Transportation
The third week of the Live Green Challenge focuses on waste reduction. Check out some of these books on all aspects of the transportation problem. Learn about ways to solve the problem, ecological consequence for roads, or how to build sustainable transportation networks in urban areas. Just click on the image at left to get to a list of selected books, or explore on your own in the library’s catalog.
Join us with Karen Hanmer, internationally acclaimed book artist who will give an informal presentation about her great works of art and show selected pieces. See you Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, 5-6pm, room 020 in Collins Memorial Library!
Take our LibQUAL+ Lite Survey.
February 15 – March 1, 2010: Will you be one of the lucky ones? A random sampling of students, faculty and staff will receive an email to participate in LibQUAL+Lite. This brief, confidential survey asks questions about the quality of library services. If you receive an invitation to the survey, please respond by March 1. Win prizes like a Flip video camcorder – even a gift card for iTunes or Metropolitan Market!
LibQUAL+ Lite is a survey developed by the Association of Research Libraries.
Questions? Email: librarysurvey@pugetsound.edu.
ARTstor and the Natural History Museum, London has “cooked” something up: 1,647 images of botanical and zoological illustrations from Captain James Cook’s expeditions to the South Pacific! (1768 – 1779) James Cook commanded three voyages, exploring and charting the great expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Accompanied by naturalists and artists, they made significant contributions to our geographic, oceanographic, and astronomic knowledge.
To see the new images, go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click on “Cook’s Voyages to the South Seas” at: http://www.artstor.org/news/n-html/an-100203-cook.shtml
Waste Reduction
The second week of the Live Green Challenge focuses on waste reduction. Check out some of these books, which range from examinations of the problem and visionary ideas, to books on what specific actions you can take to reduce waste. Just click on the image at left to get to a list of selected books, or explore on your own in the library’s catalog.
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.
LIVE GREEN CHALLENGE—Learning to live sustainably and responsibly! Collins Library is participating in LIVE GREEN CHALLENGE with a Sustainability display in the Ecommons area. Not only is there a live green tree to accentuate our focus, there are exciting reading suggestions (book covers featured) for each weekly focus: Energy Conservation; Waste Reduction; Transportation; Water Conservation. Find out how you can be a winner in the group energy conservation challenge (a percentage of the saved costs are donated to one of several charities)! Expand your knowledge through Check it Out at Collins Library and add your Sustainability Resolution (written on reused paper) to the Talkback Box in Ecommons. It’s time to Live Green Loggers!!
Week One: Energy and Energy Conservation
February is Live Green Challenge month at University of Puget Sound, and Collins Library is looking to live green, too! After all, what idea could be more sustainable than a library, where many people are able to share the same resources.
We invite you to visit the library during the month of February to see our display in support of the Live Green Challenge. Stop by the Learning Commons on the main floor to find reading suggestions and a place to leave a green resolution (on re-used paper, of course!).
Keep an eye on this blog, too—each week this month we’ll release a list of selected great titles on that week’s Live Green theme! This week, the image above will take you to a list of books on energy and energy conservation.
Education on Your mind? Check out the great resources on the Library gateway page; and attend the School of Education program.
Are you thinking about becoming a teacher? The School of Education will present a discussion on “A Career in Education? Practitioners Talk about What Life in Schools is Really Like” at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9 in Trimble Forum.
Three teachers will speak about their experiences teaching in a variety of settings. This will be followed by what promises to be a lively and informative discussion. Food will be served. All campus members are welcome to attend. The event is presented by the Teaching and Counseling Professions Advisory Committee.
