From the Archives & Special Collections – Celebrating Archives Month!

Posted on October 8, 2019 by jmkyoung

October is American Archives Month and to celebrate the Archives & Special Collections is bringing our history to you! There will be a series of pop-up exhibits in the Wheelock Student Center every Monday this October from 12-2 PM. Stop by to learn about Puget Sound’s history, from athletics to architecture. Each pop-up exhibit features items from the ephemera collection, some dating back to the 1920’s and 30’s.

On Monday, October 7th the Archives and Special Collections presented an exhibit on “Old School Athletics” at Puget Sound. We shared memorabilia and rare objects that highlighted the rich history of sports at UPS.

On Monday, October 14th our exhibit will be “Promoting Puget Sound to Prospective Students.” Many of the items in this exhibit are advertisements with the goal of inspiring recent high school graduates to come to Puget Sound.

On Monday October 28th the exhibit theme will be “First-Year Orientation Programs.” There will be items from the collection that highlight the history of this famous Puget Sound tradition. The exhibit features a small collection of Puget Sound handbooks which are little guides to campus life (they are literally tiny). These books give insight into the unique past of our university and highlight the strange traditions that first-years had to follow. Come check them out to learn more!

Archives Month is a great opportunity to realize the importance of archives and learn about fun aspects of our history. Come by our exhibits to get involved with Puget Sound history and celebrate the Archives!

The Archives & and Special Collections has drop-in hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM or is open by appointment.

By Julia Schiff

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From the Archives & Special Collections: Introducing Peer Research Specialist Rowan Coates

Posted on October 1, 2019 by jmkyoung

Hi! My name is Rowan Coates and I am one of the new Peer Research Specialists in the Archives and Special Collections. I am currently a junior pursuing a double major in History and Environmental Policy and Decision Making.

I originally heard about the Peer Research Specialist position from a friend who had the position previously but was graduating. She thought that I would be interested in the job. I applied as soon as I heard they were looking for people to fill the position for the upcoming semester.

Archives and museum work is something that has always interested me and being a history major, it is definitely a career path that I can see myself going down one day. The Archives and Special Collections is a great stepping stone in the right direction for me.

Even though I have only worked at the Archives and Special Collections a short time, I have already seen and read so many interesting things. One of my favorites is looking online at all the old Bulletins and seeing how the University has evolved and become so much more inclusive in what classes they offer. I think it is so important to catalogue how the university has changed so that we can appreciate how far we’ve come. That is the great thing about history.

The Archives & Special Collections has drop-in hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM or is open by appointment.

By Rowan Coates

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An intelligent novel about a secret society of hungry young women

Posted on September 30, 2019 by jmkyoung

 

 

 

Roberta spends her life trying not to take up space. At almost thirty, she is adrift and alienated from life. Stuck in a mindless job and reluctant to pursue her passion for food, she suppresses her appetite and recedes to the corners of rooms. But when she meets Stevie, a spirited and effervescent artist, their intense friendship sparks a change in Roberta, a shift in her desire for more. Together, they invent the Supper Club, a transgressive and jovial collective of women who gather to celebrate their hungers.

Find more like this in the Popular Reading Collection!

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Sound Ideas: Puget Sound scholarship reaches an international audience.

Posted on September 30, 2019 by jmkyoung

Have you visited the Sound Ideas page recently?  If you haven’t, you should.  The Digital Commons Readership Activity Map is a real-time visualization of downloads across the globe. Just click here: https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/ and scroll to the bottom on the page and watch the map populate.  And we are close to almost a million downloads of Puget Sound Research!

Congratulations to all contributors.

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Hack Hack – Chop Chop – Yearbooks Online!

Posted on September 30, 2019 by jmkyoung

The Collins Library is pleased to announce that the University yearbooks are now available online and open freely to the public through the Historical Publications section of Sound Ideas, our institutional repository.  Klahowya was the first yearbook published for the University of Puget Sound in 1913 and only had one volume. The yearbook resumed publication in 1920 under the title Tamanawas, and  published annually until 2016. It has kept this title through various changes in the name of our institution: College of Puget Sound, 1914-1960; University of Puget Sound, 1960-present.  The yearbooks provide a glimpse into the academic and social life of Puget Sound.

The Yearbooks complement existing collections such as A Sound Past, our historical photo collection as well as Puget Sound’s student newspaper, The Trail.  These resources not only provide alumni with the opportunity to celebrate and reminisce about their years at Puget Sound, but also provide our community with an important portal to our institutional history.  According to Archivist & Special Collections Librarian, Adriana Flores, “Providing access to the yearbooks online will enable our community to view our history in a whole new way. These primary historical documents teach us about the students who attended Puget Sound and what was important to them.”

The yearbooks provide a unique student perspective and will also serve as an important resource for research projects as we continue to explore the history of our university and look at changing cultural trends, attitudes and programs.

This project was coordinated by Hilary Robbleloth, Systems & Discovery Librarian and Library student employees Hollie Bray and Kendyl Chasco. Scanning the yearbooks and developing the interface was a year long project and it is especially gratifying to showcase this resource at the upcoming Homecoming and Family Weekend.

The Library coordinates a number of projects through a Digital Collections team, currently chaired by Social Sciences Librarian & Coordinator of Sound Ideas Institutional Repository Ben Tucker.  This fall Ben is completing a review of print and digitized historical copies of The Trail, in order to identify and fill gaps in our digital collection.  Ben will be coordinating the scanning of these issues to complete the online historical student newspaper collection.

For more information about our collections visit:  https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/ups_yearbooks/ or contact Jane Carlin, jcarlin@pugetsound.edu

Resources: 

Puget Sound Yearbooks
https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/ups_yearbooks/

A Sound Past
https://digitalcollections.pugetsound.edu/digital/collection/upsimages

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Collins Library Links – Focus on Financial Literacy

Posted on September 30, 2019 by jmkyoung

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Collins Library Links – Focus on Financial Literacy

Many of our students are just beginning to learn about managing their own finances.  Collins Library has a number of resources that can help students better understand the complex issues associated with finances.

Library Guide on Financial Literacy:  Developed by librarian Ben Tucker, this guide provides information on credit, student loans, renting and general financial resources.

Student Life Collection Resources:  Librarian Katy Curtis maintains this resource page.  She provides links to print resources, some listed below, that help navigate the complex issues of paying for college.

Need Information? Don’t forget the Collins Memorial Library – Library Guides
Questions? Contact your liaison librarian
Comments: Contact Jane Carlin, library director
Remember – Your best search engine is a librarian!

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Menace and suspense in the Popular Reading Collection

Posted on September 24, 2019 by jmkyoung

When she stumbles across the ad, she’s looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss—a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten: by the luxurious “smart” home fitted out with all modern conveniences, by the beautiful Scottish Highlands, and by this picture-perfect family.

What she doesn’t know is that she’s stepping into a nightmare—one that will end with a child dead and herself in prison awaiting trial for murder.

Find menace and suspense in the Popular Reading Collection!

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From the Archives & Special Collections: Introducing Peer Research Specialist Julia Schiff

Posted on September 24, 2019 by jmkyoung

My name is Julia Schiff and I’m one of the new Peer Research Specialists in the Archives & Special Collections. I’m a junior double majoring in Comparative Politics and Studio Art. Though I have spent many hours studying in the library, this will be my first semester working here and I’m so excited! I first discovered the A&SC as a freshman. I was writing for The Trail and my editor assigned me a story about the history of activism at Puget Sound. I stumbled into the archives in search of a story and left with an appreciation for our history and the ways we document it.

I believe it is essential for members of this community to understand our history and to investigate our past as a university. Knowing where we have come from is such an important aspect of our growth. I didn’t quite realize this until I read a Trail article in the May 7, 1992 issue. It was about the campus response to the Rodney King verdict and the Black Student Union rallying around King. Looking into past protests, young organizers, and social movements on campus led me to question our future. What will activism look like in the next 20 years? What will it look like in the coming weeks?

This process is what inspired me to work in the A&SC. I want community members to look into our past and use the collections to inform the future. I want students, like myself freshman year, to be inspired by our history and use it to navigate their time at Puget Sound. My main goal as a Peer Research Specialist is to share my passion for our history, show students how crucial it is to understand how far we have come and to be knowledgeable about our institutions. Everyone deserves access to our history and everyone deserves the opportunity to learn about who we once were. The past is inspiring and that is why I work in the Archives & Special Collections.

The Archives & Special Collections has drop-in hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM or is open by appointment.

By Julia Schiff

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Fall Zine Series: Join Collins Library for an informal series of events that celebrate zines and zine culture!

Posted on September 24, 2019 by jmkyoung

Tues. 9/24:  Zine Reading Hour, 5:00-6:00pm, Archives Seminar Room
Drop by to browse our collection of over 300 zines! We have zines on issues of identity, social justice, politics, fan culture, and much more.

Thurs. 10/2:  Making Zines, 5:00-6:00pm, Makerspace
Come learn about the creative tools & resources in the Makerspace and join us in making a collaborative zine!

Tues. 11/12:  ZAPP Zine Presentation by Seattle Public Library’s Abby Bass, 5:00-6:00pm, Archives Seminar Room
The ZAPP (Zine Archive & Publishing Project) Collection, part of the Seattle Public Library, contains over 30,000 zines, rninicornics, and other self-published and small press titles. Arts, Recreation & Literature Librarian Abby Bass will share more about this amazing collection.

Room locations in Collins Memorial Library:
Archives Seminar Room is located on the 2nd floor. Makerspace is located in the basement.

Puget Sound is committed to being accessible to all people. If you have questions about event accessibility, please contact 253.879.3931 or accessibility@pugetsound.edu

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Wandering Book Artists – Peter and Donna Thomas, October 16, 2019, 2:00–3:30pm, A&SC Seminar Room, Collins Memorial Library

Posted on September 23, 2019 by jmkyoung

From their web site: http://www2.cruzio.com/~peteranddonna/

Imagine living in a tiny home and moving across the country to share your art? That is exactly what the wandering book artists, husband and wife, Peter and Donna Thomas do. They will be visiting Collins to share their story and it should be an interesting one for sure! Watch his music video with his ukulele – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygN-VMCSr0A.

Peter and Donna Thomas are book artists, who live and work in Santa Cruz, California but also travel around the country as “Wandering Book Artists” in their “Gypsy Wagon Artist’s Bookmobile.” Their journey to becoming wandering book artists began in the 1970s, when, dressed like Robin Hood and Maid Marion, they sold blank books at the Renaissance Pleasure Faires in California. They constructed a small gypsy wagon to use as their booth, a colorful and charming vehicle that they always dreamed of taking on a road trip around the country. But pulling that wagon was a white-knuckle adventure…it wobbled and rocked like a ship at storm. That wagon served them well for many years, until 2008 when it burned in a wildfire, leaving only a pile of melted metal and memories. They cleaned up the wreckage then, with the assistance of Raucina Cabinets in Midpines, CA, they started building a new and more roadworthy trailer, modeled after a “Reading” wagon, one of the many styles of horse drawn homes, or vardos, made for Romany travelers in England during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

 

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