Category Archives: Featured Resource

Sound Ideas Monthly Update! Monthly Readership Totals: Last month, ( September 2019) Sound Ideas had 11137 full-text downloads and 84 new submissions were posted, bringing the total works in the repository to 7403. University of Puget Sound scholarship was read … Continue reading →

Have you visited the Sound Ideas page recently?  If you haven’t, you should.  The Digital Commons Readership Activity Map is a real-time visualization of downloads across the globe. Just click here: https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/ and scroll to the bottom on the page and … Continue reading →

January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all! For the first time in over 20 years, on January 1, 2019, published works will enter the US public domain. Works from 1923 will be … Continue reading →

Read all about it, we have exciting news, the University of Puget Sound, coordinated by Collins Library, now has a site license to the New York Times web site. This means that all students, faculty and staff at the University … Continue reading →

New to the Collins Library collection, the Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies which includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more. Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and … Continue reading →

Here’s a rundown of the new databases and collections that Collins now provides access to: Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 Black Studies Center (coming soon) Includes the historical backfiles of the Chicago Defender. EBSCO … Continue reading →

Now that we have our new calendar in place to help track the year ahead let’s have a look back at some of the thousands of calendars available for your perusal at the Digital Public Library of America, DPLA. Derived from the Latin … Continue reading →

The 2014 Race & Pedagogy Conference has ended, but that’s no reason to stop thinking and learning about the many topics brought up by the keynote speakers, other presenters, and conference attendees! I definitely have a lot to mull over … Continue reading →

First off, welcome to the University of Puget Sound! We’re glad to have you. I hope you had an awesome orientation and a great first week of class. You might be feeling a bit overwhelmed, homesick, nervous – all normal! … Continue reading →