Library

Join us for a special workshop and learn about gratitude and mindfulness and how they can help your mental wellbeing and academic success!

Workshops take place at 12pm and 2pm on Wednesday, November 17th and will continue on the last Wednesday of each month during spring semester . You will not be able to use the registration link from the ongoing Wellbeing & Stress Management Brain Booth SkillShops to join these gratitude and mindfulness sessions, so please register using the link above!

Learn more at the Library Brain Booth, which seeks to introduce the Humboldt State community to international scientific research on the effects of mindfulness, attention, and contemplation through hands-on tools and activities in an experiential setting.

Facilitated by Megan Boucher, Library Brain Booth

Banned Books Week (September 26-October 2, 2021) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.

This year's theme is "Books Unite Us. Censorship Divides Us." Sharing stories important to us means sharing a part of ourselves. Books reach across boundaries and build connections between readers. Censorship, on the other hand, creates barriers.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.

(from ALA's Banned & Challenged Books website)

Read more at the Banned Books Week libguide.

The Brain Booth presents weekly SkillShops on Wednesdays 12-12:50pm and 2-2:50pm to learn about wellbeing and stress management.

Find out more about the Library's Brain Booth at https://libguides.humboldt.edu/brainbooth where you can find online resources and see what will be available when the building opens up again.

Library services expanded via new partnership!

The libraries of the two largest public university systems, CSU and SUNY, are partnering to provide you library materials. This expansion of CSU+ means that if a book you request can't be sourced by one of the Cal States, then a partner from NY within the SUNY system will help out. Students, staff, and faculty can utilize CSU+ to get library books quickly and for free!

While the library collections remain closed, the resource sharing service is here to acquire books for you from our library partners.

With questions related to this service please contact libill@humboldt.edu

New first-year and transfer students are eligible for an iPad, free to use through the completion of your degree.

Sign up now!

HSU is participating in CSUCCESS (California State University Connectivity Contributing to Equity and Student Success) and are providing:

• 64 GB iPad Air (iPad Air - Apple)
• Apple Smart Keyboard Folio (iPad Keyboards - Apple)
• Apple Pencil 2nd Generation (Apple Pencil - Apple)
• Excellent technology support from the Technology Help Desk

Note: With a keyboard attachment and pencil, this technology bundle is comparable to a laptop.

Read more, including FAQs at https://its.humboldt.edu/csuccess and register by August 27th.

An Information Technology Services (ITS) representative will connect with you soon after to schedule a pick-up date and time or arrange for your iPad to be shipped to you. You can contact them directly at 707-826-HELP (4357) or email help@humboldt.edu.

Have some time on your hands? Check out these 10 video streaming tips and recommendations from the HSU Library:

Kanopy Streaming

Spotlight: KRUDAS, MORE THAN A WORD, WAKING DREAM,

Titles streamed by Kanopy are available either directly from the library catalog or from the HSU Kanopy interface linked above to HSU community. Those titles for which we do not hold streaming rights could be requested by filling in a request form. This form would appear on your screen and forwarded to a staff member for consideration. Given our limited funds, we emphasize study and research needs when making purchase decisions.

Google Media Library A to Z

A searchable video database Google Media Library A to Z is available for all faculty and staff located in Google Share Drive. It's a collection of captioned videos that have been digitized for use in coursework. The database can be accessed via Canvas.

A short tutorial can be found at https://hsu.link/GoogleAtoZMediaLibrary

NETFLIX

Spotlight: WE THE PEOPLE, 13TH, CHASING CORAL

Netflix Educational Videos YouTube Channel provides some videos to those without subscription.

Humboldt Digital Scholar/CSU Scholarworks

Campus lectures by HSU faculty and visiting speakers including Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, Campus/Community Dialogue on Race, and many others are available from this archival repository.

PBS

PBS Learning Media POV Documentary Watch Club

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting: a multi-station archive of a lot of PBS material from years back. It's a good place to start if you are looking for a streaming option for something you have on VHS.

PBS LearningMedia: a free streaming platform specifically for educators. There are many clips from a ton of programs. You might not find that full episode of NOVA but you might find the clip that you actually want to use.

Internet Archive

Spotlight: CHINESE EXPERIENCE IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. KEET-TV has numerous programs uploaded to this archive in addition to their YouTube Library.

ALA/FMRT hosted Digital Video Collections Guide

This guide includes licensed and freely available quality online resources.

Wabash Lily Library Open Streaming Video Collection

Offers quality, freely accessible collections of online video.

IMDb TV

These feature films could only be used individually, rather than for the classroom, but in some cases it could avoid the dilemma of students who don’t have subscriptions to Prime, Hulu, etc.

National Theatre Collection (Bloomsbury's Drama Online)

Free trial thru August 1, 2021. The National Theatre Collection makes the best of British Theatre available worldwide to libraries, schools, universities and the wider education sector. The Collection is available on Bloomsbury’s award-winning digital library Drama Online.

Humboldt Asian Histories & Futures: a reading, panel, and community conversation organized by HAPI

Join us on Friday, May 14 from 5-6:30pm. Zoom registration here.

In this program, community members, historians, and local artists come together to remember Humboldt’s Chinese expulsions and their reverberations today. The 90-minute event features a reading from Chinese American poet Daryl Ngee Chinn, a background of the anti-Chinese exclusions and expulsions in Northern California from historian Jean Pfaelzer, and a panel discussion about contemporary challenges the Asian community faces in Humboldt. We hope that the open discussion can spark conversations around what racial solidarity and support can look like today and into the future.

Organized by HAPI (Humboldt Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity)
Co-sponsored by the HSU Library (L4HSU), the Eureka Chinatown Project, and the Clarke Historical Museum

Are you artistic? The Eureka Chinatown Project is looking for a muralist for the Eureka Chinatown: Lost & Found Mural. Read more about it here.

In addition, HAPI would like to learn about the northcoast community and invite you to fill out a short survey to help shape HAPI's priorities and focus. Thank you!

Participants' Bios

Ali Ong Lee, M.A., M.S., is a Chinese and Vietnamese writer and project manager for nonprofits. She relocated to Humboldt for both love and less expensive warehouse space, in 1998. One of her children is a fifth generation San Franciscan with roots in Toisan, while the other is a fifth generation Eurekan. Ali is currently working to preserve open space and agricultural land by serving on the Humboldt Local Agency Formation Commission as its Public Member. She collaborates with local grassroots activists reclaiming space at the Eureka Chinatown Project and with Humboldt Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity.

Daryl Ngee Chinn is a poet, poet teacher, bookmaker, and editor. His book and book-related publications include Soft Parts of the Back (University of Central Florida, 1989); artist books; collaborative books; self-published chapbooks; and school and statewide poetry anthologies in Nevada and California. He published his first book of poems and color photographs in 1973 and has worked or volunteered for poetry teaching and related activities including fundraising, board membership, and mentoring. He was a founding member of the North Redwoods Book Arts Guild and served as Humboldt County Coordinator for California Poets in the Schools.

Jean Pfaelzer is a Professor of English, Asian Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at University of Delaware. She is author of Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans, which made the New York Times 100 Best Books of the Year, consulted for "1882: The Chinese Exclusion Act" on PBS, and is currently working on The Stolen People: A History of Slavery in California and the American West (Yale University Press). She speaks on issues of immigration on NPR, Pacifica, CNN, CSPAN, and CTGN. Jean has taught at Humboldt State University and UC San Diego and was director of the National Labor Law Center.

Brieanne Mirjah is the organizer of the Eureka Chinatown Project, which started as a passion project to help raise AAPI awareness and culture in our community. She is of Chinese and West Indian descent and believes we can all do our part to make a difference. As she expects her first baby in June, it is important to her that she helps create a community where everyone feels welcomed, especially those that have historically not been welcomed here in Humboldt. In her day job, Brieanne works in non-profit fundraising and marketing for the Breast & GYN Health Project in Arcata.

Marylyn Paik-Nicely was the Director of the MultiCultural Center at Humboldt State University (HSU) for almost 20 years. She has always described her work at the MCC as a “job made in heaven just for me!” Social justice programs, community building, cultural celebrations, mentoring students, leadership development, exploration of identity and so much more shaped Marylyn’s life forever. She retired from HSU in 2015 and loves having time with her three grandchildren. Marylyn is a “Founding Mother” of Humboldt Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity (HAPI), on the Board of Directors of Humboldt Area Foundation, and an active participant of the Eureka Chinatown Project. Marylyn is a third generation Okinawan/Korean born and raised in Hilo, Hawaii.

Chisato (Chisa) Hughes (organizer) is a half-Japanese filmmaker who grew up in Humboldt County and recently returned during Covid to work on a documentary here. The film asks questions about ghosts and placemaking today, looking at the history of the expulsions in the county and the Chinese people that continued to live here surreptitiously despite the threat of white violence. Chisa is an artist and organizer with HAPI (Humboldt Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity), and hopes to be part of building racial solidarity here in Humboldt.

Register for workshops on:

• Tuesday, May 4: Embroidering Sleep Masks @ 3pm
• Wednesday, May 5: SkribbLio Social Hour @ 5pm
• Thursday, May 6: Bake Boobie Sugar Cookies @ 11am
• Friday, May 7: Motivation Methods: Journaling 101 @ 2pm and Sculpt Your Well-Being @ 7pm
• Saturday, May 8: Embroidery Night @ 7pm
• Sunday, May 9: Get Your Tea On! @ 7pm

Good luck on your finals! Congratulations to all graduates!

During the week of May 3-7th, the 8th Annual ideaFest Symposium will be hosted online through a new site called “Platform Q.” HSU students, staff, and faculty can still participate in ideaFest by sharing their research & creative activities in the following ways:

• Online registration deadline for ideaFest is this Friday April 23rd, 2021. Participants can submit their projects online at https://ideafest.humboldt.edu/. You can submit digital posters or pre-recorded video presentations (including artistic performances, photography, digital art presentations, and more!)
• If your classes have live zoom presentations already scheduled for the week of May 3-7th and you’d like them to be “featured events” in ideaFest to draw in a broader audience let us know! Email Erika Andrews at Erika.Andrews@humboldt.edu with the details of your research presentations, talks, live events, performances, etc. and we can cross-promote them in Platform Q that week.
• Anyone from the HSU community can also submit their academic essays or research articles for the next issue of ideaFest Journal, HSU’s own peer-reviewed academic journal. The deadline to submit your publication proposals is December 31, 2021. For more information about ideaFest Journal contact Kyle Morgan at Kyle.Morgan@humboldt.edu.

If you or your students are interested in presenting, registration for ideaFest 2021 is now open! Click Here for more information or to sign up. This will be a great venue to display previously presented professional posters or multimedia presentations at this campus-wide research & creative activities symposium.

If you have any questions please contact the Office of Research & Sponsored Programs by emailing Sally Hang at Sally.Hang@humboldt.edu.