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COLLINS UNBOUND: Keeping the Peace

The Collins Library is for everyone and we try hard to accommodate all the different ways you use the library: to meet up with classmates for a group project, to edit video, to take a break in the break zone … Continue reading

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COLLINS UNBOUND: Library Undergrad Research Award Winners!

Meet Jordan Carelli and Ayanna K. Drakos, winners of the Collins Memorial Library Undergraduate Research Award! The award recognizes undergraduate students who demonstrate exemplary skill and creativity in the application of library and information resources to original research and scholarship. … Continue reading

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Collins Library Awarded For Canadian Cultural Books

Keep an eye peeled for some special Canadian materials appearing on our shelves in October or November!  Collins Memorial Library was awarded a $2,500 academic matching grant from the government of Canada. The library selectors chose 125 books having a … Continue reading

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A Fun Fact About Library Circulation

The most circulated single items in 2009/2010! First Place: 36 circulations: b1159777x, Pritchard, James B. (James Bennett).  Ancient Near Eastern texts relating to the Old Testament. Translators and annotators: W.F. Albright [and others], Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1955 Second place: … Continue reading

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Welcome Freshman! Glad you're here!

Welcome Freshman! We are glad you are here!  Check out the web page we made just for you!  Our Welcome Page is packed full of information to help you get a jumpstart on using an academic library.  One of our favorite … Continue reading

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Report from D.C.: Library Student Employee and History Major Rachel Hiscox Reports from the Nation’s Capitol.

Last summer Rachel Hiscox received a summer research grant to work with the Oregon Mission Papers.  This collection, part of the University Archives, dating from the 1820’s to the 1850’s, contains three boxes of letters from missionaries.. It gives great … Continue reading

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National Library Workers Day, April 13

Tuesday April 13th is National Library Workers Day!  That’s right – it is a day to celebrate and thank everyone who works in libraries across the country – from your home town public library to the staff right here at … Continue reading

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Don’t Leave for Spring Break Without Plans to Enter the Collins Book Collecting Contest. You Could Win $1000!

Call for Entries: Collins Library Book Collecting Contest! Have you collected items on your favorite topic – mostly books, but maybe including materials like photos, illustrations, maps, ephemera, CDs, music scores, or posters?  Say YES – and enter up to … Continue reading

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Focus on African American History Month

Digital Schomburg The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. For over 80 years the Center … Continue reading

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Spotlight on African American History Month

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration,    National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who … Continue reading

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