Back issues of The Trail, 1890s-1953 are available online! Be sure and check out news of the past!
Here’s the list of our most popular full text downloads from Sound Ideas:
Our most popular faculty work: Group velocity dispersion of dyes in solution measured with white-light interferometry 140 downloads since Jan., 2012
One of my favorite poems is by Robert Frost. Submitted by Jane Carlin, Library Director.
The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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The Collins Memorial Library has a reputation for innovation. In recent years, the Library has developed many new programs and services from exhibits and community events to strengthening close connections with faculty to integrate information literacy across the curriculum. The Library has also been pro-active in supporting sustainability efforts across campus.
Therefore, it comes as no surprise that our Library would endorse two new and innovative programs that will help further distinguish Puget Sound as a center for excellence, innovation, and experiential learning.
Collins Library Director Jane Carlin says that she knows of no other campus that has taken such innovative steps and that we will surely be a leader in the Northwest and serve as model for other liberal arts colleges.
My name is Holly Kvalheim and I’m a senior. My major is economics, but I have a wide variety of interests and have enjoyed taking classes in many subjects, including sociology, gender studies, and religion. Although graduation is less than two months away, I have no concrete plans yet other than returning to Seattle, where I grew up. I’m looking forward to the end of classes because I’ll have more time for hobbies such as painting and bike riding, but I will certainly miss participating in school activities, like choir, the feminist club (WEB), and attending lectures. Another hobby of mine is trying to think of jokes, but so far I really only have one. What do you call someone who takes things literally?
A thief. I started working at the library my freshman year, and have since been spending ten hours each week in the back of Resource Management Services, mending damaged books. I really like my job because I get to practice and learn new crafty skills, and become aware of books in the library I otherwise wouldn’t have ever looked at. The two main lessons I’ve learned as a book mender are a) there are more interesting books out there than you can imagine, and b) don’t ever try to fix a book with duct tape.
In addition to university records, the Collins Library Archives & Special Collections holds rare books, artists’ books, personal papers, and photographs. Tours d’arithmétique by Jean Louis Bernard contains arithmetic exercises as well as numerous hand drawn illustrations from 1810. Who was Jean Louis Bernard?!?
Check out the poster around campus containing useful information on Copyright Fair Use.
March 25 – May 25, 2013
Collins Memorial Library
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
A Conversation with the Artist:
Friday, April 19, 2013, 4-5 p.m.
Room 020, Collins Memorial Library
In this exhibit are selections of artist books from the Ohio artist Diane Stemper whose books reflect her environment in both large and small ways. Her earlier work foc
used on the close ground and surfaces around her; included in the show are Insectlopedia and Dust Gardens, which examine the cycles, both imagined and real, of common insects and bacteria. Her later work, inspired by over 75 found petri dishes, ventures into a round space: Compendium: Cell asked gallery viewers to consider and comment on scientific fact; Darwin’s Darlings commemorates Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday; and other artist books visually consider being at sea, the doldrums and the interaction and impact of science on nature. Her current work is a musing on the act of collecting, comparing and classifying. Her mixed media artist books combine drawing, linoleum prints, digital prints, found and altered text presented in a variety of book structures.
Diane Stemper received her B.F.A. in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State University. Ms. Stemper’s artist books are in artists’ book collections at DAAP Library, University of Cincinnati, Ohio; the Main Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio; Lucille Little Fine Arts Library, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; Special Collections at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; Smith Historical Library, Oxford, Ohio and in several private collections. She is a recipient of two Ohio Arts Council’s “Artists and Communities” grants. Recent exhibits include The Naturalists, at the Ohio Art League in Columbus, Ohio; Bookworks 12: Annual Exhibit of the Cincinnati Book Arts Society, at the Main Public Library, Cincinnati, Ohio; San Diego Book Arts Third National Juried Exhibition at the Geisel Library, University of California San Diego; Compendium:Cell, Short Show at the Dayton Visual Arts Center, Dayton, Ohio; 5th International Book & Paper Arts Triennia at the Chicago Center for Book & Paper Arts, Illinois; and Master CraftWorks Studio San Giuseppe, Mt. St. Joseph College, Cincinnati, Ohio. She serves on the Board of the Cincinnati Book Arts Society and lives in Southwest Ohio with her family.
The One and Only Ivan, by Katherine Applegate, is a great book that gives an animal true voice. Some of you might remember Ivan, the gorilla that lived in the B&I store on South Tacoma Way for years, in a concrete jungle. The book gives special remembrance of the gorilla that captured the hearts of millions of people.
– Library staff
Transgender Tuesdays: Film Screening and Discussion with Visiting Scholar Mark Freeman
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
7:00 p.m.
Wyatt 101
Free and open to the community
The documentary film Transgender Tuesdays provides a uniquely intimate experience, letting viewers go beyond labels and learn from practices used in the first primary care clinic specifically for trans people. Viewers hear about the lives of eight of the patients who came to the Transgender Tuesdays clinic in San Francisco starting in 1993. Their stories reach back to the 1950s, recall the sexual freedom movement of the 1960s, drug ravages of the ’70s, Women’s and GLB (and finally T) Liberation in the ’80s, and the HIV epidemic and queer activism of the ’90s.
Visiting Scholar Mark Freeman directed the documentary Transgender Tuesdays. Mark is a storyteller, filmmaker and transgender advocate who uses the power of art to promote engagement with questions of gender identity. Mark has worked as Family Nurse Practitioner at the Transgender Tuesdays clinic from its inception and at San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Tom Waddell Health Center <http://www.linkedin.com/company/san-francisco-department-of-public-health?trk=ppro_cprof> . He is also pediatric nurse at University of California San Francisco Koret Family House.
Co-sponsoring departments include: The Chism Fund in the Humanities and Arts; Counseling, Health, and Wellness Services; the Gender Studies Program; Queer Alliance; Beyond; Department of Psychology; Office of Spirituality, Service and Social Justice; Multicultural Student Services; Collins Memorial Library; and the School of Education.
Community Partner: Gender Alliance of the South Sound.
For more information about the film see: http://www.transgendertuesdaysmovie.com.
Discussion and Light Breakfast with Film Director and Visiting Scholar Mark Freeman
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
9:00-10:00 a.m.
Wheelock Student Center 101
Join Mark Freeman for discussion about LGBTQ advocacy and power of film to share personal narratives.
