HARPISTS
Friday, April 26th, 2019
3:00-3:20 pm
West Reading Room
Performances by: Augusta Grassl, Sienna Murphy, and Christina Sumprer
HARPISTS
Friday, April 26th, 2019
3:00-3:20 pm
West Reading Room
Performances by: Augusta Grassl, Sienna Murphy, and Christina Sumprer
Henri Skinner is a hardened ex-war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri steps into the road without looking and collides with oncoming traffic. He is rushed to a nearby hospital where he floats between dreams, reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place. After the accident, Sam—a thirteen-year old with an IQ of 144 and an appetite for science fiction—waits by his father’s bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family.
Check out this and more in the Popular Reading Collection!
We’re so excited to welcome parents and alumni to campus this weekend for the 2019 Spring Family Weekend! To celebrate, we’ll be hosting an open house and installing our new exhibit.
The open house will be this Friday, April 12, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM. Join us in the Archives & Special Collections Reading Room on the second floor of the library to view documents and artifacts from Puget Sound’s past. Drop by this casual event to learn more about the history of our Lu’au, student life on campus over the years, and the physical buildings and grounds of Puget Sound.
In honor of the Class of 1969’s 50th Reunion this year, we will be installing an exhibit focusing on their time at Puget Sound. The exhibit will draw primarily from The Trail, Tamanawas, and the Ephemera Collection, and provide a glance into what campus life was like at that time, from student organizations to special events to figures on campus. Come take a look to learn about the past and discover its connections to the present!
The Archives & Special Collections is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM or by appointment.
By Julia Masur
A gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home called The White Elephant looms over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park. When owner Nick Cox cuts down Allison and Ted Millers’ precious red maple—in an effort to make his unappealing property appealing to buyers—their once serene town becomes a battleground.
While tensions between Ted and Nick escalate, other dysfunctions swarm: Allison finds herself drawn to the man who is threatening to upset her quietly organized life. A lawyer with a pot habit and a serious midlife crisis ignores his responsibilities. And in a quest for popularity, a teenage girl gets caught up in a not-so-harmless prank. Newcomers and longtime residents alike begin to clash in conflicting pursuits of the American Dream, with trees mysteriously uprooted, fires set, fingers pointed, and lines drawn.
Find this and more in the Popular Reading Collection!
Looking for a great, new book to read? Take a suggestion from Puget Sound English majors!
In the fall semester, students in ENGL 383: Post-1965 Ethnic Literature compiled recommended reading lists for new or recent literary works inspired by the themes, topics, and aesthetic or structural dimensions of American literature covered in the course. Using contemporary, professional book reviews appearing in major newspapers, magazines and journals, students selected noteworthy titles to be purchased by the library.
These fictional works engage a wide range of voices and perspectives, represent unique and innovative approaches to storytelling, and incorporate a variety of styles that are sure to appeal to adventurous readers. Topics include queer speculative fiction, speculative fiction and structures of power, ethnic supernaturalism, alternative histories, satire, and multiple consciousness in novels of color.
To find your next great read, see the full list of titles below or check out the display at the main entrance of Collins Library.
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie | Fortitude Smashed by Taylor Brooke |
Curved Horizon Taylor Brooke | Let’s Play White by Chesya Burke |
Open City by Teju Cole | The Round House by Louise Erdrich |
Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson | Dread Nation by Justina Ireland |
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson | Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones |
Salt Fish Girl by Larissa Lai | On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee |
Dear Cyborgs by Eugene Lim | Severance by Ling Ma |
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller | Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng |
The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor | The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka |
In the Present Tense by Carrie Pack | Past Imperfect by Carrie Pack |
Conjugating Hindi by Ishmael Reed | The Plot against America by Philip Roth |
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi | We the Animals by Justin Torres |
What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky by Lesley Nneka Airman |
– By Katy Curtis, Humanities Librarian
The Archives & Special Collections recently acquired this program from the 1973 Black Arts Festival. The Black Arts Festival was an annual event sponsored by the Black Student Union (BSU). The BSU was founded in 1968 and Puget Sound’s first Black Arts Festival was held in 1969. The festival was a week-long celebration of black culture and included musical performances, art exhibits, lectures, poetry readings, fashion shows, dances, and a soul food dinner.
Several notable individuals were brought to campus for the festivals, including comedian, activist, and philosopher Dick Gregory, Alex Haley, author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Roots, and civil rights activist Angela Davis. The April 30, 1971 issue of “The Trail” recounts Haley’s visit in great detail over several different articles. Students were so impressed with his lecture that they formed a committee to nominate him for an honorary degree. Nearly all of the events associated with the Black Arts Festival were free and open to the public. For many years the Black Arts Festival was held the week before Spring Weekend, usually in late April. In 1977 the BSU moved the festival to February in recognition of Black History Month. After a decade of success with the Black Arts Festival, the event ended in 1978.
If you are interested in learning more about the Black Arts Festival, “The Trail”, the Tamanawas yearbook, and our ephemera collection are great resources. Come visit us in the A&SC!
The Archives & Special Collections is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM or by appointment.
By Laura Edgar, Assistant Archivist
For Damon Young, existing while Black is an extreme sport. The act of having black skin while searching for space to breathe in America is enough to induce a ceaseless state of angst where questions such as “How should I react here, as a professional black person?” and “Will this white person’s potato salad kill me?” are forever relevant.
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker chronicles Young’s efforts to survive while battling and making sense of the various neuroses his country has given him.
What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker is a celebration of the idiosyncrasies and distinctions of Blackness and a critique of white supremacy and how we define masculinity.
Find this and more in the Popular Reading Collection!
Leaving Elsevier, should we stay or should we go?
Many of you have no doubt read about the recent decision made by the University of California System Libraries to cancel their Elsevier journal subscriptions. This was highlighted in a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article. As a reaction to this decision, many libraries are issuing statements of support and concern as reflected in this Chronicle article: After the Elsevier ‘Tipping Point,’ Research Libraries Consider Their Options. You may have questions about the status of the University of Puget Sound’s subscriptions with Elsevier and this email serves to provide you with information.
Where do we stand?
We endorse the statement that was recently issued by the University of Washington Libraries, which focuses on three core concepts: sustainability, equity and user-centeredness.
As we look towards the next academic year, we invite you to join in a conversation with us about the future of scholarly information and publishing.
Best wishes,
Jane
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Based in what was once the heart of London’s print industry, the London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA) is an artist-run, open-access studio offering education programs for the community and affordable access to resources for artists and designers. The Centre’s mission is to foster and promote book arts and artist-led publishing in the UK through collaboration, education, distribution, and by providing open-access to printing, binding and publishing facilities. The unique facilities at LCBA are available to everyone regardless of background, education or experience. After several years of planning and acquiring hard-to-find equipment and machinery, the studio was established in October 2012, becoming the first and only center of its kind in the country.
Collins Library owns a copy of their first book, Making Books, a useful and extensive printed companion to their popular bookbinding and printing workshops. Students in our Makerspace have used their bookbinding kit.
Join us for a wonderful afternoon to meet these two visiting artists.
Are you curious about careers in libraries, archives, or information science? Would you like to explore intersections of pedagogy, information ethics, and digital tools? Consider taking Humanities 399: Library as Collaboratory, an activity credit course, in the Fall 2019 semester.
Expressly designed as an experiential learning opportunity, this course invites you to dive into the workings of a 21st-century library by undertaking, completing, and documenting a small library project. In the first third of the course, you’ll be introduced to and work with some of the big ideas currently animating the profession; in the second third, you’ll have opportunities to try out specific projects, guided by several Collins Library librarians; and in the last third, you’ll design and work on your own project, either individually or as part of a team. Along the way, you’ll be asked to actively reflect on your educational experience at the University of Puget Sound and to begin to articulate your growing repertoire of skills in critical thinking, communication, research, creative problem-solving, and ethical decision-making.
HUM 399 is offered every fall semester. Fall 2018 students, pictured here, completed a rich variety of projects, including an engaging riddle-based library orientation game; an exhibit documenting the experiences of women on campus in the 1970s; an online guide for University of Puget Sound students to the Northwest Detention Center; an online infographic about research as a scholarly conversation; and an investigation of possible barriers to public library access due to public transportation routes.
-Peggy Burge, Coordinator of Teaching, Learning, and Digital Humanities