Come and meet Bill and Vicky Stewart of Vamp & Tramp Booksellers!
Based in Birmingham, Alabama, the couple specializes in contemporary fine press and artists books. Come to the Archives Seminar Room on the second floor of the library to see a selection of their fine press and artists’ books, as well a small presentation on their latest acquisitions!
Behind the Archives Door event: Interested in Chinese history, social activism, and exploring artifacts from the past? Join us as we investigate our Claire and Don Egge Collection on China with Anthony Clark of Whitworth University. Professor Clark specializes in Chinese history, directs Whitworth’s Asian studies program and the “Whitworth in China” study-abroad program. He’ll be highlighting one of our most unique archival collections and remarking on the importance of studying the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
Over the summer we have made some changes in Collins Library:
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Opening Reception
Saturday, August 11, 4:00–5:30pm, Collins Library, Pacific NW Room – hors d’oeuvres will be served.
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Partially funded by a Tacoma Artist Initiative Project (TAIP) grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission, The Garden of Earthly Delights is an exhibition of nine new works by Tacoma book artist and illustrator, Mark Hoppmann. See if you can translate the cryptic text of Coptic bound, Tacoma Codex I, a handwritten and illustrated manuscript transcribed in a new alphabet inspired by the decaying wharfs of Tacoma’s seafaring past. Explore the strange collection of images found in A Garden of Earthly Delights which Hieronymus Bosch might have used in his masterpiece, had he lived in the present day Pacific Northwest.
In addition to alliterative haiku in Northwest Aliterations, a collection of sketches titled Gargoyles, and other new works, the exhibition will also include previous works and many of the artist’s past and current sketchbooks, studies, and tools, all of which challenge the viewer’s perceptions of the Pacific Northwest and the art of the book.
Mark Hoppmann graduated from Drake University with a BFA in graphic Design and Commercial Art in addition to studying art for one year in Florence Italy. After working for twenty years in the graphic arts industry as an offset pressman, prepress and bindery operator, he resumed his art career and has been an artist in Tacoma Washington, working primarily as a book artist, illustrator, and watercolor painter for the last twenty years. He says, I have always been curious. That curiosity has resulted in an eclectic accumulation of bric-a-brac, memories, experiences, and books, all which in turn, inspire my art. With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, my intent is to design illustrated books for those, “with ‘satiable curtiosity.” Simple and sometimes unadorned, but thoughtfully creative book designs hide a treasury of illustrations within.
Over the summer we will be shifting our collections on the lower level of the library and renovating the lower level that will enhance our group study rooms, as well as create a new Media Service Desk and office space for Technology Services staff. In the Learning Commons, we are planning a new iMac room. Some of our library spaces on the 1st floor will be used as staging zones, so if you are looking for a quiet place to study, remember the 4th floor is a great place. Seating on the 2nd and 3rd floor is also available. Questions? Please email libref@pugetsound.edu or stop by the Library Director’s Office, room 123.
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Tom Hazard, may look like a normal forty-one-year-old, but he has been alive for centuries. Tom moves back to London in hopes for an ordinary life. He becomes a high school history teacher-a job perfect for someone who has witnessed history first hand. When the French teacher at the school becomes fascinated by him his life gets complicated again. But the Albatross Society, a secret group that protects people like Tom, has one rule: Don’t fall in love. As his life is threatened to be derailed he must make a choice whether to live in the past or to finally live in the present.
Find this book and more in the Popular Reading Collection!
In the imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. Follow 5 very different women in the journey to navigate these new barriers, with age-old questions surrounding identity, freedom, and motherhood. Ro, a single high school teacher, wants to have a baby on her own, all while writing a biography on Eivor, a nineteenth century female polar explorer. Susan, a mother of two, trapped a marriage that is falling apart. Mattie, the adopted daughter of doting parents, finds herself pregnant with nowhere to run. And Gin, the gifted forest-dwelling herbalist, who is arrested and put on trial in a modern-day witch hunt.
Check this out and many more in the Popular Reading Collection!
Happy last day of classes! For our last blog post of the school year, I thought we’d cover some of the highlights of the past year.
Our Archivist and Special Collections Librarian Adriana Flores ’13 has been with us for almost a full year now! She and Assistant Archivist Laura Edgar have been hard at work making the A&SC more accessible to researchers by assisting with classes, promoting and expanding our digital collections, improving our social media presence, and hosting open houses for special events like Spring Lu’au and homecoming. Laura also collaborated with the Tacoma Art Museum for an exhibit on Abby Williams Hill this past fall.
The student workers in the A&SC have made a huge impact here. Some major student projects include digitizing the ephemera collection, organizing collections like the alumni magazine and Logbooks (old student handbooks), running our Tumblr, working on new finding aids for university records, and acquisitioning items from student groups. We’re sad to see two of our four work study students, Sierra and Monica, graduate this year, but we know they’ll go on to do great things and we’re excited to get two new student employees in the fall!
If you want to keep up on our activities in the A&SC over the summer, you can follow us on Instagram at @psarchives or on Twitter at @PSArchives. Good luck on finals, and good luck in the real world to all of the graduating students!
The Archives & Special Collections is open by appointment. Please contact us at archives@pugetsound.edu
By Julia Masur
