Love Research? Want to Help your Peers? Apply for Collins Library positions by February 25!

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jmkyoung

Apply for one of three positions in Collins Library for the 2019-2020 academic year!  Apply via Logger Jobs by February 25!

1.) Peer Research Specialist (one position)

  • Support research and outreach in Archives & Special Collections
  • Learn and practice the basics of archival management

Contact Adriana Flores with questions:  aflores@pugetsound.edu

2.) Peer Research Advisor (Two positions)

  • Work with the subject librarians to support information literacy
  • Explore opportunities to improve your own research skills as you help others

Contact Peggy Burge with questions:  pburge@pugetsound.edu

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From the Archives & Special Collections: New Acquisitions

Posted on January 30, 2019 by jmkyoung

Welcome back, Loggers! We are happy to have you back on campus and are looking forward to working with many of you in the Archives & Special Collections this semester. Our open hours have changed a bit for spring. You can drop in to the A&SC on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. If you are unable to make it during that time, you can always schedule an appointment with us outside of those hours by emailing archives@pugetsound.edu.

We have some exciting new items available for viewing in the A&SC. We recently completed finding aids for two of our manuscript collections – the Collins Library Zine Collection and the Ken and Rochelle Monner collection of Shereen LaPlantz book structures. The zine collection contains approximately 250 zines that cover a wide breadth of topics, including local and national issues, politics, personal narratives, popular culture, activism and social justice, environmental justice, queer identities, feminism, race, and more. The Shereen LaPlantz collection features more than 100 artists’ book structures created by LaPlantz, an internationally recognized artist, author, and teacher.

In addition, we have also purchased several new artists’ books. Artists’ books are often identified as handmade, limited edition or one-of-a-kind objects that employ innovative binding structures and handmade papers. We have several hundred artists’ books in the A&SC, many of which address social justice issues. This month we acquired “Shoot to Kill” by artist Ann Kalmbach, which asks the question “Did you ever wonder why police targets are torsos?” and includes abandoned targets from police shooting ranges.

Lastly, we’ve received many interesting records from our university departments. Gender & Queer Studies transferred records to the A&SC that date back to the beginning of their program in the 1970s, when it was known as Women’s Studies. We are currently in the process of organizing those records for use by students and faculty. Student Activities sent records relating to Outdoor Programs, including the Passages planning materials.

This represents a small portion of the many materials that we’ve received in the A&SC over the past couple of months. The A&SC is actively collecting records, so please contact us if you think you have materials that we might be interested in!

The Archives & Special Collections is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM or by appointment.

By Laura Edgar

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A parent’s worst fear!

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jmkyoung

When two eighteen-year-old girls go missing in Thailand, their families are put into the international spotlight: desperate and frantic with worry. What were the girls doing before they disappeared?

Journalist Kate Waters does everything she can to be first to the story, first with the exclusive, first to discover the truth and this story is no exception. But this story hits close to home, when she can’t help but think of her own son. The son she hasn’t seen in two years due to his travels.

As the case of the missing girls unfolds, they all find that danger can lie closer to home than you might think. Which begs the question: ‘Does Kate really know her son?’

Find this book and more in the Popular Reading Collection!

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REGINA GLENN, Discover How Archival Treasures Can Connect and Teach! Feb. 20, 4-5pm, Archives Seminar Room, Collins Library

Posted on January 28, 2019 by jmkyoung

Behind the Archives Door series:

Join the Archives & Special Collections as we welcome noted alumni leader Regina Glenn ‘70 to campus. While on campus in the late 1960s, Glenn was an active member of the Black Student Union, VP of ASUPS, president of the women’s business honorary society, Phi Chi Theta, and manager of the Puget Sound Bookstore. She went on to be invited to join the Puget Sound Board of Trustees and is the current President of the Black Alumni Union and the Class of 1970. Glenn will be speaking about her experiences and the importance of collecting documents to preserve our past and build our future. She will also be sharing how these historic documents can be used as unique marketing tools to engage current and graduating students, staff and supporters. At this event, we’ll discuss the types of materials that the Archives & Special Collections collects and the process of donating them.

If you have any items you want to contribute to Puget Sound’s historical collection, please contact the Archives & Special Collections at archives@pugetsound.edu or 253.879.6014.

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Try the Collins Library search on your mobile device.

Posted on January 22, 2019 by jmkyoung

Go to primo.pugetsound.edu to look up the resource you are trying to find. There is also a computer dedicated to searching the catalogat the Circulation Desk on the First Floor of the Library.

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Exhibit: February 1 – May 12, 2019, Transforming Knowledge: Altered Encyclopedias, Collins Library exhibit space.

Posted on January 22, 2019 by jmkyoung

This exhibit features altered encyclopedias made by local artists. We are grateful to the participating artists who have transformed the discarded volumes into new and vibrant works of art that reflect new ideas. The exhibit also features photographs from local photographer Sharon Styer.

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A collection of essays that will make you laugh out loud!

Posted on January 22, 2019 by jmkyoung

Sloane Crosley delivers in Look Alive Out There―a brand-new collection of essays filled with hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. Sloane Crosley’s life is a series of relatable misadventures. Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and great one-liners. Her subjects become more serious, and her essays deliver laughs and lasting emotional heft and insight. A book of hilarious and witty essays that makes you laugh out loud.

Find more like this out in the Popular Reading Collection!

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Events/Exhibits in Collins Library – Spring 2019

Posted on January 7, 2019 by jmkyoung

FEBRUARY

  • Exhibit: February 1 – May 20, Transforming Knowledge: Altered Encyclopedias, Collins Library exhibit space.
    This exhibit features altered encyclopedias made by local artists. This exhibit provides the opportunity to reflect upon our relationship with the printed word and the future of libraries. We are grateful to the participating artists who have transformed the discarded volumes into new and vibrant works of art that reflect a rebirth of ideas. The exhibit also features photographs from local artist Sharon Styer as well as a number of books about books, knowledge, and libraries.
  • February 20: Behind the Archives Door: Regina Glenn, Archives Lecture, 4:00–5:00pm, Archives Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Collins Library.

MARCH

  • Exhibit: March 12 – May 20, Sarah Bodman:  Read to Me:  A psychometric collaboration with objects, Collins Library exhibit space.
    An experiment by the artist British artist Sarah Bodman in collaboration with a psychometric reader, to transmit the emotional content of selected narratives through a series of physical objects. The artist selected 10 objects to read stories to. They were then posted to the reader who relayed the objects’ messages back to the artist to produce an artist’s book. Read To Me is touring with an exhibition of the artist’s book and a selection of the original objects which were read, until December 2019.  Produced at the London Centre for Book Arts in a risograph printed edition of 100. You can read more about the development of the project in a photo essay written for Axon: Creative Explorations, a free access online journal:  https://www.axonjournal.com.au/issue-14/read-me.
  • March 26: Botanizing Hope—Mentors, methods and materials, Presentation by Seattle Artist Lou Cabeen, 4:00–5:00pm, Archives Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Collins Library.
    In this informal, illustrated artist lecture Lou Cabeen will share the sources of inspiration that led to her current body of work which includes stitched artist books, letterpress printing and embroidery.  The works in this lecture include the first fruits of her research into phytoremediation, a potential site of problematic hope in the face of lives lived in the midst of toxicity. She will also discuss her earlier work with environmental themes and her desire to make work that engages the current ecological crisis without being immobilized by despair.
    Lou Cabeen is a Seattle artist who works with a range of media including maps, textiles, stitching and collage.  Making artist books allows her to fully explore the power of tactile experience in communicating her ideas. She uses cloth, paper and stitching in order to emphasize the tactile nature of private experience, and to reveal the textures of subjective thought.
    Lou’s most recent work is inspired by environmental issues, from coal mining to watershed protection.   Learn more about Lou’s creative work at:  https://www.loucabeenart.com/.
    This presentation is supported by the Puget Sound Book Artists organization.
  • March 29: Carolyn Baugh Lecture, Carolyn Baugh is the Associate Professor of History at Gannon University, the Director of the Women’s Studies Program, as well as the Director of the Refugee Oral History Program. Dr. Baugh will focus on the Voice of Erie Oral History Project in which students at Gannon University work to preserve refugees’ personal histories and experiences.
    This presentation is funded by the Council of Independent Colleges in Support of the Collins Library Finding Voice: Digital Narratives Project. 1:30–3:00pm, Archives Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Collins Library.
  • March 30: Beta Theta Pi Exhibit, (March 30–April 20), Beta Theta Pi-Delta Epsilon Chapter is going to have alumni and campus event at the University of Puget Sound, to celebrate its 1000th member and 53rd anniversary.
    The Delta Epsilon Chapter was established on December 1,1961 and had operated until June 2011, when the National Fraternity closed the original chapter. However, two years later, forty-two strong had officially begun the process of re-colonization, and in the March of 2018, the Chapter was re-established.
    Beta Theta Pi- Delta Epsilon Chapter is a vital member of the campus community. The Delta Epsilon has the highest GPA of all fraternities on the UPS campus and best risk management.
    Beta Theta Pi-Delta Epsilon will host an exhibition in the Collins Memorial Library from March 30th to April 13th, 2019. The exhibition will feature the chapter’s historical artifacts, a banner with the Chapter’s notable alumni, and a giant flag featuring pictures of every member of the Delta Epsilon Chapter. Gallery Room, Collins Library.

APRIL

  • April 1: Edible Books Festival, Gallery Room/Reading Rooms, Collins Library.
  • April 1: Family Fun Night in the Makerspace: Because Edible Books are fun to see, on April 1st we will also be offering a family fun night in the Makerspace. This will be a great opportunity to bring a child and a friend to see the space. We will have a make your own book station and an adult supervised paper marbling class. 5:00-6:30pm, Makerspace, Collins Library.
  • April 1: Opening Reception: Transforming Knowledge: Altered Encyclopedias, 5:00-6:30pm, Refreshments in Gallery Room, Collins Library.
  • April 12th, Archives & Special Collections Open House for Spring Weekend. Interested in the history of Puget Sound? Join us in the Archives & Special Collections 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, 3:00-4:00pm, Archives & Special Collections, 2nd floor, Collins Library.
  • April 17: Faculty/Staff Publication Recognition Display Event, 4:00-5:00pm,
    East Reading Room, Collins Library.
  • April 18: AHSS Awards Reception, 3:30-4:30pm, Archives Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Collins Library.
  • April 24: London Ctr For Book Arts: Simon Goode/Ira Yonemura, 3:00-4:00pm, Archives Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Collins Library.
  • April 25: Book Collecting Contest Reception, 4:30-5:30pm, Archives Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Collins Library.
  • April 26: Music in the Library (Harps), 3:00-3:20pm, West Reading Room, Collins Library.
  • April 29:  Lecture: Diagonals and Parallels: Exploratory Intersections in Music, Archives, and Feminist Praxis, Megan Mitchell ’12 traverses the intersections of music, gender, and social justice in various capacities. As proprietor of the index of female/trans/non-binary composers of experimental music, Many Many Women, she acts as a media equity advocate. She is the audio archivist for the music producer, Randall Dunn, as well as a field recordist, vocalist, and musician. 3:00–4:00pm, Archives Seminar Room, 2nd Floor Collins Library.
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New Resources in the Public Domain 2019

Posted on January 7, 2019 by jmkyoung

January 1, 2019 is (finally) Public Domain Day: Works from 1923 are open to all!

For the first time in over 20 years, on January 1, 2019, published works will enter the US public domain. Works from 1923 will be free for all to use and build upon, without permission or fee. They include dramatic films such as The Ten Commandments, and comedies featuring Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd. There are literary works by Robert Frost, Aldous Huxley, and Edith Wharton, the “Charleston” song, and more. And remember, this has not happened for over 20 years. Why? Works from 1923 were set to go into the public domain in 1999, after a 75-year copyright term. But in 1998 Congress hit a two-decade pause button and extended their copyright term for 20 years, giving works published between 1923 and 1977 an expanded term of 95 years.  Read the full article here.

New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out

Nearly a century ago, the publisher Alfred A. Knopf released a slim book of spiritual fables by an obscure Lebanese-American poet and painter named Kahlil Gibran.

Knopf had modest expectations, and printed around 1,500 copies. Much to his surprise, the book — titled “The Prophet” — took off. It became a huge hit, and went on to sell more than nine million copies in North America alone.

Until now, the publishing house that still bears Knopf’s name has held the North American copyright on the title. But that will change on Jan. 1, when “The Prophet” enters the public domain, along with works by thousands of other artists and writers, including Marcel Proust, Willa Cather, D. H. Lawrence, Agatha Christie, Joseph Conrad, Edith Wharton, P. G. Wodehouse, Rudyard Kipling, Katherine Mansfield, Robert Frost and Wallace Stevens.

This coming year marks the first time in two decades that a large body of copyrighted works will lose their protected status — a shift that will have profound consequences for publishers and literary estates, which stand to lose both money and creative control.
Read the full article here.

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Happy Holidays from Collins Memorial Library

Posted on December 10, 2018 by jmkyoung

Happy Holidays from the Collins Memorial Library! Best wishes for the New Year!

This image is from The Biography and Typography of William Caxton, England’s First Printer, published in 1877. The image is said to depict the oldest representation of a printing press.

 

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