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You may enjoy this inspiring film: Hustle & Flow, PS3602.R48 H87 2006.
DJay, a very smalltime streetwise Memphis hustler and pimp, lives a dead-end life at the fringes of society. A chance encounter with Key, a sound engineer, spurs DJay to find a voice and realize his long-buried dreams. Chasing his musical dream transforms DJay, but opening the door to success demands one last hustle–if he’s ever going to flow.
Throughout the country, we celebrate Archives Month in October. This is an opportunity to celebrate our written and oral history. Visit the Washington State Archives Month website and browse President Thompson’s oral histories with Puget Sound faculty from the 1940s-1970s. These interviews provide details of challenges, successes, and life at Puget Sound during President Thompson’s time at the University.
This month Puget Sound celebrates Archives Month with these events:
Tuesday, October 15th, 4:00pm, Beau Beausoleil, curator and poet of The Al-Mutanabbi Book Arts Exhibit will discuss his work outside of the Archives & Special Collections on the second floor of the Collins Library.
Friday, October 25th, from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. the Archives & Special Collections will hold an Open House, feel free to stop by and browse the collections! At the end of the Open House we will formally “seal” our 125th Anniversary time capsule!
A small exhibit featuring material from the Doug Edwards papers is on display near the circulation desk. This exhibit was curated by student archivists Maya Steinborn ’14 and Morgan Ford ’17.
The white-gloved historian is a staple of popular culture. After all, old things are delicate! You can’t touch them with your dirty, dirty, fingers. Who knows what kinds of oils or flakes of skin could be there to cause untold damages, either immediately or years down the line. Surely, a pair of gloves is the best line of defense.
Well, not quite. The dangers of marking a document with sweaty hands can be removed almost entirely with one simple act: Washing and drying your hands beforehand.
Paper is actually quite resilient. It’s pressed, treated, and bleached, and unless it was made with acidic additives (like newspapers or other cheaply printed paper), it’ll keep for much longer than you might think. Here in our collection, we have papers and letters written more than 150 years ago with not much more than some discoloration to show for it.
As for the gloves? Well, as it turns out, gloves can be far more of a hinderance than they are an asset.
For one, the tips of your fingers are incredibly sensitive instruments. Though often under-appreciated when compared to vision or hearing, our sense of touch, especially in our fingertips, is extremely precise. Differences in texture down to the nano-scale are “visible” to your fingers. A piece of cotton, even only a few threads thick, can dull that sense, keeping you from feeling fine details like how delicate or brittle a document is.
In addition, gloves make you clumsy. Fingers and hands are very dextrous, but even a well-fitted pair of gloves has the potential to make picking up or separating documents difficult. If you’re fumbling to pick up the edges or corners of a paper, damage by tearing or folding is all the more likely if you have to grip harder thanks to a pair of gloves. On top of that, the fabric of gloves can get caught on an already damaged or brittle document, flaking or tearing it further.
Lastly, gloves get dirty, and unlike hands, will often stay that way. A quick wash with soap and water is enough to clean your hands, but over even a short amount of time, a glove can pick up dirt, dust, and oils that don’t come out of the cotton as easily as they come off your skin.
So leave the gloves off! Or, at least as often as you can. Keep them on if you’re working with cellulose film, that stuff gets everywhere.
By Zebediah Howel
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Sources:
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/the-gloves-are-off/
How many have you read? From Goodnight Moon to Harry Potter, The New York Public Library’s 100 greatest children’s books of the past 100 years
The list includes picture books for preschoolers as well as books for older readers like The Hobbit and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Read more.
PHOTO BY CHRIS DLUGOSZ
We’re entering the second week of the federal government shutdown that’s a result of the lack of a federal budget. While critical services such as Social Security benefits, the Postal Service, the military, and air traffic control continue functioning, many other government services deemed non-essential have ceased. Media coverage is full of stories about ruined National Park family vacations and the National Zoo’s now dark Panda Cam, but scores of less visible federal agencies have been had to reduce or eliminate their services and furlough employees (see their contingency plans).
The impact of the shutdown can be felt at Puget Sound. In particular, many federal statistical and data sources that are relied upon by economics, sociology, business, and other social science students are currently unavailable.
Here are just a few examples of currently unavailable resources:
Finance students are fortunate that the Securities & Exchange Commission continues to support Next-Generation EDGAR, which provides access to public companies’ recent financial filings.
While federal sites are down, Collins isn’t completely bereft of statistical and data sources. Data-Planet Statistical Ready Reference, a subscription service, provides access to thousands of datasets including many federal sources like the census, in addition to international and proprietary data. ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research), a social science data repository, also provides a large swath of data including some federal datasets.
By Ben Tucker, Social Sciences Liaison Librarian
“Abduction”: http://www.carlettacarringtonwilson.com/gallery
On October 10, Carletta Carrington Wilson will be visiting Grace Livingston’s class in the early afternoon and presenting in the Archives space at 4:00 p.m.. Coffee and conversation from 3:30-4:00 p.m.
You’ll enjoy Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter– and Spring a chronicle of the life of a Buddhist monk from childhood to the end of his days.
Locked out of the Library of Congress by the government shutdown, Torsten Kathke, a postdoctoral researcher from Germany, works at Starbucks in Washington, D.C.
A wide range of academic research across the country was being interrupted Wednesday as the federal government shutdown continued for a second day — with no clear path to a resolution. Read more in the Inside Higher Ed article, Locked Out of the Library.
As was mentioned earlier this week, October is Archives month; it also happens to be Archaeology Month. To celebrate Maya Steinborn ’14 and Morgan Ford ’17 put together a small display of notebooks, photographs, and artifacts from the Douglas Edwards papers.
Featured is the work of Professor Douglas Edwards from his early excavations in Khirbet Qana: his journals, a map of where Khirbet Qana can be geographically found, photographs of the dig site, and artifacts discovered there. Edwards was a distinguished professor of Religion at the University of Puget Sound from 1987 until 2008. He initiated the excavations at Khirbet Qana in 1998 and went on to confirm the site as the location of biblical Cana (where the Gospel of John says Jesus performed his first miracle, turning water into wine). The full Douglas Edwards collection includes much more information about the project, such as slides of photographs, detailed lists of findings, and elaborately hand-drawn diagrams of the areas being excavated.
The exhibit is located on the wall near the circulation desk in the library. It will be on display through October.
Stop in and see what else you might be able to find!
Archives & Special Collections Open Hours:
Wednesdays 1:00-7:00 p.m.
Thursdays 9:00-11:30 a.m.
By Morgan Ford
