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Recommended Reading: “The New Jim Crow”
The New Jim Crow is an eye-opening and vitally important look at the connections between race and our criminal justice system.
-Library Student Staff
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Did You Know? Back Issues of The Trail Are Available Online!
Back issues of The Trail, 1890s-1953 are available online! Be sure and check out news of the past!
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Our Most Popular Full Text Downloads from Sound Ideas!
Here’s the list of our most popular full text downloads from Sound Ideas:
- Current Trends in Occupational Therapy Treatment for People with Stroke 5,159 downloads since Oct., 2011
- Aquatic Therapy for Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Occupational Therapists’ Perspectives 3,070 since Oct., 2011
- Mini-Mental State Examination and Large Allen Cognitive Level Screen: Predictive validity for discharge disposition among patients of a skilled nursing facility 1,937 since Sept., 2011
- The Effects of Gum Chewing on Classroom Performance in Children with ADHD: A Pilot Study 1,580 since Oct., 2011
- Fashion and Self-Fashioning: Clothing Regulation in Renaissance Europe 1,386 since Sept., 2011
Our most popular faculty work: Group velocity dispersion of dyes in solution measured with white-light interferometry 140 downloads since Jan., 2012
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April is National Poetry Month: “The Road Not Taken”
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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Library Makes Strategic Move Concerning Book Collection and Printing Services
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.
- Publishing Program: No longer beholden to academic publishers charging enormous fees for access to scholarship, Collins has now embarked on a new program. All books will be hand printed and published under the Collins Press. Not only does this save money, but provides students with hands on learning experience setting type.
- Print Green: The Print Green program has taken a major step with the introduction of hand papermaking. Students are making their own paper. Not only will this support our sustainability efforts, but reduces the cost of expensive paper and toner. Classes in calligraphy will be held to encourage students to learn the art of handwriting.
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.
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Spotlight: People Making a Difference at Collins – Holly Kvalheim
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.
From the Archives: Jean Louis Bernard
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?!?
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Is Your Copyright Use Fair?
Check out the poster around campus containing useful information on Copyright Fair Use.
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Diane Stemper – Out of Scale: Artist’s Books and Collections Exhibit, March 25 – May 25, 2013
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.
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