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FTC Financial Literacy Materials Coming to the Life Skills Collection
Do you have questions about your finances? Topics like personal budgeting, credit ratings, credit card debt, and identity theft may not be exciting topics for many individuals, but they can have profound and sometimes lasting impacts. To help inform students … Continue reading
Life Skills Collection: Expanding Your Worldview and Promoting Inclusivity on Campus
Greetings, Loggers! College life introduces us to a range of human experiences, exposes worldviews that may be unfamiliar or differ from our personal understandings, and provides many opportunities for us to grow individually and collectively in awareness, competency, and active … Continue reading
A Blog on Zines: From Anarchism to Vacations By Chase Hutchinson
Introduction: This blog was made for the class Humanities 399: Library as Collaboratory. Students had the choice to select from a variety of different projects to expand their knowledge as liberal arts students and grow their knowledge about a small … Continue reading
How to Judge a Zine by its Cover – And Other Things I Learned from Metadata. By Ada Smith
As I wrap up the Library as Collaboratory course and reflect on what I learned, I am amazed at the stark contrast from what I expected when I signed up for this course. All it took for me to add … Continue reading
After Nicole Allen’s Visit to Puget Sound: Further Reading
On October 7, Nicole Allen, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Director of Open Education, led a discussion about open education resources at the University of Puget Sound. An alumna of Puget Sound, Ms. Allen is an internationally recognized expert … Continue reading
Diversity and Inclusion Resources: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music
The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is an online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. It includes thousands of pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the … Continue reading
Hamilton Comes to the Classroom: Nonstop avenues for research: Mining Hamilton with undergraduates, by Katy Curtis, Humanities Librarian.
Since Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mesmerizing production Hamilton: An American Musical took to the stage in early 2015, it has been an undeniable hit, generated a wealth of public commentary, and brought renewed energy and enthusiasm to musical theater and the study … Continue reading
Open Education Resources: Getting the Ball Rolling
In an effort to meet the evolving needs of students and faculty members at the University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library is increasing support and outreach for open education resources (OER). If you’re not familiar, OER are any type … Continue reading
SCI-HUB: Robin Hood or Nefarious Pirate?
I’ll not mince words: subscriptions to academic journals can be quite pricey. And for students and scholars in the developing world, such subscriptions can be prohibitively expensive. Some may argue that the free market should dictate journal costs, while others … Continue reading
Tacoma Reads 2016: Station Eleven – Book discussion in Library Room 020, Wed., March 23, 6:00pm
Greetings, Loggers! Are you looking for a bit of literary entertainment on your way to Spring Break? Join Collins Library and the Tacoma Public Library for Tacoma Reads 2016! This year’s selection is Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven. Mandel … Continue reading