Collins Library Links: Staying in Touch With Trends in Higher Education

Posted on October 30, 2013 by jmkyoung

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Staying in Touch With Trends in Higher Education

 This edition provides some easy ways to stay in touch
with trends in higher education.

Find Articles Online: 

The Professional Development Collection is a database designed for educators and provides full-text of nearly 520 high quality education journals, including more than 350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also contains more than 200 educational reports.  In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 700 journals.  This is a great source to use to locate recent articles on topics that matter to Puget Sound.

Find Books Online:
FormatTake advantage of our growing electronic book collection.  You don’t even have to leave your office and can browse the book online at your leisure.  The collection offers access to thousands of quality academic/scholarly titles in all disciplines.  Three current titles are profiled below:  The Mobile Academy, Disability Services and Campus Dynamics and Diversity in American Higher Education can all be read online.

You can easily find eBooks in Puget Sound WorldCat. Search by author, title, or subject, and then limit your results to eBook. Keep in mind that you only have access to eBooks that we own and they cannot be borrowed through interlibrary loan.  For more information about our eBook collection, read our informative guide.

Teaching tip:  You can also use these eBooks in classes by linking to the titles via Moodle and making them available to your students.
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Read the 2013 Horizon Report.

The Horizon Report is an unbiased source of information that helps education leaders, trustees, policymakers, and others easily understand the impact of key emerging technologies on education, and when they are likely to enter mainstream use.  Some of the recent trends noted include:

  • 3D printing
  • Open Content/Open Access
  • MOOCs
  • The workforce demands skills from college graduates that are more often acquired from informal learning experiences than in universities
  • The role of educators continues to change due to the vast resources that are accessible to students via the Internet

Sign on for NITLE NEWSLETTER and  Bryan Alexander’s newsletter Future Trends in Technology and Education.

This is a monthly futures report for higher education.  Bryan Alexander is a senior fellow at NITLE.  Sign up for the newsletter here:  http://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-in-technology-and-education/

Need Information? Don’t forget the Collins Memorial Library Library Guides
Questions? Contact your liaison librarian
Comments: Contact Jane Carlin, Library Director
Remember – Your best search engine is a Librarian!

 

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Coming soon! Food for Fines in November!

Posted on October 29, 2013 by jmkyoung

foodforfinesComing soon: Food for Fines in November!  $1.00 per can with a maximum of $20.00.  Donate to a worthy cause AND clean up your library debt at the same time.  More information coming soon!

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Did You Know? Group study tables on the second floor!

Posted on October 28, 2013 by jmkyoung

Floor2There are additional tables on second floor for group study.

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Friday Fun – Popular Reading Collection! New book arrivals!

Posted on October 25, 2013 by jmkyoung

dumbJust In –

“The Misconception: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is.

The Truth: You are as deluded as the rest of us.  But that’s okay-it keeps you sane.”

This is the premise of David McRaney’s new book, You are Now Less Dumb, a sequel to You Are Not So Smart.  The book provides a more expansive analysis of self-delusion and irrational thinking, combining scientific elements with humor and wit.  The Huffington Post says “McRaney acknowledges the common ways in which we compromise our intelligence everyday without ever making the reader feel stupid.”  Check out this new title and many more in Collins’ Popular Reading Collection!

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From the Archives: The Printing Press

Posted on October 24, 2013 by jmkyoung

Last week, Alexandria Van Voris wrote about the STS 301: Technology and Culture class held in the Archives & Special Collections.  As part of that class each group set a line of type for our Collins Press.

Setting a line of type involves using a composing stick to assemble metal movable type into the line.  Students quickly picked up on the need to focus not only on selecting the correct letters, but also paying attention to the order and direction each letter was placed in the composing stick, and the spacing between each word.

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Wilhei. Handsatz. Photograph. Wikimedia Commons. Wikipedia, 30 August 2009. Web. 22 October 2013.

This gave students the opportunity to experience how the majority of our printed material has been created.  After using both the printing press and the typewriters at different stations, students were quick to point out that the typewriter would not be as effective as a printing press at mass production.

The following week our printer-in-residence was kind enough to offer a demonstration of the printing press while printing the lines STS 301 had set.  Each group was given 5 minutes to set the line selected by Professor Amy Fisher, I can’t do that, Dave.

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Recommended Reading – “Flight Behavior : A Novel”

Posted on October 23, 2013 by jmkyoung

FlightBehaviorI could not put this book down.  It is definitely a page turner!  Flight behavior : a novel by Barbara Kingsolver. Call No. PS3561.I496 F55 2012

Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, this novel tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to small children on a failing farm, oppressed by poverty, isolation and her husband’s antagonistic family, she has mitigated her boredom by surrendering to an obsessive flirtation with a handsome younger man. In the opening scene, Dellarobia is headed for a secluded mountain cabin to meet this man and initiate what she expects will be a self-destructive affair. But the tryst never happens. Instead, she walks into something on the mountainside she cannot explain or understand: a forested valley filled with a lake of silent red fire that appears to her a miracle. In reality, the forest is ablaze with millions of butterflies. Their usual migratory route has been disrupted, and what looks to be a stunningly beautiful view is really an ominous sign, for the Appalachian winter could prove to be the demise of the species. Her discovery of this phenomenon ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever. After years lived entirely in the confines of one small house, Dellarobia finds her path suddenly opening out, chapter by chapter, into blunt and confrontational engagement with her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.

-Library staff member

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Music in the library: The Warp Duo, Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, 2 p.m.

Posted on October 21, 2013 by jmkyoung

Blog_WarpDuoJoin us for our first music in the library series of the academic year!

Friday, Oct. 25, 2013
2-2:20 p.m.
Collins Library Reading Room

Featuring The Warp Duo, performed by clarinet musicians Delaney Pearson and Andrew Friedman.

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Did You Know? Music Online Listening

Posted on October 21, 2013 by jmkyoung

MusicOnlineThe Library acquired a new streaming audio service called Music Online Listening.

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Friday Fun – Most Checked Out Books from Popular Reading Collection!

Posted on October 18, 2013 by jmkyoung

popularWhat do these titles have in common?  They are the top three most widely checked out books from our Popular Reading Collection! Come visit our collection for a pick of your own.

First Place
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: a Modest Bestiary by David Sedaris, illustrations by
Ian Falconer

Second Place
Sherlockian by Graham Moore

Third Place
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
Fault in Our Stars by John Green
If You Ask me: (And of Course You Won’t) By Betty White

 

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Contribute to the 125th Anniversary Time Capsule! Oct. 25, 2013, 3:30-5 p.m.

Posted on October 17, 2013 by jmkyoung

collinslogoCollins Memorial Library
Archives & Special Collections Open House

Don’t miss this special event and the opportunity to contribute to the
125th Anniversary Time Capsule!

October 25, 2013
3:30 – 5 p.m.

Our 125th Anniversary Time Capsule will represent a historic cache of artifacts and information intended to provide a snapshot of the present for future Loggers!

This is your opportunity to pass on lessons and legacies, along with
artifacts from your experience at Puget Sound.

The collection of items will begin September 16th and conclude during Homecoming and Family Weekend, October 25th, at an Open House between 3:30 and 5 p.m. in the Archives & Special Collections, Collins Memorial Library. Items may be dropped off at the library administration office during normal work hours.

hatchetCarThe Puget Sound Time Capsule will be filled with items contributed by:

students
alumni
departments
employees

Please be sure to include the following information on a label with your item:

name
department
campus
phone number

Some suggested items and artifacts for our time capsule:

Photographs
Campus Posters and Flyers
Essays and Exams
Business Cards
Current Puget Sound newspapers and magazines
Logger Clothing

Forecasts of what life will be like 25, 50 or even 75 years from now

Please note, due to the archival nature of a time capsule, we reserve the right to determine if a donated item is inappropriate for the capsule. Thank you.

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