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This week in store at the library we are dealing with College Hacks!

The secrets and tips you need to make your college time at Humboldt State a prosperous one! Any questions with academic policies no one tells you about? Come check out the Skillshop: Hidden Secrets of College Success: The Stuff "Nobody Tells You". Topics that are covered range from what does Credit/No Credit, Educational Leave, Raising GPA, and pathway to Graduation!

Feeling homesick or lost? Peer Health Educators present a SkillShop called “Finding Your Plot at HSU!” Come learn with PHE different spaces on campus where you can call a home away from home!

Do you understand how credit works? The first step to becoming an adult is understanding banking basics and understanding credit will be the topic of Money Smarts Skillshop! 

Give your brain a BREAK! Participate in learning new techniques how to reduce stress and focus on self-care. 

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Some interesting reads from the Papers of Angela Y. Davis (currently in processing): http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/015271703/catalog

Organize! A Working Women’s Handbook by Union Women’s Alliance to Gain Equality (1975)

101 Reasons to Vote Against Ronald Reagan by Terence Cannon (1984)

Poems of Blackness by Fatmá Cristén (1970)

Women On The Job: The Communist View by Judy Edelman (1973)

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Today’s the day!!!

Come visit us from 3-5 this afternoon for the Grand Opening of our new Humboldt Room! There will be free cake ;-)

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Things have changed since 1898! On this day exactly 120 years ago, the “Spinsters’ Matrimonial Club” put on a show in which all the single ladies of Arcata talk about the available young men in town, get beautified, and proceed to hunt down enough of said single men for everyone.

Want to learn more about this event? Take a look at club notes and drafted press releases for this show in our Special Collections on the third floor. (Humboldt County Collection Photos, 1999.07.0765)

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Did you know that the HSU library has a Snapchat? Add us at hsulibrary! 

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Answer: This is the H Street side of the Arcata Plaza! Check out the McKay Postcard Collection for more pictures like this!

We found this postcard displaying a picture taken in Arcata between 1939 and 1942. Can you guess where in Arcata this picture was taken? Check back Wednesday at 10 am for the answer!

(Need a hint? Check out the McKay Postcard Collection on the third floor of our library. Ask the Special Collections librarian for help!) 

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Please pardon our noise! We’re getting new bookshelves for the new Humboldt Room and we are so excited!

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Another hint: The call number of this postcard is 2007.02.3199. The answer will be on the back of the postcard. 😉

We found this postcard displaying a picture taken in Arcata between 1939 and 1942. Can you guess where in Arcata this picture was taken? Check back Wednesday at 10 am for the answer!

(Need a hint? Check out the McKay Postcard Collection on the third floor of our library. Ask the Special Collections librarian for help!) 

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We found this postcard displaying a picture taken in Arcata between 1939 and 1942. Can you guess where in Arcata this picture was taken? Check back Wednesday at 10 am for the answer!

(Need a hint? Check out the McKay Postcard Collection on the third floor of our library. Ask the Special Collections librarian for help!) 

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This #spooktober 👻 get some costume inspiration from the #SpecialCollections of #hsulibrary ! Morris Herman was a Humboldt local poet with a number of publications. His works include such spooky titles as "Salem's Girl" and "The Magician". Visit Special Collections for access to the M. Herman poetry collection 🕸🕷🕸 #krb (at Humboldt State University Library)

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#FlashbackFriday! This photograph was taken during the middle of the 20th Century by Eureka photographer Merle Shuster and showcases a sunny clearing within the Humboldt Redwoods. Interested in seeing more local photography by Merle Shuster? Stop by the HSU Library’s Humboldt Room and explore our Merle Shuster collection, along with the Merle Shuster Aerial Photograph collection that can be accessed here: http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/holdings/photosearch.php (Be sure to select ‘Shuster’ in the search criteria) Happy Friday!

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A gem from the Special Collections archives. Not much information is given about the photograph, but the individuals shown seem to be of relative economic success considering their style of dress and the expendable income they would have needed to afford a bicycle at the time.

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Come check out cool vintage postcards like this one from the Hartsook Inn in the Humboldt Room’s Tim McKay Postcard Collection! Search the database online at http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/ and take a look in person by visiting the HSU Library! -EK

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Take a look at some of the new additions to the Strike for Peace collection in the University archives! These posters are from demonstrations on campus in May of 1970 to protest the Vietnam War. #peace #counterculture #strikeforpeace #humboldt #humboldthistory #HSU #Specialcollections #humboldtroom #krb (at Humboldt State University Library)

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Tim McKay (1947-2006)

The Tim McKay postcard collection

The gorgeous scenery of Humboldt County attracts many interesting characters from far and wide. Tim McKay was one of these. Born in Stockton, CA in 1947, McKay was always raised close to the beautiful outdoors of California spending his earliest years exposed to rural farm life. He maintained a fascination for photography in high school and went on to be the director of the Northcoast Environmental Center, located in Arcata, California, for thirty years, 1976 to 2006. His position at the Center demonstrates his true passion for the natural world and conservation. Received by the Library shortly after his passing, Mr. McKay’s postcard collection illustrates this passion with beautiful imagery of Northwestern California scenery and wildlife. Interns and volunteers the the Humboldt State University Library are currently working on the digitization of this collection but for now please enjoy the above selection of some of McKay’s fascination.

For more information about this gorgeous collection visit the Humboldt State University library website, or go to http://library.humboldt.edu/humco/holdings/McKayPostcardsAid.html#biographical