Collins Unbound

Welcome Back Issue:  It’s All About Reading in 2013

Popular Reading Collection: Need a break from peer-reviewed journals and scholarly texts?  Look no further than the front entrance at Collins.  Now you can browse our Popular Reading Collection.  This is a pilot project that provides access to “leased” popular books. The collection consists of fiction, biographies, and popular authors on non-fiction topics and is searchable through Collins Catalog and available for browsing in the reading room of the library.

To make this collection available to students, staff, and faculty while continuing to purchase materials to support learning and research, the library is using funds from an endowed gift.  We lease the books from a holding company at a reasonable rate, this way we can exchange them over time and keep the collection current.

Borrowing rules are different from those for other collections.  We loan these books for three weeks, with one renewal possible.  Only two books from the popular reading collection may be on loan to a patron at one time, this way the small size of the collection can serve our full range of patrons.  The collection is meant to help us reach our goal of promoting reading for pleasure and entertainment! To learn more about this effort, visit our subject guide.

What were they reading? – 125 Years in the Stacks: We have spent the last year selecting 125 books from our collection in anticipation of our upcoming anniversary.  Check out our 125 years in the Stacks blog.  Books along with artifacts from our Archives are on display in Collins Library until mid-March.

Rocking Chair Room Family Story Hour: We are happy to partner with the community music program and the faculty club in support of outreach to Puget Sound families and our local community.  Our first Rocking Chair Reading program was held in December and was a great success.  Karen Robbins, Puget Sound graduate and author, read her award winning book, Care for Our World.  Our next family program is scheduled for February 9^th from 10-11 in the Collins Library and Chelsea Pemberton from academic advising along with a great team of student employees, will be presenting a Valentine themed program.  So – gather up the younger generation and pop in to Collins.  (special Valentine’s trivia for the adults!)

Happy Reading!

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Katie Henningsen joins the University Archives

Katie Henningsen joined the university as our Archivist/Digital Collections Coordinator.  Katie’s office is located in Collins Memorial Library, room 121.  Her direct extension is 2669 and her email is khenningsen@pugetsound.edu.  Please feel free to contact Katie if you are interested in student and class projects associated with our special collections and archives.

As is our December tradition, we would like to share some of our favorite images!   The first set of images below are covers from football programs. The second set of images are copies from early editions of the student newspaper. The third and final set of images shows a menu from 1915.  We think ginger ale salad sounds rather festive!    Have a great break!

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A Quick Guide to Copyright

Contact:  Jane Carlin, jcarlin@pugetsound.edu,
or Lori Ricigliano, ricigliano@pugetsound.edu

Faculty have a legal responsibility to ensure that the work they wish to distribute to students has proper copyright clearance or falls within the definition of fair use.  This applies to resources that you plan on distributing via a course Moodle site or through a course packet.  To assist you with this practice, Collins Library provides several resources:

Copyright Guide for Faculty: This site outlines copyright basics, fair use and provides an overview of copyright issues associated with teaching, including guidelines to follow when posting on Moodle as well preparing course packs.

Copyright Clearance Center Site License: The University of Puget Sound has purchased an Annual Copyright License from  the Copyright Clearance Center: http://www.copyright.com/. This license covers a large catalog of text-based materials. It enables the university community to reproduce and distribute specific copyrighted content that falls under this license in both print and digital form.  The license covers over a million titles, including journals, magazines, newspapers, and books, and it grants university employees and students the right to use and distribute content in:

Postings in Moodle Course packs (print and electronic) Library reserves (print and electronic) Classroom handout Internal email Intranet postings Administrative photocopies CD/DVD

If publications are not covered under the CCC license agreement, you may obtain permission for course pack materials by using the Copyright Clearance Center’s pay-per-use service. Contact Eric Peckham: epeckham@pugetsound.edu in the Bookstore for information.

Fair Use: “Know Your Copy Rights” is a useful reference that outlines some of the works you may use in your teaching without permission or fee. The digital age has made potential course content available in a wide variety of ways, and faculty can often choose amongst several formats to make reading, viewing and listening materials available to students. Collins Memorial Library licenses over 150 database resources in a wide range of subjects. Most of these materials can be made available through an embedded link in a Moodle page or online syllabus because students are connecting as authorized users.  Additionally, permission is not needed if the works are in the public domain (generally, material published before 1923) or are offered freely under a Creative Commons license. For other material, a fair use analysis should be considered; if fair use is determined not to apply to the specific use, permission must be obtained.  A fair use checklist is available at: http://library.ups.edu/copyright/Appendix%20B.pdf

Author Rights: Faculty retain copyright ownership of their scholarly or artistic work. As the author of a work, faculty may assign copyright ownership to another person or organization, such as a publisher, when there is a written agreement. When faculty transfer copyright, they may be required to ask permission for subsequent use of their work, including:

• Posting on a website
• Sharing with others
• Depositing in Sound Ideas: http://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/,  the University’s Institutional Repository
• Re-using the work

Faculty are encouraged to negotiate terms and amend publisher agreements to retain certain rights, including the rights to:

• reproduce, distribute, perform and display the work for non-commercial purposes
• prepare derivative works
• authorize others to make any non-commercial use

The Author Rights website provides information on negotiation options.

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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!

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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.

• ARTstor.  Don’t let the name, ARTstor fool you.   Subjects now covered, besides art and architecture, include a broad range of the humanities and sciences, from many periods and countries.  The site provides very useful downloadable PDF study guides for finding images in such fields as African and African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, History of Medicine and Natural Science, Languages and Literature, Latin American Studies, Medieval Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Music History, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Religious Studies, Renaissance Studies, Theater and Dance, Women’s Studies, among others. ARTstor study guides are a great place to start. With over 1,000,000 images isn’t that enough?
• Puget Sound Images for Teaching.  These are images requested by faculty, usually scanned from books, and they supplement what ARTstor has.  These are unique images that are not available in the ARTstor collection and Information for making requests is found on the Visual Resources page. To give an idea of the variety of what is already available, some of the topics of recently completed projects are:  modern Mexican and Guatemalan art and folklore, recent archaeological discoveries from China’s distant past, intaglio and non-intaglio prints,  Ancient Roman sculpture and metalwork, illustrations of material culture in Ming and Qing China, the art of Buddhist pilgrimages, and paintings and drawings by Pierre Matisse.
• Copyright Free Images.  This links to a selection of image-rich websites, such as the Library of Congress, Smithsonian and the New York Public Digital Library.
• Digital Library of the Week Archive: This provides links to some incredible digital library projects packed with images:   http://www.ilovelibraries.org/articles/digitallibrary
• Collins Library Digital Collections: And, last, but not least, our own University of Puget Sound collections are great teaching resources, including:  Bird Wings, Abby Williams Hill and Flora and Fauna of the Northwest.  If you have an idea for a digital collection, please contact CollinsVRC@pugetsound.edu.

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.

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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:

Project Gutenberg

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.

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April 2012

125 Years in the Stacks

In anticipation of our 125^th 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.

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