As World War II comes to an end, three refugees and one soldier share nothing but the dream of something better, of freedom and safety. However, there are thousands just like them, and only room for few.
With all the buzz about Syrian refugees today, this book provides immense insight into the life of refugees of the past. Take a break, and check it out in the Popular Reading Collection today!
The Canse pamphlets are a lot of fun to wander around in. According to our finding aid on Archives West, John M. Canse was a pastor for the University Methodist Episcopal Church in Seattle in 1909. Most of his collection of pamphlets are relevant to this area, particularly travel pamphlets in the Washington and Oregon area. Among these are railroads, highways, bridges, expositions, national parks, forts, and other material. Again, I say they’re a lot of fun because a lot of them are very colorful and have a very vintage, not-necessarily-correct-anymore info, though this one is pretty close still.
This specific one I’ve chosen to take photos of is Tacoma: where to go – what to see in the Evergreen Playground. It also happened to include another pamphlet for the Floating Bridge in Seattle. So in case you’re wondering what exactly there is to do in our lovely city, here are some ideas!
Check out the State Historical Museum!
Go wander around Wright Park (it also has a very nice botanical garden).
Look at McChord Field, a Northwest Army Air Base. From a distance. They won’t let you on.
Tacoma is the fifth city in the nation in flour milling.
Point Defiance Park has excursion boat trips during the summer (supposedly).
The Archives & Special Collections is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
By Morgan Ford
Collins Library has designated study areas for all your needs.
Orange Zone: Quiet study is requested. Check out the Learning and Study Commons.
Green Zone: Collaboration, discussion & group work encouraged. Too noisy? Check out the other floors for quiet spaces, study rooms and individual carrels.
New to the Collins Library collection, the Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies which includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, reference books, and much more.
Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable, component databases, described below.
Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience
Is a resource created by collaboration between the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and ProQuest. Major topics on the African diaspora experience throughout the Americas are examined with in-depth, scholarly essays accompanied by detailed timelines, important full-text research articles, as well as images, film clips, and more. The thirty substantial essays were commissioned from leading academic black studies scholars who surveyed and analyzed the most important existing research literature in their respective fields. Presented are concise overviews which detail the most up-to-date thought on major topics of origin, culture, identity, art, religion, social justice, and more. Also included are reference textbooks Handbook of African American Literature and Encyclopedia of African Literature.
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)
Is the only periodical database of current titles pertaining to black studies and culture available today. It also has the largest backfile of retrospective bibliographic citations for black periodicals from as early as 1902. IIBP covers journals and magazines from the United States, African nations, and the Caribbean. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary, spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.
The Chicago Defender
Black Studies Center provides the historical full-text of one of the most influential black newspapers in the United States, The Chicago Defender. Coverage is from 1910 to 1975. Robert Sengstacke Abbott founded The Defender in May 1905, and by the outbreak of the First World War, it had become the most widely-read black newspaper in the country, with more than two thirds of its readership based outside Chicago. When Abbott died in 1940, his nephew John Sengstacke became editor and publisher of The Defender, which began publishing on a daily basis in 1956. The first full-text issue presented here is from January 1, 1910, as earlier issues have not been found. The newspaper was instrumental in the Great Migration of the early twentieth century, in publicizing the lynchings in the southern states, and in its use of political cartoons to highlight race issues. Almost two million full-text records offer a broad and valuable archive for researchers.
Black Literature Index
Black Studies Center includes the online index to Black Literature, 1827-1940, a microfiche collection which is one of the most significant research efforts in African American studies. Begun at Yale University by Professor John Blassingame and continued by another colleague, Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the project was completed by Gates at Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research. Since its release, the collection has redefined African American literature. Gates described it as rediscovering “a hermetically sealed library of the Afro-American periodical literature after a century of neglect.” This index allows users to search over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940.
Effia and Esi are born in different villages in Ghana in the eighteenth-century. Effia is married to a British slaver and lives in the comfort of Cape Coast Castle while her sister is imprisoned beneath her rooms. Esi is sold into slavery and taken to America where she and her children and grandchildren will be raised in slavery.
Follow their journeys through history and discover the story of their family. Now available in the Popular Reading Collection!
If you’re like many UPS students, then you find yourself spending a large quantity of time in the Wheelock Student Center. From discussions to dining, meetings to mail, colds to coffee, and performances to pizza, the Wheelock Student Center has much of what us college students need to thrive as well as enjoy our free time!
Here in the Archives & Special Collections our goal is to provide you with historical reference materials, and what better way to reference our campus’ history than through photographs? So for you curious folk, here is what the Wheelock Student Center looked like when it first opened in 1960. Named in 1995 in honor of Anna Lemon Wheelock and R. Arthur Wheelock (pioneers of the Tacoma area), at the request of their daughter, Virginia Wheelock Marshall, the building completed its construction in 1959 and opened for students the following year.
Notice the parked cars outside of the second entrance. The campus map of 1978 reveals that Lawrence Street once ran through campus where the rotunda and outdoor dining tables are currently located. The Rasmussen Rotunda we know and love was actually a 1986 addition to the Wheelock Student Center (dedicated in memory of Marie Dorothy (Dottie) Mulligan Rasmussen ’41).
What other differences do you observe?
As always, come by the Archives & Special Collections or check out A Sound Past for more!
The Archives & Special Collections is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
By Monica Patterson
Linda will discuss the art of Washi as well as showcase examples of paper. This is very much a hands on session and paper will be available for purchase. 5:30 to 7:00, Library Room 020.
Washi Arts sole focus is Japanese papers, tools and supplies for creative artists and businesses, with papers in an incredibly wide range of fibers, colours, patterns, weights and sizes. Japan has a culture that honors excellence in craftsmanship and the 1,400 years of continuous paper-making meaning the quality is excellent and dependable. Japanese paper-makers traditional practices and methods are highly sustainable with the papers made from renewable fibres, in small communities and family businesses.
In an effort to meet the evolving needs of students and faculty members at the University of Puget Sound, Collins Memorial Library is increasing support and outreach for open education resources (OER).
If you’re not familiar, OER are any type of educational materials (textbooks, course readings, articles, course packs, quizzes, lesson plans, etc.) where Creators and users are free to retain rights, reuse content, remix content, revise content, or redistribute content. In reality, this means that the faculty members can more easily customize course materials and collaborate with peers, while students can benefit from better resources without the high costs associated with traditionally published textbooks.
Open Education Resource Guide
Over the summer the library launched an Open Education Resources Guide in order to support faculty, staff, and students with an interest in OER. It provides background information explaining OER, and also indexes a variety of sites that list OER resources and reviews.
Introduction to OER Presentation
Quill West, Open Education Project Manager at Pierce College District, presented about OER at University of Puget Sound on August 3. Her presentation addressed a range of topics related to OER and the larger Open Education movement, and its promise in higher education.
In the spirit of openness Quill agreed to allow us to record and share her presentation. A video of the recording can be found below, and on the Open Education Resources Guide.
– By Ben Tucker
“Amy’s got your back. She’s in your corner. She’s an honesty bomb. And she’s coming for you.” —Actress Tilda Swinton and Trainwreck co-star.
The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo is a collection of personal essays ranging from the completely outrageous to the poignant and genuine. Amy Schumer proves to be an unexpectedly thoughtful storyteller, giving the reader a unique glimpse into her life before and after her rise to fame.
Find it in the Popular Reading Collection today!
Once a Logger always a Logger. But according to Guy Williams, there is more to being a Logger than just wearing maroon and white. Williams’s book, Logger-Talk: Some Notes on the Jargon of the Pacific Northwest is a dictionary for the original logger. It really is unfortunate that a lot of these words are no longer used. Back in the day, a logger was called a timber-beat, which is definitely more fitting, and a hen-fruit was an egg. According to the book, Fake is the most used word in a logger’s vocabulary, “if he can’t think of anything instanter it’s a fake; also used as a verb, as fake up a batch of biscuits.” Check out more logger worthy words in the Archives & Special Collections.
The Archives & Special Collections is open on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 12:00-3:00 p.m. or by appointment.
By Sierra Scott
