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/
What are OERs?
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.
How can faculty use OERs?
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.
https://archive.blackcraftspeople.org/
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.
“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.
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.
Jane (jcarlin@pugetsound.edu) or Brett (bmrogers@pugetsound.edu)
For more information on Open Educational Resources, contact Ben Tucker, Scholarly Communications and Digital Projects Librarian: btucker@pugetsound.edu.
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Comments: Contact Jane Carlin, library director
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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
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Whether in print or on the Web, follow these guidelines
Have you read the University Policy on Intellectual Property Rights?
https://www.pugetsound.edu/policy-intellectual-property-rights
which covers rights of faculty, students, and staff. This policy will help you understand the next steps.
Ask Yourself these questions:
