Science at Collins

We asked you to contribute  your resolutions for living greener during Live Green month in the library. Here is a selected glimpse of your resolutions:

I will…

• Read articles online & take digital notes instead of printing & highlighting!
• Get less clothing!
• Let my hair air dry!
• Walk for every errand≤1 mile
• Stop printing readings
• Take shorter showers
• Unplug when I leave the room
• Print double sided and don’t care when the page comes out backwards and don’t reprint
• Print less!

You also asked us to set all library printers to automatically print double sided, which is our default. If you send a print job that isn’t automatically double sided, please ask for help a the Learning Commons desk and/or let us know what computer you were using. We’ll restore the defaults so you can carry on living green!

It’s time for the Fourth Annual Edible Books Festival call for entries again! Participants create an “edible book,” which can be inspired by a favorite book or involve a pun on a famous title. There are no other rules and no registration is required.  Free & open to the public. Bring your entry the day of the event. Or, just come and view the clever creations.

Last year, we had some amazing submissions like Life of Pi(e), Sundaes and Tiffany’s (Sundays at Tiffany’s), and War of the Whirleds (War of the Worlds).

This year, our judges include Eve Vodden-Thornton,  Registered Dietitian (Dining Services); Barbara Racine (Manager, Puget Sound Bookstore); and Barbara Warren (Professor, Exercise Science).  Categories for judging will include “Most humorous,” “Most Creative,” “Most Literary,”, “People’s Choice” and “Best Student Entry.”

It would be great to see some science-themed entries! Consider the following for inspiration:

One entry that Hoffberg considered most original was “Lettuce Talk about Biotechnology.” Messages were cut into individual lettuce leaves, a development that caused crowds to gather to read them before they were eaten.

(From Hoffberg’s obituary in the LA Times).

Schedule & Contact info:

Drop off entries: 8:00 am – 11:00 am
Exhibit Hours: 11:00 – 4:00 pm
Awards Ceremony: 3:30 pm
Location: Collins Library – The Link
Info: Patt Leonard, pleonard@pugetsound.edu,  x2651

February is Live Green Challenge month at University of Puget Sound, and Collins Library is looking to live green, too! After all, what idea could be more sustainable than a library, where many people are able to share the same resources.

We invite you to visit the library during the month of February to see our display in support of the Live Green Challenge. Stop by the Learning Commons on the main floor to find reading suggestions and a place to leave a green resolution (on re-used paper, of course!).

Keep an eye on this blog, too—each week this month we’ll release a list of selected great titles on that week’s Live Green theme! This week, browse a list of selected books on energy and energy conservation by clicking on the post’s illustration.

The University of Puget Sound’s Collins Library is beginning a new award, generously sponsored by the Book Club of Washington—a Book Collecting Contest for all full time undergraduate students at UPS!

First prize is $1,000; second prize is $500.  Definitely worth thinking about while on break! Find more information and application instructions at the library page, or stop by the Learning Commons desk to pick up a flier.

It’d be exciting to see some science collections. Stop by the library to see some examples. Right now, we have a variety up in the Link across from the circulation desk—from calligraphy to Mother Goose to translations and popularizations of Newton’s works!

Stop by Collins Library today or tomorrow morning, where Tibetan monks from the Drepung Loseling monastery are creating a sand mandala, an intricate design painted with sand. Learn more about the tradition of sand painting and its meaning in Tibetan Buddhism.

The mandala begins with geometric chalk drawings which are gradually filled in with more detailed sand painting. Read a bit more about the relationship between geometry and the sacred in  Robert Lawlor’s Sacred Geometry.

This Wednesday, April 1,  is the third Edible Books festival held at Collins Library! The annual Edible Books Festival pays homage to Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, nineteenth century author of The Phyisiology of Taste, and we invite you to participate, as a creator of an edible book, a viewer, or a tea-drinker.

It would be great to see the sciences represented there, both in edible book form or visitor form. I can promise at least one science-related tome… but the more the merrier!

Events will be held throughout the day:

Entry Drop-Off
Between 7:30 – 11 am
Show Hours
11 am – 4 pm
People’s Choice Voting
11 am – 12:40 pm
Awards Ceremony
12:45 pm (Tea & a specially prepared edible book will be served.)

You can  follow us on Twitter or keep on top of updates streamed to the library news page!

As an added incentive, Best Student Entry wins a $25 gift certificate to the UPS bookstore—all others can win the glory of being “Most Delicious,” “Most Creative,” or “Most Literary”!

For more information, contact:
Patt Leonard, Collins Library, (253) 879-2651.