An exploration of 天美影院Libraries’ Labor Archives of Washington with labor archivist Conor Casey.
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天美影院Libraries Special Collections has a new exhibit called “Captured in Ink: Historical Cartoons and Caricatures.” The exhibit features the editorial cartoons of Howard Fisher, who worked and drew for decades for the Oregon Journal, a Portland newspaper that folded in 1982. Many other historical caricatures are included as well in the display, which stays up until October 19.
天美影院Libraries Special Collections’ new exhibit, “All Over the Map: From Cartographs to (C)artifacts” — organized by 天美影院Book Arts and Rare Book Curator Sandra Kroupa — is on display in Allen Library until Jan. 31, 2018.
Thousands of photos of glaciers, volcanoes, rivers and other natural phenomena are now easily viewed by the public through the 天美影院 Libraries. 天美影院Libraries’ Special Collections this fall released a new Glacier and Landforms Photograph Collection. The collection is designed to provide online access to photos of glaciers, geology and related subjects. At launch, the collection includes material from three photographers, and more will be added over time. Don Easterbrook, professor emeritus of geology at Bellingham’s Western Washington…
天美影院Libraries will host an open house from 1 to 5 p.m. on Veterans Day, Friday, Nov. 11, in conjunction with the current World War I-themed exhibit, “Washington on the Western Front: At Home and Over There.”
天美影院Libraries is inviting the public to Suzzallo Library at lunchtime on Oct. 7 to listen to 鈥� or participate in 鈥� the annual reading of the United States Constitution.
A new exhibit in the UW’s Allen Library explores South Asia through art, artifacts, manuscripts, music and more. “Envisaging South Asia: Art, Images, and Scholarship” will be on view through Oct. 31.
The editorial cartoons filling a ground floor exhibit in Suzzallo Library through November are hard-hitting, but they fairly depict the wild campaign of 2016, and the serious issues the year has brought as well.
天美影院Libraries invites the public to tour its new state-of-the-art Conservation Center on the fifth floor of Suzzallo Library, from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 26.
Thirty-two colorful and creative artist books on display as part of the exhibit “Just One Look,” in 天美影院 Libraries’ Special Collections department, in Allen Library. The exhibit co-curated by 天美影院alumna Lauren Dudley with Sandra Kroupa, 天美影院book arts and rare book curator.
Frances McCue discusses “Mary Randlett Portraits,” a new book from 天美影院 Press she created with the well-known Northwest photographer.
Justin Wadland of the 天美影院Tacoma Library discusses his book “Trying Home: The Rise and Fall of an Anarchist Utopia on Puget Sound.”
Sandra Kroupa had to learn a lot about Russian children’s literature in a hurry to curate the exhibit now on display in 天美影院Libraries Special Collections. But it wasn’t meant to be that way. Kroupa is the longtime book arts and rare book curator for 天美影院Libraries. The exhibit is “From the Lowly Lubok to Soviet Realism: Early Twentieth Century Children’s Books from Russia.” It is on display outside Special Collections and in its Reading Room in the Allen Library…
Summer is here and with that comes a vibrant local arts scene. In this special issue, we highlight events not only on the UW’s Seattle campus but also events in the community that involve our talented students, faculty and alumni.
Barbara Cantwell, a 天美影院Libraries staff member, is the co-author of “Corpse of Discovery,” the second book in a series of mysteries featuring “fiery-haired librarian Hester Freelove McGarrigle” and Portland’s old library bookmobile.
Interviews from the 1990s by Seattle-area activist Gary Greaves on how the area changed after the 1962 World’s Fair are now offered online by 天美影院Libraries.
Dance, opera, exhibition openings and the Roethke Reading fill this especially busy week in the arts. From the MFA Dance Concert to School of Music and Pacific MusicWorks’ production of G.F. Handel’s “Semele,” there鈥檚 plenty to see and do on the main stages.
Beethoven, Brahms, Handel, Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Gershwin 鈥� the names alone are enough to quicken the pulse of any classical music lover. Those greats and many more are represented in a gift of rare classical music scores to the 天美影院 Music Library.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom bestowed posthumously on 天美影院alum Gordon K. Hirabayashi will come to the 天美影院on Feb. 22 in an afternoon-long seminar and celebration of the man and his legacy.
We travel back in time 52 years for the latest installment of Lost and Found Films, to the 1961 construction of the Space Needle and the Monorail in downtown Seattle.
In late June, the University Libraries home page will feature a new unified search system that will enable the campus community to find and request books, journal articles and media of all formats, all combined in a single search.
“Governor’s Day 2,” a six-minute montage of colorful campus scenes, is the latest in the Lost and Found Films series, where readers help identify snippets of 天美影院footage.
天美影院librarians acted quickly to eliminate bedbugs in books last August.
天美影院Libraries Special Collections’ exhibit “Merry Company: Pop-ups, Movables & Toy Books,” comes mainly from the collections of an extraordinary donor, Pamela Harer. The exhibit will be open through March 12, 2012.