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"Library Phantom" Leaves Paper Sculptures in Libraries
Did you hear about the “library phantom” in Edinburgh who has been leaving amazing paper sculptures made from books in libraries and museums in Scotland? Read this article from NPR!
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December Calendar – 25 Favorite images from Collins Memorial Library
The December Calendar – 25 of our favorite images from the Archives and Special Collections of the Collins Memorial Library.
Take a look at our December calendar put together by Jeanne Young and Jordan Apele (A senior, Computer Science major). Just open up this calendar every day during the month of December and enjoy an image of one of our many unique and special publications from the Archives and Special Collections in the Collins Memorial Library.
Want to learn more about our unique collections or arrange a visit? Email Jane Carlin (jcarlin@pugetsound.edu) for more information.
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T-Town Transgender Neighbors: A Portrait Exhibition Nov. 22 – Jan. 20
T-Town Transgender Neighbors: A Portrait Exhibition
Community members share their lives through photo art: A photography and written word exhibit that will introduce transgender members of the Tacoma community to others in the region will take place from Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011, to Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, in Collins Memorial Library at University of Puget Sound.
(Photo top right: Lance, photo by Irielle Dean.)
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Recycled Paper Project: Collins Library Needs Your Clean Cereal, Cracker & Cookie boxes!
Help us reuse materials! Collins Library and Copy Services are running a PILOT project to reuse paper to create small notebooks for students. We need your clean cereal, cracker, cookie and frozen pizza boxes to complete our project.
Please help us by depositing your clean pressboard in the box at the front of the library.
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"Food For Fines" November 14-27, 2011!
“Food for Fines”
November 14–27, 2011
In support of National Hunger Week, Collins Memorial Library and Spirituality, Service and Social Justice are co-sponsoring Food for Fines. Pay off your library fines with food instead of cash, November 14-27. Donate to a worthy cause AND clean up your library debt at the same time.
Bring in 1 can of food and we will waive $1.00 of your library fines. That’s right! $1 per can!
- One – 6 ounce can or larger = $1.00 of fines. (up to $20 waived)
- Bring cans to the Circulation Desk on the main floor of the library.
- Only non-perishable, un-dented, and labeled cans will be accepted.
(Additional donations are welcome.)
- Canned food accepted for fines on returned items only,
not for replacement fees of lost items.
- All canned food will be donated to the St. Leo Food Connection.
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5 e-Book Collections with Over 100,000 Free e-Books!
Find free e-Books compatible with iPhone, iPad, Kindle, Nook, or smartphone! Here are 5 e-Book collections which contain over 100,000 free e-Books.
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New Collins Furniture for Spring Semester 2012!
Support from the Collins Family continues today with the most recent gift of furniture from Lee Diane Collins Vest ’70, granddaughter of Everell S. Collins, a long-time supporter of the Library. Through her generosity, we are lucky to have beautiful furniture in our new library spaces. Furniture from the Collins forests are made by the Joinery, an environmentally friendly Collins Company based in Portland, OR., known for hand crafting beautiful, heirloom-quality furniture.
Many of the tables and chairs throughout this building were custom built for the library from Collin’s Lumber. The removal of dense periodical shelving will create a warm and inviting reading area in front reading room just in time for Spring semester 2012!
Collins Memorial Library Furniture, Collins Memorial Library Floor Plan Model (1)
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Ariel Working on Loren’s Rocker
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Loren’s Rockers
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Ken working on Morris Chairs
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Collins Library building (sketch) Everell S. Collins Memorial Library College of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington Silas E. Nelsen – AIA, Architect, Percy G. Ball – AIA, Delineator
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Music in the Library: "What She Said"/"Garden Level", Nov.11, 3:30-4 p.m.
Join us for Music in the library for a double feature of “a capella” singers!
Friday, November 11, 2011
“What She Said” @ 3:30 – 3:45 p.m.
“Garden Level” @ 3:45 – 4 p.m.
Collins Library Reading Room
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A Conversation with Helen Hiebert: Nov. 10, 7-8 p.m.
Book artist Helen Hiebert will be presenting November 10, 2011, in Collins Library, Room 020 from 7-8 p.m. This event is co-sponsored by the Puget Sound Book Artists. (Library Hours – Library located off corner of N.18th and Warner St.)
Nationally recognized paper and book artist, Helen Hiebert of Portland, Oregon, will share examples of her most recent work, including String Theory, a suite of string drawings inspired by knot illustrations in The Ashley Book of Knots, the Mother Tree Project, a traveling community installation, and her film Water Paper Time, which explores how external forces such as time, gravity and molecular structure bend, tear and wrinkle Hiebert’s handmade paper, producing startlingly allusive and organic forms which recall the fibers and plants that the artist used in the paper-making process.
WEB http://www.helenhiebertstudio.com
BOOKS http://helenhiebertstudio.com/Helen_Hiebert_Studio/Books.html
FACEBOOK http://www.facebook.com/HelenHiebertStudio
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