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Call for Entries: 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 24, 2010, 5pm. 1st prize:  $1,000.  2nd prize: $500.

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 15, 2010, 3:30 – 4:30 where contest winners will be annnounced. Submit your entry now!

Digital Schomburg

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. For over 80 years the Center has collected, preserved, and provided access to materials documenting black life, and promoted the study and interpretation of the history and culture of peoples of African descent.  Digital Schomburg provides a wealth of important information.  Current Online exhibits include;  African Americans and American Politics: An Exhibition From The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, African Burial Ground, Harlem 1900-1940: An African-American Community and much much more!

The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration,    National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society. Visit the Library of Congress web site to learn more: http://www.africanamericanhistorymonth.gov/ Be sure to check out the images and audio archive which provides a wealth of important information about the African American experience.

Bibliophiles visiting New York City and in need of a space to check into should check out The Library Hotel, a beautiful luxury boutique hostelry conveniently located on Madison Avenue and 41st Street, also known as Library Way, just steps away from the majestic New York Public Library.
Each floor has six rooms and is laid out according to the ten categories of the Dewey Decimal System: Social Sciences, Literature, Languages, History, Math & Science, General Knowledge, Technology, Philosophy, the Arts, and Religion. Each of the sixty exquisitely appointed rooms have been individually adorned with a collection of art and books relevant to one distinctive topic within the category of the floor it belongs to. Read more.

The Collins Library is more than books and information. Now it’s “spiced up” with fascinating displays of art, making connections to the Puget sound campus, its community, and broadening the idea of what a library is. Read the News Tribune article.