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Ever wondered what amazing images are popularized to help depict the California Pacific Northwest?

Postcards are a tremendous way of communicating landmarks, natural landscape, cityscapes, artwork, and tourist attractions to a larger populace through correspondence with friends, family, and penpals. The Tim McKay Postcard Collection currently on display outside HSU Library Special Collections serves as a way to follow “Tim McKay’s lifelong interests in the natural world and in the ways that people and communities use their surroundings for livelihood and solace.” (Tim McKay Postcard Collection Finding Aid)

As an environmental advocate, writer, scholar and historian, Tim McKay dedicated a majority of his life to the natural world that beautifies Humboldt County and the complexities of reducing human impact in the region. Through his persistence in environmental conservation and drive for knowledge, Tim McKay served as executive director for the Northcoast Environmental Center for three decades until his passing in 2006. The legacy that McKay leaves behind embodies advocacy in many prominent local issues related to environment and community including PG&E’s Humboldt Bay nuclear facility, expansion of Redwood National Park, California’s first Wilderness bill, the Siskiyou Mountains and its infamous G-O Road, and National Forest management. (Biography by Susie Van Kirk, 2009)

Themes and imagery that range from the Prairie Creek Roosevelt Elk to the forest clear cutting beside lumber mills provide a pictorial narrative that help relate Tim McKay’s career in local environmental advocacy to the postcards on display. Come up to the third floor and check out these postcards on display for yourself!

This display was curated and made possible by Drew Ahlberg.

The Wildlife Senior Students Poster Session will be held on Friday, December 6th, from 4:30-6:30 pm in Authors Hall at the library (2nd floor). We will have about 60 graduating students presenting on their research.

As always, you are welcome to stop by and see what interesting research the senior wildlife students conducted and to congratulate them on their achievements.

Light refreshments will be served.

Did you know that your travel can leave a significant impact on a destination and the people who live there? This workshop will explore a variety of practical ways we can become more responsible tourists and still have a fun vacation!

Learn more at the Sustainable Travel Workshop on Wednesday, November 13th 3:30-4:15 in the Library Fishbowl, brought to you by the Sustainable Tourism Class.

Your History Matters! Celebrate & Preserve It @ HSU Library

Community members are invited to digitally preserve their individual, family, or special histories. In celebration of American Archives Month, HSU Library Special Collections is hosting Humboldt History Digitization Day on Saturday, November 16th from noon to 4pm in the Special Collections research room on the third floor of the HSU Library.

You can digitize your documents and photographs using HSU Special Collections scanners, store them on hard-drives or flash-drives, or share them through social media. A technician and archivist will be on site to teach and assist everyone with the digitization process.

Join us - Please RSVP at https://forms.gle/bn7XnLRdjNiWj1fm9

• Sign up for a 20-minute digitization slot.
• Prioritize 10 items to scan - a great starting point for digitizing and learning about archiving.
• If you have your own flash-drive or hard-drive, please bring it, or we can provide a flash-drive. Supplies are limited.

Digitizing

• Please be aware of copyright that limits what you can scan. If you created it, that means you have the copyright; if it was a photograph from a photography studio, you need their permission. We can explain more when you are here.
• Don’t digitize personal information like addresses, phone numbers, and social security numbers. That’s information that should stay private.
• Materials should be able to lie flat on a scanner.  Fragile items are not recommended. 

Bring 10 items like these examples

• Single or multi-page documents such as newsletters or smaller maps
• Flat documents such as letters and posters up to 8 ½” x 11”
• Photographs up to 8 ½” x 11”

Digitization Day will not include the following at this time

• Audio
• Video
• Film
• Large rolled panoramic photographs, maps, or posters
• 3D Objects

Humboldt History Digitization Day is made possible by a Library Services and Technology Competitive Grant by the California State Library to promote historical preservation and digitization as a facet of digital literacy.

The Campus & Community Dialogue on Race (CDOR) is an annual event at Humboldt State University that invites students, staff, faculty, administrators, and community members to present and attend programs that relate to racial justice and its intersections with all forms of oppression and resistance. Our objective is to create spaces and structures for reflection, analysis, dialogue and positive strategies for change. This year's Dialogue will run from November 4 – November 8, 2019, with the theme DISMANTLING & DECONSTRUCTING TO BUILD.

Information about keynote speakers, workshops, and other events that are free and open to the public can be found on the CDOR website.  

You are invited to a short film and discussion on California Indian History presented by Native American Studies in collaboration with the Native Voices Traveling Exhibit.

The film will be shown on Wednesday, October 16th at 1pm in Library 317.

Don't forget to attend the opening reception for the Native Voices Traveling Exhibit on Tuesday, October 15th at 2pm in the Library Lobby.

The HSU Academic & Career Advising Center (ACAC) and Library SkillShops invite you to Internship Week workshops October 21-23.  Download the flyer for more information and then register for any of the classes listed below:

Monday, October 21

• Internships 101 @ 12pm
• Finding Internships Overseas @ 3pm
• Expanding Diversity in the STEM Fields @ 5pm

Tuesday, October 22

• Built-in Experiences - Academic Internships & Service Learning @ 12pm
• Applying to Federal Jobs and Internships @ 1:30pm
• Internships Working with Animals @ 5pm

Wednesday, October 23

• How to Find a Local Internships @ 11am
• Internships in Washington, D.C. @ 12pm
• Summer Jobs in Natural Resources and Outdoor Adventure @ 4pm

Thursday, October 24

• Teaching English Abroad @ 12pm
• Internships & Research Experiences for Undergrads (REU) Interview Panel with Pizza @ 4pm
• Peace Corps Info Session @ 5pm

In addition, the Career Clothing Closet will be open Monday-Friday from 9am-4pm in Gist Hall 120 with a wide selection of FREE professional clothes.

Please join us for the Humboldt State University Department of World Languages and Cultures (WLC) Photography Project, The World ‘The Way We Saw It’, Exhibition Opening October 7, 3-4:30pm, 2nd floor of the Behavioral & Social Sciences Building.

The Exhibition Opening was preceded by a Call for Photographic Entries providing an opportunity for all WLC students and faculty to submit a photograph for consideration. From the photos submitted, 30 were chosen by the WLC Community to be displayed during the exhibition.

The exhibited photos will remain on display for the duration of the academic year during which time all WLC faculty and their students will have the opportunity to view and be inspired by the photographs while using them in course assignments across the WLC curriculum to produce writings in their target language of study. At the end of the term, the exhibited photos, along with selected WLC student writings in different languages, will be preserved and published in a book curated at the HSU Digital Commons. The book will be also available for purchase in print (non-profit) through Amazon as The World “The way we saw it” WLC Fall 2018 and The World “The way we saw it” WLC Spring 2019 books. One of the main goals of this instructionally related program funded by CAHSS is to foster a nurturing space for building a more inclusive community and cultivate sense of belonging.

Light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments will be served after the official opening of the exhibition.

We look forward to welcoming you in person on Monday, 7th of October, 2019.

Join us in the Library Fishbowl on Monday, October 7 at 2pm to hear Daniel T. Kirsch talk about his book, Sold My Soul for a Student Loan.

With unprecedented student debt keeping an entire generation from realizing the "American Dream," this book sounds a warning about how that debt may undermine both higher education—and our democracy.

American higher education boasts one of the most impressive legacies in the world, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt. As this book shows, increasing educational indebtedness undermines the real value of higher education in our democracy. To help readers understand this dilemma, the book examines how student debt became commonplace and what the long-term effects of such an ongoing reality might be. Sold My Soul for a Student Loan examines this vitally important issue from an unprecedented diversity of perspectives, focusing on the fact that student debt is hindering the ability of millions of people to enter the job market, the housing market, the consumer economy, and the political process.

Among other topics, the book covers the history of consumer debt in the United States, the history of federal policy toward higher education, and political action in response to the issue of student debt. Perhaps most importantly, it explores the new relationship debtor-citizens have to the government as a result of debt, and how that impacts democracy for a new generation.

Daniel T. Kirsch, PhD, earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and now teaches at California State University, Sacramento. He is a proud member of the American Association of University Professors and the California Faculty Association. His work includes his dissertation "Southie versus Roxbury: Crime, Welfare, and the Racialization of Massachusetts Gubernatorial Elections in the Post-Civil Rights Era" and contributions to the Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections and the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia. He resides in Woodland, California with his family. This is his first book.