Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. They are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.
BFA does not host any of the films they index; they merely point to the streaming service where you can find them. https://blackfilmarchive.com/
Lever Press – Supporting Puget Sound Students
with a New Model of Publishing
www.leverpress.org
The current generation of college students face many challenges. One of these challenges is access to reliable information which is exacerbated by the dramatic increase in the cost of textbooks and scholarly publications.
The Collins Memorial Library is one of the founding members of Lever Press, an organization focused on publishing open-access scholarly works that align with the mission and ethos of liberal arts institutions. The Press adheres to the highest level of peer review practices and, by making research openly available to all, contributes to the democratization of scholarship.
Collins Library is proud to be part of this nationwide initiative that advocates for an equitable scholarly publishing ecosystem. We are also proud that Professor Brett M. Rogers serves on the Editorial Board of this innovative press that is changing the conversation about scholarly publications.
“Lever Press is working to change the way we think about scholarly publishing, and giving a prominent voice to the distinct ethos cultivated at liberal arts colleges. The press is dedicated to critical rigor while also pushing the boundaries of what kind of work we can do by publishing innovative, digitally native works of scholarship. All of Lever’s publications are open access—freely accessible to students and faculty, and easy to incorporate into the modern classroom. This is an exciting initiative to be part of as we continue to demonstrate the vitality and importance of liberal arts education.”
—Brett M. Rogers
Lever Press is taking a stand on important questions about digital access in the 21st century — particularly as those questions pertain to the work of liberal arts colleges like Puget Sound.
As stated in a student editorial from Oberlin College:
Lever Press is charting an exciting course, and it will be incumbent on students, faculty, and staff—at Oberlin and elsewhere—to both support their work and consistently push it to be even better. The accessibility of scholarship has had dramatic impacts on the path of human history, and the same will be true of the future. It’s in all of our interests to ensure that the liberal arts values enshrined in Lever Press become those that we boldly embrace as we step forward into increasingly uncharted territory.
(retrieved from the web 1/22/2022: Lever press represents lever for change)
Please take a moment to review current press titles. These books are freely accessible and can easily be incorporated into your class website and linked to in Canvas.
We encourage you to think about opportunities to submit proposals to the Press. Puget Sound has a strong foundation of student/faculty led research, innovative pedagogy, and experiential learning. Don’t hesitate to contact either one of us to discuss the possibilities.
Jane (jcarlin@pugetsound.edu) or Brett (bmrogers@pugetsound.edu)
For more information on Open Educational Resources, contact Ben Tucker, Scholarly Communications and Digital Projects Librarian: btucker@pugetsound.edu.
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February 21 – April 21, 2022
Collins Memorial Library
University of Puget Sound (masks required) Tacoma WA.
The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to “establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts.” Over 100 years later, the Guild is still vital, with regular traveling exhibitions, a journal, ten regional Chapters, and an annual Standards of Excellence seminar. Guild membership exceeds 800 and has expanded internationally. The organization is still run by volunteers. GBW is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in New York.
This exhibition will feature approximately 50 works by Guild members. The exhibition will open in the summer of 2021 and travel from five to seven venues across the country, closing in the fall of 2022. Works will include fine and edition bindings, artist’s books, broadsides (letterpress printing, calligraphy, and decorative papermaking) and historical binding models. The number of framed wall pieces will make up a very small subset of the entries. Both the bindings and framed works to be exhibited will be selected by a jury to ensure that they are of excellent quality. Previous Guild exhibitions can be viewed online at https://guildofbookworkers.org/galleries.
Exhibitors:
Eric Alstrom
Alicia Bailey
Leith Calcote
Valerie Carrigan
Rebecca Chamlee
Kyle Clark
Jim Croft
Coleen Curry
Mari Eckstein Gower
Erin Fletcher BB ’12
Brenda Gallagher
Suzanne Glemot
Jane Griffith
Penelope Hall
Karen Hanmer
Lang Ingalls
Caitlin Jochym
Peggy Johnston
Meg Kennedy
Beth Lee
Christopher McAfee
Elizabeth Mellott
Patrice Miller
Suzanne Moore
Bonnie Thompson Norman
Emily Patchin BB ’16
Graham Patten
Todd Pattison
Beth Redmond
James Reid-Cunningham BB ’90
Laura Russell
Patricia Sargent
George Sargent
Mardy Sears
Jillian Sico
Priscilla Spitler
Julie Stackpole
Peter and Donna Thomas
Mary Uthuppuru
Carolina Veenstra
Tom Virgin
Leslie Walthers
Thomas Parker Williams
Charles Wisseman
Stephanie Wolff
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Whether in print or on the Web, follow these guidelines
Have you read the University Policy on Intellectual Property Rights?
https://www.pugetsound.edu/policy-intellectual-property-rights
which covers rights of faculty, students, and staff. This policy will help you understand the next steps.
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Join the Collins peer research advisors and a librarian for two nights in November.
Nov. 18, 7:00pm to 10:00pm, in Library 146: Get a head start on research projects and papers before the Thanksgiving break!
Nov. 30, 7:00pm to 10:00pm, in Library 146: Make progress on projects after some time away!
Collins Memorial Library and the Archives & Special Collections will be presenting a pop-up exhibit in the East Reading Room during the week of Veteran’s Day, November 8th-12th. The pop-up exhibit will feature reproductions of articles, documents, scrapbooks and other archival materials that show the history of military service at Puget Sound. The exhibit will also feature images of creative works, including artists’ books, which illustrate veteran’s experiences during wartime. Between 11am-1pm on Wednesday, Nov. 10th and Thursday, Nov. 11th, Archivist & Special Collections Librarian Adriana Flores ‘13 will be displaying original archival materials and answering questions about the items.
Open Educational Resources, Open Textbooks,
and Open Pedagogy
November 2021
This year several faculty and staff members are participating in the AAC&U Institute on Open Educational Resources. Jane Carlin (Library), Margot Casson (Educational Technology) Heidi Morton (Education), Melvin Rouse (Psychology), and Ben Tucker (Library) are attending workshops, engaging in conversation and working to understand and improve the landscape at Puget Sound in order to create an environment where our students can best benefit from OER, open textbooks, and open pedagogy.
Collins Memorial Library has been supporting and promoting open educational resources for several years now, and our efforts have continued to gain momentum. A subset of the open access (OA), the open educational resources (OER) movement was largely inspired by the need to share and customize affordable resources for teaching and learning. Per SPARC’s definition, OER are “teaching, learning, and research resources released under an open license that permits their free use and repurposing by others.”
OER can take many forms: lesson plans, assignments, games, or interactive media, but open textbooks have generated the most interest and publicity. Adopting open textbooks is a proven means of reducing costs to students and improving student performance and retention, especially those with greater economic need.
While OER are extremely powerful instruments of learning, open pedagogy plays an essential role in bridging the gap between content and transformational learning for students. Open pedagogy, also known as open education practices (OEP) invites students to participate in the co-creation of knowledge that is contributed to the commons through open licensing. Instructors can engage students in this creating sustainable assignments including development of texts in a similar fashion to the open source community.
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Over the last few decades, the subscription cost of scholarly serial publications has grown at a rate far outpacing the rate of inflation. Caused largely by the concentration of academic journal publishing residing with a handful of commercial publishers, these price increases and the resulting strain it has caused for subscribing libraries, has become known as the serials crisis. This crisis has resulted in reduced access to scholarly journals for many institutions, and caused a budget shift away from monographs, and other resources, as libraries struggle to maintain access to desired journals.
The commercial publishers’ preferred business model of bundling a large number of journal titles together for a discounted aggregated package further complicates budget decisions for libraries, resulting in subscriptions to unwanted journals in order to access essential ones.
These practices, combined with budget restrictions, often result in impediments to free and open scholarly communication. OA journals, which provide free and unfettered access to their content, act as an alternative model that can alleviate some impediments to scholarly communication.
OA journals use Creative Commons and other open licensing to permit open sharing of scholarly work without making the work public domain. You can read more about Creative Commons Licensing on the library’s Scholarly Communications LibGuide.
Muddying the waters of OA and subscriptions to scholarly journals are a wide spectrum of hybrid options. Some journals allow authors to archive pre- or post-publication versions of articles on institutional or subject repositories after an embargo period. This model is sometimes referred to as green OA, in contrast to fully open OA journals that are referred to as gold OA. Furthermore, other journals use a pay for OA model where a publisher requires payment from the author for an article to be made freely available on the journal’s website. This can help increase access for readers, but often at a steep price for the author or their institution.
Collins Library provides access to many hundreds of OA Journals that are searchable in Primo, our online discovery tool.
Further Reading
Scholarly Communications LibGuide
Directory of Open Access Journals
–By Ben Tucker
Similar to OA journal publishers, OA book publishers provide readers free access to scholarly monographs. Collins Library is a founding member of one such publisher, Lever Press. Supported by a consortium of liberal arts institutions focused on, and renowned for, excellence in both research and teaching, Lever is grounded in three essential commitments:
Lever Press’s model is based on member liberal arts college libraries paying annual dues to the press which cover its operating costs. Lever’s books are then made available at no cost to all readers in a digital format using a Creative Commons License of the author’s choosing.
Lever’s stated values are in alignment with the academic pursuits favored at Puget Sound. Lever Press’s value statement reads:
“As a press aligned with the ethos and mission of liberal arts colleges, we seek out, identify, evaluate, and advocate for transformative scholarship that spurs creative dialogue within and between traditional fields of inquiry, emphasizes disciplinary innovation, draws upon new models of collaborative research, and strives to reach the broadest audience possible. We value:
– leadership and the courage to push existing boundaries
– diverse voices and viewpoints
– the principles of equity and social justice
– building community among our members and beyond
– continuous learning
By living our values we will be responsive to the needs of readers, authors, and member institutions, share our liberal arts focus broadly, and engage globally with others in the exchange of new scholarship.”
In addition to support from Collins Memorial Library, Brett Rogers, Associate Professor and Chair, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, serves on Lever Press’s editorial board. The editorial board reviews proposals at various stages of the publication process, and votes on books to move ahead in the production pipeline. The editorial board also discusses programming that increases awareness of the press and its publications, and issues of institutional membership.
Further Reading
Directory of Open Access Books
– By Ben Tucker
