Collins Library celebrates free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. Celebrate your right to read with a Banned Book today.
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Please join us for Behind the Archives Door featuring Suzanne Moore – a letter artist, painter, and printmaker whose eclectic interests meld in the diversity of her artists’ books. Her books blend abstract and representational imagery, rich color and surface treatments with textual content and contemporary lettering to create work that obscures the line between word and image. Moore recently completed her work celebrating Aileen Kane, centered on the letter “A.” Moore uses historical, symbolic, and spiritual aspects of the letter A in her work, A Musings for Aileen. The book was commissioned by the Collins Library, and will serve as a reminder of Aileen’s dedication to language and literacy as well as offering students a contemporary example of historical manus
cript principles.
After our regular lecture all are invited to a reception at 5:30 to celebrate Aileen and completion of Suzanne Moore’s book, A Musings for Aileen.
Over the summer the library added a subscription to Hoover’s Company Profiles, a database that contains proprietary information about public and non-public companies and their key executives. Each company record includes a company overview, history, products, and operations, subsidiaries and affiliates, competitors, and financials.
Be attentive, while the initial view (the fact sheet) of the company report has useful information, Hoover’s real benefit can be found by digging deeper in to the report by clicking links like ‘Full Overview’ and ‘More Financials’ to access the full content available.
I foresee Hoover’s Company Profiles being particularly useful in Business & Leadership classes such as BUS 205: Financial Accounting, BUS 416: Financial Reporting and Analysis, but I’m sure enterprising students could figure out ways to use this resource in a number of other classes that deal with firm information.
By Ben Tucker
Today we’re highlighting Holy Cow by X-Files star David Duchovny. In it, three unlikely heroes embark on an odyssey for a better life. The trio includes a witty and optimistic cow by the name of Elsie Bovary, a pig who’s recently converted to Judaism, and a technologically inclined turkey who wants nothing more than to fly. It’s is a strangely poignant tale of hope, understanding, and acceptance that anyone-human or not-can relate too. See for yourself today!
Before the year gets too hectic, come check out the Popular Collection at Collins. We’ve got tons of new titles from any and all genres to choose from.
I came across an interesting book the other day in the Archives & Special Collections about Viking runes and their meanings called The Book of Runes by Ralph Blum. The book is meant to be a guide to help gain in insight into your problems or questions. It is supposed to go along with a bag of runes. With a question in mind, grab a rune, one at a time, from the bag and place them in front of you. After picking three runes, you are to look up their meaning in the book reading them from right to left. The first rune is your current self, the last is your future self, and the middle one is what is blocking your way or preventing you from getting to where you need to be. Whether you believe in this stuff or not, it is a fun thing to try. They are more accurate than you may think, and it might just help you out.
By Sierra Scott
Join us for a look into the ongoing research of Tiffany MacBain, Associate Professor of English, as she draws on the Abby Williams Hill collection in the Archives & Special Collections. Many know 19th-century Tacoma local Abby Williams Hill as a painter of landscapes, but her journals reveal a woman anything but genteel. In the wilds, Hill enacts her project of gender critique and revision, and urges others to follow suit. Light refreshments will be served.
Evie O’Neill, “America’s Sweetheart Seer,” can read objects to learn about the past. When communities fall victim to a mysterious sleeping sickness in New York City, Evie is called upon to deal with menacing magic of nightmares from which one never wakes.
To check out this fantasy, stop by the Popular Reading Collection.
Mss.027, Bills of Sale for the Purchase of Slaves:
This collection includes three original handwritten receipts for the purchase of Slaves dated July 4, 1835, June 21, 1837, and September 19, 1845.
Mss.028, T.H. Callaway letter to James R. Callaway:
This four-page letter from a confederate soldier in Holly Springs, Mississippi to his uncle recounts his participation in the Second Battle of Corinth, October 3-4, 1862. He discusses the lack of food, clothing and provisions for himself and his fellow soldiers, and the horrors of war.
Mss.029, Francis Wayland Hanawalt Teaching Notebooks:
This collection consists of teaching notebooks related to surveying.
Mss.030, Civil Marriage Agreements:
This collection contains four original, mostly handwritten documents from Mexico pertaining to civil marriage arrangements written in Spanish and Castilian. Two agreements are dated 1773, and the remaining two are dated 1778.
This collection of imprints of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People document the organization’s first half-century.
Mss.045, C. Brewster Coulter papers:
Coulter was a history professor at Puget Sound from 1945-1980. This collection includes an onion skin copy of his book manuscript “The Big Y Country,” as well as photographs, negatives, and fruit crate labels.
Mss.050, Grafton Tyler Brown Lithographed Receipt:
This collection contains a printed and handwritten business receipt, lithographed by G.T. Brown & Co., San Francisco for J.&P.N. Hanna, Cotton Importers, 308-310 Davis Street, San Francisco. Grafton Tyler Brown was born in Pennsylvania before the Civil War to freed slaves. In his early 20s, he moved to San Francisco, working as a lithographic artist for a printing company before opening his own business in 1867, designing and printing stock certificates, maps and other documents for companies like Wells Fargo Mining, Levi, Strauss, and Ghirardelli Chocolate. In the 1870s, Brown sold his printing business to become a full-time artist, painting landscapes at his studios in British Columbia, Portland, and Tacoma, and finally settled as an Army Engineer in Minnesota, where he died in 1918.
Mss.051, Tacoma Community House: A Social Settlement:
This sociology 101 paper written was by Georgina Rowland in 1932, on the history of the Tacoma Community House, a missionary effort of the Methodist Church that began in 1907. The Tacoma Community house began with the goal of providing a safe, educational space for children and had many innovative programs for their time, including a baby clinic, the first kindergarten classes in Tacoma, and English classes for recent immigrants.
Mss.056, Murray Johnson collection on the Cape Thompson Environmental Impact Report:
Dr. Murray L. Johnson, M.D., was a Professor of Biology at the University of Puget Sound and helped establish the mammalian collections at the Puget Sound Museum (now the Slater Museum of Natural History) in 1948. He was contracted by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to conduct a study of marine mammal ecology in the region around Cape Thompson, Alaska, between 1960 and 1961. The Murray Johnson Collection on the Cape Thompson Environmental Impact Reports consists of correspondence, biological data, and publications from Dr. Murray L. Johnson’s work as a marine mammal researcher.
Mss.047, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Records:
LMDA is a multinational organization devoted to serving professional dramaturgs and supporting, affirming and broadening the practice of dramaturgy in the performing arts. The records of the LMDA span the years 1983-2015 and document the development of this organization from its creative inception by leaders C. Lee Jenner and Alexis Greene to its incorporation into a formal non-profit organization to legal engagements of the late 1990s to its administrative present.
Mss.009, Walter S. Davis papers:
Davis was a Washington State Senator (1912-1928) and a professor of history and political science at the College of Puget Sound (now University of Puget Sound), in Tacoma, Washington, from 1907-1943. The collection contains mainly CPS-related correspondence, papers, notebooks, lecture notes, and also genealogical information.
Mss.017, Oregon Methodist Missions papers:
These letters describe the daily life, hardships, and deaths associated with the work of missionaries and their families. Some passages deal with the death of a child and the separation of husband from wife. One description is of the Native American encampment on the banks of the Columbia River in the autumn during the salmon run when it almost seemed one could cross the river by walking on the fish migrating upstream. Includes the journal of H. K. W. Perkins (Aug. 12, 1843, to March 19, 1844; 106 pages) in which he describes his work and travels as a missionary in Oregon.
Mss.040, Howard W. Robbins diary:
Robbins was a first lieutenant in the 104th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. army. The diary is a manuscript notebook from World War I (1917-1918), which includes 88 pages of handwritten material. The text is illustrated with graphs, formulas, and diagrams.
Want to take a look at some of these newly available resources? Stop by the A&SC during open hours during the semester on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 1:00-3:00 p.m. or email the Katie Henningsen to make an appointment.
Stay tuned to this page for the latest updates on newly available collections!
By Kara Flynn ‘15
Here are the library hours for the first three weeks of classes. We will be closing at midnight Sunday-Thursday:
| Aug 31 – Sept 20 | Mon – Thur | 7:30 a.m. – 12 a.m. |
| Fri | 7:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. | |
| Sat | 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. | |
| Sun | 9 a.m. – 12 a.m. |
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Come to school even when you don’t! Here are a few of the titles we added over the summer. The Popular Reading Collection can offer a chance to read current and fun materials just for the pleasure of reading. Visit soon. Visit often.
