Collins library is hosting the Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences Summer Research Symposium! Students and their research displays will be in the reading room, where you can learn more about them.
Summer research programs offer students the opportunity to engage in independent research projects during the summer. Stipends are awarded on a competitive basis to students who demonstrate research interest and ability. Read more.
Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012
3:30-5 p.m.
Collins Reading Room
Sponsored by Collins Memorial Library and the Center for Writing, Learning, & Teaching.
Find the most unusual, inspiring, secret, or cozy place in which you like to read, write, think, or study and capture it in a photo! Each photograph must have a suitable accompanying caption (what, where, why). Images will be displayed on the Library and Center for Writing, Learning, & Teaching web pages. The winning photos will be framed and on display for the academic year in both the Center for Writing, Learning, & Teaching (CWLT) and Collins Library.
Entries will be judged by a panel of University of Puget Sound student employees from the CWLT and the Collins Memorial Library.
Who can participate: Any currently enrolled University of Puget Sound student
Prizes: Three winners will receive a $100 gift card and a certificate, and the winning photos will be framed and displayed for the academic year in both the CWLT and Collins Library.
General Guidelines:
How to Submit:
By submitting your photo(s) to this contest, you grant the University of Puget Sound, permission to publicly display, reproduce, and use the photographs in all manner and media for any and all purposes, including related promotional purposes, in perpetuity. However, you will retain the copyright to your photo(s) and Puget Sound will not sell your photo(s). You also warrant that the photo is your original work and does not violate the copyright or any other personal or property right of any third party, and that you have obtained any and all releases and permissions necessary for our intended use.
Technical Guidelines: Photos should be 1024 pixels wide and 768 pixels tall.
Skyscrapers and Shadows – Labor and Migration in Doha, Qatar
Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012, 6 p.m.
Aug. 17 – Sept. 30
Exploring the lives of the transnational labor migrants in the petroleum-rich states of the Arabian Peninsula.
September 12th Presentation by photographer Kristin Giordano and Professor Andrew Gardner in room 020 at 6:00 p.m. followed by conversation and light refreshments in the exhibit space.
Collins Memorial Library
University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington
The husband and wife team of Andrew Gardner, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puget Sound, and Kristin Giordano, a Tacoma-based photographer and artist, have created a cross-disciplinary and blurred-genre exhibition that explores the lives of the transnational labor migrants in the petroleum-rich states of the Arabian Peninsula. The exhibit comprises a constellation of materials (migration narratives, portraits, material culture, fieldwork notes, environmental photography) collected mainly during their two-year residence in Qatar between 2008 and 2010. Drawing on the ideas of unadorned collage, this exhibition forsakes the promotion of a central narrative. Instead, the exhibit comprises a constellation of materials, fragmentary in nature, that are collectively attentive to both process and the resulting product of their attempts to illuminate the lives of the millions of men and women who together constitute the third largest transnational migration flow in the contemporary world.
BIOGRAPHY
Andrew Gardner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington. He is a sociocultural anthropologist and ethnographer by training. For the past decade, Andrew’s fieldwork has been focused on the petroleum-rich states of the Arabian peninsula, with a specific focus on the experiences of South Asian labor migrants. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Qatar. Between 2008 and 2010, he also served as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Qatar University. His most recent book, City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain (Cornell, 2010), explores the experiences of Indian transnational migrants in Bahrain and the society that hosts them.
Kristin Giordano is a photographer based in the US. She works mainly with antique and experimental cameras. Recent projects include Landscape and Transformation, Photographs of Doha, Qatar, 2008-2011, a series of black and white photographs examining the changing cityscape of a global boomtown; Skyscrapers and Shadows: Labor and Migration in Doha, Qatar, a series of portraits of labor migrants in Doha; Stories of the Desert: Djinn and the Unseen in Qatar, a collaborative project combining collected folktales and pinhole photography; and Temporal Terminus: Marking the Line, a public art installation along the historic Prairie Line Trail in Tacoma, WA. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson; Metroform Ltd; and Fulcrum Gallery. Her work is represented by Getty, Alamy, and Photonations, and is in numerous public and private collections. Awards include a 2008 project grant from Qatar University, a 2011 Print Sponsorship award from the Photographic Center Northwest, and a 2011 T AIP Artist Project Grant. Her recent series “Landscape and Transformation: Photographs of Doha, Qatar 2008-2010 was selected as a finalist in PhotoLucida’s Critical Mass portfolio contest.
Whether you are a new or a returning student, we are glad you are back! New students, check out our WELCOME page to get acquainted with services. Returning students, be sure to pop in and say hello to your liaison librarian. Some things to look for in the next month: Professor Andrew Gardner and Kristin Giordano’s thought provoking exhibit Skyscrapers and Shadows: Labor and Migration in Doha, Qatar.
Also on display in the library foyer are some books about college life; dealing with roommate issues, study habits, financial problems. Check them out! In the next few weeks we will also have a reading for pleasure collection on display and check out our book exchange table and of course, don’t forget our What Are You Reading Wednesday posts on Facebook. And, we now have Macs in the Learning Commons, a new group student room in the Commons that can be reserved, and a computer nook in the corner of the LC with larger monitor. Come on in and CHECK IT OUT!
Several of the library’s artist books were featured at the Write@253 Open House on June 21st. The brightly colored creative space opened on MLK Way in downtown Tacoma to share its upcoming writing workshops, creative publishing opportunities, and tutoring programs for children and adults.
Recent graduate Olivia Weitz shares her passion for writing and reading with the Tacoma community through the center. Her initiative allowed the collection of artist books to be a part of Tacoma’s Third Thursday Arts Walk and to be shared with the Tacoma community.
Visit the Write@253 web site and learn more about this innovative program. A statement from the website provides insight into the programs: “Write@253 grew out of conversations between high school and college writing teachers, counselors and staff at an annual writing workshop one Saturday afternoon in May 2011 at Tacoma Community College. Many of us were frustrated by the lack of support for innovative and creative writing instruction and experiences in public education, especially in our struggling schools. As writing teachers, we knew that far too many of our students were not excited by writing and its possibilities for academic, personal and professional growth.” -http://write253.wordpress.com/about/ (retrieved 8/7/2012)
To learn more about Write@253 visit: http://write253.wordpress.com/
Puget Sound Book Artists Opening Reception
Thursday, June 7, 2012
4:30-6:30 p.m.
Exhibition Dates: June 7 – July 31
Collins Memorial Library,
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington
Library Hours
The exhibit, curated by Lucia Harrison, MalPina Chan, Debbi Commodore and Randi Parkhurst, showcases the work of members of the Puget Sound Book Artists organization. The exhibition opens on Thursday, June 7 and runs through July 31, 2012. The opening reception where the public can meet the artists will be on June 7 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Curator’s Statement:
The Puget Sound Area of Washington State has a vibrant book arts community and we are delighted to present the works of 27 talented artists in the Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA), 2nd annual Members’ Exhibition. Each year, this exhibition gives our members a goal and experience exhibiting their work. This year, PSBA brought in artists to give lectures or workshops on pattern design, handmade paper, and pop-up book design. The contemporary artist books in this exhibition are exceptional in their many forms. The exhibition features many different book structures, re-purposed found materials, fabric, wood, handmade papers, and papers embellished with paint, rust, dirt, stitching, and calligrapher elements. This year’s artists were inspired by nature, personal memory, family history, cultural memory, toys, art historical book forms, natural history, science and travels.
Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA) is a nonprofit organization comprised of both amateurs and professionals from all quarters of the book arts field for the purpose of creating a spirit of community surround the books arts and those who love books. This new organization strives to increase educational opportunities for individuals as well as institutions and other organizations, fostering excellence through exhibitions, workshops, lectures and publications related to various aspects of book arts throughout the year. The group meets monthly for play days which are designed to be brainstorming opportunities” for beginning and experienced book artists. There is time to discuss the lectures, work on a personal project, ask questions about formats, surface design, and the latest products as well as view samples of handmade and published books.
The PSBA would like to thank all of the wonderful artists who chose to participate in this exhibition as well as acknowledge Collins Memorial Library staff and especially graphic designer Jeanne Young and Administrative Coordinator, Jamie Spaine for their support and gracious hospitality at The University of Puget Sound Collins Memorial Library.
Article on Puget Sound Book Artists from the Weekly Volcano.
Check out a sampling of Puget Sound Faculty Author publications from the past five years. We’ll be adding to the collection!
May 2012
Counting Down to Summer with some Year End Facts
Number of visitors to the library this school year: 41,190
Busiest day of the school year (in visitors): Monday, April 30, 2012 – 2,296 visitors
Library Snapshot: Learn more about a “typical day” in Collins Library
Link to Library Stats: Check out our library stats which are continually updated
Studying students have filled every nook and cranny of the library!
Top Ten most widely used electronic journals:
1. Science (New York, N.Y.)
2. Nature (London)
3. Medicine and science in sports and exercise
4. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation
5. The New York Times
6. Harvard Business Review
7. The American Journal of Sports Medicine
8. Disability and Rehabilitation
9. Sex Roles
10. British Journal of Sports Medicine
Top Ten Most used subject guides:
1. Psychology
2. Biology
3. Physical Therapy
4. Comparative Sociology
5. Politics and Government
6. Business and Leadership
7. History
8. Communication Studies
9. Exercise Science
10. Welcome to Collins Library
Most widely viewed articles, citations and papers held in Sound Ideas:
1. Aquatic Therapy for Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Occupational Therapists’ Perspectives
2. Fictional Monuments to Women in Propertius IV
3. Mini-Mental State Examination and Large Allen Cognitive Level Screen:
Predictive validity for discharge disposition among patients of a skilled nursing facility
4. Bending the Gaze: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Contemporary Contortion
5. Validity and Reliability of the Nintendo Wii in Measuring Standing Balance
6. The Construction of the Curia Julia
7. Current Trends in Occupational Therapy Treatment for People with Stroke
8. History of Oceanography, Number 03
9. The Economics of Penny Auctions
10. Fashion and Self-Fashioning: Clothing Regulation in Renaissance Europe
Need Information? Don’t forget the Collins Memorial Library Database List A-Z
Questions? Contact your liaison librarian
Comments: Contact Jane Carlin, Library Director
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What intrigues me about this book on the open stacks is the history revealed in a note on the flyleaf. I have pasted below an extract from a handout I have given some of my classes, in order to illustrate that the practice of taking plunder in war is not limited to classical antiquity (my field).
Spoils of War in the Stacks of the UPS Library
One of the most remarkable volumes in the UPS Library is the one whose title page appears to the right. It is a 900-page collection of pro-slavery treatises published in Georgia just before the Civil War. These treatises defend slavery on several grounds: economic, social, political, and religious — yes, religious, for two of these works exhaustively document the Biblical acceptance of the institution of slavery.
As valuable as this volume is for the historical importance of its content, there is something even more remarkable about it: the story of how it came to UPS. On the flyleaf is a penciled inscription: “Presented to Capt. E.Lewis Sturtevant, Co. G, 24th Maine Regt., upon compulsion, by Mrs. Wood, wife of Guerrilla Wood, Livingston Parish, La., May 13, 1863.”
It is hard to tell whether this is in the handwriting of Capt. Sturtevant or of Mrs. Wood. (A direct descendant of Sturtevant has compared this with his ancestor’s handwriting and is of the opinion that it is his.) In any case, the circumstances are clear. During the spring of 1863, Union forces under Nathaniel P. Banks were besieging Port Hudson, La., on the Mississippi, just north of Baton Rouge. (It fell at last on July 8, four days after the fall of Vicksburg. The Mississippi would then be entirely under Union control, and Lincoln would declare, “The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.”) In May and June, Livingston Parish, a few miles to the east of Port Hudson, was thick with Union troops preparing for the final assault.
These were the circumstances under which Capt. Sturtevant paid his visit to Mrs. Wood. Perhaps he was billeting his troops in her house. Evidently he caught sight of this fascinating book on her shelves and “liberated” it. Some years later (after he had become a famous expert on edible plants), he or his heirs donated the book to the Framingham, Mass., Town Library, as a sticker on the flyleaf notes. No doubt the library at some point discarded the book into a library sale, a sharp-eyed dealer picked it up., and it was eventually sold to a small Methodist college in the Pacific Northwest. It is on the open stacks, call no. E449 E48.
-by David Lupher
