While recently de-cluttering my basement, I uncovered an old box full of photographic negatives and prints from my undergraduate work. Nearly all of the images were from assignments that had no audience beyond my instructors. Thousands of dollars in film and paper created for an...
“The Mexican paintings, a very small number of which has reached our times, excite a double interest, both from the light they throw on the mythology and history of the first inhabitants of America, and the apparent connexion with the hieroglyphical writing of certain nations...
The Marriott Library is teaching the following workshops this semester: 3D Printing Tuesdays 2:00-3:00 PM 3D Modeling Wednesdays 2:00-3:00 PM Virtual Reality Thursdays 2:00-3:00 PM Makerspace Open Session Friday 10:00AM-2:00 PM Workshops are held in the Marriott Library Level 2 every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (except semester breaks and holidays). Meet in the Knowledge...
We’re excited to share that registration for our 2017 workshops is now open! We'll be offering a total of nineteen community events this year, including half-day, weekend and multi-session classes, as well as free, informal drop-in sessions and lectures. National and local instructors including Samuel Feinstein,...
The American Library Association’s ALA Editions published a collection of essays, articles, white papers, and lectures entitled Libraries, Leadership, and Scholarly Communication: Essays by Rick Anderson, which recently received a starred review in Library Journal. Anderson, who serves as Associate Dean for Collections &...
The Annotated Bibliography of Clearcutting is an ongoing interdisciplinary forest habitat and natural resource focused ecological database of worldwide clearcutting and deforestation. This compilation of user-submitted site photographs, GPS coordinates, satellite images, maps, and physical descriptions is available to researchers as a searchable database to...
Until recently, my video game playing experience had pretty much ended when I flipped the high score playing Asteroids on the Atari 2600 in the early 80s. I never became a fan of the gratuitous violence in first-person shooter and martial arts games that were...
The Manuscripts Division of Special Collections is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a grant to arrange and preserve unprocessed materials from the Kennecott Copper Corporation records. ...
Did you know January 18th is Thesaurus Day? You may be wondering how one celebrates Thesaurus Day. It’s simple. You just open a thesaurus....
“Still, wond’rous youth! each noble path pursue, On deathless glories fix thine ardent view: Still may the painter’s and the poet’s fire To aid thy pencil, and thy verse conspire!” — from “To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL… Phillis...
