Welcome Back Edition: Part II
Collins Counts
We thought it might be interesting for you to have an idea about the activity in the Library during the last academic year. Collins is a busy place and we look forward to seeing students next week and another great year of activity!
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words – but where can I find a good one,
to spark up my presentation or to illustrate a crucial point?
Probably everyone has used Google Image search at one time or another.
It is quick, easy and often you can find a suitable image to represent a concept.
But at the same time, you also find poor quality color, limited image size, lack of documentation,
and limited copyright information. So, the Collins Library has put together some resources and
services to assist you with finding the right images to enhance your teaching.
Wallace Weston, Visual Resources Specialist, is available to assist you with your image needs. Wallace can assist in finding images, provide ARTstor training, and advise on scanning and creation of digital images. Visit our new Visual Resources page for further information and also take advantage of these great online digital resources.
The world of images is wide-open, and the new VR page will provide you with roadmaps.
Fun Image “Did you Knows?”
Science: The Smithsonian image collection has over 139, 552 specimen images in the paleogeneral category?
Music: The New York Public Library has digitized over 2000 pieces of illustrated sheet music from Broadway musicals?
History: The Voices of the Dust Bowl project, provides access to images and audio files documenting migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941.
African American Studies: The complete migration series from painter Jacob Lawrence is available online via ARTstor
Languages and Literature: ARTstor has access to the Magnum Photo Collection that includes portraits of writers, poets, and playwrights
Business/History: Child Labor Photographs available through the Library of Congress.
History of Science and Technology: The Dibner Library of History of Science and Technology provides access to Ramelli’s Machines: Original drawings of 16th century machines for Agostino Ramelli’s Le diverse et artificiose machine.
And for something completely different: Some Seasonal Images,
courtesy of the Seed Catalog Digital Collection of the Library of Congress. 
March 2012
An Introduction to Academic E-Books
Tell us what you think: Take our short opinion poll about e-books: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CVZ66TF.
Collins Library provides University of Puget Sound users access to 1000’s of full-text e-books from a number of academic publishers. They can be viewed online, or downloaded for reading on-the-go using selected mobile devices and tablets, like the iPad. We’ve created an easy how-to Guide to e-books, and have highlighted a few select points below.
How can I discover which e-books we have access to? The easiest way to find e-books available through the Collins Memorial Library is through our catalog, Puget Sound WorldCat. Our Guide to e-books provides step-by-step instructions on searching for e-books.
What type of e-books does the Library have? We currently provide access to a variety of e-books from academic monographs to reference resources. These are a few of our main e-book providers.
EBL: EBL (Ebook Library) offers tens of thousands of individual e-books spanning a wide range of academic and professional subject areas. You can browse by categories such as Fine Arts, Social Sciences, or Business and Management, then limit by year or language. Or search for a specific title. This is our most up-to-date e-book collection and one that is available as a result of our Orbis Cascade Alliance collaboration.
EBSCO E-Books: There are a significant number of e-books available through the EBSCOhost platform, however, because Collins Library does not purchase new e-books from EBSCO, most of these e-books are older. To download e-books you will need to create a “My EBSCOhost” account.
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Provides full text access to over 100 encyclopedias and other electronic reference sources from a variety of publishers.
Oxford Reference Online: Contains the complete texts of over 200 Oxford companions, encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference titles which, beyond text articles, include images, maps, timelines, bibliographies, photographs and much more.
Sage Reference Online: A collection of the electronic versions of many of Sage’s print encyclopedias and handbooks including, the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Encyclopedia of African American Society, International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, and the Handbook of Death & Dying to name just a few.
How can I download Collins e-books?: EBL and EBSCO e-books are available for download in EPUB, a format especially designed for electronic books. These files can be downloaded to your home computer or laptop, and also to many mobile devices including dedicated e-book readers such as the Nook, or generic mobile devices such as the iPhone or iPad, or Android tablets and phones. Both EBL and EBSCO e-books are designed for Adobe Digital Editions. To access all of Adobe Digital Editions features, and to avoid interruptions when you’re downloading to a mobile device, register for an Adobe Digital ID.
Get Adobe Digital Editions
Sign up for an Adobe Digital ID
If you don’t have a dedicated e-reader (like Nook, Sony, or Kobo) and are using an iOS or android device, you will need software that allows you to read the e-book. Bluefire e-book reader is available for both android and iOS devices. You can get Bluefire Reader as you download your first e-book.
Get the Bluefire e-book reader app
Is there a good guide to “free” e-books? We have listed many popular open source or “free” e-book collections on our Guide to e-books. Some of the more popular collections are:
Offers over 36,000 free e-books to download to your PC, Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Choose between ePub, Kindle, HTML and simple text formats. Most books are in the public domain, free of copyright restrictions, mainly published prior to 1923.
Open Library
Offers over 1,000,000 free e-books. Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
Online Books Page
Lists over 35,000 free books on the Web, including Banned Books online, from John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania.
Tell us what you think: Take our short opinion poll about e-books: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CVZ66TF.
April 2012
125 Years in the Stacks
In anticipation of our 125th anniversary in 2013, we are embarking on a project to identify 125 items from our library collection that will provide a view of the University of Puget Sound through its library collections. Think of this as a tour of our open stacks, the Shelmidine Rare Book Room, our archives, and even occasional glimpses into our electronic collections.
The Library has close to one million volumes so it goes without saying that we have some very interesting publications in our stacks.
But don’t expect the expected. We are not trying to list the 125 most important scholarly works ever published. Like Puget Sound, we want to identify publications that delight, surprise, make you laugh, contemplate an idea, or even publications that are just a little bit quirky!
We would love your suggestions. Use this web form, Found in the Stacks Form – University of Puget Sound, to share your ideas, or if you like, just let us know a period or event that you would like our intrepid library researchers to uncover a special publication on. It could be a publication related to an important event in the last 125 years, or a key advance in your subject discipline, or a publication that focuses on the changing norms of society.
To get you thinking, here are a few gems we have already unearthed from our first decade!
Strolls by Starlight and Sunshine by William Hamilton Gibson, 1890
Beautifully bound by Alice C. Morse.
A beautifully illustrated book including a personal narrative
by the author about his ramblings in the great outdoors.
Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse, 1892
The librarian in me just could not resist this title!
The author, both a poet and librarian, provides this statement about the book’s content:
“I have been asked to gossip about my books for I also am a bibliophile.
But when I think of the great collections of fine books, of the libraries of the magnificent,
I do not know whether I dare admit any stranger to glance at mine.”
From the Land of the Snow Pearls by Ella Higginson, 1897
This small beautifully bound volume is a collection of tales from Puget Sound.
Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: the Mother Goose nursery rhyme (Call No.: PZ8.3.M85 Rn), about the Three Little Kittens who lost their mittens. In The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford, (Call No.: PZ10.3.B935 In) Tao is the siamese cat. Rynard the Fox, (Call No.: PQ1508.E5 T47 1983) features Ribert in this French medieval fable.
Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: The Mother Goose nursery rhyme (Call No.: PZ8.3.M85 Rn), about the cat who ran away with the pudding string.
Read about our Literary Cats in Collins Library! This week’s “Feline Fridays” series presents: the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (Call No.: PZ7.R79835 Halm 2003), where Mrs. Norris is a cat belonging to Hogwarts caretaker Argus Filch.
We are taking a break until after the 1st of the year, and want to wish you Happiest of Holidays and a great new year! See you then!
Hey – today we received the first submission for the 2013 Book Collecting Contest! Once you recover from the stress of exams and final projects, use the break to focus on something you love – your personal book collection! Remember, you can win $1000! Check out the contest web site which provides details and dates! Book Collecting – a lifetime joy!!!
The library added several new electronic resources to its online portfolio last summer.
Among these is The Chicago Manual of Style online. This online version of the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style both the style guide itself, as well as an entertaining and enlightening Q & A section.
You can find the The Chicago Manual of Style on the Databases A to Z page of the library website.
Other newly added resources include:
These resources, and many others, can be found on the library’s Databases A to Z page.
