WSU Libraries systemwide have made the interlibrary loan process simpler, with one spot to request resources through Search It. Use Search It to request physical items (books, government documents, DVDs, and CDs) from other libraries, book chapters from other libraries, e‑book requests, articles not available online, and scans of articles or book chapters the WSU Libraries own in […]

WSU Libraries are implementing changes to Holland and Terrell regular operating hours and Animal Health Library’s physical location effective Sunday, Aug. 20. “As you know, WSU is facing some budget challenges. In order to maintain services and resources that are heavily used, the libraries are reducing services less frequently used,” said Jay Starratt, dean of […]

A traveling exhibition exploring more than 100 years of U.S. health care reform, produced by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is on display at Washington State University’s Animal Health Library in Wegner Hall 170 through Sept. 9. Titled “For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform,” the exhibition and companion […]

For his role in introducing Washington State University students to World War II library archival research, Associate Professor of History Raymond Sun has been named the 2023 recipient of the WSU Libraries’ Excellence Award. The award recognizes a non-library WSU faculty or staff member who has shown consistent support for the WSU Libraries. Recipients are […]

Most patrons of WSU Libraries won’t remember a time when circulation services weren’t online, but Sue Shipman does. “I think I’m the last circulation person left who remembers when there were no e-books or e-journals and everything was in paper,” said Shipman, Holland and Terrell Libraries’ Access Services manager. “We checked out piles of books […]

Friday, April 28, is the last weekday of National Poetry Month, and the Holland and Terrell Libraries are celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day. Take a few minutes to visit the libraries and celebrate with us. You can browse the poetry collection in the Ruth Slonim Poetry Corner, read about a poet, write your own […]

WSU Libraries will host a screening of the film “The Right to Read” at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 25, in the CUB Auditorium. A panel discussion follows the film, with a variety of speakers to include WSU faculty, pre-service teachers, and graduate students. “The Right to Read” shares the stories of an NAACP activist, a […]

WSU’s Academic Outreach and Innovation (AOI), with support from the WSU Libraries, has rolled out the LibKey Nomad browser extension to the computers that the division maintains on campus. LibKey Nomad provides one-click access to library content on publisher websites, PubMed, Wikipedia, Google Scholar, and more. The tool allows users to move directly from a […]

Award-winning contemporary Ukrainian poet Lyuba Yakimchuk’s collection “Apricots of Donbas,” written over 10 years, reveals the ramifications of occupation through intimate descriptions of how her family’s life changed when the Ukrainian city of Luhansk became occupied in 2014. In the poem “he says that all shall be well,” a girl recounts her conversation with an […]

Peter Boag may not have realized in January 1987 that two books would emerge from his dissertation research at the Linn County Historical Museum in Brownsville, Ore. His first book, “Environment and Experience: Settlement Culture in Nineteenth-Century Oregon,” published in 1992, stemmed from Boag’s research interest in the American West’s society and culture from 1850-1950. […]