Join us for another Music in the Library series with a Jazz Recital! Performances by Machado Mijiga, Kelton Mock, and Paul Hirschl.
Jazz Recital
Friday, Dec. 7, 2012
3:30-4 p.m.
Featuring:
What Is This Thing Called Love? – Cole Porter
All Blues – Miles Davis
Dolphin Dance – Herbie Hancock
Blue In Green – Miles Davis
Doxy – Sonny Rollins
What is the gas mileage of your car? How much of your state is water covered? Where can you download software that will give atomic precision to your computer’s clock? These and many other questions can and have been answered by Science.gov (http://science.gov) – the Federal government’s “one stop” real-time science data website, which is now celebrating its 10th anniversary.
Science.gov was launched in December 2002 and has broken new ground in interagency collaboration. Senior information managers representing 13 Federal agencies forged a consensus on how national science organizations could improve public access to the nation’s rich and diverse scientific research information and partnered to create the Science.gov Web portal.
“Over the past 10 years Science.gov has grown in content, capability, features and functionality,” said Tina Gheen of the Library of Congress and chair of the Science.gov Alliance (http://www.science.gov/participatingagencies.html). “As a result, we have seen significant user growth. We are very proud of this offering of sound science to the public, and we hope to continue providing this free service for years to come.”
There are now more than 200 million pages in Science.gov, and the annual page views top 34 million, a 45-fold increase from the earliest days. The founding idea was to provide a comprehensive gateway to federal science information for those who might not know exactly where to find it. The interagency effort would raise scientific and technical literacy, serve as a foundation for future discoveries, and foster greater understanding of the public’s return on investment from the government’s science and technology efforts.
“From its inception, Science.gov has been a model of collaboration, transparency and open government,” said Alliance co-chair Annie Simpson of the U.S. Geological Survey. “Back in 2002, Science.gov was touted as a wonderful ‘potluck picnic’ of science agencies pooling their efforts so citizens could find the science information they need. Well, today we are still pooling our resources because the sum is more useful to the American public than what any individual agency can do.”
The technology has changed and improved, but the goals remain the same; Science.gov strives to grow and evolve to serve users even better. In addition to recent enhancements, in June Science.gov Mobile (http://m.science.gov/scigovmobile/) made it onto two Top Ten Federal government applications lists. A Spanish version (http://ciencia.science.gov/) of the website was launched in October along with video and image search and other improvements.
For interesting facts from the Science.gov Alliance members, see: www.science.gov/coolstuff.html
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About the Science.gov Alliance: The interagency Science.gov Alliance – which governs Science.gov – includes the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, the Interior, and Transportation; the Environmental Protection Agency, the Library of Congress, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Archives and Records Administration, and the National Science Foundation. These agencies represent 97 percent of the federal R&D budget.
The Science.gov website is hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), within the Office of Science.
Science.gov, your gateway to U.S. federal science, is supported by CENDI (http://www.cendi.gov), an interagency working group of senior scientific and technical information managers.
In summary, here are the links with the above information and related topics:
Gwynne Brown, Assistant Professor of Music History and Music Theory at the University of Puget Sound enjoyed library fame as guest contributor to the MARL blog at Emory University. Gwynne spent a month with them this summer delving into the papers of composer William Levi Dawson. Periodically, this MARBL blog features updates and insights from visiting researchers working within MARBL’s collections. Read her amazing article.
On Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 at Collins Memorial Library, Karen Robbins, award-winning author and Puget Sound alum, had an audience of all ages – and plenty of children! After reading her prize book “Care for Our World”, everyone had a chance to enjoy snacks, music, and crafts which included making penguins!
Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: Space-time For Springers by Fritz Leiber (Call No.: PS3523.E4583 B4), where in this collection of short stories, Gummitch is a superkitten. In The Cricket in Times Square by George Selden, (Call No.: PZ10.3.T3734 Cr), Harry Cat is a character in this appealing and whimsical book and its sequels. And in I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki, (Call No.: PL816.A8 W313 2002) read about the whimsical adventures of a world-weary stray kitten who comments on the follies and foibles of the people around him in Japan.
Did you know you don’t even have to leave campus or spend a dime and still have a great night out! That’s right – just check out one of our many great DVDs – simply follow this link and browse the many titles you can check out from Collins Library.
You can search feature films, and even search for motion pictures. You can quickly find films you’d like to watch by searching the title of the movie, too. Even if we don’t have it here at Puget Sound, we can often request the film through Summit.
Just go to Puget Sound WorldCat (or the search box on the library home page) and enter the title of the movie you’re looking for. You might find your movie right away, but if you get a lot of results, you can also limit to just movies by clicking the ‘Video’ facet on the left of your results:
Then, if the movie is at Collins, you’re good to go! If it’s not, but is available through Summit, just click the Summit request button, fill out the form, and you’ll usually receive the movie in about five business days.
In addition to supporting the YWCA Women’s Shelter by donating toys during the holidays, last year the library adopted a creature to be painted on their shelter mural: “Collins” the dragonfly, named after our beloved campus cat.
Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Call No.: PZ8.B327 P16), a story about a cat made of glass. Also, in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, (Call No.: PR2823.A2 W3 1966) Gray-Malkin plays the witches’ cat.
It’s not too early to start thinking about the Collins Library Book Collecting Contest!
Have you collected items on your favorite topic – mostly books, but maybe including materials like photos, illustrations, maps, ephemera, CDs, music scores, or posters? Say YES – and enter up to 30 items in the Collins Library Book Collecting Contest! This contest is open to full-time Puget Sound undergraduates. Applications are due March 28, 2013, 5pm. 1st prize: $1,000, 2nd prize: $500, and 3rd prize: $250!
Collins library encourages your appreciation of reading and collected works for pleasure and scholarship. Contestants are invited to a reception at the Collins Memorial Library, April 18, 2013, where contest winners will be announced. Submit your entry now!
Collins Memorial Library Welcomes
new Archivist and Digital Collections Coordinator: Katie Henningsen
What better way to start off an academic year in which the university will celebrate its 125th anniversary than with the appointment of a university archivist! Katie Henningsen will join the university on November 19th as our new archivist and digital collections coordinator. Katie received her M.S. in Library and Information Science with a specialization in rare books and special collections from the Palmer School, Long Island University. She also has an M.Phil in Reformation and Enlightenment Studies from Trinity College Dublin and a B.A. in History from Westmont College. Katie joins Puget Sound from the University of Kentucky where she was the Outreach and Access Archivist. During her time at Kentucky, she expanded undergraduate research opportunities and programs as well as implemented many new processes and procedures associated with archival management. In 2009 Katie was selected as a career enhancement program fellow by the Association of Research Libraries. Katie is very active in professional associations and currently serves as a committee chair in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries. Most recently, she moderated a session at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference on the topic of outreach and research. Katie shares some of her thoughts about Puget Sound below.
1. What attracts you to Puget Sound?
I was initially attracted to Puget Sound due to its emphasis on undergraduate education in the liberal arts. My own experience at a liberal arts college instilled in me a lifelong love of learning, and I hope to provide a similar experience for the students at Puget Sound. The warm and welcoming librarians, students, and staff that I met during my visit to Puget Sound made me fall in love with the University.
2. What are you looking forward to most?
I am really excited to work with the students and professors at Puget Sound. From my initial research into the collections it is clear that the Archives hold some really wonderful material; I look forward to working with faculty to integrate primary sources into their classrooms and instill in their students a passion for primary source research.
3. Past accomplishments you would like to share?
Recently at the University of Kentucky, I have worked with a colleague to develop and implement an undergraduate research and training center in Special Collections. This center pairs advanced undergraduates with unprocessed archival collections in their research area and allows them the opportunity to work with primary sources while producing a research or creative product. I believe this center and the students working in it will clearly demonstrate the value of primary sources to undergraduate education.
4. Anything that might be fun to know?
My grandfather and his three brothers grew up on North 33rd Street in Tacoma and attended Stadium High School. I enjoy hiking and traveling and look forward to exploring the Pacific Northwest.
