Explore the history of the Women’s Studies Program (now Gender & Queer Studies) through university records! This digital teaching collection uses yearbooks, course bulletins, issues of The Trail, administrative documents, and more, ranging in date between 1969-1990, to explore the early years of the Women’s Studies program at the University of Puget Sound. In these documents, you’ll encounter a variety of perspectives from students, faculty, staff, and administrators at key moments when Women’s Studies was establishing its legitimacy as an academic discipline and as an area of social and political struggle. https://research.pugetsound.edu/DTC-WomensStudies
The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project from the Digital Public Library of America to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting rights, and civic activism between the 1850s and 1960. The materials in this collection include photographs, correspondence, speeches, event programs, publications, oral histories, and other artifacts. https://blackwomenssuffrage.dp.la/
Explore nearly 2000 digitized items, including newspapers, books, pamphlets, memorials, scrapbooks, and proceedings from the meetings of various women’s organizations in this collection from the Library of Congress that documents the suffrage campaign. https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-american-woman-suffrage-association
March is Women’s History Month! Celebrate and explore the vital role of women in American history through resources from the Library of Congress, the National Archives, NEH, Smithsonian Institution, and more. https://womenshistorymonth.gov/
OER are “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.” (From The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)
OER materials are released under an open license granting permission for everyone to do the 5 R’s of Open Education.
source: https://libguides.lib.msu.edu/oer
How can faculty use OERs?
Draw upon LIBRARY RESOURCES such as books, articles, and databases and replace textbook readings with freely available CUNY resources.
Mix and Match OERs and other open materials. Develop courses with chapters from OER textbooks, journal and periodical articles, videos, and PowerPoints.
Use/repurpose a prepackaged course from an OER platform such as Lumen. Platforms can provide all the necessary low/no cost course materials.
Expand upon your class/teaching notes. Leave the publisher materials behind and share your own work, information, and knowledge sources with students.
From 1619 to beyond, Black craftspeople, both free and enslaved, worked to produce the valued architecture, handcrafts, and decorative arts of the American South. The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive seeks to enhance what we know about Black craftspeople by telling both a spatial story and a historically informed story that highlights the lives of Black craftspeople and the objects they produced. The first and second phases of this project focus on Black craftspeople living and laboring in the eighteenth-century South Carolina Lowcountry and mid-nineteenth century Tennessee.
Currently, you can explore hundreds of collected records documenting the lives and experiences of Black craftspeople involved in 45 trades in South Carolina and Tennessee.
The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University curates all forms of Hiphop material culture including recordings, videos, websites, films, original papers, productions, conferences, interviews, publications, research, etc. While the Archive is a record of all specific-to-Hiphop activity, it also incorporates all of the activities that have developed within and in response to Hiphop, including academic courses, arts and community organizations, underground performances and venues, spoken word, political organizations, religious programs and much more.
Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. They are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context. BFA does not host any of the films they index; they merely point to the streaming service where you can find them. https://blackfilmarchive.com/
Lever Press – Supporting Puget Sound Students with a New Model of Publishing www.leverpress.org
The current generation of college students face many challenges. One of these challenges is access to reliable information which is exacerbated by the dramatic increase in the cost of textbooks and scholarly publications.
The Collins Memorial Library is one of the founding members of Lever Press, an organization focused on publishing open-access scholarly works that align with the mission and ethos of liberal arts institutions. The Press adheres to the highest level of peer review practices and, by making research openly available to all, contributes to the democratization of scholarship.
Collins Library is proud to be part of this nationwide initiative that advocates for an equitable scholarly publishing ecosystem. We are also proud that Professor Brett M. Rogers serves on the Editorial Board of this innovative press that is changing the conversation about scholarly publications.
Brett M. Rogers
“Lever Press is working to change the way we think about scholarly publishing, and giving a prominent voice to the distinct ethos cultivated at liberal arts colleges. The press is dedicated to critical rigor while also pushing the boundaries of what kind of work we can do by publishing innovative, digitally native works of scholarship. All of Lever’s publications are open access—freely accessible to students and faculty, and easy to incorporate into the modern classroom. This is an exciting initiative to be part of as we continue to demonstrate the vitality and importance of liberal arts education.” —Brett M. Rogers
Lever Press is taking a stand on important questions about digital access in the 21st century — particularly as those questions pertain to the work of liberal arts colleges like Puget Sound.
As stated in a student editorial from Oberlin College: Lever Press is charting an exciting course, and it will be incumbent on students, faculty, and staff—at Oberlin and elsewhere—to both support their work and consistently push it to be even better. The accessibility of scholarship has had dramatic impacts on the path of human history, and the same will be true of the future. It’s in all of our interests to ensure that the liberal arts values enshrined in Lever Press become those that we boldly embrace as we step forward into increasingly uncharted territory. (retrieved from the web 1/22/2022: Lever press represents lever for change)
Please take a moment to review current press titles. These books are freely accessible and can easily be incorporated into your class website and linked to in Canvas.
Just a few examples of recently published Lever Press titles – all open access
We encourage you to think about opportunities to submit proposals to the Press. Puget Sound has a strong foundation of student/faculty led research, innovative pedagogy, and experiential learning. Don’t hesitate to contact either one of us to discuss the possibilities.
Need Information? Don’t forget the Collins Memorial Library – Library Guides Questions? Contact your liaison librarian Comments: Contact Jane Carlin, library director Remember – Your best search engine is a librarian!
February 21 – April 21, 2022 Collins Memorial Library University of Puget Sound (masks required) Tacoma WA.
The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to “establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts.” Over 100 years later, the Guild is still vital, with regular traveling exhibitions, a journal, ten regional Chapters, and an annual Standards of Excellence seminar. Guild membership exceeds 800 and has expanded internationally. The organization is still run by volunteers. GBW is incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in New York.
This exhibition will feature approximately 50 works by Guild members. The exhibition will open in the summer of 2021 and travel from five to seven venues across the country, closing in the fall of 2022. Works will include fine and edition bindings, artist’s books, broadsides (letterpress printing, calligraphy, and decorative papermaking) and historical binding models. The number of framed wall pieces will make up a very small subset of the entries. Both the bindings and framed works to be exhibited will be selected by a jury to ensure that they are of excellent quality. Previous Guild exhibitions can be viewed online at https://guildofbookworkers.org/galleries.
Exhibitors:
Eric Alstrom Alicia Bailey Leith Calcote Valerie Carrigan Rebecca Chamlee Kyle Clark Jim Croft Coleen Curry Mari Eckstein Gower Erin Fletcher BB ’12 Brenda Gallagher Suzanne Glemot Jane Griffith Penelope Hall Karen Hanmer Lang Ingalls Caitlin Jochym Peggy Johnston Meg Kennedy Beth Lee Christopher McAfee Elizabeth Mellott Patrice Miller Suzanne Moore Bonnie Thompson Norman Emily Patchin BB ’16 Graham Patten Todd Pattison Beth Redmond James Reid-Cunningham BB ’90 Laura Russell Patricia Sargent George Sargent Mardy Sears Jillian Sico Priscilla Spitler Julie Stackpole Peter and Donna Thomas Mary Uthuppuru Carolina Veenstra Tom Virgin Leslie Walthers Thomas Parker Williams Charles Wisseman Stephanie Wolff
