to meet him again and see new work, this … Continue reading →